Canada

Conor O’Shea has made two changes to his Italian team headed to the Americas, one enforced. Veteran hooker Leonardo Ghiraldini has dropped out with a chest injury, while Benetton Treviso prop Matteo Zanusso has been told to stay home and work on his conditioning with new coach Kieran Crowley to …

The Cinderella story of Connacht has reached its final chapter. The Western Irish province is now just 80 minutes away from an historic Guinness Pro 12 title. The path to the extremely unlikely position has been built on the province having lost significantly fewer players to international duty this season. One …

After being rested for the London Invitational tournament, Jen Kish is back to captain Canada in the final round of the 2015/16 HSBC Women’s Sevens Series at the Stade Gabriel Montpied in Clermont-Ferrand, France, this weekend. The star forward leads a side that shows only two changes to the one …

Bristol are back in the big time. The west-country English club have been crowned champions of the Greene King IPA Championship and with it comes promotion to the Aviva Premiership for the 2016/17 season. It marks a major turn in fortunes for a club that has failed to achieve that …

World Rugby has confirmed that four bids have been made to host Rugby World Cup 2023. One of them will not be Argentina with the South American country instead set to bid to host the global event in 2027. Four bidders matches the number for Rugby World Cups 2015 and 2019, …

The state of flux that has enveloped the inaugural season of PRO Rugby continues, with the latest development seeing the Denver franchise pull out of Infinity Park in Glendale. The team will play at the University of Denver’s CIBER Field for their four remaining home games. The organization made a …

Perry Baker has received a second accolade this week. Just after being named to the official HSBC Dream Team for the London 7s, he has been picked in World Rugby’s official Dream Team for the 2015/16 HSBC Sevens Series. The Eagles finisher was second only to Seabelo Senatla (66) in …

The pools for the final Olympic qualifier events for the men and women have been drawn in Monaco, the location of the men’s repechage event on June 18-19. The women’s event will take place in Dublin the following weekend on June 25-26. Four Americas sides will participate in each of …

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 Mexico Mexico is now two wins from two appearances in the Rugby Americas North section of Rugby World Cup 2015 qualifying. Las …

The Ontario Blues got their 2016 campaign off to a winning start with 19-9 victory over an Alberta Selects side in Edmonton on Sunday. Poor conditions at Ellerslie Park limited attacking play from both sides but the visitors still managed to score three tries to none against a tough side …