Rugby

Sam Bruce, Deputy Editor, espn.com.auJul 28, 2023, 05:55 AM Close Sam was brought up on long drives and the dusty fields of north-west New South Wales, where he developed his love of rugby from an early age. He joined ESPN after a five-year stint heading up Fox Sports Australia’s digital rugby coverage. MELBOURNE — Bad

Sam Bruce, Deputy Editor, espn.com.auJul 27, 2023, 12:30 AM Close Sam was brought up on long drives and the dusty fields of north-west New South Wales, where he developed his love of rugby from an early age. He joined ESPN after a five-year stint heading up Fox Sports Australia’s digital rugby coverage. MELBOURNE — Eddie

Sam Bruce, Deputy Editor, espn.com.auJul 24, 2023, 06:18 AM Close Sam was brought up on long drives and the dusty fields of north-west New South Wales, where he developed his love of rugby from an early age. He joined ESPN after a five-year stint heading up Fox Sports Australia’s digital rugby coverage. Not that they

Fullback Tom Wright is the big casualty from the Wallabies’ winless start to 2023, with the Brumbies flyer dumped from Australia’s 34-man squad that will begin preparations to face the All Blacks in the Bledisloe Cup. Wright has seemingly paid the price for two huge errors in Australia’s 34-31 loss to Argentina in Sydney last

Jul 18, 2023, 11:29 AM World Rugby has launched a revamped and rebranded rugby sevens circuit called ‘SVNS’, which will be played across eight cities from December, the sport’s governing body announced. The tournament with 12 men’s and women’s teams in an Olympic format will kick off in Dubai on Dec. 2 before heading to

Jul 16, 2023, 10:02 PM Ireland captain Johnny Sexton will be able to play at the World Cup after being handed a three-match suspension for his conduct towards match officials following May’s European Champions Cup final. Despite being sidelined by injury for the tense 27-26 defeat to La Rochelle, the Leinster flyhalf made his way

The Super Rugby semifinals are upon us in the southern hemisphere, while there is no shortage of talking points as the northern club season winds down and we continue to shift our focus to the Rugby World Cup. Read on as we wrap up some of the stories you might have missed across the rugby

The Rugby Championship will not shift from its August-September window moving forward, despite SANZAAR and Rugby Australia chairman Hamish McLennan indicating it was only New Zealand standing in the way of a shift to align with the Six Nations window. SANZAAR issued a statement on Thursday after McLennan had appeared on the Rugby Direct podcast

Wallabies star Kurtley Beale said the “truth will come out” after he was committed to stand trial for an alleged sexual assault in Bondi late last year. Beale was in court at Sydney’s Downing Centre on Thursday when his lawyer entered a plea of not guilty to three charges of sexual assault on a 28-year-old

Jun 7, 2023, 08:56 AM London Irish have been ground sharing with Premier League Football Club Brentford. Mike Hewitt/Getty Images London Irish became the third rugby team to be thrown out of the Gallagher Premiership in eight months after the Rugby Football Union (RFU) said the club had failed to pay their players and prove they