At sun-drenched Deodoro Stadium on Day 1 of the Rio Games, rugby, in any form, returned to the Olympics for the first time since 1924. The women’s game and the adrenaline-soaked sevens variant ...

OPINION Cold as gyp here - 3C. I have to write a light piece about rugby. Well, I don’t have to but if I want paying I’d better. ... Rugby ‘simple enjoyment’ back in the day.

New English rugby uniforms create quite a scrum April 25, 2014 Marcus Watson of England, in the old uniform, tackles Fiji’s Joeli Lutumailagi during day three of the 2014 Hong Kong Sevens in March.

Six Nations rugby is back. ... Scotland and Ireland before France was added in 1910 to make it a Five Nations and Italy joined in 2000 for the modern-day Six ... just not in an Irish uniform.

Bristol and Bath drew more than 50,000 fans to Cardiff's Principality Stadium - and the English Premiership teams would like to return - but that success is in stark contrast to Welsh rugby's ...