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The U.S. didnÂ’t take too much time to establish itself against Uruguay in the second part of their two-match series on Saturday at Stanford UniversityÂ’s Steuber Rugby Stadium. The MenÂ’s National Team started racking up points just over two minutes into the match and finished with a total score of 33-7, securing the U.S. the last spot allocated to the Americas for the Rugby World Cup in 2007. The 2007 Rugby World Cup is perceived as the third largest sporting event in the world. The International Rugby Board (IRB) has estimated that in 2007, it will bring in a 65...

Suspected terrorist Willie Brigitte was reportedly sent to Australia to help a local terror group prepare a terrorist act "of great size". Brigitte, 35, who was deported last October and is in French custody, was a link figure in the world terrorist network who had connections with the organisers of the September 11 terrorist attacks and the March 11 Madrid train blasts, Sydney's The Daily Telegraph reported. It said his potential targets included the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor and the Australian army's administrative compound at Victoria Barracks, both in Sydney, and the Perth headquarters of Australia's SAS regiment. French authorities...

Huge clash in Pool C The match that launched a thousand columns is finally here, with two of the most physical sides in world rugby, England and South Africa, battling it out at the Subiaco Oval in Perth for control of Pool C. Games simply don't come much bigger than this and, despite the best intentions of both team managements to keep a lid on the massive media interest in the encounter, the accompanying hype has been enormous with journalists unable to resist the juicy narrative and its epic themes of revenge, hubris and destiny. Naturally, the stakes are very...

Former World Cup-winning skipper John Eales has added his voice to the chorus of reaction that has gone up in the last few weeks as the racism row in Springbok rugby refuses to die down. At the centre of it all is allegations of 'racism and prejudice' in South African rugby, following the much publicised fall-out between Blue Bulls lock Geo Cronjé and his Western Province counterpart Quinton Davids at a pre-World Cup Springbok training camp last month. This led to an independent investigation by retired Judge Edwin King into the subsequent allegations of 'racism and prejudice'. However, this week...