Owen Farrell to have another back scan: Dylan Hartley also in race to be fit for England: Hartley and Farrell are certainties to be included but are facing a race to get any rugby in before the first Test of the autumn against South Africa on 12 November. Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall said: “Owen can’t do enough to get himself on the …
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Commercial trade in all eight pangolin species has just been banned: Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa for the seventeenth Conference of the Parties (CoP17), voted today to ban the international commercial trade of all eight species of pangolin.
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Former Springbok Januarie suspended for month: PARIS – Former South Africa international Ricky Januarie has been suspended for four weeks for a dangerous tackle, the French Rugby League said on Wednesday. The 34-year-old La Rochelle scrum-half was yellow carded for the tackle on Lyon’s Tongan centre …
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Women’s U20 handball team raise Zim flag: But with the team losing to Zambia in the semi-finals, there was a real danger that the country would leave South Africa empty-handed. However, the Clemence Tauro-coached side turned on the power to dismantle Malawi who had managed to absorb much of the …
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Time for the Wallabies to break the Loftus Versfeld drought: When South Africa was in sporting isolation and beyond, the Wallabies didn’t play their second game at Loftus until 1997, where they were hammered by a record 61 points to 22. 1 – Richard Harry, 2 -Michael Foley, 3 – Andrew Blades, 4 – Owen Finegan …
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The Big Rugby Championship question: Home and away: The Rugby Championship enters its third and final phase for 2016, with South Africa hosting Australia in Pretoria, and Argentina hosting New Zealand in Buenos Aires. This might be the week in which we get a firmer idea on just well, or how badly the …
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