English rugby is plotting a revolution of the professional game with a franchise model that will abolish relegation but include promotion, to expand the Premiership. In what has been dubbed a “new era ...

As the women’s domestic season reaches its climax, English club rugby is having to confront an uncomfortable truth: it is miserably failing women’s coaches. Last week, when Exeter Chiefs announced ...

Of the 12 fixtures, at least nine were played with one or both teams featuring rotated squads with star players rested.

Northampton Saints star JJ van der Mescht only eats one meal a day, but he’s still the heaviest player ever seen in England. The 26-year-old South African towers over his Saints teammates ...

English rugby player Joe Marler was suspended for 10 weeks after he was caught grabbing the genitals of another player during last weekend’s championship match. The decision against Marler, 29, came ...

Sam Stanley has become the first professional English rugby union player to come out as gay. Stanley told the Times that he contemplated suicide as a teen because he feared his sexuality could ...

English rugby club Exeter will stop playing its “Tomahawk Chop” chant during games as part of a rebrand to move away from a Native American theme that had come under increasing criticism. The chant ...

LONDON (AP) — English rugby club Exeter will stop playing its “Tomahawk Chop” chant during games as part of a rebrand to move away from a Native American theme that had come under increasing criticism ...