Gregor Paul is one of New Zealand’s most respected rugby writers and columnists. He has won multiple awards for journalism ...

There are also 75,000 current registered rugby union players, over half the New Zealand playing base, and three professional franchises in the zone. The club will be funded by a South Island-based ...

Kihikihi Rugby Sports Club’s Kiriana Nolan, 22, has earned her first fulltime Sky Super Rugby Aupiki contract after being ...

Get all three sports-related questions of varying difficulty (easy, medium and hard) and you claim the Herald hat-trick. Want more quizzes? Test your knowledge in the Herald’s Morning quiz and ...

Community rugby has seen an increase in diversity this season as a record number of women and girls are taking the field ...

This is the blueprint Sir Wayne Smith believes the All Blacks and New Zealand rugby must, regardless of results on their northern tour, continue to steadfastly follow. Smith has been inundated with ...

Gregor Paul is one of New Zealand’s most respected rugby writers and columnists. He has won multiple awards for journalism ...

But all that changed in Chicago in 2016 when Joe Schmidt’s side finally beat the All Blacks for the first time. Going back to the previous test, when the All Blacks pinched victory at the death, the ...

In a typically dramatic, captivating Twickenham contest, the All Blacks somehow emerged from extreme frayed nerves with their ...

The Kiwis have become so accustomed to, as they see it, being superior to all other rugby species on the planet, that the realisation that this image of themselves no longer holds true has come as a ...