Rugby comes in two main styles: Rugby Fifteens and Rugby Sevens. As the name implies, in Rugby 15s, you've got 15 players on each team going head-to-head for 80 minutes (two 40-minute halves).

It's tempting to view rugby as soccer, but with your hands — but it has its own set of rules and customs. Here, an overview of the rules of rugby.

Rugby league is played on a pitch which is no more than 100m in length and 68m in width. However, most juniors play on pitches smaller than this. The pitch is covered in several markings to indicate ...

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In rugby, the team without the ball lines up in a line and faces its opponents square on, holding their ground and waiting for a player with the ball to run at them.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — No, Joshua Dobbs wasn’t inspired by Ilona Maher and the U.S. women’s Olympic rugby team. The San Francisco 49ers quarterback, seen warming up with a rugby ball before ...

Rugby league is played on a pitch which is no more than 100m in length and 68m in width. However, most juniors play on pitches smaller than this. The pitch is covered in several markings to indicate ...