Never watched a match? Never even heard of it? Don’t worry, RedEye has you covered on the basics. >> A rugby match lasts 80 minutes, split into two 40-minute halves. Fifteen players are on the ...

Photo: Distinctive Games So, let's get ready to dive into the basics of the game. We're about to transform you into the rugby legend everyone looks up to. Let's kick things off in style!

If, after six tackles, they have not scored, the ball is handed over to the other team who then get the chance to score with their six tackles. But rugby league is slightly more complicated than this.

BBC Sport's Nigel Starmer-Smith concludes his views on the problems of rugby union's recent initiatives. The advent of video replays was given little by way of a fanfare, seeming to arrive in England ...

Scrums happen for multiple reasons in a game of rugby union and here we explain the different ways in which they are awarded ...

A dramatic and frenetic weekend of Super Rugby Pacific playoffs managed to simultaneously showcase both the brilliance of New Zealand’s elite players and the endemic flaw that has been at the core of ...

Their hard approach to everything rugby was there for all to see during ... This is a team that has always been so obsessed with the basics, making certain that yet again the players had ...

This article was originally published on www.swimsuit.si.com as Ilona Maher Explains the Basics of Rugby, Her Olympic Sport.

BORDEAUX, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Wales will focus on rugby basics including discipline and tactical kicking as they aim to avoid what would still rank as an upset against Fiji in their World Cup Pool ...