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Rugby hopes World Cup will win over Americans
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…