Japan's Top League already has an abundance of foreign talent kicking around and the developing rugby nation will have a further influx of international players ...

Can anyone dethrone New Zealand in the 2019 Rugby Championship? We've got everything you need to know about the Southern Hemisphere's premier ...

The style of tackling used in rugby may be associated with a lower force of impact than the style used in football, according to a preliminary study of college ...

Wales international Dominic Day will become the latest player to make a move from Europe to Major League Rugby next season.

A player of Toyota Motor Corp.'s Top League rugby team is indicted for possessing cocaine and marijuana at his home last month, the second member of the ...

Argentina coach Mario Ledesma is looking to rediscover the nation's formidable reputation at the scrum ahead of the Rugby Championship.

World Rugby has announced details of a minor amendment to the scrum law, reducing the 'axial' or rotational load on front row players on engagement.

Queensland Reds coach Brad Thorn, who froze out two of his players for drug problems, asked "hard questions" of James O'Connor before welcoming him back ...

South Africa coach Rassie Erasmus on Wednesday named the following team to face Australia in their Rugby Championship test at Ellis Park on Saturday:

South African Super Rugby side Sharks have agreed the mutual termination of the contract of coach Robert du Preez, the union have announced, ending his ...

Surprises in store as World Cup casts shadow over the upcoming Rugby Championship.

INDIANAPOLIS, July 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The style of tackling used in rugby may be associated with a lower force of impact than the style used in football, .

This year's Rugby World Cup is just two months away, with the first match of the tournament kicking off on September 20. The New Zealand broadcast rights to ...

TOKYO, July 17 (Reuters) - Japan coach Jamie Joseph has named three uncapped players in an inexperienced 31-man squad for the Pacific Nations Cup as ...

An ongoing player exodus is something South African rugby is going to have to learn to deal with, Cheetahs coach Hawies Fourie has stressed.

The Pittsburgh Planning Commission voted to approve the latest revision of Rugby Realty's Brickworks at 21st and Smallman development, a proposal to build a ...

Greg O'Shea is the latest bombshell to enter the Love Island villa - here's everything you need to know about his job.

Dave Poquette had never seen or heard of rugby upon arriving on campus at Central Michigan. But when a few of his friends became involved in the sport, the ...

There were a few notable omissions from Australia's first squad naming of 2019, but there's still plenty of talent at Michael Cheika's disposal for the kick-off of the ...

In this special report for Rugby World, we look at the life of a Journeyman, the fine players and coaches moving around the world for adventure or necessity.

Keegan Hirst is keen to play a role in Super League's Wellness Round as it highlight issues in men's mental health, he tells Aaron Bower.

Christian Lealiifano, Bernard Foley and Quade Cooper are all heading to the Top League next season - so what's going to happen to all the Japanese first fives?

The self-imposed salary cap has put Australian teams at a competitive disadvantage against their rivals.

Sidestepping cowpats and garbage, Myanmar's only home-grown junior rugby side train on the outskirts of Yangon, preparing to take on children from ...

A RUGBY player who shook his son to death after being left alone with him for an hour has today been jailed for nine years. Matthew Jones, 26, inflicted ...

Fans can continue to enjoy the oval ball thrills or focus on the provinces (delete as appropriate) for the rest of the day as three of the Irish provinces get their ...

After England cricket lifted the World Cup for the first time yesterday after a dramatic win over New Zealand, England rugby have shared the moment it happened ...

Australia begin their 2019 Rugby Championship campaign by travelling to face South Africa in Johannesburg on July 20, live on Sky Sports Action.

James Small, who has died of a heart attack aged 50, was a rugby union winger who won the World Cup with South Africa in 1995, putting in an immense shift in ...

Four years ago Luther Burrell was playing in the Six Nations. Now he is aiming to represent his country at rugby league.

The 2019 Rugby World Cup gets underway in September as Japan hosts rugby union's global gathering for the first time. Three-time world champions New ...

Mark Coyne has stood down from the Australian Rugby League Commission (ALRC) following an incident in Singapore. The NRL confirmed on Wednesday that ...

Edinburgh back-row Magnus Bradbury vows to improve his consistency as he seeks to secure a place in Scotland's World Cup squad.

Scottish Rugby announces a "seven-figure" six-year extension to its kit contract with Macron, described as a "significant uplift" on the previous deal.

Wednesday's Rugby News examines the Brumbies influence on the Wallabies gameplan, confirms the worst kept secret in rugby, looks at the newest dual-code ...

Departing @DomDay5 discusses his new challenge @SDLegion, an amazing time at Saracens and a little bit of @fourfivecbd! âš« All the best, Dom ...

The Crusaders again proved themselves the masters of pressure in Super Rugby, emerging 19-3 winners over the Jaguares in the competition's lowest-scoring ...

SYDNEY, Australia — Religion isn't a welcome dinner subject for most Australians. The country has grown increasingly secular, and in one recent poll a majority ...

Wallabies coach Michael Cheika has backed injured flanker David Pocock to play a part in the Rugby Championship and prove his readiness for the World Cup.

Sam Cane will captain New Zealand in the Rugby Championship opener less than a year after suffering a broken neck.

European and Gallagher Premiership champions Saracens have thanked the 'brilliant' Welsh import who has announced his departure to Major League Rugby ...

Former Canadian international Jamie Cudmore has been named head coach of the Pacific Pride Academy, a national high-performance program for young ...

Santiago Cordero, the former Exeter Chiefs back, is one of four overseas players called up by Argentina ahead of the Rugby Championship this weekend.

Australian rugby star Israel Folau hit back after the organization that sacked him for posting a Bible verse suggested parts of the Holy Book are a problem.

Global rugby union is braced for *fresh* turmoil after the governing body announced it had discontinued plans to introduce a Nations Championship for the ...

New Cheetahs coach Hawies Fourie says it's important for South African rugby to keep fielding teams in Super Rugby.

Leading rugby nations face a deadline of Friday to back or reject World Rugby's Nations Championship proposal.

Hot spring resorts consider lifting traditional curbs on displaying body art, which is associated with criminal gangs.

The axing of the Western Force led to only an incremental improvement in Australia's Super Rugby fortunes – is it time to lose another team?

Despite substantial obstacles, the Lao federation keeps growing at a fast pace, and the majority of players are women. The national team tends to surprise a lot ...

World Rugby have officially confirmed the changes.

Sale and Scotland back row Josh Strauss leaves the club to join South African Super Rugby side Blue Bulls.

The ninth Rugby World Cup takes place this autumn in Japan as Asia hosts the tournament for the first time, with all 20 teams now confirmed. The action gets ...

I do not envy the Wallabies selectors in having to pick between Tom Banks, Dane Haylett-Petty and Kurtley Beale at fullback. Banks has the form but not the ...

Everyone is still talking about the crazy tiebreaker which cost the Black Caps the Cricket World Cup final – but what would happen if the All Blacks faced a ...

You may have noticed your social media channels filled with pictures of how your friends will look when they become pensioners, thanks to FaceApp's old age ...

THE IRISH Rugby Football Union has unveiled the strip Ireland will be wearing for their upcoming ...

The Argentinian Los Pumas have some advantages over other teams competing in this year's Rugby Championship.

Don't get too excited, but the Wallabies have won the past two Rugby Championships in Rugby World Cup years and the draw favours them this time.

Rugby player said he was 'disappointed' a settlement could not be reached at Fair Work Commission. Australian Associated Press. Fri 28 Jun 2019 00.28 EDT ...

In latest proof that rugby players are not human, a rugby union player in England dislocated his knee, before hammering it back into place with his own fist and ...

Billy Vunipola has drawn a line under the homophobic comment made in April fearing that further discussion of his views could harm England's Rugby World ...

A second fundraiser for sacked rugby player Israel Folau has drawn more donations within 24 hours than a previous campaign that was shut down on Monday.

Israel Folau, who was sacked by Rugby Australia following a homophobic social media post, is crowdfunding A$3 million (US$2.1 million) to pursue a legal ...

Ex-Ireland rugby player Denis Coulson will go before a French court along with two other men to face charges over the alleged gang rape of a woman filmed ...

Unsung Rugby World Cup Pool Matches – Jacob Whitehead takes a look at the lower-profile matches that could provide shocks and thrills.

Both sports combine strength and stamina, but who comes out on top in rugby versus NFL? We put Wales' Jamie Roberts up against Samson Ebukam of the LA ...

England face a Rugby World Cup waiting game over Jack Nowell, who has had surgery on an ankle, though his Exeter coach, Rob Baxter, believes he should ...

Cape Town - England are the 2019 Cricket World Cup champions having beaten New Zealand in an unforgettable final at Lord's last Sunday. Will the same two ...

ACT Brumbies coach Dan McKellar said his team was determined to create positive headlines in a year that rugby union has been plagued by off-field incidents.

Ever since Cannabidiol (CBD) was made legal in the U.K. in 2016, CBD startups have been springing up everywhere. One of the latest is fourfivecbd, created by ...

In London at the end of June, World Rugby held a two-day conference at the end of which they issued an immediately effective law change to the front row of the ...

Rugby league must ensure its relationship with gambling is not normalised for addicts, says RFL president Tony Adams.

The Jaguares' success in Super Rugby counts for nothing, says the All Blacks halfback.

A record number of people are playing rugby worldwide as the sport continues to grow and prosper across the globe, according to the World Rugby Year in ...

Hallam Amos has earned a first class degree in neuroscience.

In the latest of a Rugby World Cup series, RugbyPass looks at Ireland's depth chart ahead of the finals in Japan where Joe Schmidt must cut a 45-strong training ...

SuperSport takes a look back at some of the best Springbok tries in the Rugby Championship with isiXhosa commentary.

Henry Purdy is set to become big-spending Coventry Rugby's sixth Premiership signing ahead of the new season. According to The Rugby Paper, Purdy will ...

England's men and women's teams reach the quarter-finals of the Olympic Rugby Sevens tournaments, with the winners earning qualification for Tokyo 2020.

It is 74 days before the Rugby World Cup starts in Japan, and head coaches will be becoming increasingly nervous as to when their injured players will return.

Research shows older Australians are increasingly giving up sport and exercise, but a group of former rugby players in Adelaide is breaking the mould and ...

Three rugby players from Japan's national team look out from rice paddies in Gyoda, Saitama Prefecture — in a piece of agricultural art created to promote the ...

Wallabies stalwart Will Genia says the decision to finish his international career after this year's World Cup boiled down to the fact he wanted to travel less and ...

Junior staff writer DYLAN JACK pokes fun at rugby's crazy underbelly. GOODE GOES ON A BENDER. Alex Goode celebrated Saracens' European Champions ...

The Bermuda Rugby Football Union [BRFU] U19 Squad are heading to Barbados to compete in the Rugby Americas North [RAN] U19 tournament where they ...

A number of Comox Valley rugby players have been selected to represent B.C. at the U16 Western Championships, July 25-28 in Kelowna.

Chris Kelley is an Ohio State Buckeye through and through and thrives being an out rugby player.

Vanessa Bellefontaine wasn't keen on her daughter playing rugby when she made the Riverview Rural High School team in 2018. But now she enjoys watching ...

Check out SuperSport's advert to preview the upcoming Rugby Championship, with the Springboks kicking off their campaign against the Wallabies on ...

England are not due to finalise their Rugby World Cup squad until August but the chances of Dylan Hartley, Chris Robshaw and Danny Care being included are ...

Former Australian schoolboy Tepai Moeroa will leave the Parramatta Eels at the end of the NRL season after signing a two-year deal with the Waratahs and ...

Super League and the Rugby Football League (RFL) announce a reserve grade competition will be relaunched in 2020.

Some of the heaviest players in rugby today have been featured in this brilliant compilation by Andrew Forde. As expected, Props dominated the video and there ...

Shane Williams, Nick Evans, Allan Bateman, Andy Powell and Lee Byrne are among those who will feature.

THE South African Rugby Team were in Limerick recently to see the City and play tag rugby ahead of the Tag Rugby World Cup. The University of Limerick will ...

Some familiar faces will be missing as Canada looks to defend its Pan American Games titles in men's and women's rugby sevens.

Having come within a poor refereeing decision of reaching 2015's semi-finals, the latest RugbyPass Rugby World Cup depth chart feature checks how Scotland ...

Fiji and Suva, it's a combination that is truly hard to beat. Especially when Fiji play in the vein that they did today, it makes it very difficult to argue that they could ...

Rugby can be best described as British hockey because for as entertaining as it can be to watch, the fans can often ruin the experience with their innate desire to ...