One-time New Zealand All Black prop Jamie Mackintosh is headed to Ohio. The 31-year-old loosehead specialist has ended a short spell in the Top 14 as a medical joker with Montpellier and will join the new PRO Rugby franchise for their inaugural season. This will be the first year since …

Canadian captain John Moonlight scored the winning try with no time on the clock to send more than 30,000 screaming fans into rapture in a stunning finish to their Bowl final fixture against France at the historic inaugural Vancouver 7s on Sunday. Nathan Hirayama’s successful conversion gave the home team …

Nikola Bursic will play for the San Diego franchise in the inaugural PRO Rugby season set to kick off in April. The powerful ball carrier becomes the second Chilean to join the new professional competition, following Lindenwood loose forward Sebastián Kalm who will play for Ohio. Comfortable at lock or no8, …

The match from Santiago in the final round of the Americas Rugby Championship can finally be seen for those who missed the original broadcast. Canada put up one of their biggest scores ever as they put Chile to the sword with nine tries in a 64-13 victory. The match report can …

The pool draw for the 2016 Hong Kong 7s has been released, with 16 teams taking part in the main HSBC Sevens Series competition and another 12 set to compete for core status on the 2016-17 season. All but one team that took part in the wildly successful Vancouver tournament …

In American rugby, it doesn’t take much looking to find a story about a football player that converted to rugby. However, the number of rugby players that have successfully converted to football is a relatively short list. Nate Ebner is one of the most famous rugby to football converts in …

Yesterday marked the start of training camp for the five PRO Rugby franchises. While the league has yet to announce the full rosters for each team, multiple names are surfacing daily along with the teams in which they have been assigned. Full rosters are expected by the end of the …

Starting Rugby World Cup 2015 forwards Ramiro Herrera and Pablo Matera will not face the Chiefs, it was confirmed today by the Argentine rugby press. Tighthead prop, Herrera is yet to fully recover from a knock to his angle picked up in the round two fixture against the Sharks in …

The sport of rugby was hit hard this morning by news that super-star Fijian center Seru Rabeni has past away. Aged just 37 Rabeni died at his home in Nausori, just outside the capital, Suva, on Tuesday morning. The Fiji Village website said the cause of death was unknown but quoted his …

Former Uruguayan captain Rodrigo Capó Ortega scored this weekend as Castres Hammered Agen in a home Top 14 fixture on Saturday. The 45th minute score was Castres’ third of seven for the match and was converted by Argentine fly half Benjamin Urdapilleta. The Uruguayan veteran has been enjoying a strong season …

World Rugby has confirmed the nominations for the positions of Chairman and Vice-Chairman, which will be determined at the annual meeting of Council on 11 May, 2016. In accordance with World Rugby Bye-Law 9.6.2 (c), member unions were invited to submit nominations for the position of World Rugby Chairman and/or …

Inspirational Italian captain Sergio Parisse is to play on until Japan 2019. The 32 year old has been playing international rugby since 2002 and has appeared in four Rugby World Cups to date. Should he play in the 2019 event in Japan he will join a select group of Samoa’s …

ESPN in Latin America has produced an 83 minute documentary titled Revolución Puma. Detailing the progress of Argentine rugby since Rugby World Cup 2007 the documentary provides a detailed analysis of how Argentina made it to the Semi Finals stage of Rugby World Cup 2015 by using a roster of …

US Eagles centre Martin Iosefo has been named to the official HSBC Dream Team for the Vancouver 7s. A scorer of five tries over the course of the tournament, Iosefo is the only Americas player selected, with Canadian playmaker Nathan Hirayama a notable exclusion. South Africa’s Justin Geduld and Samoan …

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 Signings  All five of the PRO Rugby teams competing in the inaugural season have at least one foreign player signed on …

A spectacular Vancouver 7s came to a close on Saturday with New Zealand victorious on the second North American stop on the HSBC Sevens Series. With 60,418 in attendance over two days – a new Canadian rugby record – the event can only be described as an overwhelming success, with …

With just over a month to go until the inaugural PRO Rugby season gets underway announcements keep coming through from the tournament organizers. The latest confirmation is that Rob Hoadley has been appointed San Diego Assistant Coach for the 2016 season. Hoadley was born in London and had an extensive playing …

With there being no international competition in the Americas this weekend there are no changes to the Americas Rankings this week. As of March 13 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 …

With just over a month to go before the historic beginning to professional rugby in North America you can do your part to help make it a success. PRO Rugby replica jerseys are on sale. The new league will feature five teams in 2016, the inaugural season. Teams from Denver, …

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 …