Rugby Union
- 110th Six Nations Championship series is won by Wales who complete the Grand Slam
- 2005 British and Irish Lions tour to New Zealand – The Lions suffer a 3–0 whitewash to the All Blacks, as well as losing to the New Zealand Māori side. It was the first time in 22 years that a Lions side had lost every Test match on tour.
- Tri Nations – New Zealand wins for the 6th time. The All Blacks also picked up the Bledisloe Cup in the process.
- Heineken Cup – Toulouse defeat Stade Français 18–12 in the final.
- Super 12 – The Crusaders defeat the Waratahs 35–25 in the final
- Zurich Premiership (England) – Leicester Tigers win the league, Wasps win the playoffs
- Celtic League – Ospreys
- Top 16 (France) – Biarritz defeat Stade Français 37–34 in the final
- National Provincial Championship (New Zealand): Auckland defeat Otago 39–11 in the final
- Currie Cup (South Africa) – Cheetahs defeat Blue Bulls 29–25 in the final
- In the November Tests, the All Blacks (New Zealand) score a "Grand Slam" by defeating all four Home Nations (Wales, Ireland, England, Scotland) while on tour. This is the first such Grand Slam for a Southern Hemisphere team since Australia did so in 1984, and the first for the All Blacks since 1978.
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“Some are petitioning the State to dissolve the Union, to disregard the requisitions of the President. Why do they not dissolve it themselves,—the union between themselves and the State,—and refuse to pay their quota into its treasury? Do not they stand in the same relation to the State that the State does to the Union? And have not the same reasons prevented the State from resisting the Union which have prevented them from resisting the State?”
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