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 PRO Rugby The announcement of the player rosters for the inaugural PRO Rugby season was a tremendous success. The American rugby community is …

The rugby world today mourns the loss of former Canadian international centre John Cannon, who passed away suddenly yesterday morning at the age of just 35 from a suspected heart attack. The Abbotsford, British Columbia, native graduated through the now-defunct CCSD (Pacific Pride) development program under the guidance of coach …

One of the best features of the Americas Rugby Championship was the exposure of some of the top up and coming talents in the Americas. Every team featured uncapped players at some point, some more so than others, and in doing so we got a glimpse of some of the …

With there having been no international competition in the Americas this weekend there are no changes to the Americas Rankings this week. As of March 20 2016 Rugby World Cup 2015 competitors Argentina, USA, Canada and Uruguay remain ranked one through four in that order. There have, nonetheless, been alterations to …

The debut home performance of Argentina in Super Rugby did not go to plan as an error-Ridden performance saw Los Jaguares 30-26 losing at home to the Chiefs in Buenos Aires this evening. Continuous errors from the South Americans coupled with high-risk play when cooler heads were required saw Los Jaguares giving …

The Top 14 rolls on this weekend with six of week 13’s rescheduled matches taking place. The matches were required to be postponed due to a lack of available dates required for European Champions Cup (ECC) matches. Virtually all opening round matches of the ECC that involved French clubs were postponed …

After two years of working on drawing the tournament to Barbados, the Barbados Rugby Football Union has been awarded the rights to host the Barbados International Rugby Sevens. The tournament, set to take place on December 10-11, 2016. The tournament has toggled back and forth between Trinidad and Tobago each …

One could be forgiven for not knowing that there is to be a round of Aviva Premiership taking place in England this weekend. With attention firmly directed at Super Saturday and, specifically at Le Crunch the domestic competition will see week 17 taking place and a number of Americas players are to be involved. …

The opening round of the Uruguayan qualifying tournament was played last weekend. A number of encouraging matches were played and the Week 1 results saw Los Cuervos and Montevideo Cricket Club (MVCC) out of the blocks with impressive wins.In the match of the round Old Boys defeated Pucuru Stade Gaulois …

US Eagles second row Greg Peterson will start for Glasgow Warriors as they host Leinster at Scotstoun Stadium in a rescheduled Guinness Pro 12 match on Friday. Originally a round 9 fixture set for December 5, the game was postponed due to severe weather conditions and an unplayable surface. Peterson …

We’ve debated and arm wrestled and thrown names in a hat, but finally decided on our top XV from the Americas Rugby Championship. Because of the nature of the inaugural tournament we had to lay down a couple stipulations – players had to have started a minimum of two matches to …

Los Jaguares Head Coach Raúl Pérez has made six changes to his team to face the Chiefs in Buenos Aires on Saturday. The fixture is to mark the historic home debut of Argentina’s first ever professional team. With Ramiro Herrera forced out through injury, Nahuel Tetaz Chaparro has been elevated …

Two USA Eagles players are to start for the Cardiff Blues against Munster on Friday. Cam Dolan will start in the second-row while Blaine Scully will run-on as the starting left winger. The fixture is to be a rescheduled Guinness Pro 12 match, with the round 12 match having been …

Former Puma Tomás Leonardí is set to make his Sunwolves Super Rugby debut against there Melbourne Rebels in this weekend’s round four fixture. The Sunwolves will play host to the Australian franchise in Tokyo as they seek their first win. In round three the Japanese side lost by a single …

Tomás Cubelli is to start again for the Brumbies. The Buenos Aires scrum half has been named to start in the number 9 shirt for Saturday’s away Super Rugby fixture against the Stormers in Cape Town, South Africa. In being selected to start Cubelli retains his monopoly on the Brumbies …

There are no tickets left for Los Jaguares vs Chiefs, the historic first home Super Rugby match for the Argentine franchise. Sold Out, proclaimed jaguares.com.ar this afternoon, confirming the success of the team in capturing public interest. The fixture is to be played at Velez Sarsfield, a famous Buenos Aires soccer …

World Rugby has announced the fixture list for the 2016 u20 Trophy competition, to take place in Harare, Zimbabwe, starting on April 19. Two sides from the Americas will be present, with Los Teritos representing Uruguay and the Junior All-Americans heading over from the USA after defeating Canada in Texas last …

After the excitement of the Americas Rugby Championship this week’s selection seems downright boring. Los Jaguares were on a bye, as was the whole of the Guinness Pro 12, and most of the top Americas exports were either not playing well or not at all. In some cases we’ve simply …

On Saturday March 12, Peru’s under 18 side began preparations for international competition in 2016 by winning a warm-up fixture in Arequipa. Los Tumis M18 played against the under 20 division side of the Club Leones Rugby Club Arequipa. With an excellent style of play which saw regular linebreaks and open play …

Having missed the opening two Super Rugby matches Juan Martín Hernández will start for Los Jaguares vs Chiefs, writes Sergio Stuart for Ole. The veteran utility back is to be a welcome return for the Argentine Super Rugby franchise who are to be without three starting forwards to injury. Hernández …