Wigan Warriors winger Christian Wade appears set to return to rugby union, with the newly-renamed Newcastle Red Bulls ...

What you need to know: The Rugby Cranes Sevens have participated in all the Challenger Series since its formation in 2020 where Uganda finished at a decent seventh position. The Cranes had shown ...

But the Paris Games haven’t been a coming-out party just for the U.S. team. Rugby sevens are often looked at as the ignored outcast of the rugby union, whose World Cup is arguably the third ...

Thus, it’s a version of the sport you root for to thrive, because Rugby Sevens the 2-and-a-half-minute Sex Pistols song to Rugby union’s “Stairway To Heaven,” and sometimes that’s just ...

Rugby World Cup Sevens 2022 will take place between September 9 - 11. Qualifying and round of 16 matches will be held on the opening Friday, with the quarter-finals, semi-finals and championship ...

1. Rugby Sevens has fewer players. Traditional rugby, sometimes called rugby union or just "union," is played with 15 players per side. But in Sevens there are (can you guess?) only 7.

Rugby sevens has been around since 1880, and the Borders town of Melrose, where the game was first thought up as a fundraising bash for the local club, still holds an annual tournament.

A new U.S. rugby union sevens league will launch next October, which organisers said on Wednesday would pit 12 top international teams against four new U.S. franchises, with sides playing to win ...

But rugby union isn’t exactly a fit for today’s Olympics. It is a brutal game, with 30 players sharing a pitch and making crunching, constant contact inevitable over an 80-minute match.

With the 2013 USA Sevens in Las Vegas right around the corner, its time to settle this matter, once and for all. Rugby Union versus Rugby Sevens. It's go time!

South Africa men’s rugby sevens captain Kyle Brown holds a ball with the olympic rings during a training session ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016.