The Hong Kong Sevens is the premier tournament in the SVNS. It’s been featured every year since the World Series circuit started in 1999 and predates SVNS by 23 years.
Leinster ended Edinburgh’s winning start to the BKT United Rugby Championship season with a well-judged 36-27 bonus-point victory at the RDS Arena.
The former Ireland backrow was a star at the 1995 World Cup but as a guinea pig of early professionalism the repeated blows have hit him hard
Japan's premier club rugby competition has always attracted its fair share of foreign talent but the opening weekend of the new League One competition highlighted where that foreign influx could cause issues in the future.
The all-conquering All Blacks headed to Jo'burg confident of a win over the Springboks but on a fateful World Cup day in 1995, the form book was shredded.
The All Blacks have been dominant in the Bledisloe Cup in recent years, but there was a time when the Wallabies were the undisputed champions of the trans-Tasman rivalry - including the great 2000 series.
While everyone is focused on the Rugby Championship, a raft of tier two nations will kick off their World Cup preparations in the Pacific Nations Cup this weekend.
Matt Burke remains the best all-round fullback Campbell Burnes seen in nearly 40 years of playing, watching and writing about the game, but the mantle of the best attacking fullback of them all remains on the shoulders of Christian Cullen.
Round Four of the Mitre 10 Cup was full of close encounters and exciting results, with two games decided by less than a try, two undefeated teams meeting at the top of the table and the Ranfurly Shield changing hands.