WER provides rugby players to compete at the professional level and get paid. If you’re unfamiliar with WER, here’s a quick breakdown of the league: There are six teams (Boston Banshees ...

These guys have gone to a lot of trouble to be professional rugby players, I thought to myself – what has driven them to now, at the very moment when their professional rugby player-ness is on ...

But Peters is not just looking on football fields for talent. He's taken his search international. The Commanders recently signed a Zimbabwean rugby player named T.J. Maguranyanga to the team's active ...

The Onyx’s contracted roster features 22 players from the Colorado Gray Wolves, which won a national title last fall in the ...

It’s only a week before their first professional game. The players assemble into ... who don’t know much about the sport, rugby is like a mix of American football and soccer.

Almost two-thirds of the claimants in a concussion lawsuit against rugby league authorities showed symptoms of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, according to documents seen by the BBC.

Background The loads to which professional rugby players are subjected has been identified as a concern by coaches, players and administrators. In November 2014, World Rugby commissioned an expert ...

Henry Nell’s first-ever kickoff quickly exposed a few of the knowledge gaps that the native South African and former professional rugby player had about how things were done in American football.

(SOUNDBITE OF WHISTLE) BROWNING: Rugby is like a mix of American football and soccer. It's an aggressive contact sport with limited padding. Thirty-three-year-old player Catie Benson returned to the ...