Watching rugby for the first time as an American can feel like looking in a funhouse mirror, but the United States Women's Rugby Sevens team is on the hunt for a medal with two games left in their ...

You may have seen it played at your local park, school or might have watched the 2009 Matt Damon film "Invictus." But how well do you know the rules of rugby? In many ways, it's like American football ...

Watching rugby for the first time as an American can feel like looking in a funhouse mirror. It contains elements of soccer, which birthed it in 1823 when William Webb Ellis picked up a soccer ball ...

How do you play rugby? Rugby is a full-contact sport played by two teams of 15 players. Each team tries to move an oval-shaped ball into the try zone to earn points. The ball may be run, passed or ...

Rugby debuted as an Olympic sport at the 1900 Paris Olympics, but was dropped as an Olympic sport after the 1924 Paris Olympic games. In 2016 at the Rio de Janeiro Games, a variation of the sport, ...