
THE US should already love rugby league, a sport which shares many traits with the hugely popular sports of American and Canadian football, but without the helmets and the stoppages.
This weekend, it gets a chance to see rugby league in all its glory, as teams from the sport’s heartlands in England and Australia fly to Las Vegas for a showpiece event on Saturday night.
When US sports fans think of rugby, they likely automatically think of rugby union.

As the concept of league games being played overseas has come about once again, JAMES NALTON writes how a club is not a club without its links to location, community and fans

Vermont Green FC’s viral Bernie Sanders tifo was more than a joke. It was a sharp critique of US soccer’s top-heavy capitalism and a celebration of grassroots power, writes JAMES NALTON

Palestinian football has been decimated, its players killed, its stadiums reduced to rubble. Yet the global game has looked away silent in the face of genocide, and will remain a stain on the sport, writes JAMES NALTON

The Red’s title defence is built on clever recruitment, long-term planning, and data-led strategy. In contrast, the Magpies are falling behind — and blaming the wrong things, writes JAMES NALTON