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English Aviva Premiership to be on NBC Sports next season

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyu ... tates.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Also Super Rugby is on ESPN3
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Nate Ebner of New England Pats going to try and make the U.S. 7s for Rio
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/14979 ... mpic-rugby" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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wlu_lax6 wrote:Nate Ebner of New England Pats going to try and make the U.S. 7s for Rio
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/14979 ... mpic-rugby" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
more on Ebner...hard not to support this guy
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/15104 ... ugby-dream" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Who knew that their was a new US Pro Rugby league that kicked off this weekend. No East coast teams yet.
http://www.prorugby.org/
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The Guardian wrote:At the 29th time of trying, after 111 years, Ireland have beaten the All Blacks, in Chicago, in the same week as the Cubs ended their 108-year wait for a World Series. Remarkable! Absolutely remarkable!
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NBC gets the rights for World Cups of a variety of rugby nature from now through 2023. I can't decide if $10 Million + a profit sharing deal is cheap, expensive, or fair. Also interesting to see that the Giants will be booted from AT&T Park for a 3 day weekend in 2018 for the Sevens World Cup (which is different from the 7s world tour that hits Vegas and other cities around the world every year). USA is currently ranked 5th in this years world tour.
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A report out of Scotland says Washington DC (and South Africa) will get a top flight pro rugby team to play in the Guiness12 (which will become the Guiness14). Apparently this is an international pro rugby league. DC would enter in 2018/19 and play at the new Audi Field (DC United's new stadium).
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wlu_lax6 wrote:A report out of Scotland says Washington DC (and South Africa) will get a top flight pro rugby team to play in the Guiness12 (which will become the Guiness14). Apparently this is an international pro rugby league. DC would enter in 2018/19 and play at the new Audi Field (DC United's new stadium).
The BBC last week last week had the story of two SA teams joining the PRO12, the Cheetahs & the Kings. It's been rumored for a while about have N. American teams join, I have seen Boston, Toronto and Houston mentioned but not DC.

NBC had the rights the RWC before, but just showed US group games with the semis & final on Universal Sports, the rest was behind a paywall. The only way this is a good deal is if game all are shown on shown on NBC Sports. It shouldn't be a problem as the next RWC will be in Japan and so all games will overnight, so the only clash should be with infomercials.
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wlu_lax6 wrote:A report out of Scotland says Washington DC (and South Africa) will get a top flight pro rugby team to play in the Guiness12 (which will become the Guiness14). Apparently this is an international pro rugby league. DC would enter in 2018/19 and play at the new Audi Field (DC United's new stadium).
The BBC last week last week had the story of two SA teams joining the PRO12, the Cheetahs & the Kings. It's been rumored for a while about have N. American teams join, I have seen Boston, Toronto and Houston mentioned but not DC.

NBC had the rights the RWC before, but just showed US group games with the semis & final on Universal Sports, the rest was behind a paywall. The only way this is a good deal is if game all are shown on shown on NBC Sports. It shouldn't be a problem as the next RWC will be in Japan and so all games will overnight, so the only clash should be with infomercials.
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http://www.scotsman.com/sport/rugby-uni ... -1-4491808
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Sorry I forgot to link the Beeb article

http://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/40464201

Also the ESPN3 app is covering the Lions tour to NZ, the 3rd and deciding test is this Saturday, will be a massive game
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Did anyone else get sucked into watching 7s world cup this weekend? Looks like they did a good job get folks to show up to watch in San Francisco. What a enjoyable sport to watch.
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I tried to, but yesterday was a cluster f trying to find things. Way too many channels showing replays and then women's rugby. Confusing.
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wlu_lax6 wrote: Mon Jul 23, 2018 7:34 am Did anyone else get sucked into watching 7s world cup this weekend? Looks like they did a good job get folks to show up to watch in San Francisco. What a enjoyable sport to watch.
Yeah, I was going to go, but too many other commitments. it got pretty good publicity here.
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Toronto One Step Away From The Super League

So bizarre - becoming a cult sport here in Toronto.
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NBC Sports has grabbed the Champions Cup off ESPN and stuck most of it on NBC Gold, the fuckers
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Estimates are for Japan to see big economic boost by hosting the 2019 world cup. I have a buddy who is going for it.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/04/japan-c ... event.html
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wlu_lax6 wrote: Tue Dec 04, 2018 12:33 pm Estimates are for Japan to see big economic boost by hosting the 2019 world cup. I have a buddy who is going for it.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/04/japan-c ... event.html
Friend of mine is a rugby fanatic who lived in Japan for 15 years or so. He's going for sure.

When i went t Japan, he recommended a fantastic restaurant near the Ginza in Tokyo that is run by an old Rugby player. I can get the name of it if he wants. Great food and should be nuts during the tournament.
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DC get's its Major League Rugby team
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World Cup Committee told Japan to get their act together so there are no failures where it counts...BEER.
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Australia rugby has a religion issue.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/worl ... hobic.html
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wlu_lax6 wrote: Wed Jul 03, 2019 7:20 am Australia rugby has a religion issue.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/worl ... hobic.html
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wlu_lax6 wrote: Wed Jul 03, 2019 7:20 am Australia rugby has a religion issue.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/worl ... hobic.html
Never mind him, this guy should be the face of Australian rugby, sent my nephew (also a rugby player) a video when he was diagnosed with leukemia too.

https://www.skysports.com/rugby-union/n ... -australia

Also the entire Australian touring squad signed a shirt for him, thanks to Michael Hooper.
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Rugby World Cup starts today, first up Japan c Russia
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Other than the obvious powers, what are the teams to watch?
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Pruitt wrote: Fri Sep 20, 2019 5:11 am Other than the obvious powers, what are the teams to watch?
Can't see past the tier 1 teams making it into the 1/4 Finals, Japan may have a shot if they can upset Scotland.

Fiji will always be good box office, Samoa might bury some poor unfortunate soul.
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Maybe Argentina can upset France.
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degenerasian wrote: Fri Sep 20, 2019 9:47 am Maybe Argentina can upset France.
Not sure that would be an upset as both are tier 1 teams, most of the Argentine team play with the Jaguares in Super rugby and so will be very familiar with each other.
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Did not catch any games this morning but with England beating Tonga 35-3, could be a long morning for the US on Thursday.
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First upset, Uruguay beat Fiji 30-27
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Not a good day for North America.
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Bad day for the Irish
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