Mar 18, 2000: Favourites Japan swept into the second round of the 2001 Rugby World Cup Asian qualifiers here Friday
Mar 18, 2000: The Chiefs' management made a serious blunder this afternoon which cost Isitolo Maka 60 minutes against the Hurricanes
Mar 18, 2000: The groin muscle injury which forced the Highlanders' skipper off the field against the Cats a serious blow
Mar 18, 2000: In a frenzied struggle in Hamilton,the Hurricanes hang on for a narrow away victory, 24-19
Mar 18, 2000: Auckland Blues coach Gordon Hunter has confirmed that the Southland hooker will play in the Blues' next match.Heaps has missed the last two matches, both defeats for the Blues, and his extra experience will give the Blues a lift at Eden park next
Mar 17, 2000: Elite division side Begles-Bordeaux announced Friday that they won't be extending the contract of coach Philippe Berbizier when his current three-year deal runs out at the end of the season
Mar 17, 2000: Ireland team manager Donal Lenihan has told his side to focus on themselves if they want to succeed at the Stade de France
Mar 17, 2000: As the pressure mounts on Graham Henry the "Great Redeemer" has been labelled in some quarters as "the great schemer"
Mar 17, 2000: South Africa needs to return to its original system of provincial Super 12 teams to arrest its alarming lack of form in this year's series claims Sharks coach Hugh Reece-Edwards
Mar 17, 2000: Clive Woodward today warned that he will not coach England in South Africa this summer unless a new contract has been agreed with his Twickenham bosses
Mar 17, 2000: The Cats' run of overseas Super 12 losses now stretches to 18, but they gave the Highlanders a huge fright in Dunedin tonight
Mar 17, 2000: Queensland's worst fears were realised on the eve of Saturday's Super 12 clash against Canterbury at Ballymore with centres Tim Horan and Daniel Herbert both forced to withdraw with injuries
Mar 16, 2000: Giant lock Hugues Miorin, who was hailed by French coach Bernard Laporte as his ideal second row forward has become the fifth French player to pull out of the crucial Six Nations clash against Ireland at the Stade de France on Sunday
Mar 16, 2000: Yesterday's final Sharks training session had an observer coach Hugh Reece-Edwards most certainly could have done without
Mar 16, 2000: France captain Fabien Pelous said on Wednesday that the injury crisis affecting the French team is a result of too many fixtures and that he is demanding changes to the calendar
Mar 16, 2000: In an interview with the BBC former Welsh player Byron Hayward has criticised Graham Henry for his involvement in the eligibility row currently griping Welsh rugby
Mar 16, 2000: The following is the Ireland squad for the Hong Kong Sevens which takes place over the weekend of the 25th and 26th of March 2000
Mar 16, 2000: Dion O'Cuinneagain has been forced to withdraw from the Ireland A team to play France on Saturday
Mar 16, 2000: French team to play Ireland in their Six Nations clash here on Sunday at the Stade de France: Emile Ntamack (Toulouse): Phillipe Bernat-Salles (Biarritz), Cedric Desbrosse (Toulouse), Stephane Glas (Bourgoin), David Bory (Montferrand): Gerald
Mar 16, 2000: Wellington Hurricanes' Jonah Lomu will miss a second successive week of Super 12 due to a fractured finger
