71.   BRISTOL, England -- Former rugby union players were given the green light Tuesday to return to the amateur ranks once they have quit rugby league.

72.   Calder was skeptical about whether any good will come out of the controversial issue of paying rugby union players.

73.   Daryl Halligan, another former New Zealand rugby player, will kick for the Bulldogs.

74.   David Campese is doing it for gold and the Fijian rugby players feel a special duty to their medal-starved nation.

75.   Defense lawyers had argued Matloha died after falling off a truck while trying to escape from the rugby players.

76.   England assistant coach John Mitchell said the touring rugby players were hard to motivate and slow to learn.

77.   Former Australian rugby league player Peter Jackson, who proved as natural with a microphone as he was with a football, died Friday.

78.   Four Australian rugby league players are reported to be the subject of a police investigation into the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl.

79.   Fullback Matthew Ridge was Saturday named New Zealand rugby league player of the year.

80.   Former New Zealand rugby union player John Timu scored twice for Canterbury.