by Lance Polu APIA: SATURDAY 18 MAY 2013: Manu Samoa’s most successful coach in 15s and Sevens, Stephen Betham, has been drafted in to lead the Samoa Sevens team preparations for the World Cup in Moscow next month. Betham is the only Samoan Sevens coach to have won the IRB World Series in 2010 and [...]

BY Alan Ah Mu APIA: FRIDAY 3 MAY 2013: The young and the restless amongst our arsenal of rugby talent might inject a Samoan flavour into the unknown realm of Romanian rugby. That is if famous Springbok Chester Williams finds what he seeks here. “I’m here just to recruit some young talent to take to [...]

By Lagi Keresoma APIA: THURSDAY 2 MAY 2013: Member of Parliament Toeolesulusulu Cedric Schuster swore at them during a confrontation with Satapuala residents at a road block last year, two Policemen testified in the District Court yesterday. Ex-Constable Sililo Mafutaga and Senior Constable Onosai Fetuia’i both testified the MP said “some very rude and humiliating [...]

Wallabies winger Digby Ioane will leave the Queensland Reds and Australian rugby later this year after signing a massive two-year contract with French glamour club Stade Francais. It’s understood Ioane will reap almost $2.5 million ($NZ3m) but the deal will severely endanger his chances of playing in the 2015 Rugby World Cup. Queensland Rugby Union [...]

New Zealand-born rugby league player Alex Elisala has died in an Australian hospital, just days after playing his first test match for Samoa. The 20-year-old was on life support in the Mackay Base Hospital in Queensland but it was switched off yesterday afternoon. His NRL club, the North Queensland Cowboys, released the news last night. [...]