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Ray Barkwill to play PRO Rugby for Sacramento

Canadian forward Ray Barkwill is to play PRO Rugby for Sacramento. In doing so he becomes the second international player, after Italian Mirco Bergamasco, to join the Californian capital’s PRO Rugby team. The Niagara Falls, Ontario native began playing rugby at Westlane Secondary School and Niagara Wasp RFC. He subsequently went …

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Ai’i to play PRO Rugby in San Francisco

PRO Rugby has confirmed that Orene Ai’i will be playing for the San Francisco team in the inaugural season. Now aged 36, Ai’i has had a decorated career which has seen the Samoan-born, New Zealand capped outside back play professional rugby in France, Japan, and New Zealand. Due to prior …

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Saracens win Premiership match in New Jersey

The first ever Aviva Premiership match outside of England saw Saracens defeating London Irish 26-16 at New Jersey’s Red Bull Arena this afternoon. Played in front of a crowd of 14,811 people the official attendance approached double that of today’s Super Rigby fixture in Singapore between the Sunwolves and Cheetahs. The Super …

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The Rugby Channel Coming?

When USA Rugby launched their for-profit Rugby International Marketing one of their big announcements was plans for a streaming rugby content channel. Since the initial launch, little has been heard from RIM regarding their channel launch aside from an occasional reference to working on the platform. While they have yet …

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Americas Players in Pro D2 – Week 22

The Americas will have at least 16 players in action over the weekend in the French Pro D2. With Mont-de-Marsan due to play on Sunday, both Agustín Ormaechea and Carlos Muzzio could feature and increase that total. Already done and dusted is Thursday’s game at Narbonne, where Takudzwa Ngwenya scored …

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Mackenzie signs for PRO San Diego

Phil Mackenzie is the latest international to sign with PRO Rugby. The Canadian wing or centre will line up for the San Diego franchise, having been granted an early release from his contract with club Sale Sharks in the Aviva Premiership. Mackenzie becomes the first Canadian to officially join the …

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Durutalo starts vs Cheetahs in Singapore

USA Eagles forward Andrew Durutalo will start in the back-row for the Sunwolves in Singapore this Saturday. The Japanese Super Rugby franchise is to play against South African franchise the Cheetahs in the first 2016 fixture to be played in neutral country territory. The starting lineup named by Head Coach …

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ARC Team of the Week

The Americas Rugby Championship wrapped up this past weekend which means it’s time for our last weekly selection of this year’s tournament. Of course there is still our ARC Dream Team to come early next week. Might some of the players below find themselves in our best of the tournament …

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