Treyvon Pritchard was screaming in agony after the tackle at the Junior World Championship left him with a broken leg and ...

SHIZUOKA, Japan, Oct 1 (Reuters) - The drop goal is by far the rarest form of scoring in rugby, but it has a rich history at the World Cup - including deciding two finals - and looks to be making a ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — The tackle that left Ravens tight end Mark Andrews with a fractured fibula, ligament damage to his left ankle and caused him to miss seven games last year was officially banned by the ...

Stephen Larkham has questioned whether rugby should join world sport's crackdown on hip-drop tackles after Lachlan Lonergan's "nasty" ankle injury likely ruled the Test hooker out for the season. The ...

In the summer of 2020, Australia's National Rugby League sounded the alarm about a tackle that was ending players' seasons and jeopardizing careers. A memo to NRL teams pinpointed the problem: "The ...

Retired Australian rugby great and Fox League expert Matty Johns gets it. He can see why there is a growing movement led by commissioner Roger Goodell to make a controversial change to the way ...

Lowering the tackle height in men’s community rugby has cut the rate of head collisions among players, a study suggests. The research assessed the impact of the lowered tackle height law, which was ...

Stuart Barnes argues the value of a drop goal is too high and is damaging rugby as a spectacle. There is nothing wrong with pragmatism either. Teams should play to win rather than to entertain but ...