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WASHINGTON DC- The Hounds moved to 9-0 on the season after a late-game comeback over Old Glory DC, 33-32. The Hounds trailed by as many as 13 points in the game but proved too formidable for an Old Glory team fighting to keep their playoff hopes alive. Chris Hilsenbeck nailed four of his five conversion attempts for eight points while both hooker Theo Fourie and forward Mason Flesch scored a brace. Lock Nathan Den Hoedt added a try in the win as well. Chicago dominated both possession and territory in the opening 20 minutes of the game. Old Glory’s exit…
Cardiff lost head coach Matt Sherratt to Steve Tandy’s backroom staff just a few days before the season started, with forwards boss Corniel van Zyl making the step up to replace him.”We’re proud of the boys from where we started the season into how we finished,” said van Zyl.”To end up sixth, with 16 quality teams, I say would make us proud. Unfortunately we couldn’t push on to the next step and that’s the disappointing part.”Van Zyl guided Cardiff to 11 league victories, with eight of those coming at their Arms Park home. With only one URC win achieved outside…
COTTAGE GROVE, Wis. (WMTV) – Several local high schools got the chance to make history on Saturday afternoon, doing it together as one team.Monona Grove, Madison La Follette and Madison East make up the Eastside Exiles Boys Rugby Team, who brought home Madison’s first state championship dating all the way back to 1996, defeating Elkhorn 19-12 in the title match.Elkhorn struck first, jumping out to a 5-0 lead early. Eastside answered when Eli Law powered through contact and stretched across the line for a try to get the Exiles on the board. But Elkhorn responded again and carried a 12-5…
Following Leinster’s 59-10 victory over the Lions in the United Rugby Championship quarter-finals, here are our five takeaways from the clash at the Aviva Stadium. Top Line Leinster bounced back from their disappointing Champions Cup final defeat to Bordeaux in style as they made light work of URC quarter-final debutants, the Lions, outscoring the South African outfit nine tries to two. The result sets up a home semi-final for Leo Cullen’s charges against the Stormers just three hours after the Glasgow Warriors and Bulls collide at Murrayfield. It was a memorable day for James Lowe, who celebrated his 100th appearance…
Leinster bounced back from their Champions Cup final defeat by Bordeaux-Begles last week by scoring nine tries in an emphatic 59-10 United Rugby Championship quarter-final win over the Lions at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin.Dan Sheehan, Hugo Keenan, James Ryan, Scott Penny, Sam Prendergast, Gus McCarthy and Jimmy O’Brien all crossed for the Irish province, with James Lowe, on his 100th cap, scoring twice.The victory books Leo Cullen’s side a place against the Stormers in the second of the tournament’s semi-finals next Saturday (17:30 BST). Glasgow will host the Bulls in the other.Both sides came out with huge intent, but…
The 2025/26 United Rugby Championship semi-finals have been confirmed, with the Glasgow Warriors facing the Bulls and Leinster hosting the Stormers. Franco Smith’s Warriors defeated Connacht 33-21 on Friday evening to secure passage into the semi-finals as they chase a second URC title since lifting the trophy in 2024. They will host the Bulls, who surged to a 45-14 victory over Munster at Loftus Versfeld to continue their bid for a maiden URC title, having lost three finals (2022, 2023 and 2024). The fixture will take place at Murrayfield Stadium in the Scottish capital city of Edinburgh at 14:30 UK…
Arsenal will celebrate their Premier League title win on Sunday in front of their supporters in north London. “If you’d offered them at the start of the season – that they would win the Premier League title and lose the Champions League final by a penalty kick, then it is not a bad season, it is a great season and I mean a really great season,” Pat Nevin told BBC Sport.”Let’s remember they have lost tonight but they are the Premier League winners,” Onouha added. “They have got their parade to look forward to and I don’t think there will…
New Zealand referee Ben O’Keeffe is open to fronting the media after matches like coaches and players do and has urged World Rugby to ‘innovate’. Match officials are often thrown into the spotlight after big games, but they aren’t given the same luxury as the players and coaches in being able to comment on decisions or their performances. However, O’Keeffe is open to giving it a go, having copped his fair share of criticism throughout his career, particularly during the 2023 Rugby World Cup when he took charge of South Africa’s knockout wins over France and England. Top referee calls…
Australia’s lukewarm challenge at a boiling French Open is over after Daria Kasatkina was beaten 6-0, 7-5 by the world No 1, Aryna Sabalenka.Kasatkina became the last of Australia’s 13 singles contenders to bite the red dust before the end of the first week, a battling fightback almost inevitably denied by Sabalenka, who will face Naomi Osaka in the last 16.Along with the boilovers created by Adam Walton and Kim Birrell and one improbable comeback win by the luckless Thanasi Kokkinakis, Kasatkina’s resurgence after a troubled year has been one of the bonuses of a tough Aussie week at Roland…
Greg Hardy had his latest MMA setback, getting KO’d in the third round by Darko Stosic. The fight took place at Fight Nation Championship event in Belgrade, Serbia. Stosic finished the fight with a looping overhand right that knocked Hardy down and followed up with a hammerfist as the referee jumped in. At the weigh-ins, Hardy came in 26 pounds over weight. He showed up at 291 pounds, well over the heavyweight limit. Stosic weighed in at 240 pounds and still agreed to take the fight. Greg Hardy just got knocked out after missing weight by 25 pounds pic.twitter.com/C3UJ5qItSC —…