HE carries a British passport, but Wallabies captain James Horwill wants to crush the UK's most feared sporting weapon; the rugby scrum. Forget England's hard-nosed cricket batters and their rugged ...

1 UCT/MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa 2 Department of Public and ...

Last Saturday, a young coach I have been working with asked me to watch his under-16 team play. The match was being played in the shadow of the Pyrenees in Perpignan. While the view was majestic, it ...

Background: In January 2007 the International Rugby Board implemented a new law for scrum engagement aimed at improving player welfare by reducing impact force and scrum collapses. In New Zealand the ...