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Rugby players in Australia and across the Asia-Pacific physically do everything NFL players do – and accomplish it without padding and helmets.

Australians are famous for liking a beer or three when watching sports and the 2032 Brisbane Olympic Games will be no different, organizers said Wednesday.

A Just Stop Oil protest was quickly foiled at Lord’s Cricket Ground on Wednesday when players on the pitch rushed in to cart the eco-zealots away to prevent damage to the playing surface.

Radical climate activists disrupted the England rugby final by running onto the field and pouring orange powder on the pitch on Saturday.

Just on 82 percent of Australian rugby league club bosses reject a dedicated Pride Round of competition in support of the LGBTQI community, according to a poll released Tuesday.

Crowds attending international rugby matches in Wales at the Principality Stadium will no longer hear choral renditions of the Tom Jones classic Delilah after it was banned Wednesday by the game’s organizers.

Officials in Australia have confirmed that the nation’s first openly gay Olympic bobsledder, Simon Dunn, has died suddenly at the age of 35.

Australia took on Fiji in a tough 80-minutes of rugby Saturday night during their Rugby League World Cup match at Headingley Stadium, Leeds, in the north of England.

A ban on transgender players taking part in women’s rugby is now under threat, with the body responsible for the sport in England being hit with a legal case over the decision.

Former Australian women’s rugby player Ellia Green has come out as a trans man and asked rugby fans as well as the wider community to respect the “liberating” decision.

LONDON (AP) — English rugby club Exeter will stop playing its “Tomahawk Chop” chant during games as part of a rebrand to move away from a Native American theme that had come under increasing criticism.

Trans rugby players in Ireland and Northern Ireland will no longer be able to compete in the female division of Irish Rugby, according to the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU).

Outrage has hit the Irish sporting world after a women’s “LGBT” football team with a trans player beat their finals opponent by eight goals.

The revolt by seven rugby league players in Sydney, Australia, against wearing a controversial rainbow-detailed gay pride team jersey has widened, a report claimed Tuesday.

Up to seven players from the Manly rugby league club in Sydney, Australia, are threatening to boycott their match Thursday after a decision was made without consultation for them to wear a gay pride jersey in the fixture.

A transgender former rugby player in Australia has hit out at moves to ban participation at international level, saying a new generation of players is being “punished” for being themselves.

England’s rugby coach Eddie Jones – born and raised in Australia – has warned his team to expect “abusive crowds” when they tour Down Under next month.

The International Rugby League (IRL) has banned transgender athletes from participating in women’s sporting events. 

World Rugby announced Thursday the men’s and women’s Rugby World Cups would head to the U.S. for the first time in 2031 and 2033 respectively. The U.S. will be just the second tier-two nation to host the men’s global showpiece,

Russia’s national rugby team has been was banned from participating in the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France as a penalty for the country’s invasion of Ukraine.

In what looks like a potential repeat of the Djokovic controversy in Australia, France has declared that unjabbed foreign athletes will not be permitted to play in the country.

Joyous members of the Fiji rugby side that won gold at the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday climbed the winner’s stand and offered prayers of thanks and a hymn to commemorate the occasion.

National Rugby League (NRL) players and their families have been banned from their balconies and ordered to tape them shut to stop Covid in parts of Queensland, Australia.

While the MSM has been bending over backwards to rehabilitate Shamima Begum, it has been less forgiving towards fast bowler Ollie Robinson.

PARIS (AP) – The French rugby federation is allowing transgender people to take part in all France’s domestic competitions from next season in a move going against recommendations from World Rugby.

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) has dropped the nickname “Saxons” for one of the top England teams following a Black Lives Matter-inspired diversity review into the sport.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — In the Middle East, where sport and diplomacy are closely intertwined, political passions can spill over onto the playing field.

No-kneeling Wales defeated England in the Six Nations rugby tournament to claim the competition’s prized Triple Crown.

Five more France rugby players have tested positive for the coronavirus and will miss the Six Nations match against Scotland.

Players for Scotland and Wales all remained standing ahead of their Six Nations rugby match on Saturday, defying uproar over many players not kneeling to Black Lives Matter at the earlier Scotland vs England fixture.

Few Scotland players chose to kneel to Black Lives Matter ahead of a historic victory over England in the Six Nations rugby tournament, triggering a woke backlash.

Australia’s national rugby team will not take a knee in support of the Black Lives Matter movement after a unanimous vote by the players, insisting they were not interested in making political statements.

England rugby fans were granted permission Friday to continue singing “‘Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” by the sport’s governing body, but only on the express condition they agree to being “proactively” re-educated on the song’s “history and provenance.”

England rugby star Billy Vunipola refused to take a knee for Black Lives Matter because, as a Christian, he could not abide their supporters “burning churches and Bibles”.

A rugby fan has been banned from his club’s stadium for life for praising a girl who refused to “take the knee” and criticising “Marxist extremism and intimidation”.

Calls to ban England rugby fans from singing Swing Low, Sweet Chariot because of its associations with slavery now have the backing of Los Angeles-based Prince Harry.