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US Eagles prop Chance Wenglewski has signed a new contract with Rugby ATL that runs through the 2022 Major League Rugby season. The 22-year-old is the fifth player extended by ATL in the off-season following Neethling Gericke, Conor Keys, Matt Heaton, and Duncan van Schalkwyk. Wenglewski has made a rapid …

The Dallas Jackals have announced the signing of prop Kelepi Fifita from Colorado for the 2021 Major League Rugby season. He is the fourth Raptors player added by the expansion side ahead of their inaugural campaign, following Chad Gough, Kody O’Neil, and Chad London. Fifita, 24, was an All-State high …

Dom Bailey will make his rugby return for Austin in the 2021 Major League Rugby season. The soon-to-be 26-year-old openside flanker has signed a new contract with the Gilgronis, a name he has never represented having last played for the team under the Elite banner. After joining from the Chicago …

Major League Rugby has confirmed that a team from Hawai’i is being considered as a potential 14th team for the 2021 season. Kanaloa Hawai’i has reached the first stage of admission to full membership, and has now been granted a 90-day negotiating period to reach expansion targets and secure board …

Marcel Brache will start for the Western Force in their return to Super Rugby this weekend – albeit in unique circumstances. With the full competition on ice due to COVID-19, Australia has followed New Zealand’s lead with their domestic teams facing off against each other in a fully domestic competition. …

Could Major League Rugby ever run its own sevens competition, or perhaps a fun preseason tournament? The idea is often thrown around in fan discussions with the English Premiership’s own Sevens Series cited as an example that might be worth following. Whether or not one ever comes to fruition, MLR …

Neethling Gericke has signed a two-year contract extension with Rugby ATL that binds him to the Major League Rugby side through the 2022 season. The 29-year-old is also a Forwards and Defense Coach with Life University, whom he played for prior to joining ATL in July 2019. Originally from the …

The Dallas Jackals have signed scrumhalf Jinho Mun for their inaugural Major League Rugby campaign. He is a local resident most recently attached to the Dallas Harlequins club side. The 24-year-old represented South Korea on the Asia Sevens Series in 2019. Mun was born in Aūa, American Samoa, but grew …

Canadian prop Nik Hildebrand will join the Houston SaberCats for the 2021 Major League Rugby season. The 25-year-old confirmed the move on the most recent edition of the Cat Chronicles podcast. He has obtained visa clearance, having planned initially to arrive in March prior to the COVID-19 suspension. Hildebrand is …

Rugby Americas have confirmed that the flagship Americas Rugby Championship (ARC) and second-tier Americas Rugby Challenge (ARCh) will not take place in 2020. The under-20 versions of those tournaments are also off due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. A formal release from the organization says that discussions are ongoing for …