The selection has been made on merit. In an experienced referee group, Wayne Barnes (England), holder of the most test appearances (102), will officiate in a fifth-straight Rugby World Cup in the ...

World Rugby elite referee manager, Joel Jutge, is bound to have had discussions with the two coaches with a view to working out an agreed scrummaging modus operandi.

Referee Ben O'Keeffe, pictured during the Highlanders-Chiefs match in Dunedin last year, has been assigned to the Hurricanes this year.Joe Allison / Getty Images The country’s top referees will ...

Leicester Tigers Michael Cheika labels Premiership final sin-binning of Dan Cole as embarrassing for the game, criticising performance of ref Karl Dickson; Watch Lions vs Argentina on Friday June ...

Cliff Tamou, 58, who was a key figure in the rugby league community in Wigan, was killed in a crash on UK motorway. He was hit by another car after he’d pulled over to fix his truck ...

Referees wearing body cameras and an upgraded offside detection system will be among the headline innovations at this year’s Club World Cup in the United States, Fifa said on Friday.

Lootens said referee abuse also goes "grossly underreported" because of the time and effort it takes for reports to be manually filed. "We're automating that, so that associations are dealing with ...

For a useful gameday reference with Game 1 of the NBA Finals set to tip off on Thursday at 8:30 p.m. ET, here are the referee assignments for the series' first game.

Rugby’s rules are like quantum physics; nobody fully gets them, but everyone claps when they work. In Rugby Skool today, ...

FIFA referees will wear tiny cameras on the side of their heads, connected to a microphone and transmitter that will send the video to DAZN – the company broadcasting all 63 Club World Cup ...