The LA Giltinis have re-signed winger Ryan James for the 2022 Major League Rugby season. At the same time the club has confirmed the return of flyhalf Luke Carty for the second year of his contract announced in December 2020. Both players made their international debuts for the USA this …

Kawa Leauma sufrió un accidente después del partido de España ante Holanda. El jugador ha fallecido esta pasada noche en Ámsterdam. Después del partido Leauma se cayó desde un edificio. Fue ingresado con un traumatismo craneoencefálico severo. De origen neozelandesa, el jugador ha fallecido con 32 años. Leauma  era un …

Danny Tusitala will return for a third season with Old Glory DC. The 30-year-old scrumhalf has re-signed with the club for the 2022 Major League Rugby season, returning from New Zealand where he has been playing for the Hawke’s Bay Magpies in the Bunnings NPC. In his two seasons to …

Tiaan Loots has re-signed with the San Diego Legion for the 2022 Major League Rugby season. The 29-year-old was a regular starter at inside center after arriving part-way through the 2021 campaign. He lined up for the SaberCats in 2020 but was released by Houston and left without a club …

The 2022 Súper Liga Americana de Rugby (SLAR) will begin on Saturday, March 05 and conclude on Saturday May 28. The competition will be a six team league with the same competitors from the 2021 competition returning. The undefeated Los Jaguares XV will be the Argentine entrant. They are up …

Conrado Roura will play for the Dallas Jackals in 2022. The Argentine N8 was signed for the 2021 season only for Dallas to delay their debut until 2022. The outcome was that Roura played Súper Liga Americana de Rugby (SLAR) for Peñarol. Roura was a stand-out performer for Peñarol in …

Francisco Minervino will continue his career in Italy. The Argentine front-rower has signed for Lyons Rugby in the Italian domestic league, the Top 10. Lyons Rugby will be Minervino’s first foreign team. Minervino makes the move during the 2021-2022 Top 10 season. He does so in the final weeks before …

Up and Under is a weekly exclusive on Americas Rugby News. It covers the best and worst from games involving the Americas players and teams over the previous week. UP USA RWC 2031 bid The USA is in an exclusive bid position for Rugby World Cup 2031. World Rugby is …

Kalolo Tuiloma is returning to Major League Rugby with Rugby New York in the 2022 Major League Rugby season. The giant prop will be joined in the big apple by another New Zealander in North Harbour and former Blues squad flyhalf Jack Heighton. Tipping the scales in excess of 300lbs …

The New England Free Jacks have found their replacement for Vili Toluta’u in a young man from New Zealand with similar style and proportion. Mills Sanerivi has made two starts recently in the back row for Taranaki but arrives in Boston as a dynamic ball-carrying hooker option. A former captain …