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Football Soccer Formula 1 Rugby Racing Golf Blogs TennisPublished: October 17, 2015
New Zealand devastated France 62-13 on Saturday evening as Steve Hansen’s side ran in no fewer than nine tries to demolish their opponents and set up a semi-final tie opposite South Africa. Julian Savea was elected man of the match for his hat-trick of tries, but the star performance spread far and wide, with the All Blacks beating their previous best of points put past Les Bleus. The result...
Published: October 17, 2015
Rugby World Cup 2015 Quarter-Final—Millennium Stadium, Cardiff FULL TIME: NEW ZEALAND 62-13 FRANCE New Zealand Tries: Julian Savea (3), Tawera Kerr-Barlow (2), Kieran Read, Nehe Milner-Skudder, Jerome Kaino, Brodie Retallick France Tries: Louis Picamoles We knew New Zealand were likely to be better than France, but few could have foreseen a 50-point drubbing on...
Published: October 17, 2015
Novak Djokovic will face Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the final of the Shanghai Rolex Masters 2015 after clinching a straight-sets defeat of Andy Murray on Saturday, trouncing the Scot 6-1, 6-3 in China. Tsonga booked his spot in the final after defeating 2009 finalist Rafael Nadal 6-4, 0-6, 7-5 on Saturday, emerging from a mid-match lull to edge his opponent in a tense encounter. This...
Published: October 17, 2015
France will attempt to end a spell of eight successive defeats at New Zealand’s hands this Saturday as one of modern rugby’s great rivalries is revived in the quarter-finals of the Rugby World Cup 2015. Rugby headlines have been hit with the news that these two teams will indeed meet at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium, the same setting that earned Les Bleus a dramatic win over...
Published: October 17, 2015
Tension is reaching fever-pitch heading into the quarter-finals of the Rugby World Cup 2015 schedule this weekend as the eight remaining teams prepare to do battle for the right to advance to the final four. The close of the pool stage means no more fixtures can be taken for granted and the knockout rounds kick off with four northern hemisphere outfits taking on opponents from the other side of...
Published: October 16, 2015
Twenty teams have been reduced to a more deserving eight as the Rugby World Cup 2015 quarter-finals get under way on Saturday with a superstar array of world-class talent making its return to centre stage. London’s Twickenham Stadium and Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium will play host to four matches comprising a wealth of the greatest in the sport today from both sides of the equator. Whether...
Published: October 14, 2015
Robin van Persie will not be announcing his retirement from international football despite the Netherlands’ humiliating failure to qualify for Euro 2016, insisting he’ll stick with his nation through thick and thin. The Fenerbahce frontman scored a calamitous own goal on Tuesday as the Oranje fell to the Czech Republic 3-2 and finished fourth in their qualifying group, but Van Persie told...
Published: October 13, 2015
Eight of the sport’s finest teams will line up in the quarter-finals of the Rugby World Cup 2015 this weekend, but it’s a necessary evil that the end of the pool stage also sees some of the world’s best forwards take their leave. It’s only natural that we tend to associate the brightest talents with the most successful sides, but in a competition involving an initial pool of...
Published: October 13, 2015
An arduous Rugby World Cup 2015 pool campaign came to a close on Sunday and moved us one step closer to the competition’s knockout stages, an arena where only the cream of the crop will come to do battle. Stuart Lancaster’s England were the unfortunate party to fall out of the Pool of Death and in doing so, go down in history as the first host nation to fail to advance from the first round...
Published: October 12, 2015
Australia and Ireland were among the biggest winners to emerge from a climactic closing weekend of the Rugby World Cup 2015 pool stage, beating Wales and France to top Pool A and Pool D, respectively. Those victories and many more helped form the tournament’s quarter-final lineup, which will now see New Zealand meet France, South Africa take on Wales, Ireland face Argentina and Australia encounter...