41.   Paralyzed rugby player Max Brito was scheduled to fly home to France on Sunday night for further treatment in a Bordeaux hospital, his family said.

42.   Prosecutors dropped charges Monday against four white South African rugby players accused of beating a black teen-ager to death.

43.   Police appealed Monday for a possible witness to an alleged indecent assault by Scottish rugby player Gordon McRaild to come forward.

44.   Pienaar said Sunday night he got involved with World Rugby Corporation to try to help all rugby union players get the best deal possible.

45.   A former Namibian rugby player, Casper Derks, who owns a scrap yard, and his foreman appeared in court Thursday and were released on bail.

46.   A rugby player who apparently had part of his ear bitten of in a weekend match was reported undergoing plastic surgery Sunday in London to repair the damage.

47.   A rugby union player has been banned from the sport for life for attacking a referee during a recent premier club match, league officials said Friday.

48.   A New Zealand first division rugby union player received a one-year ban Wednesday for gouging the eye of an opponent.

49.   A number of leading South African rugby union players are considering joining Super League rugby league teams in Australia, former Springbok center Pieter Muller said Wednesday.

50.   A judge on Wednesday found Scottish rugby player Gordon McRaild innocent of indecently assaulting a woman on an overseas flight and called the case a waste of time.