CANBERRA, Australia — Despite all the pre-match hype over the world’s most-famous rugby player, Ilona Maher wasn’t able to help her American team beat Australia on Saturday in a Pacific Four match.

It is being called "the rematch." Two international rugby powerhouses, Ireland and New Zealand, will meet once again at Soldier Field, nine years after playing their first match on American soil.

In 2016, Ireland faced the All Blacks, New Zealand’s national rugby team, in a landmark game at Soldier Field. The game—the first elite international rugby fixture played on American soil—was part of ...

Not many people can say they have played international beach rugby against Russia, but that is just one of Colby Santana 23’s recent experiences as a Fulbright scholar, and rugby player, in Central ...