RUGBY FOOTBALL

Kenya stunned defending champions Fiji with a superb performance to clinch their first-ever World Rugby Sevens Series crown as the event in Singapore drew to a dramatic close.

• Fiji 21-7 New Zealand
• Fiji five points clear of All Blacks with three events to go

This promises to be a momentous year in the history of the United States. The country will elect its 45th president in November, NASA’s Juno spacecraft is on course to reach Jupiter and rugby might finally, finally crack into the world’s biggest market.

American football player Nate Ebner’s chances of competing at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games have been given a boost as he has been named in the United States’ squad for this weekend's Hong Kong Sevens event.

World Rugby have agreed a package of reforms designed to address the crisis in the sport in Tonga.

First developmental youth team to prepare young girls for competitive ladies’ rugby