Rugby can be one of the world’s most brutal sports, and a French rugby player found that out the hard way Saturday. In a Top 14 match, Bordeaux’s Maxime Lucu was kicking the ball away when he was ...

Ryno Pieterse is facing a ban of up to 12 months for one of the worst rugby tackles you will ever see. Pieterse, who plays for Castres in the French league, jumped and smashed into Bordeaux's Maxime ...

Scrum-halves Nolann Le Garrec, Maxime Lucu and Baptiste Jauneau will compete to replace injured France captain Antoine Dupont ...

Bordeaux Begles captain Maxime Lucu has described English rugby's man of the moment Henry Pollock as a player with "incredible qualities" and "a threat" to their Investec Champions Cup hopes.

France scrum-half Maxime Lucu will start in place of the absent Antoine Dupont for Friday evening’s Guinness Six Nations opener against Ireland. Fabien Galthie’s starting XV shows five changes from ...

Bordeaux-Begles captain Maxime Lucu has described English rugby’s man of the moment Henry Pollock as a player with “incredible qualities” and “a threat” to their Investec Champions Cup hopes.

PARIS, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Maxime Lucu will start at scrumhalf to deputize for Antoine Dupont as coach Fabien Galthie stuck with his premium side for France's final Rugby World Cup Pool A game, a ...

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