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Rugby: Players rush for Super 15 teams
New contract system means many leading NZ super rugby players will move to new franchises.

Rugby: NZRU keen to keep Hobbs' experience
NZRU and Rugby New Zealand 2011 Ltd Chairman Jock Hobbs has stood down from both roles effective immediately due to health issues.

Lauaki to be sentenced in June for assault
All Black Sione Lauaki was today remanded for sentencing next month after pleading guilty to an assault charge in March.

Filling the Cup - cost $500m and climbing
A Herald on Sunday investigation into the economics of the Rugby World Cup suggests we shouldn't take claims about the event at face value.

<i>Inga Tuigamala:</i> Can we justify the Highlanders?
NZ does not have sufficient talent to warrant five truly competitive Super 14 teams, writes Inga Tuigamala.

All Blacks: Braid appears on radar as McCaw backup
Former All Black offered chance to return home as search for Richie McCaw’s backup intensifies.

Rugby: Memories differ on game of shame
Fifty years on from the Springboks' 1956 thrashing of Maori, questions are being raised about an order to throw the match.

<i>Chris Rattue:</i> Pull head out of scrum and say sorry
I apologise to the Maori people and the rugby players involved for the disgraceful injustice visited upon them between 1928 and 1960.