Toulon fly half and former England international Jonny Wilkinson is set to retire at the end of the season after 17 years at the pinnacle of his profession, according to The Times.
ROB WILDMAN: Leicester handed out a warning to English and French rivals on Sunday that they are finding their best form for the season finale. This emphatic display by the Aviva Premiership champions - powered by Manu Tuilagi - brought a record defeat for Exeter and kept the Tigers on course for the play-offs.
ROB WILDMAN: Northampton's Jim Mallinder hopes that a visit from arch-rivals Leicester on Saturday, March 29, will bring the best out of a team outmuscled 19-6 at Sale.
Harlequins rested their England contingent for their Wembley showdown with Saracens and paid the price by losing ground in the race for a place in the Aviva Premiership play-offs.
Not only did David Wilson and Katy Mclean both play at the same Westoe club in South Shields, but for the same Under 11 team.
Ben Youngs admits that playing for the Lions has cost him and his Leicester team-mates dearly this season as the countdown for next year's World Cup begins.
Just to set the record straight, Chris Ashton can be serious, thoughtful and profound. The joker's mask does slip, occasionally, to reveal a different side to his nature.
Matt Garvey and Anthony Watson came back to haunt his former side as he touched down at the death to hand Bath a bonus-point 44-23 win.
Rob Cook scored 20 points for Gloucester but Newcastle showed that sides should never give up as they grabbed two crucial bonus points.
Aviva Premiership relegation favourites Worcester suffered a survival hammer-blow at Sixways as Wasps stole an unlikely late win.
England's rugby players went through all the emotions as they watched the Six Nations title slip from their grasp.
CHRIS FOY: The drama of the conclusion last weekend, as Ireland hung on in Paris to claim the RBS Six Nations title, could not disguise the fact that this was once again a two-tier tournament.
If Stuart Lancaster was picking his 2015 Rugby World Cup pack today, a fit Tom Croft would give him a headache of the right kind.
Brian O'Driscoll expressed his joy after ending his international career by helping Ireland to glory in the RBS 6 Nations with a 22-20 victory over France in Paris on Saturday evening.
World Cup-winning coach and Sportsmail columnist runs the rule over Stuart Lancaster's squad and how they performed on their way to a close second in the 2014 RBS 6 Nations.
Northampton made a prominent contribution to England's Six Nations campaign and the Saints hope that will ignite a 'surge' towards the title.
Before the journey to the airport for their flight home, England had a last laugh at their hotel - not as champions of Europe but as buoyant runners-up.
Saracens are optimistic that their England No 8 Billy Vunipola will recover from his ankle injury in time for the Heineken Cup quarter-final against Ulster.
Richard Hibbard has become the latest big-name casualty for Wales ahead of their summer tour to South Africa.
Mike Brown has earned a resounding endorsement from World Cup winner, Jason Robinson.
A day trip to Woodhouse Grove highlighted for me the value and debt we owe to schools rugby in England. To see the enthusiasm and pride in Grove's achievement in winning the inaugural Daily Mail Schools Trophy was truly uplifting. No doubt one or two of the Trophy-winning squad may yet go on to play professional rugby, following in the footsteps of ex-pupils led by Wasps wing Paul Sampson, full-back Dan Scarbrough (Wakefield, Leeds, Saracens, Racing Metro) and scrum-half Joe Bedford (Leeds,Newport Gwent Dragons, Doncaster).
Just champion! That's Woodhouse Grove, the first-ever winners of the Daily Mail Schools Trophy. And to celebrate their success, the Bradford-based school, who were presented with the trophy by World-Cup winning coach Sir Clive Woodward, finished off their unbeaten campaign with one of their most complete performances of the autumn.
When the Daily Mail and schoolsrugby.co.uk first got together, our aim was to design a national competition that embraced the traditional fixtures over the autumn term.
DURHAM 23 - 19 BARNARD CASTLE
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SCHOOLS RUGBY: MARLBOROUGH 22 - 10...
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SCHOOLS RUGBY: BRIGHTON COLLEGE 25 - 12...
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SCHOOLS RUGBY: KCS WIMBLEDON 29 - 26...
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SCHOOLS RUGBY: DURHAM 25 - 24 NEWCASTLE...
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BRIGHTON 17 - 12 HURSTPIERPOINT
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SIR CLIVE WOODWARD: The first season of the Daily Mail Schools Trophy is proving a resounding success.
A part-time interest has turned into an internet success story for a rugby-mad South Wales based family.
The Daily Mail Schools Trophy is a wonderful new take on the oldest thing in sport: rivalry.
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