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Tackling in football is changing in large part as a response to the long-overdue increase in concern about concussions, and as those changes filter through the game, American football’s pa
Not since 1998 has the USA advanced to the semifinals of the Women’s Rugby World Cup, and breaking that streak depends on a knockout performance this Saturday, when the Eagles take on New Zealand in the final pool round. Even after the team’s impressive 47-7 victory over Kazakhstan on Tuesday, the gravity of game three was already making its presence known.
USA Rugby has announced that its background check policy will be changing.
The Eagles needed a bonus-point victory over Kazakhstan to have any hope at all of a spot on the semifinals.
After a tense and scoreless first 20 minutes, they got it, scoring eight tries to win 47-7.
The USA Women's National Team got back on track with a 47-7 defeat of Kazakhstan in the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup Tuesday.