Rugby World Cup Preview - America's chances!

RWC has posted its official preview for Group B at next fall's Rugby World Cup, which includes the American team as well as one of the tournament favorites, the South Africans. 

If you go by who's beaten whom over the years, you'd have to come out with the following order as your starting point before you consider changes within the last season or two:

1. South Africa
2. Scotland
3. Samoa
4. United States
5. Japan

As stated, though, that's only a historical perspective. Japan has risen all the way up to 11th in the world rankings over the last six months, meaning that as of right now, the Americans are in a Group of Death with four of the top eleven teams in the world. Great.... The Springboks of South Africa still have to be considered the favorite in this group until proven otherwise.

Rugby World Championships schedule announced

And here's the home page for the 2015 Rugby World Cup. There are twenty countries involved in the RWC, which starts on September 18th of next year and runs through Hallow'een, October 31st.

Pool A: Australia, England, Fiji, Uruguay, and Wales.
Pool B: Japan, Samoa, Scotland, South Africa, and the United States.
Pool C: Argentina, Georgia, Namibia, New Zealand, and Tonga.
Pool D: Canada, France, Ireland, Italy, and Romania.

From the World Rankings, the favorites are England and Australia from Group A; South Africa from Group B; the All-Blacks from New Zealand in Group C; and Ireland and France in Group D.

The top two in each pool advance to the KnockOut Rounds, which start October 17th.

Rugby - by request!

Hard to arguer that rugby isn't a form of football... it's just not a form of football that we know very much about! But here's a site that does - the International Rugby Board, with a preview of the 2015 Rugby World Cup's "Group Of Death" (every tournament with prelim round groupings has one!)! 

Read along with us, won't you? This is GROUP A!