Super Rugby Final 2015: Date, Time, Live Stream for Hurricanes vs. Highlanders

The Hurricanes play host to the Highlanders in Saturday’s 2015 Super Rugby final, with each team looking to enter its name into the history books. Neither New Zealand franchise has ever won a Super Rugby championship, but the forthcoming crunch encounter presents two of the southern hemisphere’s in-form outfits with a prime opportunity to end that drought. Each team has made a trip to the final in the past, with the Highlanders losing to the Crusaders 24-19 in 1999 and the same opposition defeating the Hurricanes 19-12 in 2006. With two of rugby’s current club kingpins ready to... 

Rugby Player Completes Conversion and Drop Goal at the Same Time

Now, this is some serious rugby tekkers.  Moseley Rugby player Caolan Ryan said to the camera that he was going to complete a conversion and a drop goal at the same time.  Impossible, you say? Just watch! [Twitter: @CaolanRyan] Read more Rugby Union news on BleacherReport.com  Read More →

Super Rugby 2015: Storylines to Follow in Final

The Super Rugby final takes place in Wellington this weekend with an all-New Zealand affair between the Hurricanes and the Highlanders. In a World Cup year, there are personal battles all over the field as the competition’s two best sides go head to head with many of their players vying for a place in Steve Hansen’s final 31-man squad bound for England. But thoughts of that trip will be put aside in the Cake Tin as these two franchises battle it out for the title of champions. The ‘Canes finished on top of the overall table and as winners of the New Zealand conference, while Jamie... 

Highlanders Are the Real Deal, Deserve Respect as Individuals

Highlanders fans have been hearing all year that their team is not up to it, that they would fall over due to their lack of big-game experience and large number of “no-name” players. Yet here they are, set to line up against the Hurricanes in the final of this year’s edition of Super Rugby. After a stellar regular season in which they had one of the hardest schedules in Super Rugby history, the team entered the playoffs with the second most competition points on the overall table.  That was not enough for doubters though, with the southern men having entered both of their... 

Israel Folau’s ARU Commitment Comes as Major Boost Amid Wallabies Exodus

A post-Rugby World Cup mass exodus threatens to leave Australian rugby in a weakened state as of later this year, but Israel Folau‘s commitment to his native land provides cause for optimism. The official Wallabies Twitter account announced on Wednesday that their star full-back had signed a new three-year deal with the Australian Rugby Union and the Waratahs: Having featured as a star component for the New South Wales franchise en route to their 2014 Super Rugby title win, Folau etched his name out as one of, if not the best full-back in the world. The news comes just days after the reigning... 

Why Rugby World Cup Fixtures Are Not Fair Game on the Minnows

There are certain themes that crop up in the media around major sporting events. The pressure in the balls; the heat at kick-off times; the distances travelled between venues; whether wives and/or girlfriends are allowed within a 20-mile radius of the squad; the number of dwarves tossed. As sure as night follows day, these will come up in some from or another—the dwarves perhaps not so often. One angle specific to the Rugby World Cup, however, is the raw deal many of the smaller nations receive when it comes to their schedule. Indeed, the arrangement of the pool matches never fails to befuddle.   A... 

Picking 10 Future Stars from the IRB U20s World Championship

Emerging from the aftermath of this year’s Under-20s World Championship comes another new class of rugby prodigies and prospects, those players destined to one day rule at the peak of the senior game. New Zealand’s Baby Blacks may have proved their worth as the best youngsters in the world, but almost every team had at least one or more emerging starlet among their ranks. Some up-and-comers were known talents prior to this year’s competition, others failed to live up to expectations and some served as new, surprise contenders for future greatness. Based on the 2015 U20 World Championship,... 

Super Rugby 2015: Winners and Losers from Semi-Finals

The Hurricanes will face the Highlanders in an all-New Zealand Super Rugby final. The table-toppers from Wellington rolled the Brumbies over 29-9 at the Cake Tin, while the Highlanders raided the home of last season’s champion Waratahs and came away with a thumping 35-17 win. It means the Super XV title is guaranteed to return to Kiwi possession this year after crossing the Tasman Sea in 2014. It underlines the dominance of the New Zealand sides, with the Chiefs having claimed the 2012 and 2013 editions. Here are the semi-finals’ winners and losers. Begin Slideshow  Read More →

5 England Players with Most to Prove Before Rugby World Cup

England’s players have convened for the start of World Cup preparations after a somewhat tortuous build-up for coach Stuart Lancaster. He was deprived of Manu Tuilagi’s presence by the Leicester centre’s late-night indiscretions in the city, then saw Danny Cipriani also come under investigation by the boys in blue. Cipriani stays with the squad for now, but the same cannot be said for Dylan Hartley after the hooker’s ban for headbutting. In addition, David Strettle has decided to leave the camp and link up earlier than expected with his new teammates at Clermont Auvergne. Lancaster... 

Super Rugby 2015: Storylines to Follow in Semi-Finals

Super Rugby fans will find out on Saturday which two teams will contend for the competition’s 2015 title, with the Hurricanes, Brumbies, Highlanders and reigning champions the Waratahs still in the running. Michael Cheika’s men play host to the high-flying Highlanders in Sydney while regular-season champions the Hurricanes, hoping to make their first final since 2006, welcome the Brumbies to Wellington. Who will live up to their billing? Which side is capable of overturning the odds to stage an underdogs’ rebellion? Will the hoodoos and bad omens of the 2015 campaign live... 

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