GRR: Eagle Men
USA 7s team wing Carlin Isles will not be with the team in Vancouver, because he is hoping to qualify for the USA Track and Field team as a sprinter and become a double Olympian.
BOULDER, Colo. (USA Rugby Release) – The USA Men's Eagles will welcome two more international opponents to the United States this June, hosting tests in San Jose, Calif., and Sacramento as part of the 2016 Summer Series.
In this opinion column, Goff Rugby Report Editor Alex Goff turns a critical eye toward the USA Men's 7s team, and why he believes they can, and should, do better.
In this business, it’s easy to get caught up in the negative; it’s easy to just see the mistakes and miss the mitigating factors or the good things.
Fiji defeated the USA 21-14 in the semifinals of the USA 7s in Las Vegas, taking advantage of a series of uncharacteristic USA mistakes.
The USA is in to the Cup semifinals after putting together most of the sort of performance they will need going forward.
The Eagles, playing without injured Maka Unufe, got two tries from Martin Iosefo, and a massive game from Danny Barrett to beat Kenya 26-14.