Aviva Premiership

An injury time conversion from Andy Goode came back off the post to deny Wasps their first win of the season, as they went down 16-15 to Harlequins at the weekend.

A late drop goal from Sale’s Joe Ford secured a surprise 22-16 victory for the Sharks over Gloucester away at Kingsholm on Saturday.

In the first of two London derbies at Twickenham, to open the 2013/14 Premiership season, Saracens sealed an impressive 42-20 win over London Irish.

Reigning Premiership Champions Leicester began their title defence with a spirited 32-15 win over Worcester.

Bath recorded the Aviva Premiership’s first win, with an impressive 21-0 victory over Newcastle, away at Kingston Park on Friday night.

With only a day to go before the 2013/14 Premiership season begins and the IRB's new scrum laws are implemented, Talking Rugby Union looks at how beneficial they will be for the game.

With the start of the 2013/14 Aviva Premiership season less than two weeks away, the Talking Rugby Union team travelled to Sale Sharks’ Salford City Stadium for the club’s pre-season press day.

Lawrence Dallaglio has challenged this summer's victorious British & Irish Lions squad to keep their feet on the ground, even if success in Australia has turned them into "superstars" of rugby.

The Leicester Tigers made sure history didn’t repeat itself for a consecutive third year insecuring their 10thPremiership title yesterday

BATH centre Ben Williams knows it's not just how you start, it's how you finish in professional rugby.

THERE was a time Saracens flanker Will Fraser could pinch himself and be out of action for two weeks.

Money and sport is an emotive issue. Footballers, we are told, are obscenely overpaid for kicking a bit of air-filled plastic around, with their manicured mates.

If you ever need proof that the phrase "they look better on paper" means next to nothing, then the exercise I have gone through over the last four weeks should suffice.

Premiership Rugby has announced a four-year broadcast deal with BT worth a reported £152m that includes exclusive rights to English rugby's top flight and also any games the country's leading clubs play in Europe.

"Rugby may have many problems but the gravest is undoubtedly that of the persistence of summer..."

As the final whistle blew at Twickenham on May 28th 2011, it brought the curtain down on one of the closest Premiership campaigns of the professional era...

This season's RFU Championship saw London Welsh promoted to the Aviva Premiership for the first time in their history after beating Cornish Pirates in both legs of their final.

The future of European rugby looks uncertain this off season as the Celtic unions prepare to block proposed changes by Premiership Rugby and the Ligue Nationale Rugby.

For many Leicester Tigers fans, last season was one of the strangest and unpredictable of the professional era.

Reigning Heineken Cup champions Leinster have been handed a daunting draw for next season's competition.