Watching rugby for the first time as an American can feel like looking in a funhouse mirror. It contains elements of soccer, which birthed it in 1823 when William Webb Ellis picked up a soccer ball ...

Two faces of English rugby were on display last week. Prem Rugby showed the sort of excitement and headline-grabbing power that rugby can gain, despite being a long way second to football as England’s ...

Ireland need to consider expansion and finding a way to tap into the cultural zeitgeist to increase funds and playing numbers ...

Children playing rugby at Wynberg Boys. Marc Wyllie, Wynberg Media Children in South Africa are back at school after their summer holidays. My son, aged five, has just started school at Wynberg Boys ...

The rugby world so often looks on either in awe or pity as Welsh rugby's fortunes rise and fall like the landscape of the country. A nation of just three million - a third of the size of London - so ...