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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 —…
As so many of Newcastle’s games have been this season, it looked like one-way traffic from their opponents from kick-off.Making his first start at outside centre with Luke James unwell, Roebuck crossed with a minute on the clock, cutting inside from the left after a hand-off from Reed, with George Ford notching the extras.Newcastle’s Simon Benitez-Cruz saw a try chalked-off for a forward pass before Seb Kelly barged over for his first Prem try at the other end on six minutes after a slick break down the left from Reed was stopped just short of the line.The hosts got on…
Large gaps were visible around the arena during the undercard. The crowd gradually filled out as the evening progressed, although there were still plenty of empty seats by the time of the main event.But those in attendance made their voices heard when Azim – sporting a black fedora with white-trimmed brim – walked to the ring to Michael Jackson’s ‘Beat It.’Azim made a sharp start and drew blood from Claggett’s nose with an uppercut in the opening minutes. Claggett, 36, brought vast experience. He had been stopped only once as a professional and went the distance with Teofimo Lopez in…
Oleksandra Oliynykova has called for Diana Shnaider to face sanctions for her participation in a Gazprom-funded exhibition in Russia and the Ukrainian criticised the sport’s “hypocritical” governing bodies after her 7-5, 6-1 defeat by her Russian opponent.“She doesn’t want to comment on the war, because if she says her opinion, it would be a very big scandal, but I showed you the proof,” Oliynykova said. “I want to stop the tour being so hypocritical by pretending they cannot do anything, because they have the mechanism.“You can be sanctioned if you are participating in a tournament organised by a betting company,…
The fixtures for the Super Rugby Pacific Qualifying Finals have been confirmed after the regular season concluded on Saturday. Two of the venues had already been decided prior to the weekend with the Hurricanes and Chiefs locked in at first and second respectively, but their opposition had not been decided. However, after the Reds overcame the Fijian Drua and Moana Pasifika stunned the Brumbies the Australian outfit switched positions and therefore swapped opponents. The Canberra-based team will duly travel to New Zealand’s capital to take on the ‘Canes at Hnry Stadium and they will kick off the knockout stages on…
VALLADOLID — The Canadian women’s rugby sevens team advanced to the semifinals of an HSBC SVNS World Championship Series tournament with a 40-5 quarterfinal victory over Japan on Saturday.Canada takes on the United States and Australia faces New Zealand in Sunday’s semifinals with the medal games scheduled for later in the day.Canadian captain Olivia Apps, Asia Hogan-Rochester, Florence Symonds, Charity Williams, Savannah Bauder and Adia Pye scored tries for Canada in the quarterfinal victory over Japan. Apps contributed three conversions and Bauder two as Canada led 21-0 at halftime.Canada went undefeated in its pool with victories over host Spain, Great…