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The game of rugby 7s will make its historic debut as a medal-winning sport at the upcoming Nigeria University Games Association (NUGA), scheduled to take place at the University of Jos ...

His father is legendary rugby coach Gordon Tietjens, 69, who led the All Blacks Sevens to two Rugby World Cup Sevens titles, four Commonwealth Games gold medals and 12 world series crowns from ...

The Canadian women's rugby sevens team was scheduled to leave late Friday for Australia and the HSBC SVNS Perth, bolstered by the return of veteran Olivia Apps and fellow Olympian Florence Symonds.

China’s rapidly improving women’s rugby sevens team can draw on the country’s 1.4 billion population to eventually catch the sport’s traditional powerhouses. That is the prediction of one ...

Ollie Watkins is happy to stay at Aston Villa, manager Unai Emery said on Friday, after British media reported that Villa had rejected Arsenal's bid for the striker. The coach had earlier said he ...

Canada's women's sevens rugby team, fresh off a season-best fourth-place in Perth, Australia, will open against Brazil at next month's HSBC SVNS Vancouver. After facing Brazil and Spain on Feb. 21 ...

Aston Villa have been left unimpressed by the timing of an approach from Arsenal for striker Ollie Watkins ... the interim chair of the Rugby Football Union, has made an extraordinary plea ...

Minnows Uruguay stunned rugby sevens powerhouses Fiji and New Zealand in two astonishing back-to-back upsets on a remarkable opening day of the world sevens series' Perth leg on Friday.

Unai Emery insisted Aston Villa will not sell Ollie Watkins after Arsenal reportedly made a £60 million ($74 million) bid just hours before the England striker helped his team reach the Champions ...