All Blacks winger Leicester Fainga’anuku has been forced to leave Japan just days after arriving with the squad for what the team is describing as family reasons.
The only goal of a player who died during an East Coast rugby club's celebratory centennial match today was to score a try, he told his teammates during a party last night.
Top-ranked England muscled their way into the quarter-finals of the Rugby World Cup with a 75-0 win over South Africa which stretched their record winning streak to 28 test matches.
Lori Cramer's penalties on the tick of halftime and just before fulltime were enough to secure Australia a 13-7 win over Wales on Saturday and advance to the quarter-finals of the Rugby World Cup.
A YouTube prankster who invaded the pitch to line up with the All Blacks for the national anthem in Wales last year has been banned from all sporting events in England and Wales for two years.
The Black Ferns head into their final pool game without their top two try scorers, with Portia Woodman and Ruby Tui both out of the squad to play Scotland in Whangārei on Saturday.
From being 'invisible' a decade ago, women's rugby is finally on a roll, Auckland University professor Toni Bruce finds in her research into what Rugby World Cups mean to Kiwis.
