Ireland has delivered a strong opening performance at the Rugby World Cup, beating Scotland 27-3 in Yokohama

Coach Joe Schmidt was pleased with the effort of his entire 23.

Italy beat Namibia 47-22 in Osaka to go top of Pool B, while England have run in four tries to beat Tonga 35-3 in Sapporo.



Wallabies winger Reece Hodge has been cited for an alleged dangerous tackle in Australia's opening rugby World Cup win against Fiji.



Bay of Plenty coach Clayton McMillan's preparing to challenge what may eventuate from a sending off in his side's 46-22 Mitre 10 Cup win over Northland.

Steamers wing Fa'asiu Fuatai was marched with 20 minutes to play after his shoulder connected with a player's head.

Bay of Plenty sit second in the championship standings behind Hawke's Bay.

Tasman lead the premiership, unbeaten after seven games.



Athletics New Zealand High Performance director Scott Goodman has questioned the late timing of runner Nick Willis' late invite to the world championships in Doha.

Willis has turned down the opportunity to race the 1500m when the meet starts this week.



A one-two triumph for Ferrari at the Singapore Formula One Grand Prix.

Sebastian Vettel has secured his first win in more than a year, taking the chequered flag 2.6 seconds ahead of teammate Charles Leclerc, who had started on pole for the third race in a row.



Manchester United's continued their poor start to the English Premier League football season, beaten 2-nil at West Ham.

United drop to eighth after their second defeat in six matches - West Ham are fifth.

Liverpool's maintained their perfect start to the campaign, beating Chelsea 2-1.

It's their sixth win in as many games.



Antonio Brown says he will never play in the NFL again.

The now-free agent was released by the Patriots after one game.

He's the subject of multiple investigations, amid allegations of sexual assault and sending intimidating text messages.



The Netherlands have claimed gold in the mixed team time trial on the opening day of the road cycling world championships in Yorkshire.



South Africa has eased to a nine-wicket victory in their Twenty20 cricket match against India at Bengaluru, to draw the series 1-all.

Kagiso Rabada took three for 39, helping restrict the hosts to 134 for nine.

Quinton de Kock made 79 to haul in the total with 3.1 overs to spare.