Sporting events, from football and tennis to rugby and cycling, on this year’s calendar are in doubt

Here is a look at the effects on sport of the coronavirus, which on Monday had killed over 3 800 people while infecting more than 110 000 in over 100 countries

A new set of experimental laws will be implemented in all local competitions, the South African Rugby Union has confirmed.

Stade Francais prop David Attoub has been hit with a mammoth 70-week ban from rugby union for gouging in a European Cup clash in December.

The International Rugby Board announced on Tuesday that rules governing the breakdown would remain in force but that a review would start in 2010.

Football gets by on 11 rules: a simple game for simple folk. Rugby has 22 laws, each one of which has myriad sub-clauses. On top of that there are the variations, laws adapted…

England head into Friday’s crunch clash against South Africa with the key duty of goal-kicking set to be given to a man who has yet to score a Test match point in the union game.…