Alice Soper is a sports columnist for the Herald on Sunday. A former provincial rugby player and current club coach, she has a particular interest in telling stories of the emerging world of women's ...

SYDNEY (AP) — Former Wallabies flanker Phil Waugh has been appointed chief executive of Rugby Australia. A veteran of 79 test matches for Australia, Waugh’s appointment as a replacement for Andy ...

Kevin Bowring, who has died of a heart attack aged 70, was the first full-time professional coach of the Wales rugby union side, a position he held for three years in the 1990s. His dismissal at the ...

Former Wales flanker Alix Popham wants to go to court in the legal suit against rugby authorities so he can face those he holds responsible for his brain condition Alix and Mel Popham are taking their ...

PARISPARIS — New Zealand drafted flanker Ethan Blackadder into its Rugby World Cup squad on Saturday amid concerns over the fitness of captain Sam Cane. The All Blacks named Blackadder as an injury ...

Alix Popham, one of hundreds of former rugby players to bring a lawsuit against the sport's authorities for head injuries, told AFP he wants his day in court so he can look in the face some of the ...