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Rugby World Cup Sevens Rosters and Preview

The 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens will kick off at San Francisco’s AT&T Park in just a few hours with 40 teams from 28 nations participating across two divisions. It’s the seventh rendition of the tournament for the men, but only the fourth time the women have been involved. This …

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BC Bears named for CRC opener

The BC Bears have named a strong 23-man roster for their opening match of the 2018 Canadian Rugby Championship against the Prairie Wolf Pack at Calgary Rugby Park on Friday, July 27. It’s a side that shows dramatic changes from the team that lifted the MacTier Cup last year, but …

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Arrows secure MLR franchise rights

The Ontario Arrows are one step closer to confirming their spot in the 2019 Major League Rugby season. An official release on Monday announced that the organization has secured exclusive rights to the Toronto-based franchise. Subject to the negotiation of “key terms and conditions of entry”, the team intends to …

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Up and Under

Up and Under is a weekly exclusive on Americas Rugby News which reviews the best and worst from games involving the Americas teams over the previous week.   UP Mexico U19’s Mexico’s Men’s U19’s were crowned Rugby Americas North U19’s champions for 2018. They defeated all comers, including the now …

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Germany Join Canada and Hong Kong In Repechage

Germany have officially joined Canada and Hong Kong in Repechage. Germany’s home 42-28 defeat today against Samoa saw the Pacific Islanders qualifying for RWC 2019 as the Play-Off Winner. The result also sent Germany into the last-chance RWC qualifying opportunity against three other countries from around the world. Samoa’s qualification …

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RWC Qualifier Preview – Germany vs Samoa

Samoa will look to secure their place at the 2019 Rugby World Cup as they travel to Heidelberg for the second leg of their Europe/Oceania Play-Off series against hosts Germany. The first leg went decidedly in the Manu’s favor, a 66-15 win at Apia Park two weeks ago. Facing a …

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Rugby Canada reveals road map to the Repechage

Rugby Canada has laid out the road map to the last-chance World Cup Qualifiers to be held in France, in November. Canada will play in the round-robin Repechage tournament against three other nations with the winner qualifying as the 20th – and final – participant in RWC 2019. November’s tournament was …

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2018 Major League Rugby Dream Team

The inaugural season of Major League Rugby is in the books and that means it’s time to select our Dream Team for 2018. We deliberately did not name weekly MLR selections this year with only two matches on a couple weeks, but that may well change in 2019 with the …

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Team of the Week

That’s a wrap on the Major League Rugby season, and Super Rugby isn’t far behind now that the play-offs are imminent. At least this week we still have some decent matches to pick from, including the Rugby Americas North Championship decider as well! Tomorrow we name our 2018 MLR Dream …

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