Rugby Sevens league set for 2022 launch in Las Vegas boasts $1m prize

Ticket sorted. Fancy dress sorted. Party head on! For those lucky enough to be heading to the Cathay/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens, on 5-7 April, this year's event should be even more memorable than any that have gone before in the last half a century - and that takes some doing, given its sporting bucket-list reputation as Mardis Gras meets…

Specifically, there's a lot of excitement around the Dubai leg of the series due to its reputation for high-energy matches and enthusiastic crowds of sports fans. The Dubai stop is a key battleground for teams vying for the ultimate prize: a place in the Olympic Games Paris 2024. As the host country, France has automatically secured its spot. Other…

Take a good look at the Super Rugby squads announced this week and then start thinking about whether it will soon be time to apply a draft in the premier rugby competitionin this part of the world. There are three major factors: 1) To these eyes, the Crusaders have demonstrably the best squad, at first glance, head and shoulders above the…

Happy Thursday Comrades. Australia have played their final As always this is a fan run site and any contribution is always welcome feel free to reach out to me at [email protected] be it with an article an idea or an opinion piece. We also have a submit an article page as the vision is that world domination. France, are paying the…

Fans in the stands watch the Texas Super Kings and Los Angeles Knight Riders compete in a Major League Cricket match in Grand Prairie, Texas. Photo / AP "Deep in the Heart of Texas" blared from the speakers during a timeout a few days into the debut of a U.S. professional cricket league near Dallas. Fans waved the flags of the Texas Super Kings and…

With nine overseas players allowed in each team, some earning US$450000, the ILT20 wants to compete with established global tournaments UAE cricket players showcase their new T20 kit in September 2022 ahead of the 2022 World Cup in Australia (Emirates Cricket) After months of delays, the UAE's new cricket tournament - the International League T20…

The World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series schedule for 2023 has been released. Two three-day tournaments, including men's and women's competitions, will be held at Markötter Stadium in Stellenbosch on April 20-22 and 28-30. The winner of the 12-team women's Challenger Series will automatically advance to the Sevens World Series 2024, with the winner…

Rugby League's men's World Cup kicks off on Saturday when England take on Samoa in Newcastle. It's the 16th iteration of a tournament first played in France in 1954. But, if 10 years previously, you'd asked any French player taking part in that inaugural competition whether they'd ever foresee playing a World Cup on home soil they'd have laughed…

Twelve months later than planned, the 16th World Cup gets under way with the first of 61 matches across all three formats in Newcastle on Saturday afternoon. Here, the PA news agency examines the key talking points surrounding what organisers say will be the biggest and best tournament yet. The four-yearly World Cup cycle was broken by the knock-on…

Change is coming to the HSBC Canada Sevens. Don't have an account? Create Account No longer will there be men's and women's events hosted at separate venues on different weekends. The Canada Women's Sevens had been held in April or May in Langford since its inaugural tournament in 2015 - but beginning next year, it will now be folded into the same…

Dec 1 (Reuters) - A new U.S. rugby union sevens league will launch next October, which organisers said on Wednesday would pit 12 top international teams against four new U.S. franchises, with sides playing to win their share of $1 million prize money. A newly-formed U.S. company, The Rugby Football League, said the U.S. Rugby Sevens Major League…

The 2021 Cathay Pacific/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens will be postponed from April until November, the Post understands. An official announcement will be made by governing body World Rugby on Thursday. Originally slated for April 3-5, the decision comes as no surprise given Hong Kong is struggling to contain cluster outbreaks and untraceable infections in…

NEW DELHI: Indian police are investigating an alleged betting scandal in which a sham cricket tournament was held in an Indian village and passed off as a Twenty20 contest played in Sri Lanka. Players portrayed as Sri Lankan cricketers played two matches on Monday that were broadcast with live commentary on YouTube, media reports said, along with…

South Africa will remain committed to the Rugby Championship for the next decade, organisers SANZAAR said on Wednesday. There had been speculation the world champions might have looked to eventually join the Six Nations, but any plans for that look to be at an end following this announcement It comes after South Africa pulled out of this year's…

GLENDALE, Colo. - Shawn Pittman looked out at the players on the United States national rugby team, the Eagles, going through their drills and thought back eight years to when he was preparing to play in the 2011 Rugby World Cup. At the time, he was one of a handful of players on the team who played professionally. Most of his teammates came from…

The cache of communications outline the desperate measures taken by city officials and licence-holders New Zealand Rugby (NZR) to save the January tournament already in the death throes. It has been revealed World Rugby had given NZR written confirmation a third global sponsor would pick up almost three-quarters of the tournament fee, but the deal…

Last week Canadian rugby player Doug Wooldridge was squeezing in twice-daily workouts around his full-time job with an elevator repair company in Victoria, B.C., and scheduling his time off around national team games and training camps. The 30-year-old joins French rugby powerhouse ASM Clermont Auvergne this weekend, meaning that, after five years…

Plans for a national league could get a major boost from this month's world cup, and the return of Olympic rugby in 2016 for the first time in nearly a century. The bruising form of contact football is already the fastest growing team sport in the U.S. over the past five years, according to industry figures. About 1.2 million participate regularly…

Waisale Serevi is a standard-bearer for rugby in Fiji and a pioneer of the sevens format, but he wasn't always such a big presence. He had very little support as a child growing up in the Fijian coastal capital of Suva, and had to find his own way to the top, independent of a proper coaching structure. Blessed with a magical side-step and unique…