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 ...

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 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 ...

Sam Stanley has become the first professional English rugby union player to come out as gay. Stanley told the Times that he contemplated suicide as a teen because he feared his sexuality could ...

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 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 has been praised for clamping down on homophobia in the sport, though a leading gay referee warns there is still work to be done in eradicating the problem. A British government select ...

BLEARY-EYED English rugby fans will crowd into pubs early on November 2nd, hoping for a repeat of the fabled World Cup victory in 2003. Against expectations, the men’s national team has already beaten ...

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 ...