With Tokyo set to host two of the world’s biggest sporting events – the Rugby World Cup and the 2020 Summer Olympics – Japan’s capital is making final preparations for the global spotlight. So what ...

Hosts Rugby Australia (RU) and organisers SANZAAR have revealed a revised schedule for the 2020 Rugby Championship after bowing to pressure from New Zealand Rugby (NZR), with the competition now to ...

WELLINGTON, New ZealandWELLINGTON, New Zealand — World Cup champion South Africa will remain part of the four-nation SANZAAR rugby alliance for the immediate future, defying speculation it would throw ...

Kristi Kirshe was working at a law firm when she realized she missed playing team sports. So she picked up rugby. (Mike Lee/KLC Fotos for World Rugby) Kristi Kirshe grew up in a family of athletes.

For Baber and his players, it’s been a strange and long journey preparing for an Olympic Games in the middle of a global pandemic. “We locked them down for five months,” he told the media after his ...

Southern hemisphere governing body SANZAAR announced plans Thursday to hold this year's Rugby Championship in New Zealand, as the game's Kiwi powerbrokers gathered to discuss a radical revamp of Super ...

An old club team photo, taken by Akkersdyk Studios, is displayed at the home of former rugby player Broadhurst Cona's sister in Langa township in Cape Town, South Africa. Reuters CAPE TOWN, South ...

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 ...