Tag: in from the side
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Decoding Rugby: Unraveling the Different Variations of the Game
Rugby Uncovered: A Deep Dive into Its Many Variations The weekend that saw February turn to March brought with it the third round of Major League Rugby (MLR), and as exciting as that was, it was not the only professional “rugby” competition going on here Stateside. Allegiant stadium, once again, hosted a series of…
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MLR Trial Laws: Killing Scrums And Ruining Rugby As We Know It, Right?
MLR’s New Trial Laws: Destroying Scrums and Changing Rugby Forever? February 15th, 2025 saw the opening weekend of Major League Rugby’s (MLR) eighth season, and with it came new World Rugby approved law trials. Said trials removed the scrum option from four infractions. No longer will a knock forward/forward pass into touch, a knock forward/forward…
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2025 Major League Rugby: Midweek Madness, Roster Shakeups, and Championship Dreams
MLR 2025 Season Preview: Key Storylines, Revamped Squads, and the Free Jacks’ Historic Three-Peat Bid Now that we have a pretty good idea about how each team will look come the beginning of the season on February 15th, 2025, let’s have ourselves a look ahead! We might as well, seeing as there are so many…
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Fantasy Rugby Revolution: How Fantasy MLR Can Help Rugby Break into the US Sports Market
Building Rugby Fans in America: The Untapped Power of Fantasy Major League Rugby One of the most mentioned talking points within rugby media circles around the world has been how rugby can “break” the US market. Talking heads have spoken about everything from bringing more high profile matches stateside to even basing a Super Rugby…
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European Cups: If The Teams Don’t Care, Then Why Should I?
European Cups: Why Should Fans Care When Teams Don’t? December 6th, 2024 brought the start of one of my favorite rugby competitions, the European Champions Cup (actually called the Investec Champions Cup, but who cares about that, right?). Oh, and also the European Challenge Cup as well. For those who have not heard of these…
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Women’s Elite Rugby: A Potential Home Coming For Americans Overseas
Women’s Elite Rugby: Paving the Way for American Stars to Shine Overseas and at Home Ever since Ilona Maher made her statement of intent declaring that she wanted to try and earn a spot on the US Eagle’s 2025 World Cup squad in England, talking heads have been speculating where she was going to play.…
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Building a Competitive USA Rugby Team: Can a Single Team of Eagles in MLR Make a Difference?
Can a Single USA Rugby Team in MLR Elevate USAR to New Heights? For a few years now I’ve been having a conversation with anyone willing to listen to me (so yeah I’ve been talking to myself) about having a domestic competition with national team players spread out amongst the teams, or having just…
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Rugby Strong: How America’s Rugby Community Can Rally After Hurricane Helene’s Devastation
Uniting Through Adversity: How Rugby Can Help Rebuild Communities After Hurricane Helene Life in 2024 America can be exhausting. Wars, elections, disasters—all of these can merge together into one miasma of pain and anger, and it becomes very easy to shut off the parts of our brain that are developed to care. It becomes difficult…