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Day Two of the HSBC Paris 7s offered little sympathy for the plight of North America’s representatives, both of whom suffered crushing defeats on Day One. The Eagles improved somewhat but were still decidedly second best to France, losing 24-12 before taking out their frustrations in a 33-12 win over …

Today’s European Rugby Champions Cup Final in Lyon, France saw the addition of three more players from the new world to the list of winners. Chris Wyles, Marcelo Bosch and Juan Figallo joined the Americas List of European Champions. The three players are all from vastly different locations and their arrival …

The battle to determine second place will be at Torero Stadium on Sunday, where San Diego host Ohio with each sporting a 2-1 record and hoping to stay close to early pace-setters Denver. San Diego have had no trouble putting points on the board with a stellar backline their most …

Denver return from a week’s vacation to take a short trip to Sacramento, where they look to continue their unbeaten start to the season at Bonney Field on Sunday. Despite several absentees their pack remains formidable, though they will come up against their toughest challenge to date in a Sacramento …

Both Canada and the USA got off to the worst possible start at the HSBC Sevens Series event in Paris on Friday. Canada suffered a brutal 42-5 defeat to hosts France largely thanks to a dominant performance from star attacker Virimi Vakatawa. The Canadians at least managed a try from …

As there’s only two games each week and in some cases only one it doesn’t really make sense to choose an entirely PRO-centric weekly team (unless we have to!) so instead we’ve opted to take a quarterly approach. With a 16 week season we’ll select a form team after each …

Racing 92 are into unchartered waters and well-placed to come out on top. The European Champions Cup Final in Lyon this Saturday is to be the first ever in the city and the first hosted by France since 2010. On that occasion Toulouse downed Biarritz 21-19. Involved in the match …

Sunwolves Head Coach Mark Hammett has named named his side to play host to the Stormers in Singapore this weekend. Retained in the starting lineup is USA Eagles fetcher Andrew Durutalo while center Harumichi Tatekawa has been given an opportunity as captain. Tatekawa replaces hooker and regular captain Shota Horie who …

Wednesday’s announcement from World Rugby was extremely warmly received. But did the election of Bill Beaumont and Agustín Pichot to Chairman and Vice-Chairman signal in a fresh approach or is it to be more of the same from World Rugby? In order to consider this very question I have put together the …

With Los Jaguares taking a week off and not so many European players jumping up and down for selection, this week was a little trickier than anticipated. Thankfully a few players from within the Americas had good enough games to justify their inclusion. 1 – Hubert Buydens (San Diego) It’s …