GRR: National Teams
Alatini Saulala was one of the great rugby players of the late 1990s, scoring one of the USA's most classic tries as well as being part of the most dangerous backline in the domestic game at his prime.
St. John's, Nfld.—Bryce Campbell leads as captain when the No. 16 USA Men’s 15ss National Team faces No. 22 Canada this Saturday in the first of a two-leg series for Rugby World Cup qualification.
Kickoff is set for 3:00 PM local time // 1:30 PM Eastern at Swilers Rugby Club in St John’s, Newfoundland. The game will be live-streamed on florugby.com.
Back in the dark ages of the Internet, which would be 1998 or thereabouts, this writer used to get big traffic on articles that simply told rugby fans where they could watch their favorite sport on TV.
Former USA Eagle and USA Rugby Chairman Neal Brendel has died after a battle with mesothelioma, he was 66.
Brendel was a huge figure in American rugby throughout his life. He played for the Pittsburgh Rugby Club through the 1980s, a club he was later to serve as president, and was capped by the USA during that time, suiting up for the Eagles at prop in the 1987 Rugby World Cup.
Somewhat lost in the weirdness that is this world and how we shoehorn rugby into it is the fact that the USA and Canada will be meeting twice in September for Rugby World Cup Qualifiers.