Rugby News

St Helens condemned Super League leaders Castleford to their first home loss in more than a year as they underlined their own title credentials with an impressive victory.

South African Rugby have been handed a major boost in their bid to host the 2023 World Cup after receiving a 2.7 billion rand (£153m) government guarantee.

Widnes Vikings half-back Rangi Chase has been suspended from all training and playing activity after testing positive for cocaine.

Team news ahead of the weekend's Qualifiers fixtures where Widnes face Super League rivals Warrington and Leigh face Championship side Featherstone.

Manu Tuilagi has been named among a 37-man England squad for a three-day training camp that starts this weekend.

Team news ahead of Friday's Super 8s fixtures, including Huddersfield against Wakefield and Hull versus Salford.

1. Reality TV Love Island is all the lads at Moseley ever talk about. It seems to have taken over from Big Brother as the 'must-see' programme. For me, it's just a load of idiots on screen trying to be famous. I just don...

Brian McDermott has backed Tom Briscoe to rediscover his best form after his season hit a new low in Leeds' Challenge Cup semi-final defeat by Hull FC.

Sonny Bill Williams has been cleared to play in New Zealand's Rugby Championship opener against Australia.

Much of the kiwi media-fare leading up to the third test between New Zealand and the Lions focussed on Kieran Read and the fact it was to be his 100th test cap. Only the seventh New Zealander to do so, Read joins a selec...

The memory of 2014 in France might still be fresh with us but women's rugby has moved on apace and, a year earlier than normal, the top teams are beginning to gather in Ireland for the showpiece event in the women's cale...

Former All Blacks captain John Graham, a respected sports administrator, educator and mentor to World Cup-winning coach Graham Henry, has died at the age of 82.

The opportunity to try something new appealed to me when Dallas Griffins owner Phil Camm asked me to head up the club's rugby operations ahead of the launch of the USA's Major League Rugby in the spring of 2018. People m...

Teenage full-back Jack Walker has performed a U-turn and committed his future to Leeds.

David Denton wants to wear the Scotland jersey again but as hard as it was to admit, he reckons it would have been almost impossible to achieve his goal had he stayed in Bath. The 35-cap back rower had one year remaining...

Eddie Jones is back at Twickenham. The silence and calm in the surrounds of England Rugby's fortress that is now his home is in contrast to the craziness of the Tour de France in the Alps where he was following the race ...