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Nearly 200 former rugby players have launched a lawsuit against the sport’s governing bodies.
His homophobic comments got him banned from playing rugby in Australia, but after nearly year away from the sport, Israel Folau is now playing for the French Club Catalan Dragons.
Kenneth Macharia has spent two years fighting the Home Office, saying he fears persecution if goes back to Kenya where gay sex is illegal.
A gay rugby team member has won a temporary reprieve after he was threatened with being sent back to Kenya. Kenneth Macharia, who’s a member of the Bristol Bisons – a rugby club which sets out to be inclusive to the whole LGBT community – claimed he would face persecution over his sexuality if he was returned.
More than 70 doctors and health experts urge the government to ban tackling in school rugby because of the risk of serious injury to under-18s.
A plumber, teacher and vet… It reads like the start of a joke but actually it is a list of the day jobs juggled alongside sporting glory by the World Cup-winning England women’s rugby team.
Jonny Wilkinson, England’s hero of the 2003 World Cup, is due to retire from the game for good. We all know he was a bit special – but why?
After a turbulent week in English football, Jordan Jarrett-Bryan heads down to Twickenham to meet the England rugby sevens team, who are hoping to qualify for the 2016 Rio Olympics.
England internationals mean there is no domestic football this weekend – but there is still plenty of sporting action around.
One can split hairs and argue it’s about proof. And many in rugby say the proof just isn’t there yet. But any scientist will tell you proof and evidence are very different things. And the evidence? Well that’s a different matter. Pre News refresh player Channel 4 News has seen an autopsy report of a…
It’s the issue that convulsed American football for two decades or more, and now terrifies rugby.
The British and Irish Lions hang on for a 23-21 win over Australia in an enthralling first rugby union test in Brisbane on Saturday.
Italy cause the first major upset of the Six Nations by beating France for the second time in Six Nations history.
Ireland manage to hold onto an early lead to win the first game of the Six Nations, despite a breath-taking comeback from the Welsh.
After their victory against the All Blacks, England’s rugby players find themselves in the “group of death” for the 2015 World Cup, writes Ben Monro-Davies.
