IT’S tough to look like an absolute unit on a rugby pitch full of them. But South African giant JJ van der Mescht towers ...

Cast your mind back to the exit of Louis Rees-Zammit from rugby to try his hand in the NFL. It was only a year-and-a-half back that his exit was met with a range of hackneyed hand-wringing from ...

Northampton Saints star JJ van der Mescht only eats one meal a day, but he’s still the heaviest player ever seen in England.

English rugby is plotting a revolution of the professional game with a franchise model that will abolish relegation but include promotion, to expand the Premiership. In what has been dubbed a “new era ...

There are at least three million reasons for a historic cross-code extravaganza between league and rugby union clubs to go ...

(CNN) — American star Ilona Maher bid a tearful farewell to English rugby as she played her final game with Bristol Bears Women. Maher, who shot to fame during last year’s Paris Olympics, has had a ...

Australia's Cameron Munster, speaking to BBC One: "I want to say thanks to the crowd - it is a big turn out. Aussies here as ...

LONDON (AP) — English rugby bosses are conducting a review of the “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” anthem regularly sung by supporters of the national team because of its links to slavery. The song has come ...

The Dragons' back-row will not feature against the All Blacks, having not been present at the captain's run at the ...

LONDON (AP) — English rugby club Exeter will stop playing its “Tomahawk Chop” chant during games as part of a rebrand to move away from a Native American theme that had come under increasing criticism ...

England rugby union bosses are reviewing the use of the slave-era song “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” as a chant by fans, saying many may not be aware of its “historical context.” The Rugby Football Union ...