The Irish Rugby Football Union reported a 33% decrease in concussion rates during a trial period that lowered tackle height ...

Concussion rates fell 33% in the Irish men's rugby All-Ireland League during a two-season trial period of a new law lowering tackle height, the Irish Rugby Football Union said on Wednesday, describing ...

Basketball courts and soccer, rugby and Gaelic football pitches in such places as Australia, Germany, Ireland, Nigeria, the ...

Ex-All Black Malakai Fekitoa will have to resort to tackle school – at the age of 33 – if he is to play some part with Tonga ...

LOS ANGELES — The entire USC football team has been doing tackling drills this week. Not just the defense. It’s everybody. “We’re doing a couple things on the field as a whole team,” defensive end ...

Conrad Smith, the head of the International Rugby Players’ Association, says the clampdown on high tackles has made “little material difference” on the concussion rate in elite rugby. World Rugby will ...

Aaron Glenn started his video call Monday with reporters saying he wanted to do “something a little different” a day after the New York Jets dropped to 0-3. Sure, there were positives to take from ...

If you ever need to restore your faith in humanity, girls’ rugby is a good place to start. There’s a lot of mud, occasionally tears, but plenty of glory. Sometimes coaching girls feels like herding ...

Picture this: a rugby pitch, sweat in the air, bodies colliding with that mix of grace and chaos only rugby can deliver. On the sideline, instead of the usual beer logos and corporate banners, you see ...

Objectives To evaluate the association between tackle characteristics and suspected concussion among Canadian high school girls’ rugby union players. Methods A case–control video-analysis study was ...

Jamari Stokes turned his head, feeling the presence of a Southern player behind him. The Mississippi Valley State defensive back retrieved Trey Holly’s fumble from the opposite 30-yard line and seemed ...

A new rugby field is being built on the site of the former Vance Middle School in Memphis’s Southside. Mayor Lee Harris, Interim Superintendent Rod Richmond, and Memphis Inner City Rugby broke ground ...