International Rugby News
Somehow the USA Men’s 7s team is into the Cup Quarterfinals at the Glasgow 7s, despite starting off horribly, and then having to weather a comeback that could have unsettled it all.
The Eagles were just plan bad against Canada in the opening game of the entire tournament, as they couldn’t hold onto the ball, seemed scattered on defense, and lost 40-0.
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Men's Sevens World Series, Glasgow
The first game is at 10:30am local time, 5:30am ET, 2:30am PT and it's USA v Canada. USA also plays at 8:58am ET v Japan and 11:47am ET v Argentina.
USA Rugby will hold a series of All American tracking camps throughout the USA as the Eagles brain trust, under the play identification guidance of Alex Magleby, looks for more players.
Back from the USA Selects trip to South America, USA MNT Head Coach Mike Tolkin can rightly be pleased with a lot of what happened.
The results were a 13-3 defeat of Uruguay, a 54-6 loss to the Argentina Jaguars, and a 28-23 loss against those same Jaguars.
The USA Selects put in a much more impressive performance Saturday against the Argentina Jaguars compared to four days ago.
The USA team lost, but battled all the way in a 28-23 decision to a strong Jaguars team at Padre Ernesto Martearena stadium.