#Rugby Canada

It's a two-day spectacle, featuring flags, fast-paced rugby and a whole lot of costumes. Canada's annual celebration of sevens, rugby's faster-paced cousin, is set to return to BC Place for a fourth year this weekend. The Canada Sevens pits teams from 16 countries against each other in a two-day mini World Cup tournament expected to draw close to…

Unlike most mascots, the plush moose dressed as a Mountie comes with a important back story for the Canadian men at the Rugby World Cup in Japan. The moose, part of the Canada team since 2007, is usually left on the side of the pitch during games. But it transitioned from mascot to inspiration after a 2011 team talk in Victoria by Capt. Trevor…

With Major League Rugby in full swing, we spoke to the captain of Rugby ATL, Matt Heaton. The franchise did exceptionally well to reach the final last year, eventually losing to an LA Giltinis side containing Matt Giteau, Adam Ashley-Cooper, and D.T.H van der Merwe. The ambition of Rugby ATL clearly hasn't faded for 2022: "This season we're hungry!…

An independent review into Rugby Canada's high-performance programs paints a damning picture of a dysfunctional organization at odds with its athletes, staff and supporters. The review depicts a governing body too busy fighting fires to have any long-term strategy and athletes "shocked" at how poorly they are treated when joining the…

USA Rugby will host Canada in Charleston this Saturday as part of the 2015 Rugby World Cup Qualifiers. This weekend's home match for the USA Eagles is part of a home-and-away series versus Canada that will see them travel to Toronto's BMO Field the following weekend. The team that posts the biggest scoreline across the two games will win the World…

Inconsistency has tripped up the young Canadian men's rugby sevens squad during the first half of the season, but head coach Henry Paul is confident his team can find its legs during this weekend's HSBC Canada Sevens rugby tournament. "We have to stop doing the self-harm things," Paul said after a practice at BC Place Stadium. "Some of our…

DENPASAR, Indonesia - Canadian rugby player Nick Allen was hospitalized in Indonesia with a traumatic brain injury after a car crash last week in Bali, Rugby Canada said. Allen, 26, who played for the national sevens team over the last two seasons and represented Canada at the Commonwealth Games last summer, was hurt on Nov. 7, the federation said…

The Major League Rugby playoffs are here after what was a crazy end to the season. Now it all comes down to these next two weeks to determine who will be crowned as champions in the second season of MLR. Four teams, one champion. Of the four teams in these playoffs, two return with the San Diego Legion and Seattle Seawolves and the two expansion…