A talented rugby league player has permanent hearing loss in one ear after he was punched to the ground during a brawl with six nightclub bouncers, a court has heard. Former St Helens academy player Joe Sharratt was advised by medics not to play the sport again following the incident in December 2018 in which … Read more
Former rugby player and athlete Non Evans MBE has revealed she is gay in a confessional post on Twitter. The sporting icon, 46, has spent a lifetime competing in sport at the top level. As well as rugby she has excelled in judo, Olympic Freestyle Wrestling, weightlifting and powerlifting. She was the first woman to … Read more
Early humanoid ancestor Homo erectus was the first to be able to run long distances despite having ‘wide, deep chests’ like Neanderthals, a new study revealed. Researchers from the Natural History Museum examined the ribcage of the famous Homo erectus skeleton – Turkana Boy – to better understand the species breathing. This is the first … Read more
BREAKING NEWS: Welsh rugby league star Scott Bessant dies aged 37 with ‘complications with pneumonia’, three years after the horror accident that left him unable to walk Former rugby league star Scott Bessant died on Thursday morning aged 37 Bessant had been found seriously hurt near a bridge in Wales in August 2017 The incident … Read more
Prince Harry appeared in high spirits and boasted a healthy tan while appearing in an England Rugby video. The Duke of Sussex, 35, who is currently living in LA with wife Meghan Markle, 38, and their son Archie, one, after stepping back from his royal duties, admitted he has been ‘missing rugby’ since its suspension … Read more
The hero officer who rugby-tackled a Libyan knifeman who had only moments earlier stabbed three people to death has been praised by police chiefs. The lone police sergeant was able to tackle the 25-year-old knife suspect to the ground, as he tried to flee the scene of the attack in Forbury Gardens, Reading, at around 7pm … Read more
Trevor Phillips slammed the RFU plan to ban the song. Pictured here in 2017 A former head of the Commission for Racial Equality has slammed plans to ban ‘Swing Low, Sweet Chariot’ – describing it as ‘Black people’s own culture being cancelled’. Trevor Phillips, 66, condemned the Rugby Football Union for reviewing the popular sporting … Read more
REVEALED: England rugby fans could be BANNED from singing the iconic ‘Swing Low, Sweet Chariot’ song because it originated among slaves in America 150 years ago The RFU are conducting a review into how rugby can end institutional racism ‘Swing Low, Sweet Chariot’ was first sung by a slave in America in the 1860s It … Read more
by Mia de Graaf, US Health Editor As athletes of all sports speak out about their brain injury fears, we run through the need-to-know facts about risks, symptoms, tests and research. 1. Concussion is a red herring: Big hits are not the problem, ALL head hits cause damage All sports insist they are doing more … Read more
Roughly 43,000 New Zealanders who had been starved of live rugby for three months due to Covid-19 filled Auckland’s Eden Park on Sunday for a Super Rugby match, the largest crowd in 15 years. The Auckland-based Blues held on to beat the Wellington-based Hurricanes 30-20 in the Super Rugby Aotearoa game. Sunday’s match was another … Read more