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There have been further calls this week for the abolition of the scrummage from rugby. Based on the grounds of alleged safety and to simplify the game, the advocates of this measure continue to try to ...

OPINION: There were thirteen scrums in the second half of the match between the Crusaders and Force. Thirteen scrums in which time stood still while 16 men strained every sinew for an inch of turf.

SARASWATIPUR, India -- "If it were not for rugby," says Sandhya Rai, her eyes gazing at laborers toiling in the blazing sun. "I would have been plucking tea ... maybe also married, with kids." ...

Ireland has an injury crisis, and a bad one at that. After a bruising six weeks post-November, both loosehead prop options Andrew Porter and Paddy McCarthy, appear to be major doubts for Ireland’s Six ...

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I have pretty serious NFL bona fides. I witnessed Johnny Unitas’s last home game as a Baltimore Colt in 1972 (a banner that trailed from a plane read “Unitas We Stand”) and the great man led us ...