Nigel Owens will referee his third Heineken Cup final when he takes charge of this season’s showpiece European club rugby match between Leinster Rugby and Ulster Rugby at Twickenham Stadium on Saturday, 19 May. The experienced Welsh official refereed the 2008 and 2009 finals won by Munster Rugby and Leinster Rugby
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Players/Squads of the Year RaboDirect Pro12
This is the full list of awarded players/squads at tonight's RaboDirect Pro12 Awards happening in Cardiff: Tim Visser (Edinburgh) - Players' Player of the Year Stuart Hogg (Glasgow) - Young Player of the Year Joe Schmidt (Leinster) - Coach of the Year Hanno Dirksen (Ospreys) - Try of the Year Shane Williams (Ospreys) - Chairman's
HC Talking Points – The 17th final between Leinster and Ulster first all-Irish one
The 17th Heineken Cup final, to be played at Twickenham Stadium on Saturday, 19 May (17.00) will be between Leinster Rugby and Ulster Rugby. Leinster Rugby will be bidding to win an unprecedented three Heineken Cup titles in four years and become only the second club to win back-to-back titles. Leicester
Heineken Cup Semifinals results
ASM Clermont Auvergne 15 Leinster Rugby 19 HT: 12-6 Att: 32,397 ASM Clermont Auvergne: L Byrne (R King 20); S Sivivatu, A Rougerie [capt], W Fofana, J Malzieu (J Buttin 13); B James, M Parra; L Faure (V Debaty 48), B Kayser (T Paulo 63), D Zirakashvili (D Kotze 58), J Cudmore,
HC Talking Points – Raphael Ibanez semi-finals preview
Raphael Ibanez, the Heineken Cup 2011/12 ambassador and a Heineken Cup winner in 2007 with London Wasps, believes the 17th Heineken Cup final will be an all-Irish affair. We could be in for an Irish invasion of Twickenham at next month’s Heineken Cup final. I believe defending champions Leinster Rugby and 1999
HC Talking Points – Leinster out to stretch run to 14
Heineken Cup champions Leinster Rugby are unbeaten in their last 13 tournament matches but they face a massive test against French standard bearers ASM Clermont Auvergne in Bordeaux on Sunday in attempting to take that run to 14 matches without defeat. A 16-16 draw at Montpellier in Round 1 of this
International Rugby Board Applies for .Rugby Top Level Domain Name
The International Rugby Board has announced that it is applying to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to acquire the .RUGBY generic top-level domain name (gTLD). The application is being submitted by Rugby's global governing federation to keep the .RUGBY domain within the sport for the benefit of