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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Steffan A Griffin, Centre for Sport and Exercise, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9YL, UK; steffangriffin{at}gmail.com Data sources Published and unpublished reports of ...

The Rugby World Cup gets underway in France on Friday and will feature 20 countries from five continents scrapping it out for a golden trophy named after an Englishman who supposedly invented the ...

Global sports are on lockdown. Owners are cooling their heels and wondering what to pay workers who have nothing to do. Soccer players in Europe are seeing cuts to their million-dollar salaries. Fans ...

In the world of sports administration, David Moffett has always been a disruptor. Mistakes have been made and emotions have run high, but his passion for sport has never wavered. Moffett, 78, has ...

“We always had it in our history, in our DNA, to fight,” Levan Maisashvili, head coach of Georgia’s rugby union team, says as he reflects on the proud, defiant nature of his small country. Maisashvili ...

Members of the Wales and England squads have suffered hamstring injuries ahead of the Rugby World Cup. Craig Mercer/Alamy With the men’s Rugby World Cup in France almost upon us, the risk of injury ...

The origins of Rugby Football are inextricably linked with the history of football more generally. Although the modern game of Rugby Union is almost unrecognisable from its early counterparts, some of ...

The axing of the Melbourne Rebels from the Super Rugby competition, though not unexpected, is another blow to rugby union in Australia. The Rebels were axed because they were in serious debt to the ...

TNT Sports in the UK and Ireland will continue to be the home of English domestic rugby after agreeing new long-term deals with Premiership Rugby and Premiership Women’s Rugby (PWR). The multi-year ...

Yes, Indians do play rugby. And like athletes across many non-cricket sports, many rugby players have spent years living a familiar reality: training before work, attending camps between college ...