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Badlands! Another US team bites dust

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The Rugby Paper Team
23 August 2026

YET another club has vanished from the Here-Today-Gone-Tomorrow League of US rugby, its disappearance widely ignored by Americans rather more concerned about the fallout from Donald Trump’s volcanic regime.
In the grand scheme of all things MAGA, the collapse of Anthem RC, as in Rugby Carolina, is too insignificant for anyone across the pond to pay the blind bit of notice. Nobody on this side of the Atlantic will dare dismiss it lightly, least of all those at World Rugby headquarters in Dublin.
There, and in the game’s other heartlands south of the equator, the flibbert...

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