The first confirmed diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in a fully professional rugby union player has been made in New Zealand. Billy Guyton, who represented the New Zealand Māori, played scrum-half in Super Rugby for the Blues and had stints with the Hurricanes and Crusaders, died in May at […]
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It was like waiting for the result of a referendum: were Scotland the real deal, one of the big dogs of world rugby, a team that could deliver while carrying the weight of expectation? Or were they pretenders, a flashy but flawed side that didn’t have the sand to sit […]
Be honest, the most compelling thing about reality TV has never been the winning. What people really want to see is a little bit of suffering, whether it’s someone being eviscerated by the judges, chowing down on kangaroo testicles, or pretending to be a cat and licking milk out of […]
Brian Price, the former Wales captain and British and Irish Lions tourist, has died at the age of 86. The second row led Wales to a Triple Crown in the Five Nations in 1969, six years after leading his club, Newport, to victory over New Zealand. He also toured Australia […]
Curtis Scott saw his plea to return rejected by NRL powerbrokers Scott, 26, was found guilty of assaulting his ex-partner Tay-Leiha Clark Charges included assault occasioning actual bodily harm Didn’t stop ex-NRL prop Trent Merrin from defending the fallen star By Andrew Prentice For Daily Mail Australia Published: 05:21 GMT, 1 December 2023 […]
Michael Yormark is bouncing between meetings in Place Vendome, the luxurious quarter of Paris where American breakfast costs £47 and the average high street store is Gucci, Rolex or Cartier. His business partners, or ‘family’ as he prefers to call them, include everyone from DJ Khaled to Kevin de Bruyne […]
There’s something rotten about the state of Australian rugby union. A 40-6 Rugby World Cup defeat to Wales confirmed what most down under already knew – the 15-man code and the men’s national team is in one hell of a hole. Fresh from a historic loss to Fiji last week, […]
Paddy Reuben first glimpsed the New Zealand Warriors in action in 1995, after he and a friend scaled a rail-side fence at Auckland’s long-since-demolished Carlaw Park, clinging on to watch the team play the Canberra Raiders in a warm-up before its inaugural season. “We had a mean-as view,” the 47-year-old […]