{"id":33427,"date":"2025-02-15T13:02:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T13:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/15\/rugby-is-growing-old-glory-dc-owners-bullish-as-mlr-hits-year-eight\/"},"modified":"2025-02-15T13:02:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T13:02:59","slug":"rugby-is-growing-old-glory-dc-owners-bullish-as-mlr-hits-year-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/15\/rugby-is-growing-old-glory-dc-owners-bullish-as-mlr-hits-year-eight\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Rugby is growing\u2019: Old Glory DC owners bullish as MLR hits year eight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Sheehy and Chris Dunlavey trumpet health of US league and say producing American players is key<\/p>\n<p>Like the rest of Washington, the rugby field <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/places\/000\/rugby-field-raoul-wallenberg-place.htm\">on the National Mall<\/a> was covered with snow this week. But Old Glory DC were safely indoors, preparing for the return of Major League Rugby, the US professional rugby union competition that kicks off year eight this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s about 73 degrees inside\u201d the St James, the \u201csports, wellness and entertainment complex\u201d in Springfield, Virginia, where Old Glory train, said Paul Sheehy, with a laugh.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/feb\/15\/major-league-rugby-mlr-old-glory-dc-espn\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Sheehy and Chris Dunlavey trumpet health of US league and say producing American players is key Like the rest of Washington, the rugby field on the National Mall was covered with snow this week. But Old Glory DC were safely indoors, preparing for the return of Major League Rugby, the US professional rugby union &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Rugby is growing\u2019: Old Glory DC owners bullish as MLR hits year eight\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/15\/rugby-is-growing-old-glory-dc-owners-bullish-as-mlr-hits-year-eight\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Rugby is growing\u2019: Old Glory DC owners bullish as MLR hits year eight\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}