USA – Rugby’s New El Dorado?

Barely a week seems to pass these days without a significant development or announcement concerning rugby in the USA. A sell-out crowd for the game between the Eagles and the All Blacks at Soldier Field in Chicago, rumours that the Aviva Premiership may be taking games there shortly and the announcement that the Leicester Tigers will play a game there in August 2015 have all made the news. The latter will involve the East Midlands outfit facing a team of players recruited from professional and collegiate football, basketball and hockey, as well as rugby, to be called the NRFL Rough Riders and …