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Saturday evening’s game will see the Dallas Jackals hosting the San Diego Legion at Choctaw Stadium. When the two sides met at the Sports Deck in the second week of the season the newcomers gave their hosts a scare, but it’s fair to say that things have not gone to …

The third meeting between the New England Free Jacks and the Utah Warriors takes place at Veterans Memorial Stadium on Saturday. Both previous meetings have been exciting and closely-fought, but the two sides enter in very different positions this time around. New England are at the top of their game …

The two teams who contested the 2021 Major League Rugby Championship Final will meet again on Saturday afternoon in Atlanta. On that day the LA Giltinis proved superior, but Rugby ATL were the winners on Georgian soil during the regular season and will lean on that experience for inspiration. It’s …

Pumas great Joaquín Tuculet has retired from rugby. His playing career ends at the age of 32. He played for Los Pumas 2012-2019, earning 56 caps and played in RWCs 2015 and 2019. He retired from international duty in 2020, doing so ahead of the Tri Nations in Australia. He moved north …

Juan Pablo Aguirre is returning to Major League Rugby. The former Argentina u20 representative has signed with the Dallas Jackals for the remainder of the 2022 season. He arrives from the American Raptors, who he joined earlier this year after departing Seattle at the end of 2021. This is the …

USA Rugby has confirmed that the Men’s Eagles match against the French Barbarians will take place at AVEVA Stadium in Houston on July 1. The non-test match will serve as a warm-up for the World Cup Qualifying series against Chile scheduled for July 9 in Santiago and July 16 in …

There are now clear battle lines in the playoff race being drawn. New England and ATL are neck-and-neck at the top of the East with New York holding off Toronto for the third spot. In the West there are four teams within five points of each other. Three one-sided games …

Uruguay will play four mid-year test matches in 2021. Two will be away to Japan in June and two at home against Romania in July. Head Coach Esteban Meneses can approach the matches as one or as two series. With Uruguay having qualified for RWC 2023 in 2021 he is …

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Rugby ATL earned a dominant 30-17 road win over the San Diego Legion at the Sports Deck on Sunday. The Ratlers overwhelmed their opposites at the set piece and used their suffocating defense to frustrate the high-flying offense of their hosts. It was a tactical arm-wrestle for the opening quarter …