Second-half tries from Cameron Munster and Hudson Young ensured Australia sealed the rugby league Ashes series against England after a 14-4 victory at Hill Dickinson Stadium on Saturday. Australia followed last week's win at Wembley with a commanding second-half performance to clinch the first series between the sides since 2003 with a game to spare.

Since she signed for Gloucester-Hartpury in 2022, they have gone on to win three successive Premiership Women's Rugby titles and lost only six matches of their past 55. In Gloucester-Hartpury's first game of the new campaign last Sunday, the 24-year-old barrelled over as one of six try scorers in the statement 40-14 win against Saracens.

For the 2031 tournament, 27 cities and areas, featuring 33 venues, have signed letters of intent. These include Arizona, Atlanta, Baltimore, Birmingham, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Denver, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles Region, Miami, Minneapolis and Nashville.

Darcy Graham's hat trick equaled teammate Duhan van der Merwe's Scotland try-scoring record as the United States was thrashed 85-0 at Murrayfield on Saturday. Scotland scored 13 tries and 10 conversions in its highest ever score at its century-old home stadium and third highest overall.

The second Test between England and Australia is due to kick off at 2.30pm GMT on Saturday 1 November at the Hill Dickinson Stadium, the new home of Everton, in Liverpool.

Australia showed their world champion pedigree to overpower England 14-4 in the second test on Saturday and clinch the Ashes rugby league series 2-0.

A busy November of international rugby action dawns with a hectic Test schedule of Quilter Nations Series action to be consumed over the next five weeks. While a new Nations Championship is on the way to add extra context to these games next year,

The Celebrity Traitors finalist Joe Marler is "smashing it" in the popular TV programme, according to his former England rugby teammates. The former prop, from Heathfield, East Sussex, reached the final of the BBC reality show after surviving Thursday's murder and round table.

LONDON (Reuters) -Flyhalf Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu and winger Kurt-Lee Arendse scored two tries each as South Africa cruised to a 61-7 victory over Japan at a sodden Wembley Stadium in London on Saturday.

The New Zealand side scored five tries in an impressive comeback, while England and South Africa both mustered up convincing wins.