Touch rugby is practically a non-contact sport, but that did not prevent reigning Olympic and world 400 metres champion Wayde van Niekerk sustaining a serious injury. Van Niekerk will undergo surgery ...

DUBLIN (Reuters) -Concussion rates fell 33% in the Irish men's rugby All-Ireland League during a two-season trial period of a new law lowering tackle height, the Irish Rugby Football Union said on ...

Rob Baxter, Exeter’s director of rugby, has criticised World Rugby’s proposal for further law changes to attract new fans as ‘madness’. Last month, the game’s governing body announced a five-stage ...

A package of law trials aimed at enhancing fan and player experience will be adopted as a global trial across all competitions from next year after the World Rugby Council voted in favour of change.

Dec 15 (Reuters) - Lawyers for former rugby players will send a letter of claim to World Rugby, the Rugby Football Union and the Welsh Rugby Union on Tuesday in a class-action suit which alleges that ...