Follow BBC live coverage as the Rugby League Ashes returns after a 22-year absence, with England facing Australia in the ...

Brute strength, pep talks and the Big Dog Theory - the former England rugby prop gives us hope that good Faithfuls can win ...

Reece Walsh and Angus Crichton score two tries each to sew up the first Rugby League Ashes Test for Australia against England ...

IT was on this day 50 years ago that a 21-year-old Steve Hesford made his Warrington Wolves debut.

Saquon Barkley has been very quiet so far this year. He had just 58 yards rushing back in Week 6 (the Eagles had 73 total), ...

It’s not a varsity sport, but it’s more than just a club. Within its own liminal space, made up of muddy fields, eclectic ...

The combined U16 Argyll boys team returned to action at the Ropework Park in Lochgilphead at the weekend after an extended ...

They made them different when Fife farmer David Rollo, one of the latest inductees into the Scottish Rugby hall of fame, played the game.

Peter Ryan speaks to Jamie Bhatti about his remarkable rise from Hillfoots RFC to the international stage, reflecting on his ...

Forty years after the debut of her raunchy novel Riders, JILLY COOPER looks back on a carefree era of casual affairs and ...

Tommy Freeman and, right, Ben Earl on the attack for England PICTURES: Getty Images TRYING to get a handle on this England team is not always easy but after their eighth win on the bounce you can see ...

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