Wallaroos confirm assistant coaches for 2024

Wallaroos coach Jo Yapp has added experience to her coaching staff for 2024 with Chris Delooze and Sam Needs joining as assistants ahead of the side’s upcoming Pacific Four series in May. Read More

Japan to play rugby test against France in November

Japan's national men's rugby team will have an away test against France on Nov. 9, the Japan Rugby Football Union said Monday. France, currently ranked fourth in the world, and No. 12 Japan are set to ... Read More

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Wales finished bottom of the 2024 men's Six Nations table without a win while Georgia won the Rugby Europe title in the tier below for the seventh straight year. Read More

RUGBY/ Japan’s new League One thinks big, aims global

WELLINGTON--Japan’s new-look professional rugby competition will launch next month with bold ambitions to win not only a domestic but a global audience, to attract the world’s best players and ... Read More

Rugby's Club World Cup set to start in 2028

would qualify along with the best six Super Rugby Pacific outfits and two other clubs, probably from Japan. Qualification would be meritocratic, the reports said, meaning some major rugby-playing ... Read More

Ardie Savea sends England warning ahead of summer Test series as the revitalised New Zealand star admits playing 'bloody good footy' in Japan has put him in prime condition

England have been warned they will face a revitalised and even better Ardie Savea this summer when they take on New Zealand in a mouthwatering two-Test series. In 2023, Savea, the All Blacks No 8 ... Read More

Tales of the unexpected: why club rugby is seeing rollercoaster results

If you are looking for a sport where results are anyone’s guess then rugby union is currently hard ... in January they lost 55-15. So a home win awaits this Saturday, then? Read More

Sooners run-rule Jayhawks, secure series win

Oklahoma combined for 15 hits and four home runs in a 17-0 win in five innings over Kansas in the second game of a three-game conference series ... ll be looking to secure a three-game sweep ... Read More

Japan advance in World Cup qualifying with forfeit win over North Korea

Japan have been declared the winners of their cancelled World Cup qualifying match against North Korea by forfeit, the sport's global governing body told the Japan Football Association on Saturday ... Read More

Eddie Jones aims to make Japan top 4 side, find rugby’s Ohtani

Japan’s new rugby union coach Eddie Jones said on Wednesday he was aiming to make his side one of the best four teams in the world and unearth global sporting talent such as Japanese star ... Read More

Rugby union’s first Club World Cup set to be staged in June 2028

Rugby union’s first Club World Cup is set to be staged in June 2028 after the major men’s leagues in both hemispheres agreed key principles on the project, the Guardian can reveal. The plans ... Read More

"Thought we could win series": Crawley's honest admission on England's Test series defeat against India

Crawley was the leading run scorer for England in the series, with 407 runs at an average of 40.70 in the five Tests. He talked about his own form and his technique to negate India's letha spin ... Read More