5:00 AM BST Beauden Barrett will start at fullback for New Zealand in their World Cup Pool B opener against South Africa in Yokohama on Saturday after coach Steve Hansen retained Richie Mo’unga at flyhalf. Barrett has played most of his career at flyhalf but has been shifted to fullback this year in order to
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4:00 AM BST ESPN staff and Reuters David Pocock and Michael Hooper will team up alongside one another for the first time this year after Michael Cheika opted for their twin breakdown threat for Australia’s World Cup opener against Fiji. Pocock’s move to No. 6 at the expense of Lukhan Salakaia-Loto and Rory Arnold’s return
Sep 16, 2019 In recent years, the handling of concussions has become one of the recurring topics across the biggest sports across the globe. Be it contact sports which revolve around tackling — such as American football, soccer or rugby — to the combat sports of boxing and MMA all the way through to the
Sep 16, 2019 On the eve of the Rugby World Cup, Tom Hamilton assesses how far the game has come and how far it still has to go in its understanding of the most prevalent — and damaging — injury in rugby. Lewis Moody played the whole of England’s 2007 Rugby World Cup match against
10:47 AM BST Wales head coach Warren Gatland has expressed his shock after his assistant coach Rob Howley was sent home from the World Cup amid allegations of betting infringements. The Welsh Rugby Union (WFU) confirmed on Tuesday that Howley had returned to Wales and is now subject of an internal investigation in relation to
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11:52 AM BST World Rugby chief Brett Gosper has flagged concerns over a report on Tuesday that private equity firm CVC Capital Partners is on the brink of paying more than $350 million for a stake in the Six Nations. First reported in The Times, CVC has agreed in principle to buy a 15% share
7:45 PM BST The All Blacks are renowned for the haka across the sporting world but for the man who will lead Ka Mate and Kapo O Pango in Japan, it’s the connection with the land, his ancestors and teammates that’s important rather than putting on a show for the crowd. Steve Hansen’s men have
11:11 AM BST Over 15,000 fans attended Wales’s open training session in Kitakyushu, Japan on Monday ahead of the Rugby World Cup. Warren Gatland’s Wales squad have chosen Kitakyushu as their pre-tournament training camp and the city has embraced the squad as its second team, with three separate queues of fans nearly half a mile
9:40 AM BST Scotland loose forward David Denton has been forced to retire from professional rugby at the age of 29 on medical advice after an 11-month battle with concussion, Scottish Rugby said on Monday. Denton, capped 42 times for Scotland, suffered a blow to the head while playing for Leicester Tigers in a Premiership