Rugby is a tackle sport played without helmet and pads, yet some in the game contend that it’s safer to play than American football. In fact, that has become a selling point to parents of youth ...

In a speech before the Irish parliament, President Joe Biden praised a sport more popular in Ireland than in the United States: rugby. Biden told the assembled lawmakers April 13 that he keeps an ...

Big Game took an unexpected turn in 1906 when Stanford and Cal battled for the Axe — not over football, but rugby. Concerns over player safety led both teams to replace their storied football rivalry ...

Welsh sports thrive on rugby’s national pride and football's storied past, spotlighting remarkable player feats. They look to ...

Super Bowl Sunday is coming up, and I’ve been asking local pubs here on the South Island of New Zealand if one might be able to catch the world’s biggest game on television. But the national sport of ...

Popham’s wife, Mel, would have a conversation with her husband and an hour later he would have “no recollection,” he tells CNN Sport. “I was putting it down to kids, everyday living – I was making ...

The number, site, severity and rate of accidents and the medical attention received has been measured for association and rugby football in the four northern counties of England during the 1970-1971 ...