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Highlights from the Americas Rugby Championship game between the USA and Argentina.

Talking Rugby Union caught up with USA 7s Head Coach Mike Friday to discuss the upcoming sevens season which gets underway in Dubai on December 4th

Japan becoming the first team in 28 years to win three pool stage matches and still fail to qualify from their group following a 28-18 victory over the USA.

Match citing commissioner Peter Larter is satisfied that "no biting incident occurred" during the course of Wednesday's World Cup pool game between South Africa and the United States, World Rugby have confirmed.

Bryan Habana equalled Jonah Lomu's World Cup try-scoring record as he led South Africa into the quarter-finals with a crushing victory over the United States at the Olympic Stadium.

Henry Pyrgos will serve as captain amidst 10 changes for Scotland ahead of their Pool B clash with the United States in Leeds on Sunday.

Samoa narrowly edged out the USA in their World Cup Pool B opener to begin the tournament with a 25-16 victory in Brighton.

There will be no shortage of expectations hoisted upon the likes of Julian Savea, Duane Vermeulen and George North when the Rugby World Cup begins later this month.

Samoa lock Kane Thompson will miss his country's opening World Cup game after landing a two-match ban.

USA 7s head coach Michael Friday feels that it is achievable for America’s XV a-side team to qualify from Pool B at this year’s World Cup if they are consistent.

It was announced last week that the Rugby Football Union (RFU) had become a minority shareholder in Rugby International Marketing (RIM), the new commercial arm of USA Rugby.

Current USA Rugby 7s coach Mike Friday feels that his side have silenced the critics after achieving their most successful Rugby 7s season in USA’s history.

Brian Doyle by all accounts may of expected to be starting for the United States Eagles this summer in the up and coming World Cup but he has sacrificed all that and chosen to head down a totally different road.

The United States captured a famous London Sevens success after accounting for hosts England in the semi-final and Australia in the final, while Fiji won the HSBC Sevens World Series.

The soon-to-be-formed National Rugby Football League, the first professional domestic rugby union tournament in US history, was in the news again last week, as Philadelphia was announced as the location for the inaugural Independence Cup.

Rugby Union is currently the fastest growing team sport in the United States and the sport’s long-term goal of cracking that sleeping giant is creeping ever closer.

Any year that plays host to a Rugby World Cup can usually be described as ‘defining’ for the major rugby-playing nations, but arguably for no country is 2015 as important as it is for the United States of America.

There is plenty of rugby union for fans around the world to debate this coming weekend. Talking Rugby Union have shared several articles this week, centred on Stuart Lancaster and his England team.

In stark contrast to Round 1, there are ten games in the November Internationals 2014 Round 2 and if you get through this round with a 100 per cent record then as Fitzy used to say, "full credit".

The November Internationals Round 1 went as predicted with wins for the All Blacks, Maori All Blacks and the Wallabies, but these matches were more a celebration of rugby than the results.