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Rugby: Thorn achievement 'awesome' says Hansen
Brad Thorn’s latest achievement in winning a Heineken Cup trophy with Irish club Leinster has been labelled “awesome” by All Blacks coach Steve Hansen. The former All Blacks lock added to his long list of accomplishments by being part of a team that beat Ireland rivals Ulster 42-14 in the final of the European club competition in front of almost 82,000 spectators at Twickenham
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Rugby: IRB ignores the little guys again
Rugby’s elite nations are celebrating their World Cup windfall just as the extent of the injustices being suffered by second tier countries is coming to light. The game’s richest nations have secured almost $20 million each in compensation payments, while the likes of near-bankrupt Samoa, Fiji and Namibia can’t gain any traction to even talk about introducing a basic minimum payment for all players at the next World Cup.
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UPDATE 1-Golf-World Match Play Championship results
Reuters – May 19 ( Infostrada Sports ) – Scores from World Match Play Championship quarter-finals in Casares, Spain on Saturday.
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Rugby: New Zealanders key in an all-Irish final
Time was, when any meeting of Irish provincial rugby teams was little more than a storm in an Irish tea cup. Irish television might cover it for the Guinness guzzlers in the pubs of Ireland but no one got terribly excited. How times change.
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Rugby webchat with Will Greenwood
In today’s live webchat with Will Greenwood, which is in association with Dove, we’ll be discussing this weekend’s Heineken Cup final, the end of the Premiership season, and what the summer holds as the 6N teams head down south for the first time since the World Cup – please get your questions in now. Here’s a selection of Will’s most recent columns..
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Marcelo Lippi joins Guangzhou Evergrande as coach (The Associated Press)
GUANGZHOU, China (AP) Marcello Lippi has been hired to coach big-spending Chinese Super League team Guangzhou Evergrande and plans to bring an Italian style to the club immediately.
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Rugby
MELBOURNE (May 17): Australia and New Zealand, the top two rugby nations by world ranking, have welcomed a new financial model for World Cup revenue set to boost their shares of takings from the quadrennial showpiece. The sports global governing body, the International Rugby Board, announced the new model at a meeting in Dublin this week which promised an additional £50 million (RM247.96 million) for the game’s development over 2012-2015.
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Australia, New Zealand hail new rugby World Cup deal
Reuters – MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia and New Zealand , the top two rugby nations by world ranking, have welcomed a new financial model for World Cup revenue set to boost their shares of takings from the quadrennial showpiece.
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Rugby-Australia, New Zealand hail new rugby World Cup deal
Australia and New Zealand, the top two rugby nations by world ranking, have welcomed a new financial model for World Cup revenue set to boost their shares of takings from the quadrennial showpiece. The sports global governing body, the International Rugby Board, announced the new model at a meeting in Dublin this week which promised an additional 50 million pounds ($80 million) for the game’s development over 2012-2015.
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Top Rugby Teams to Get Compensation for World Cup Losses in 2015
The top-tier southern hemisphere nations will share 10 million pounds ($15.9 million) in compensation for competing at the next Rugby World Cup and also get an additional 3 million pounds each for participating.
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