LONDON - Mervyn Davies, the Welsh rugby player who died Friday at 65, kept his immaculate timing to the very end. He died of cancer the day before Wales was to play France in Cardiff in the final ...

Mervyn Davis, who has died aged 65 of lung cancer, was a rugby great, an outstanding back-row forward during a golden era of Welsh rugby whose career was ended during a game by a brain haemorrhage ...