The 2026 Men's Six Nations Championship gets underway on February 5. Here's a crash course on the rules and origins of the 15 ...

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 ...

What did you do during all those scrums last Saturday? Bit of Christmas shopping perhaps? Tackle a couple of Sudokus? Read Finnegans Wake? Famously – or maybe not that famously, let’s be fair about it ...

While it was a difficult afternoon for the Stormers front row as a whole in the scrums, Malherbe got stuck in during general play – and the highlight was seeing him dive over for only his second try ...

Rugby Positions. Welcome to ESPN's guide to the terminology of the game of Rugby Union in all its guises. Designed for people new to the sport, as well as those w ...

Optional law amendments limiting contact in scrums, the number of players in a maul, and the duration of rucks have been approved by World Rugby in the hope of reducing the risk of possible ...