Rugby Union Fixtures – Super Rugby, Wallabies, Rugby Championship

During the 2011 Rugby World Cup tournament, the CEO of the ARU, John O’Neill, was surprised to be contacted by club directors of the English Premier League leaders, Manchester City. “Would you be interested in becoming chief executive of the club?”, he was asked. The offer was flattering. As Michael Cockerill, the excellent football writer [...]

There has long been a view in the Southern Hemisphere that the best rugby is played exclusively below the equator. Visit any group of kids discussing the Six Nations, and get a diatribe about how that lot aren’t able score a try to save themselves. Dropping goals and drawing penalties, you’ll be told, are the [...]

Sonny Bill Williams took care of an ordinary Clarence Tillman III with little fuss last night, but if he wants to go really far in the boxing world, he needs to commit to the sweet science permanently. It was the contest that wasn’t one. Despite the pre-fight dramas, and the altercation in the ring just [...]

The contradictions of modern rugby stand evident in the career of Dan Parks, the duality never better expressed than in the jealous mixture of pride and persecution with which Scottish crowds enveloped him. In the age of the professional rugby player, his Australian upbringing gave him the mark of the mercenary in the Scottish team. [...]

It is the Western Force’s first ever change of guard, with the announcement that David Pocock will replace Nathan Sharpe as captain for 2012. Many would be surprised, with inaugural captain Sharpe still one of the top second rowers in Australia, and with a year left at the Force. The question has to be asked, [...]