Playing through grief

Suffering loss is universal – grief touches all of us eventually. Everyone feels it differently though. And in a game forever tethered to the notion of being for all shapes…

Crossing Over: From rugby union to the NFL

The NFL are always looking for talent from around the world to bolster their sport, and physical units from rugby could make it. But it ain’t easy…

Gaming: a modern addiction

Rugby World investigates the potential perils of excessive gaming for young athletes

Teimana Harrison on the gaming community

Teimana Harrison on the gaming community For our long-read piece Gaming: a modern addiction, we asked Northampton back-rower Teimana Harrison to talk about his positive experiences with gaming. He told…

Rugby to Wrestling

Rugby to Wrestling – A special feature WEST YORKSHIRE may not be twinned with Central Florida, but Luke Menzies talks as if he was always destined to end up grappling…

CBD Oil

“If we go back about five years, I had players I worked with asking me about CBD,” says Graeme Close, professor of Human Physiology at Liverpool John Moores University and…

Too Much, Too Soon

Special report: Too Much, Too Soon In Rugby HE WAS earmarked as special, early. As one respected youth mentor tells us, “He was described by top coaches as the next…