Leading Jaguares inside center Juan Martín Hernández is to miss the Stormers match, this coming Saturday in Buenos Aires. During his debut Super Rugby performance vs the Chiefs in Buenos Aires last Saturday, Hernández suffered a knock to his right knee. The same knee was troublesome during the pre-season which …

Seeding for the twelve automatic qualified countries for Rugby World Cup 2019 is likely to be Pushed back 12 months, the Scotsman reported this morning. Rugby’s global event will be staged outside of a founding union member for the first time in history when Japan hosts the Rugby World Cup …

With PRO Rugby just on the horizon and the announcement of a significant portion of the rosters, this seems like as good a time as any to ponder ‘what if?’ Many fans have asked why there aren’t any Canadian teams in the inaugural competition but instead of regurgitating things already …

A handful of Americas-eligible players have been named to take part in the annual Colours Match between Ireland’s most prestigious university sides, Trinity College and UCD. The game has been a fixture on the rugby calendar since 1952, the Irish equivalent of the Varsity Match played between Cambridge and Oxford, …

Los Cuervos Upset Old Christians in Uruguay Qualifying Tournament this past weekend. The 24-17  home win sees Los Cuevos rocked up into first position in the standings after two rounds. Also producing an upset was Trébol who overcame last year’s runners-up, Old Boys 29-28. Both Old Christians and Old Boys fielded their …

Australian dual-international Timana Tahu has signed for the Denver PRO Rugby franchise. The long-time National Rugby League (NRL) star made a splash on the rugby union scene in 2008 when he signed a big money deal with the Australian Rugby Union and the Waratahs. After two Super Rugby seasons in …

Former Italy ‘A’ flanker Filippo Ferrarini is now officially part of PRO Rugby. His move abroad to the new American professional competition had been apparent since being granted an early release from his Guinness Pro 12 contract with Zebre two weeks ago, but his final destination was unknown. That has …

Los Jaguares Tight Head prop resources are to be pushed to the limit with Ramiro Herrera having been joined by Nahuel Tetaz Chaparro, the latter is out for two weeks with Head Trauma. Herrera misses the round four home Super Rugby fixture against the Chiefs with an ankle injury and …

France’s next international assignment will be a two test tour of Argentina in June. Scheduled for June 18 and 25 the dates are to coincide with the Top 14’s play-off’s. Players from four Semi Finalists will not be considered for the tour, leaving an under pressure Guy Noves to find …

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 …