GRR: Major League Rugby
ESPN and Major League Rugby (MLR) have reached a multiyear media rights agreement, bringing the highest level of professional rugby in the United States to ESPN platforms. Live coverage begins on Saturday, Feb. 15 as the 2025 season kicks off with five matches (6 p.m. ET, ESPN+).
We’re about six weeks away from the beginning of the Major League Rugby season, and the second season for a new experiment.
Aaron Juma’s transfer from Wheeling to Mary Washington stirred up much more discussion, and indeed vitriol, than anyone might reasonably expect.
Good news from Louisiana HS rugby as a league-wide preseason scrimmage held this month saw an increased number of players and teams.
A region hit badly by COVID, Louisiana had dropped to about four teams in boys high school rugby. This preseason scrimmage day saw seven teams participate:
World Rugby's adjustment to Regulation 8 has put a complication into the Major League Rugby draft and post-draft signings.
Put briefly, overseas players who were only registered with NCR may find some teams reluctant to draft or sign them because of how that affects their USA rugby-residency status.