Crusaders players practice during a training session at Rugby Park in Christchurch, New Zealand, Wednesday, May 27, 2020. New Zealand's Super Rugby Aotearoa will start on June 13 in a new five-team, ...

Teams will no longer be allowed to choose a scrum from a free-kick under new laws to be rolled out across the game next season, with 20-minute red cards and shot-clocks for scrums and line-outs also ...

Three big men lock arms. Three from the other team do the same. At the referee’s signal, they lunge toward each other, their faces inches apart. Often there is a rule violation of some kind, and they ...

It may be by a technicality, but the Valley Valkyries 7s rugby club were the de facto champions of their hosted tournament Saturday. The high school girls rugby club went 2-1 with a roster of mostly ...

even bemusement — for many of the sport’s casual observers. The scrum is that highly physical, often-brutal engagement between two competing packs of eight players that is revered by some as a key ...

Rugby can be a little difficult to describe to an American audience. Is it like soccer, but you can use your hands? Is it like football, but with no pads… and you can occasionally use your feet… and ...

What happens when the rules don’t allow for social distancing? It depends on who you ask. Plus truncated soccer seasons, and the potential return of fans to tennis matches. By Victor Mather Three big ...