Rugby

MARSEILLE, France (AP) — South Africa secured a bonus-point 49-18 win over Tonga that put it on the verge of the quarterfinals on Sunday, and a successful return to action for flyhalf Handre Pollard added up to a solid day out for the defending champ

MARSEILLE, France (AP) — South Africa secured a bonus-point 49-18 win over Tonga and a successful return to action for flyhalf Handre Pollard at the Rugby World Cup on Sunday in Marseille.

SAINT-ETIENNE, France (AP) — Australia is on the brink of making the Rugby World Cup quarterfinals. And on the brink of missing out. The Wallabies don't have another game scheduled. Yet they can't go home because they might have another game.

Canada coach Kevin Rouet has named his roster for the new WXV women's 15s rugby tournament, choosing 21 players from the squad that finished fourth at the World Cup last November.

LE TOUQUET, France (AP) — England will give free-again flanker Tom Curry a chance to start the Rugby World Cup anew against Samoa next weekend. Curry has completed a two-game suspension and tackle school.

LILLE, France (AP) — Scotland confirmed the showdown it craves with Ireland for a place in the Rugby World Cup quarterfinals after routing hapless Romania 84-0 on Saturday.

PARIS (AP) — Fiji avoided the kind of mega shock it is more used to dishing out at the Rugby World Cup when the Pacific islanders were constrained by a fully committed Georgia before coming back from 9-0 down to win 17-12 on Saturday.

BORDEAUX, France (AP) — Fiji just avoided the kind of mega shock it is more used to dishing out at the Rugby World Cup.

Respect for Australia has sunk so low that people ask the coach of winless Portugal, “Think you can beat them?” Patrice Lagisquet wishes. He smiles at the cheek of the question.

PARIS (AP) — France captain Antoine Dupont has been cleared to train at the Rugby World Cup after surgery on his facial fracture, the French Rugby Federation said on Saturday.