Watching rugby for the first time as an American can feel like looking in a funhouse mirror. It contains elements of soccer, which birthed it in 1823 when William Webb Ellis picked up a soccer ball ...

Rugby debuted as an Olympic sport at the 1900 Paris Olympics, but was dropped as an Olympic sport after the 1924 Paris Olympic games. In 2016 at the Rio de Janeiro Games, a variation of the sport, ...

Watching rugby for the first time as an American can feel like looking in a funhouse mirror, but the United States Women's Rugby Sevens team is on the hunt for a medal with two games left in their ...

Some of the world’s best sevens teams participate in warm-up matches ahead of the new HSBC SVNS Series season.

SAINT-DENIS, France — Now that they've reached the Olympic semifinals for the first time, Ilona Maher and the U.S. women's rugby sevens team could be just 15 minutes away from a shot at a gold medal.

PARIS — Every four years the world pauses for two weeks to cheer on rowers, fencers, archers and weightlifters, who win and lose in anonymity for most of their careers. But one moment of brilliance ...

SAINT-DENIS, France — Late in the Olympic bronze-medal match against Australia on Tuesday evening, the United States women’s rugby sevens team needed a miracle. U.S. Army Capt. Sammy Sullivan and the ...

SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Now that they’ve reached the Olympic semifinals for the first time, Ilona Maher and the U.S. women’s rugby sevens team could be just 15 minutes away from a shot at a gold ...