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BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Australia regained the Mandela Plate with a 30-17 win over World Cup champion South Africa on Saturday, giving Dave Rennie back-to-back test wins for the first time as Wallabies head coach.
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Quade Cooper walked out of the gym in the wake of his man-of-the-match performance in Australia’s upset rugby win over South Africa and discovered hundreds of new messages on his phone with another wave of congratulations.
GOLD COAST, Australia (AP) — After four years in the international rugby wilderness, Quade Cooper had to question himself before he stepped up to take the penalty that secured Australia's upset 28-26 win over World Cup champion South Africa after the full-time siren on Sunday.
GOLD COAST, Australia (AP) — No. 8 Duane Vermeulen will return from injury to start for world champion South Africa but wing Cheslin Kolbe is out for the first of two back-to-back tests against Australia in the Rugby Championship on Sunday.
PERTH, Australia (AP) — Beauden Barrett will return to the No. 10 jersey in which he twice was voted the world’s best rugby player in the All Blacks team which will play Australia on Sunday in the third Bledisloe Cup test at Perth.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Rugby has announced that Ian Foster will remain All Blacks head coach through to the 2023 World Cup.
Foster, previously an All Blacks assistant coach under Steve Hansen, succeeded Hansen as head coach after the 2019 World Cup in Japan and initially was appointed through 2021.
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Rugby World Cup winner Toutai Kefu is slowly recovering after he and other members of his family were seriously injured during an armed home invasion.
The 47-year-old Kefu, who won the 1999 Rugby World Cup and played 60 test matches in the forward pack for Australia, has been head coach of Tonga’s national team since 2016.
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Rugby World Cup winner Toutai Kefu is recovering in a hospital after surgery for abdominal injuries he sustained during a break-in at his home.
The 47-year-old Kefu, who won the 1999 Rugby World Cup and played 60 test matches for Australia, has been head coach of Tonga’s national team since 2016.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — After months of uncertainty and misgivings, the business end of the British and Irish Lions tour of South Africa gets underway with the opening test against the Springboks on Saturday.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa organized an extra game for its squad to prepare for the British and Irish Lions test series, meaning there will be back-to-back matches at Cape Town Stadium on Saturday in yet another tweak to a tour that's been regularly affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Eleven members of the Springboks' Rugby World Cup-winning squad have been selected to start for South Africa A against the British and Irish Lions in Cape Town on Wednesday, giving the tour game the feel of a test before the series begins.
DUBLIN (AP) — A preview of Ireland's shadow squad for the 2023 Rugby World Cup could be on show when it tackles the United States on Saturday at Lansdowne Road.
There's eight uncapped players -- four of them starters -- in a young and powerful lineup that coach Andy Farrell has high hopes for.
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — For six days, fit, strong Olympians hurled themselves at each other and at the try line in short, sharp bursts.
Australian gold. A sideline marriage proposal from a venue staffer to a player on the Brazilian team (she said ‘yes’).
DUBLIN (AP) — Ireland edged a thrilling back-and-forth match with Japan 39-31 before 3,000 entertained fans at Lansdowne Road on Saturday.
The lead changed five times alone in a breathless first half that Ireland finished 19-17 ahead.
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — South Africa was predictably slow to get going in its first test in nearly two years before the world champion stretched away in the second half to beat Georgia 40-9 on Friday in a warmup for the British and Irish Lions series.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Morne Steyn may get a second chance to break the hearts of the British and Irish Lions.
South Africa recalled the 36-year-old flyhalf on Saturday to a 46-man initial squad for the Lions series, 12 years after his last-gasp penalty won an epic 2009 contest between the teams.
SYDNEY (AP) — Australia has launched its bid to host the 2027 Rugby World Cup, aiming to bring the sport's showcase event to the country for the third time.
Australia co-hosted the inaugural World Cup with New Zealand in 1987 and was sole host of the 2003 tournament, when the Wallabies were beaten by England in the final of the event held every four years.
The final of Japan’s Top League club competition on Sunday will mark the end of one of world rugby’s most distinguished and influential recent playing careers.
Japan winger Kenki Fukuoka will retire after the final between his Panasonic Wild Knights and Suntory Sungoliath, ending his playing career at its zenith to pursue a career as a doctor.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The Springboks will finally get to play as world champions nearly two years on from winning the Rugby World Cup after announcing on Monday two home tests against Georgia in July to prepare for the series against the British and Irish Lions...
The world’s oldest international rugby championship is set to be modernized in the coming days, with private equity investment potentially propelling the Six Nations into uncharted territory in terms of widespread exposure and broadcasting deals worldwide...
Just when South Africa needs inspiring again, Siya Kolisi is drawing on the sense of national unity that last year's Rugby World Cup triumph was forged on...
YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — Siya Kolisi grabbed the Webb Ellis Cup, gave it a kiss and hoisted it high as fireworks exploded and his teammates — black and white — rejoiced behind him...
TOKYO (AP) — Britain's Royal Family is getting excited about England's appearance in the Rugby World Cup final — even its most recent arrival...
TOKYO (AP) — Three years into his second stint living in Japan, Peter Musgrave takes his young son to a park in central Tokyo and sees people throwing around a rugby ball.
"It's chalk and cheese to when I first lived here," the 40-year-old Musgrave says.
YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — Two years ago, the Springboks had plunged to one of the lowest points in their proud history and their current coach was working in club rugby in Ireland.
Next weekend, they will be playing in the Rugby World Cup final.
YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — The Latest on Sunday at the Rugby World Cup (all times local):
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Warren Gatland's last game in charge of Wales will be against his native New Zealand. He started the job with a game against England and wanted to finish off against the same rival — in the Rugby World Cup final.