Edinburgh secured a home tie in the last 16 of the European Challenge Cup as they hammered Pau 54-5 at the DAM Health Stadium.

Stuart McInally, Henry Pyrgos, WP Nel and Pierce Phillips also touched down as the hosts scored eight tries in total.

Thomas Carol got a late consolation try for the French side.

Mike Blair's side top Pool C but will have to wait until after Saturday night's Pool A game between Toulon and Biarritz to find out their opponents in next weekend's first knockout round.

Edinburgh head coach Mike Blair: "Really pleased. We talked about being a physical side and taking the game to Pau. I felt we did that and kept our foot on their throat.

"It didn't turn into circus rugby. We continued to make good decisions. You have to deal with pressure and exert pressure on the opposition. We need to be tough on ourselves and stick to the winning formula."

Scintillating Saracens dismantled Brive to advance to the knockout phase of the European Challenge Cup.

Setariki Tuicuvu's first-half try proved to be the only high point for the French club, as Ivan van Zyl, Ben Earl, Rotimi Segun, Jamie George and Ben Harris added to the Saracens total.

The win sets up a home draw for the north London club in the next round.

Saracens took control of the match from the off and Tedo Abzhandadze's attempted clearance kick was charged down by Christie, who ran through to retrieve the ball and claim the try.

Brive hit straight back through centre Tuicuvu, who found space inside Alec Clarey on the right channel to run through, but Abzhandadze's conversion attempt went horribly wrong when the ball fell off the tee as he began his run-up.

Prop Mawi drove forward for Saracens, with the ball finding its way back to him to ground for a second try before Isiekwe extended the lead further before half-time.

Saracens carved Brive open again at the start of the second half, with Elliot Daly finding Van Zyl on the inside, who crossed under the posts for his side's fourth try and a bonus point.

Substitute Earl quickly added to his two tries against Sale Sharks last week when he went over between the posts, with Farrell converting another simple kick.

Segun easily crossed on the left wing for a sixth as the away side began to really stretch the pitch, looking likely to score at every opportunity.

With a couple of Brive players down requiring treatment, George ran through unchallenged to add a seventh try.

Brive's night went from bad to worse when replays showed Axel Muller's shoulder made contact with Harris' head in the tackle in the lead-up to the try, with the full-back shown a red card.

Harris, a half-time substitute for Alex Lewington, barrelled his way through a string of challenges to take his team past a half-century of points as they delivered a statement victory.

Saracens can look forward to an all-British home draw at the StoneX Stadium against either Wasps or Cardiff in the last 16 and will find out their opponents on Saturday.

Brive: Muller; Tournebize, Tuicuvu, Lee, Tirefort; Abzhandadze, Sanga; Thompson-Stringer, Narisia, Bekoshvili; Lebas, Cerqueira; Voisin (capt.), Gue, Lam

Replacements: Dufour, Thomas, Bruges, Bedou, Bost, Lacoste, Danovaro, Tapeuleulu

Sent off: Muller (70)

Saracens: Goode; Segun, Daly, Taylor, Lewington; Farrell (capt.), Van Zyl; Mawi, Woolstencroft; Clarey; Isiekwe, McFarland; Christe, Wray, Vunipola

Replacements: George, Barrington, Wainwright, Hunter-Hill, Earl, De Haas, Morris, Harris

Referee: Mike Adamson (Scotland)

When Wales step out against England in Gloucester on Saturday, they may get a glimpse of their future.

Twelve Wales players were given full-time contracts for the first time in January, with others given semi-professional contracts. Most of England's squad have been fully professional for three years.

Wales' contracts seem to have had some effect already - perhaps not physically, but mentally - while England are soaring high at the top of the world rankings.

Ioan Cunningham's side have come from behind to claim two bonus-point wins - the first time they have won their opening two Women's Six Nations games since 2015.

That year was also the last time they beat England, scoring two tries in a 13-0 win.

On Saturday, scoring two tries against a Red Roses side who have only conceded one in their first two matches would in itself be a victory.

A win, though, is probably beyond the visitors' grasp because England are much further down the road on which Wales are just taking their first tentative steps.

Twenty-eight Red Roses players were given full-time contracts in 2019 and, since July of that year, the side have not lost.

In the three years since becoming professional, they have risen to number one in the world rankings, won three Six Nations titles in a row and claimed record victories against World Cup holders New Zealand.

Some are irked by England's dominance, saying it devalues the Six Nations if you know the result of matches before they have been played.

Others hold the Red Roses up as a shining example, proof that if you invest in women's sport you get results.

Former Wales international Philippa Tuttiett is so firmly in the second camp that she hopes her side lose on Saturday.

"I don't want Wales to go away and beat England," she said on BBC Radio 5 Live's Rugby Union Weekly.

"Half the team's professional, they're in the early stages of it. England are setting the example to all the other unions that long-term genuine investment leads to superstars, World Cup-winning performances.

"That's what I hope to see this weekend because that will ask more questions and encourage more support for Wales."

Lack of professionalism 'not justifiable'

Such is the strength in depth nurtured by England's contracts and the impressive domestic Premier 15s league, head coach Simon Middleton has moved some players slightly out of position to cram all his talent in.

Abby Dow - normally a wing - will make her second England start at full-back, and the versatile Poppy Cleall moves from number eight to lock.

After starting the same side in Wales' opening two fixtures, Cunningham has made five changes for Saturday, perhaps accepting that victory is out of reach but a good opportunity to build experience is on offer.

England have scored more than 50 points in each of their past four games against Wales, racking up 232 points in total and conceding 38, but the Welsh revival could narrow the gap this time.

Both sides will want to put on a show. With the tournament being played separately from the men's championship for the second year in a row, it feels more eyes are on women's rugby than ever before.

The game in Gloucester is expected to set a new attendance record for a ticketed England home game, with the current mark 13,253.

England scrum-half Natasha Hunt says the tournament has been "eye-opening" for those unfamiliar with women's rugby as they see amateur players returning to day jobs in the short time between Test matches.

The 33-year-old adds if unions "don't feel the pressure" to invest more in the women's game now, "maybe they should".

Tuttiett believes the increased attention means "more and more people are going to be asking why some teams are professional and some are not".

She continues: "You can't give a justifiable answer. For athletes to compete on a level playing field, they should all be given equal opportunities and sadly at the moment the England environment is in sharp contrast."

Wales' performances so far show the first shoots of a side entering professionalism. On Saturday they will face Red Roses already in full bloom.

Another England win is expected, but if the Welsh Rugby Union continues to invest it could be a different story in three years' time.

Minnesota State senior goalie Dryden McKay was named the winner of the Hobey Baker Award on Friday as the top player in NCAA Division I men's hockey.

McKay set NCAA records with 37 wins and 34 shutouts this season for a Mavericks team that finished 38-4 and is set to face Denver University in the Frozen Four final on Saturday.

McKay entered the Frozen Four second in goals-against average (1.28) and third in saves percentage (.934). He made 16 saves in Minnesota State's 5-1 win over Minnesota in Thursday's semifinal.

A Hobey Baker finalist last season as well, McKay, 24, has not been drafted by an NHL team and is a free agent.

AUGUSTA, Ga. – Just before lunchtime on Friday Tiger Woods emerged from his courtesy car in the champion’s parking lot. He was parked in the same spot he was when he won this tournament in 2019. It seems there are also plenty of unwritten rules at Augusta National.

The parking spot gives Tiger easy access to the clubhouse and the champion’s locker room on the second floor. It’s also just a short walk to the old putting green behind the first tee that Masters’ veterans prefer because it’s always been there.

But it wasn’t the seclusion of the locker room or the welcome familiarity of the old putting green that he sought Friday. Tiger’s first stop was the fitness trailer, which is tucked away on the far side of the sprawling tournament practice area. It was here where the magic would happen. Or not happen.

Tiger, who historically doesn’t volunteer information, has been clear on this ever since his SUV veered off a winding road in February 2021, careened across a median and tumbled to a stop in a ditch. There will be good days and bad days.

Friday was somewhere in between.

From now until the end of Tiger’s time as a professional golfer there will be a healthy dollop of perspective. Bogey the first? At least he was able to walk 18 holes. Bogey the third? You’re no longer confined to a hospital bed. Bogey the fourth? You have both legs.

The latter is a particularly sobering thought, and Tiger’s public answer each time he’s asked the extent of the damage his right leg endured when his SUV spiraled out of control in Los Angeles. At the time doctors explained amputation was a possibility and, Tiger being Tiger, he balked.

Fourteen months later, there he was on two legs making his way to the fitness trailer. He calls it activation.

Some observers would call his movements deliberate, while others might say pained, but then this was always going to be a test of will more than skill. He can still play golf. He proved that in December at the PNC Championship alongside his son, Charlie, and he wouldn’t have made the effort this week if he wasn’t encouraged by his game. This was about Tiger’s surgically rebuilt right leg and, to a greater degree, his willingness to compartmentalize the pain.

There was pain. That much is clear.

“My team has done a hell of a job getting me ready, getting the body after I break it out there, they go ahead and repair it at night,” he said. “I'm good at breaking it. They're good at fixing it.”

Tiger’s 92^nd competitive round at the Masters might not have been the most testing of his career, but it certainly was the most painful to watch.

If Thursday’s 1-under 71 was a “scrappy” effort, as one member of Team Tiger explained, Friday’s 74 was scoured from the depths of the five-time Masters champion’s physical limitations.

The mind is still willing, but the body is an unknown quantity. For the second consecutive day he just wasn’t feeling it on the range, and early on Day 2 this version was lacking the savvy short game that made Thursday feel like a reason to celebrate.

He missed the green right at Nos. 1, 3 and 4 to start his day 3 over par and sailed his drive at the par-4 fifth hole into the trees right of the fairway for his fourth bogey of the day.

Scrappy.

He rallied with his first birdie of the day at No. 8 and flushed his approach shot at the 10^th hole for another.

Scrappy.

He played Amen Corner in 1 over, rebounded with a birdie at No. 14, and capped a wild and windy day with four pars to finish.

Scrappy.

It all added up to a 1 over total and a weekend tee time. Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau and Jordan Spieth can’t say the same, to mention just a few of the game’s stars who won’t be going the full 72. Maybe getting to Sunday was always the plan given the unique physical demands of Augusta National, and he seemed to subtly suggest as much.

“I told [caddie Joey LaCava] that, ‘Hey, we got a lot of holes to play. It's going to be tough all day, so let's get it back to even-par for the day somehow,’” he said. “If I can just stay at even-par for the day, I thought that would have been a pretty good comeback.”

Earlier Friday, Louis Oosthuizen withdrew from the tournament with an ailing neck just a day after Paul Casey succumbed to a short week with a bad back. And there was Tiger. Comparison shopping pain serves no purpose – and it should be noted that both Oosthuizen and Casey have been slowed by their ailments for some time – but whatever Tiger may have lost in that roadside heap early last year, know that the grit which carried him to a U.S. Open trophy on a broken leg and his fifth Masters victory on a rebuilt back remains.

“I expected to be sore and not feel my best for sure,” said Tiger, as if there were no alternative to his current path. “It's the combination. I can walk this golf course. I can put on tennis shoes and go for a walk. That's not a problem, but going ballistically at shots and hitting shot shapes off of uneven lies, that puts a whole new challenge to it.”

After speaking with the media, Tiger climbed the stairs to the champion’s locker room. It was no easy feat. There was no detour to the putting green or the practice range. Those days are over. Instead, he headed for his courtesy car, which was parked in its familiar spot. There was more therapy and ice and pain to endure before he starts the process all over again on Saturday, and somehow it all felt like a victory.

The cut has been made and 52 players will compete over the weekend at the 86th Masters Tournament. Here's a look at third-round tee times at Augusta National (all times ET; all starting on hole No. 1):

10:20 a.m.: Mackenzie Hughes, Adam Scott

10:30 a.m.: Viktor Hovland, Min Woo Lee

10:40 a.m.: Seamus Power, Marc Leishman

10:50 a.m.: Lucas Glover, Cameron Davis

11 a.m.: Max Homa, Tommy Fleetwood

11:10 a.m.: Tom Hoge, Billy Horschel

11:20 a.m.: Russell Henley, Patrick Reed

11:30 a.m.: Tony Finau, Cameron Champ

11:40 a.m.: Talor Gooch, Daniel Berger

Noon: Si Woo Kim, Jason Kokrak

12:10 p.m.: Hudson Swafford, Harry Higgs

12:20 p.m.: Rory McIlroy, Sepp Straka

12:30 p.m.: Tyrrell Hatton, Jon Rahm

12:40 p.m.: Bubba Watson, Sergio Garcia

12:50 p.m.: Robert MacIntyre, Lee Westwood

1 p.m.: Kevin Kisner, Tiger Woods

1:10 p.m.: Webb Simpson, Patrick Cantlay

1:20 p.m.: Matt Fitzpatrick, J.J. Spaun

1:40 p.m.: Justin Thomas, Christiaan Bezuidenhout

1:50 p.m.: Danny Willett, Joaquin Niemann

2 p.m.: Collin Morikawa, Will Zalatoris

2:10 p.m.: Cameron Smith, Corey Conners

2:20 p.m.: Dustin Johnson, Kevin Na

2:30 p.m.: Hideki Matsuyama, Harold Varner III

2:40 p.m.: Sungjae Im, Shane Lowry

2:50 p.m.: Scottie Scheffler, Charl Schwartzel

AUGUSTA, Ga. – It was the first round of the Masters, and Justin Thomas’ mind was elsewhere. He was scanning the giant leaderboards for other scores. He was looking around at different holes. He was ruing earlier mistakes.

“I just couldn’t get into the moment,” he said Friday, “which is sad and a bummer on the first round of the Masters. ...

“You just wake up some days, and you don’t want to do anything – and I unfortunately I had to go play the first round of the Masters.”

The day went predictably poorly.

The best iron player on the planet, Thomas hit only six greens in regulation and bogeyed two of his last three holes to shoot an opening 76 – a stunning score for one of the pre-tournament favorites.

“That was, far and away, the most pissed off I’ve been after a round in a really, really long time,” Thomas said.

Afterward, his fiancée asked whether he needed to be by himself or wanted to talk about his feelings. She quickly got the hint. Together, they played fetch with their dog, Franklin, for 45 minutes, and Thomas “kind of sulked and pissed and moaned” for a bit longer. They ate dinner, then went to bed.

When he arrived at Augusta National on Friday, Thomas showed the focus and determination that had been missing a day earlier. He went out in 33. Then he ripped off three birdies in a row on the second nine (including a near-ace on 16) to match the low round of the day with a 5-under 67.

That torrid round vaulted him back under par and inside the top 10. Thomas is seven back of 36-hole leader Scottie Scheffler, but he’s only two behind second place. Now, he’s hoping that he can still fully recover from that lackadaisical opener.

“I’m really proud of myself,” he said. “I very easily could be going home right now, and not only am I not, but I’m in a really good spot going into this weekend.”

AUGUSTA, Ga. – While most of the focus this week has been on Tiger Woods’ surgically repaired right leg and his immediate future at the Masters, his return to competitive golf for the first time since the fall of 2020 has led to a larger conversation about how his game evolves.

Following a second-round 74, he was asked if the injury to his right leg, which was sustained in a single-vehicle car crash in February 2021, had forced him to make swing changes.

“I can't do much. The ankle is not going to move. I got rods and plates and pins and screws and a bunch of different things in there,” said Woods, who is tied for 19th and nine shots behind leader Scottie Scheffler. “It's never going to move like it used to.”

Woods also addressed a lingering question since the accident, which occurred while he was rehabbing a back injury.

“The more important thing is the ankle is always going to be an issue, but more importantly, if I play golf ballistically, it's going to be the back. It's fused,” he said. “It's the levels above and below that are going to take the brunt of it. I already had back issues going into this, and now this kind of just compounds it a little bit.”

Despite those limitations, Woods said he’s still producing golf ball speed around 175 mph, which would rank around 50th on the PGA Tour, although this week he’s 57th in the field in driving distance (285-yard average).

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler came into Masters week with the second-best odds to win the year's first major. 

But now, he holds both the world ranking's and PointsBet sportsbook's No. 1 spot as he currently sits alone atop the leaderboard halfway through the tournament. 

Scheffler's odds (courtesy of PointsBet) went from +1400 to start the week to +110 following Round 2 after grabbing a record-tying, five-stroke lead at Augusta National. 

He is currently the favorite over defending champion Hideki Matsuyama, who after a second-round 69 is +1100 (+5000 to start the week) with Dustin Johnson (T-6) and Cam Smith (T-6). Matsuyama is looking to become the fourth-ever player to repeat as Masters champion and the first since Tiger Woods in 2002. 

Meanwhile, Jon Rahm who was the betting favorite at +1100 coming into this week, is now listed at +6000 — with Matthew Fitzpatrick — for the field's 10th-best odds. The Spaniard is T-23 at 2 over through two days. 

Just a few spots down on the betting slip is Woods, who made the cut at 1 over and sits T-19, nine shots off Scheffler's 8-under lead. Woods' odds are 14th in the field at +9000. Coming into the week, he was +8000. The Big Cat, however, still is listed a better chance to win over many players who are in front of him on the leaderboard. 

Here is a look at notable odds to win the 86th Masters Tournament heading into the weekend: 

Scottie Scheffler: +110
Cameron Smith, Dustin Johnson, Hideki Matsuyama: +1100
Shane Lowry: +1300
Justin Thomas: +1600
Sungjae Im: +2000
Collin Morikawa: +2500
Will Zalatoris: +3500
Corey Conners: +4000
Joaquin Niemann, Patrick Cantlay: +4000
Harold Varner III: +5000
Charl Schwartzel: +6000
Jon Rahm, Matthew Fitzpatrick: +6600
Kevin Na, Rory McIlroy: +8000
Tiger Woods: +9000
Danny Willett: +12500
Christiaan Bezuidenhout: +15000
Webb Simpson, J.J. Spaun, Daniel Berger: +20000
Tony Finau, Tyrrell Hatton, Kevin Kisner: +25000

View full odds here.

Pep Guardiola said he will not be affected by the pressure ahead of Manchester City's title showdown with Liverpool and insists he will "sleep like a baby" ahead of the meeting at the Etihad Stadium.

Guardiola also joked he's annoyed with the Premier League for scheduling the game at 4.30 p.m. BST on Sunday when he would rather be watching Tiger Woods' comeback at the Masters.

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City and Liverpool are separated by a point at the top of the table but Guardiola said he's too old to worry about the pressure and hinted he is more concerned with what might happen at Augusta.

"It will be a massive three points but there will still be seven games left, Champions League and FA Cup; it's three points," Guardiola said.

"Come on, let's try to beat them and do what we can do to beat them.

"That's why I love it and to be here today for Sunday's game. I sleep like a baby this year. I'm looking forward to Sunday.

"It could be tomorrow, that would be better. I'm a little bit upset with the Premier League because they put the game on when Tiger Woods is back!"

In the build-up to the crunch fixture, Guardiola has been linked with a move to coach the Brazil national team from 2023.

Guardiola has a contract at the Etihad for another season after this but says he has no plans to leave.

"I'm under contract here, I'm so happy here," Guardiola added. "I'm willing to stay forever here. I cannot be a better place to be -- I'd extend the contract 10 years."

Speaking earlier in the day, Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp said Guardiola is the best coach in the world.

And although his City counterpart rejected the claim, he said he hoped to share a glass of wine with Klopp after the game -- but only if his team win.

"If we win I'd love it," he said. "I'll invite him [for a postmatch drink]. Jurgen makes world football a better place to live.

"I think it's good. I try to have a good relationship with all the managers. I learned it's better to have a relationship with them.

"He knows, we spoke together in Germany, and about my admiration for what he does, the message and the way his teams play.

"He's a good guy and I don't have any problems with him, absolutely not. And he's said many times that we're a rich club so the wine will be perfect, high quality."