The Rugby Championship

New Zealand centre Sonny Bill Williams will join the All Blacks squad for the Rugby Championship on completion of his current stint with the Sevens national team in the upcoming Rio Olympics.

Wallabies star player Matt Giteau has been reported to have joined the Australian training camp in Sydney ahead of the Rugby Championship.

Wallabies are hopeful that their veteran utility back Matt Giteau will return to the side ahead of the 2016 Rugby Championship scheduled to be played in the next month.

Twickenham will stage the Rugby Championship Test match between Argentina and Australia later this year.

The Rugby Championship 2015 is over with the Wallabies the unlikely winners given that they started the competition as the third ranked team. Here are seven things we've learnt over the last month.

New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and Argentina began their preparations for the Rugby World Cup in serious fashion this weekend as a condensed Rugby Championship got underway.

Ahead of the opening weekend of the Rugby Championship, Talking Rugby Union previews Round One’s encounters.

Regardless of what you achieve in a World Cup year, stepping out and competing for the Webb Ellis Trophy is the pinnacle of the season.

We won’t find out until October 31st who is the best international team on the planet, but the Rugby Championship, which begins this weekend, will give us a slight indication at how well the Southern Hemisphere teams are shaping up.

This time next year we will be talking Rugby World Cup and be eagerly debating the perennial rugby union question: Northern or Southern Hemisphere ascendancy.

Argentina ended their search for a victory in the Rugby Championship at the 18th attempt, defeating Australia 21-17 in Mendoza.

The Rugby Championship Round 6 is here with two epic games with the two lower ranked teams hosting their better ranked opponents.

New Zealand clinched the 2014 Rugby Championship with a bonus-point 34-13 win over Argentina in La Plata.

TalkingRugbyUnion's Scott Donaldson didn't make the trip to Argentina this weekend to witness the penultimate round of The Rugby Championship, instead our New Zealand-based reporter watched the game at home.

We asked Scott Donaldson to cast his eye over the penultimate Rugby Championship Round.

The Springboks came as close as anyone has in a while to toppling the almighty All Blacks in New Zealand on Saturday as they eventually went down 14-10 in Wellington.

New Zealand inside centre Ma'a Nonu has been ruled out of rugby for the rest of the year after having surgery on his broken forearm.

The start of the season in the Northern Hemisphere and the end of the season in the Southern Hemisphere; that is where we find ourselves as rugby union fans.

Manuel Montero, or “Panther” as he has been aptly nicknamed in his homeland of Argentina, is not just the latest Jonah Lomu-inspired, powerhouse winger to grace the pitches of world rugby, but rather Los Pumas’ greatest hope for establishing themselves as perennial challengers to the likes of Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

The rugby season is in full flow worldwide, and this weekend sees a massive game in Wellington in The Rugby Championship