South Africa's Springboks will kick off their Rugby Championship defence with a clash against the somewhat resurgent ...

The southern hemisphere competition reaches the end of an era with change on the way – but there is optimism for a strong ...

The annual Rugby Championship, featuring World Cup title-holders South Africa, New Zealand, Australia and Argentina, kicks ...

After more than three years on the outer, James O’Connor has been recalled to the Wallabies team for Saturday’s mega showdown with the world champion South Africans in Johannesburg.

The hardiness of green shoots cultivated by the Wallabies in their test series against the British and Irish Lions will be ...

Australia won back a lot of fans despite losing the series against the British and Irish Lions, says former Wallabies captain ...

Billy Pollard is set to start at hooker after David Porecki was ruled out in another injury setback for Australia on the eve of the third rugby test against the British and Irish Lions.

SYDNEY (AP) — Australia's National Rugby League is set to expand its sporting footprint more than 3,000 kilometers (1,860 miles) west of Sydney a year ahead of going a similar distance in another… ...

Rugby union has slipped off the back pages and into crisis in Australia. The arrival of the British and Irish Lions might have come just in time to save the sport.

Rugby union remained fully amateur until the mid-1990s. The NRL describes the game as “the fastest, most aggressive, ball-in-hand football game that exists.” ...

Australia will provide Papua New Guinea (PNG) A$600 million ($382.80 million) over 10 years to support its team's entry to the National Rugby League, a deal both countries said dovetails with ...

The erasure of Folau is one of the strangest and most sorrowful in the nation’s sporting history. Here, rugby union has ...