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Baby Blacks win the U20 Rugby Championship

6 days ago by Ultimate Rugby

The New Zealand Baby Blacks are the inaugural Rugby Championship U20 champions after beating Australia’s Junior Wallabies 36-25 at Queensland’s Sunshine Coast Stadium on...

URC round 16 Preview

1 week ago by Ultimate Rugby

Dragons RFC v DHL Stormers, Friday 7.35pm   It’s the final game of the season at Rodney Parade and there’s likely to be an added buzz about the place on the back of the Dragons’...

World Rugby Women's Rankings preview: 11-12 May

1 week ago by Ultimate Rugby

The men’s and women’s World Rugby Rankings are calculated using a points exchange system, in which sides take points off each other based on the match result. Whatever one side gains, the other...

Bruiser Brok still breathing the fire of a Dragon

1 week ago by Ultimate Rugby

Where does DHL Stormers veteran Brok Harris stay when he is in Newport? The affectionate response is: AT HOME.   Harris, who played his 150th match for the Cape Town-based DHL Stormers a fortnight...

England to be involved in inaugural 6Nations women's summer series

1 week ago by Ultimate Rugby

England will partake in the first Six Nations Women’s Summer Series, which will debut this July, in Parma, Italy.  The tournament, where U20 Women’s head coach LJ Lewis will lead...

Jared Payne relishing going up against his former team

1 week ago by Ultimate Rugby

The week Jared Payne has had penciled into his diary since the start of the season has finally arrived, as he prepares to take on his former team.   Payne spent more than a decade with Ulster Rugby...

A story of "Real Champs" vs "People's Champs" Part 1: The Origin

1 week ago by Ultimate Rugby

2023 was meant to be their year, however, a much needed victory over the greatest test nation in the history of the sport evaded them in an all too familiar setting: The Rugby World Cup qaurter-final....

Gareth Steenson is set to call time on his Exeter Chiefs career

1 week ago by Ultimate Rugby

Gareth Steenson is set to call time on his Exeter Chiefs career, bringing to a close a 16-year association with the club. The 40-year-old has today announced that this will be his last campaign at Sandy...

Argentina and New Zealand win HSBC SVNS 2024 league titles in Singapore

1 week ago by Ultimate Rugby

History was made on a dazzling day of high drama, emotion and all action international rugby sevens in Singapore as Argentina’s men claimed their first ever HSBC SVNS league winners title and New...

Cian Healy awarded after reaching record breaking milestone

1 week ago by Ultimate Rugby

Irish prop Cian Healy became the Champions Cup's all-time record appearance maker in Leinster's win over Northampton. The Ireland and Leinster veteran was brought on as a sub in the latter stages of the...