The Premiership is blessed with a plethora of talented No 9s - so which one should Steve Borthwick choose for the opening fixture against Wales?

IT takes 16 beefy rugby players, patience and a whole lot of power – but the scrum is what makes rugby union truly unique. Because the ball is largely hidden once it enters the scrum, armchair viewers ...

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Rob Hoadley, the Englishman who is the head coach of the San Diego Legion of Major League Rugby, has been around the game for most of his 39 years. He played rugby professionally with a couple of ...

Empire Wealth Strategies, the New York City agency of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, is using a novel approach to grow its ranks: recruiting rugby players. Empire, which has $1.45 billion of ...

The scrum remains one of rugby union’s great contradictions: eight enormous humans willingly folding themselves into a kind ...

Background Rugby Union scrums which collapse possess a higher injury risk than completed scrums. A mechanically stable scrum should limit the motions which generate uncontrolled and hazardous ...

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The most unstoppable play in the NFL last season was undoubtedly the Philadelphia Eagles' scrum play, essentially a quarterback sneak in which two players pushed Jalen Hurts from behind. Philadelphia ...