Article courtesy of IRB.com - Global participation increase of 19% since Rugby World Cup 2007 - Olympic Effect being felt throughout the global Rugby family - IRB investment and hosting strategies driving factors The International Rugby Board has welcomed the findings of a major new study which highlights strong growth in Rugby participation since Rugby… [Read more…]
April 4, 2011
by Tim Maitland of IRB.com Olympic status for Sevens is changing rugby exponentially away from the sport’s heartlands. In part 1 of this series Tim Maitland looked at how 95% of the benefit of being in the Games from 2016 isn’t the money that comes from the IOC, but the investment from individual nations into their sport.… [Read more…]
April 1, 2011
By Conor Bertrand Texas A&M RFC will host the University of Texas on Friday, April 8th at 7:30 pm (CST) in their annual battle for the University Cup. The Aggies have been able to handle the Horns in the last two years to secure the cup, and Texas is hungry for the chance to get it back. … [Read more…]
March 31, 2011
by Tim Maitland of IRB.com In a series of articles, Tim Maitland examines how Olympic status for Sevens is changing rugby exponentially away from the sport’s traditional heartlands. Have you noticed that Rugby Union is changing inexorably, irrevocably… growing exponentially? Living in one of the heartland nations – in Great Britain, Australasia, France or South… [Read more…]
March 15, 2011
Article courtesy of USA Rugby In the last five months, the Boy’s High School All-Americans (HSAAs) have landed a major sponsor, fielded the first ever HSAA sevens team and booked a summer tour to South Africa. All of these developments will give the best high school rugby players in the country valuable rugby and life… [Read more…]
February 21, 2011
By Ted Hardy, The call for an upgraded domestic 7’s competition is needed now more than ever before. The player pool in 7’s is growing by leaps and bounds while at the same time improving in overall quality, athleticism, and skill. Collegiate 7’s is just getting rolling, so within a few years there is going… [Read more…]
February 17, 2011
The dust has barely settled on the USA 7′s in Las Vegas and it already time to start thinking about the next event in the HSBC World Series. Organised by the Hong Kong Rugby Football Union, the 2011 Cathay Pacific/Credit Suisse Hong Kong Sevens is expected to attract upwards of 120,000 spectators through the gates… [Read more…]
February 16, 2011
Canada edged an athletic Netherlands side 17-12 to take the honours in the USA Women’s International Sevens Invitational, played alongside the men’s HSBC World Series event in this past weekend Las Vegas. The tournament featured five nations who competed at the last Rugby World Cup Sevens in 2009 - eventual winners Canada as well as hosts USA, Spain, France… [Read more…]
February 13, 2011
The USA lost to Canada this morning 19-15 and earn a third straight trip to the Shield competition at a HSBC World Series event. The Shield is the bottom tier of competition at each World Series event, giving the 13th-16th place teams an avenue to compete against similar squads. The problem for the USA is… [Read more…]
February 12, 2011
The dust has settled and the USA Women’s 7′s team has fallen short of reaching the semifinals at the Las Vegas International Women’s 7′s Tournament. The squad was edged out by Canada on point differential although the USA had beated the Canadians in pool play and both teams finished with identical 2-1 records in the… [Read more…]
February 10, 2011
The IRB’s World Series is exploding like never before… major sponsors signing on at every turn, unprecedented media and broadcast coverage, and attendance records preparing to be broken. These events have fallen into place like tumblers in a lock. The most inspiring and hopeful part of the rise is that the IRB has been hard… [Read more…]
February 10, 2011
In the latest installment of IRB’s Inside Sevens Uncovered series, the team sits down with Team USA’s Miles Craigwell to answer questions that were submitted by fans through Facebook. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaidbLe6lUA&feature=player_embedded
April 5, 2011
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