The opening weekend of the Women's Rugby World Cup 2025 was awash with amazing rugby and incredible results. The Sporting ...

Linda Djougang tells BBC Sport about her rugby journey, from travelling from Cameroon to Ireland aged nine, to playing for ...

Events like the Rugby World Cup are drawing more fans, but still trail far behind the men’s equivalent in financial terms.

Rugby union laws allow referees the option to send a player off for 20 minutes. But once the time period is over, the ...

Rugby is defined by Merriam-Webster as “a football game in which play is continuous without time-outs or substitutions, interference and forward passing are not permitted, and kicking, dribbl… ...

Rugby league is, both mythically and literally, a sport of the working class, so for these records to be set at a time when election cycles are dominated by the increased cost of living suggests ...

The new trophy for the Women's Rugby World Cup is made of sterling silver and plated with 24-carat gold. It is said to ...

Rugby players risk serious injury due to the game’s sheer physicality. Sports scientists have worked with international rugby bodies to improve safety.

Many of the rules in rugby sevens are the same as in rugby union; for example, players can only pass the ball backwards, a dropped ball going forwards is a 'knock-on' and results in the other team ...

On 1 March 2016, the ‘Sport Collision Injury Collective’, a group of 73 ‘academic researchers and healthcare professionals’ led by Professors Allyson Pollock and Eric Anderson sent an open letter to ...