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Former Sale second row Hyron Andrews has died at his Johannesburg Lions' team hotel before their Champions Cup match at La Rochelle on Saturday. A statement from SA Rugby stated that his death had been an "accident" and that the 31-year-old had "died after a fall". "We are heartbroken by the passing of Hyron," said Lions chief executive Rudolf Straeuli. "He was not only a gifted rugby player, but also.

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England begin their tournament on Saturday with a must-win fixture in Perth that can inject some optimism into the European game Two games into the men’s World Cup and the tournament is already overflowing with colour. As if the biggest Test crowd in Sydney for more than 50 years was not enough cause for celebration, Australia and New Zealand served up one of the great international games of modern times,.

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South African side had preparing for Champions Cup debut Player understood to have suffered a cardiac arrest A member of the Lions squad has been found dead in the team’s hotel ahead of the South African side’s Champions Cup game against La Rochelle. The player is understood to have been found unconscious in the shower having reportedly suffered a cardiac arrest. The so far unnamed player could not be revived.

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France boss Laurent Frayssinous suggests the gap between the NRL and Super League was a huge factor in their 78-4 defeat by Samoa at the Men's Rugby League World Cup. Melbourne storm winger Sua Fa'alogo came off the bench as a replacement for the injured Deine Mariner to score four of Samoa's 14 tries in an emphatic Pool B-C victory in Parramatta. Mariner had opened the scoring, with two tries.

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Flat racing’s youngest champion jockey in more than a century on his relentless – and rapid – road to the top Billy Loughnane’s mum wanted him to be a vet. “You’d have to ask her why,” he says with a smile that is rarely more than a second or two away. “I’d say money and an easier lifestyle, but I always wanted to be a jockey and made it very.

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Bath’s co-owner and ‘wily old fox’ on the need for Champions Cup change and the future of the Prem It doesn’t feel like 16 years since Bruce Craig first shared his vision for Bath Rugby with the Guardian. Back then there were plenty wondering if his extravagant ambitions would be realised and even he describes it as “a long haul” at times. “It has been a lot more difficult than.