It won’t. It just won’t. Rugby in Australia will get the cash from the Lions, and the RWC, and it will spend it, and also the handful of shiny coins tossed its way by the latest broadcast deal ...

Ben Youngs has announced he will retire from professional rugby at the end of the season. The 35-year-old scrum-half made his 332nd senior appearance for Leicester Tigers as a replacement in the ...

The Galvin situation has been particularly distressing to watch and will only get worse from here with Galvin’s team issuing a legal letter to the Rugby League Players Association over the ...

SA Rugby president Mark Alexander’s recent remarks about the possibility of South Africa ever hosting a Rugby World Cup may have caused quite a stir, but he was only echoing what many in the ...

Ben Youngs, the most capped English male rugby player, has announced that he will retire at the end of the current season. The iconic 35-year-old Leicester scrum-half, who recently played his ...

A shout could be heard form the crowd: "Do it now!" What happened next went down in grassroots rugby history. Knuckey proceeded to drop the ball onto his backheel, in what could be described as a ...

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STANFORD – It couldn’t have gone any better for the Stanford women’s rugby team. Playing on its home turf against rival Cal, the Cardinal earned its second consecutive USA Rugby Women’s D1 ...

AN international rugby union star has quit to become an estate agent aged 26. The Welsh rising star was in his sporting prime until his promising career took a different turn. The Wales under-20s ...

Former Wales hooker Richard Hibbard has given his backing to Steve Tandy for the role of Wales' new national men's head coach, advocating for a long-term deal that extends over two World Cup cycles.

Rugby's 7-1 forwards-backs bench split looks set to continue, with World Rugby saying it has no plans to ban the strategy first made famous by the Springboks. The global rugby governing body's CEO ...

The All Blacks coach and NZR chief executive join Elliott Smith and Liam Napier in the studio for an exclusive and wide-ranging discussion of all the big rugby issues. Video / ZB The Blues ...