The atrocious weather has wreaked havoc with the weekend’s sporting fixtures with football, rugby and racing all falling victim to the big freeze... more
Harlequins will set a new Guinness Premiership attendance record when they stage Big Game 2 against arch rivals London Wasps at Twickenham on 27 December... more
Steffon Armitage's hopes of holding on to the England No7 jersey do not look good after team manager Martin Johnson agreed to release the London Irish flanker for the Guinness Premiership match with Harlequins... more
Martin Johnson will watch this weekend's Guinness Premiership action praying his England squad isn't further reduced ahead of the Test against Australia... more
English rugby chiefs believe protecting the core values of the sport can help erase the memory of a summer which featured fake blood capsules and admissions of drug use at a Guinness Premiership club... more
Rugby union: National Division One club London Welsh have entered administration after admitting they only have enough money to operate for one more month... more
Rugby union: Full-back Mike Brown says Harlequins are confident of staying in the play-off places after moving up to fourth in the Guinness Premiership with 38-20 bonus-point victory over Sale Sharks at The Stoop... more
Saracens have signed All Black scrum-half Justin Marshall for the rest of the season after his French club agreed to an early release from a one-year contract... more
The Rugby Football Union today called for urgent talks with Guinness Premiership clubs, who are considering playing another five league games each a season... more
London Wasps were stretched beyond breaking point as a 32-10 defeat at Harlequins left them only one point off the bottom of the Guiness Premiership... more
Rugby Union: Harlequins captain Will Skinner expects England's most lethal attacking force to face a serious test of their self belief against Llanelli Scarlets in the last Heineken Cup game at Stradey Park... more
Rugby: Scotland are on a collision course with English clubs over the release of players after 10 Guinness Premiership stars were forced to miss the country's first training session of the season... more
Rugby: Tom Rees admitted London Wasps had become a "shadow" of the team that had won the Guinness Premiership title last season after a desperately disappointing 11-10 home loss to Worcester... more
Rugby Union is set to return to terrestrial television on a weekly basis for the first time in more than a decade after the announcement of a new deal between ITV and the Guinness Premiership... more
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