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Major League Rugby Major League Rugby (MLR) announced today that it has appointed the world’s leading fan data specialists – PumpJack Dataworks – to develop a new, custom data infrastructure built entirely around fan engagement. This ground-breaking fan databank will become the engine to enable greater commercial and audience growth for the ...

Major League Rugby Major League Rugby (MLR) prepares to kick off its fifth season of competition as the highest level of rugby in North America. The 2022 season begins on the weekend of Feb. 5-6, with six matches on the schedule. Celebrated as an emerging sport by MLR, rugby is ...

This weekend, the 2019 Penn Mutual Collegiate Rugby Championship returns to Talen Energy Stadium in suburban Philadelphia, and the competition will be carried live on ESPN2, ESPNEWS and ESPN+. The live television coverage schedule will be as follows: Saturday, June 1: 8 a.m. – 1 p.m. ET on ESPN+ 1 ...

Today, FloSports, the innovator in live digital sports and original content, announced that FloRugby.com will offer live and on-demand coverage of 45 top-level matches this fall spanning the HSBC Women’s World Sevens Series, The Rugby Weekend, and all Autumn Internationals matches for the France and Scotland men’s national teams. Coverage of the HSBC World Rugby ...

For the first time this weekend, competition in the 2018 Penn Mutual Collegiate Rugby Championship will be carried live on ESPN2, ESPNews and the new ESPN+ app. Philadelphia is in the international sports spotlight this coming weekend, as the Olympic sport of Rugby 7s returns to Talen Energy Stadium for ...

United World Sports, the owners of the largest and most successful annual rugby events in the United States, today announced a new expanded agreement with ESPN to carry the Penn Mutual Collegiate Rugby Championship, the national title event for men’s and women’s college Rugby 7’s. The 2018 event will again be held at ...

We keep hearing more and more about how niche sports are engaging better than traditional team sports in the digital space. lacrosse has grown its audience and now it looks like rugby is as well. United World Sports, the owner and operator of the largest annual rugby events in the ...

While the rising sport of rugby in the United States continues to look for widespread brand support, one thing is for sure; if you are involved in the fast paced Olympic version of Rugby Sevens and are in the collegiate space, you will know Penn Mutual. The 150 year old ...

The interest and positive mojo for rugby kept going this week, as the International Olympic Committee announced that the game of rugby sevens will continue in the programme through at least the Paris Games in 2024, with US officials hopeful that the growth in the States will bolster support even ...

Every year the Las Vegas Sevens has brought record crowds to Las Vegas for the Olympic sport of rugby. Over 80,000 people from around the world piled in to Sin City last year, and combined with a UFC event, made the first weekend in March a record sports extravaganza even ...