“We were tracking about one hip-drop tackle per game and one time-loss-injury approximately every single week,” said Dawn Aponte, the NFL’s chief administrator of football operations. “When we ...

Jye Gray was placed on report for this hip-drop tackle on Sifa TalakaiCredit ... but was also glad there had only been a ...

There is a lot of debate about what actually constitutes a “hip drop” tackle, but common sense tells you that when any defender uses his own body weight to drag a player to the ground ...

Souths coach Wayne Bennett and Sharks counterpart Craig Fitzgibbon have expressed their confusion over the ruling of a hip ...

The "hip drop" tackle, as it is known in the NRL and NFL, is not illegal in rugby. For the uninitiated, it basically involves a defender swinging around and down, applying their bodyweight to the ...

South Sydney Rabbitohs fullback Jye Gray has learned his fate for a hip drop tackle on Siosifa Talakai which forced the Sharks powerhouse off the field on Saturday. Instead, the 21-year-old has ...

The NFL wants hip-drop tackles out of the game completely. Armed with data that showed that the tackling technique is 20 to 25 times more likely to cause an injury than other tackles, NFL teams ...