Since its rebranding as the Champions Cup, the big beasts have thundered down an all too predictable road, relentless in their crushing of lighter opposition, writes Peter Jackson.

The game of bingo means quite a lot to the people of Kentucky as one teenager found out.

A man was cited for disorderly conduct after shouting the word "bingo" at the wrong time during a game, and as a result he has been banned from saying the word for six months.

RUGBY star Gareth Thomas told a French court yesterday how a former team-mate stripped off in a bar, stood on a table and exhibited his genitals.