Canada

The Canadian Rugby Championship is all over, and today the national brain trust will grab a coffee with maple syrup and sit down to decide which 28 players will travel to the UK in three weeks’ time. Rugby Canada has yet to formally announce the tour, of course, but in case …

Up and Under is a weekly feature on Americas Rugby News which reviews the best and worst from games involving the Americas teams over the previous week. UP Classifying Americas Rugby Markets, new and old, offer great hope for a future of greatly expanded international competition in our region. This …

The Ontario Blues left no doubts as to who the best team in the 2016 Johnsonville Canadian Rugby Championship as they claimed their fifth MacTier Cup title in six years with an emphatic 50-21 victory over the BC Bears at Fletcher’s Fields on Sunday. It didn’t quite match the sweltering …

Denver moved to the top of the PRO table with a 31-24 win over San Francisco at Boxer Stadium on Sunday. The Stampede won the try-scoring sweepstakes by 5-4 in an exciting match that featured no shortage of ambitious attacking rugby. While the Rush will be disappointed with the result, …

Robbie Povey’s penalty kick in stoppage time gave the Wolf Pack an improbable win over the Atlantic Rock in St. John’s on Sunday afternoon. The result gives the visitors a temporary lead in the hunt for the MacTier Cup but leaves its fate entirely in the hands of the Ontario …

Some wild results from the 2016 Johnsonville Canadian Rugby Championship have made the final day one of the most anticipated in recent memory. While previous years have seen the title come down to a one-off match, three teams are within striking range of the MacTier Cup this time around so …

The 2016 Johnsonville Canadian Rugby Championship will go right down to the wire thanks to victories by the Blues and the Rock on Thursday evening. While the winner of the game in St. John’s will lay the first claim on the MacTier Cup, Ontario will have the final say with …

The stage is set for the last day of the 2016 Johnsonville Canadian Rugby Championship with the title very much up for grabs and three possible winners. Starting off Sunday’s entertainment is a tilt between the defending champions and the upstarts as the Wolf Pack take on the Rock in …

Sacramento came away with the 35-27 win against San Diego in a lively encounter at Bonney Field on Saturday evening. After a dominant opening period for the home side, the Breakers enjoyed a purple patch in the second half that saw them erase an 18-3 deficit to take a temporary …

Sean White has announced his retirement from rugby at the age of 28. The popular Canadian from Victoria, BC, steps away after winning international recognition in both the 7 and 15-a-side versions of the game. After leading Canada’s u19 side in 2007 he partnered Nathan Hirayama in the 2008 IRB Junior …