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 ...

As the women’s domestic season reaches its climax, English club rugby is having to confront an uncomfortable truth: it is miserably failing women’s coaches. Last week, when Exeter Chiefs announced ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

English rugby player Joe Marler was suspended for 10 weeks after he was caught grabbing the genitals of another player during last weekend’s championship match. The decision against Marler, 29, came ...

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. The chant ...

To establish match injury rates and patterns in elite female rugby union players in England. Method We conducted a six-season (2011/2012–2013/2014 and 2017/2018–2019/2020) prospective cohort study of ...

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 ...