A charity started by a Papua New Guinea rugby league international in South Yorkshire sends rugby shirts and playing kit to his homeland.

Originally posted. July 14, 2012

A charity started by a Papua New Guinea rugby league international in South Yorkshire sends rugby shirts and playing kit to his homeland.

Originally posted. July 14, 2012

Portland, which already has a robust rugby culture, has been part of the charge. The city's co-ed team, the Hunters, recently captured a national championship in Pleasanton, Calif., and players helped organize the city's first spring league this year.

Rugby is brushing off concussions with a "she'll be right" attitude, say researchers who conducted a study of all Rugby World Cup matches. The Massey University researchers surveyed the tournament's 48 games and found that seven…

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Rugby players and the sports media continue to underestimate the seriousness of concussion a School of Psychology study has concluded. The study, conducted during last year's Rugby World Cup, found that nearly half of all rugby players at the tournament deemed to have suffered concussion – a disturbance of the brain after a blow, or violent shaking of the head – returned to the field of play, or …

Men playing rugby in Frances Weisbart Jacobs Park left their game Wednesday evening to help evacuate people from a burning building in the Spyglass Hill condo complex.