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Sonny Bill Williams is leading a rugby revolution, writes The New Zealand Herald’s Chris Rattue , and he’s the right man at the right time to expand rugby thinking even further.

A last-gasp Kurtley Beale penalty kick was enough for the Wallabies to finally break their altitude hoodoo in South Africa. As Spiro Zavos writes, the importance of the victory cannot be overstated.

As much as we may feel uneasy about it here on the Pacific rim, it does seem clear that the two best teams have ended up in the Super 14 final and yes, they are both South African, writes Patrick Baume.

If you’ve got friends who think that rugby is a stupid, boring game where they kick all the time and spend the rest of the game with their heads up each others bums, then Patrick Baume has some advice for you.

Patrick Baume gives his tips for this weekend in Super 14. The monster game will be when second plays third, both coming off a loss and both still to play the competition leading Bulls in Pretoria.

There’s still room for some belief that this could be the first year with two Australian finalists since 2002, says Patrick Baume, as he offers up his tips for this weekend’s Super 14 rugby union games.

From a Crikey tipster today: Well-sourced rumour is that David Jones are mightily displeased that their advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi dumped them in it by making pre-teen girls in its ads look sexy.

Should all the chips fall the right way, the Brumbies could be just about to pull off the most remarkable recruitment drive since the franchises inception, says Crikey Sports.

Tonight the Western Force has its last go-round on its oval ground at Subiaco as an era ends in Perth.

Is this the beginning of the end for Stirling Mortlock?

Western Force Super rugby players are now heading back across the Nullarbor or overseas to Europe or Japan.

Wayne Swan at the AICD Budget Lunch in Melbourne earlier this week (Tuesday) tried to warm up the largely business crowd by talking AFL. Trouble is he apologised for Brisbane winning last weekend, and said it didn’t matter, it was only against Carlton. The groans that followed weren’t just from the Carlton supporters, well-represented as […]

Morris Iemma … The West … the media and Haneef … Bob Brown’s bribe claim … Mem Fox on phonics … First Dog’s cat …

The NSW Waratahs might have made a Super 14 semifinal, but the NSWRU is fumbling and bumbling in the administration stakes, writes Michael Pascoe.

When the history of Australian sporting journalism comes to be written many years from now, one piece will surely be dusted off and held up as perhaps the finest example of its type. Few articles can have been so wide of the mark. Charles Happpell reports.