{"id":70857,"date":"2026-04-04T07:05:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/rising-star-wreck-it-will-sherman-has-roots-in-us-rugbys-past-and-eyes-on-its-future\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T07:05:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:05:47","slug":"rising-star-wreck-it-will-sherman-has-roots-in-us-rugbys-past-and-eyes-on-its-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/rising-star-wreck-it-will-sherman-has-roots-in-us-rugbys-past-and-eyes-on-its-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising star \u2018Wreck-It Will\u2019 Sherman has roots in US rugby\u2019s past and eyes on its future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the Eagles are to make a mark on their home World Cup in 2031, the hard-hitting Anthem RC lock could have a key role to play<\/p>\n<p>Will Sherman may be the future of US rugby, but his roots are in the game\u2019s American past. The 22-year-old standout second-row forward for <a href=\"https:\/\/anthemrc.com\/\">Anthem Rugby Carolina<\/a> in Major League Rugby is the son of Wade Sherman, a member of a champion Cal Berkeley team that included <a href=\"https:\/\/calbears.com\/news\/2025\/9\/11\/rugby-in-remembrance-of-mark-bingham-american-hero.aspx\">Mark Bingham<\/a>, who on 11 September 2001 was one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2001\/dec\/02\/september11.terrorism1\">Flight 93<\/a> passengers who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2001\/sep\/16\/september11.usa5\">fought their hijackers<\/a> and kept it from reaching Washington.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a super old photo that my dad pulled up, and the first time I heard that story was from him,\u201d Sherman said. \u201cHe was like, \u2018That guy standing to my left is an American hero.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/04\/will-sherman-usa-rugby-mlr-anthem\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the Eagles are to make a mark on their home World Cup in 2031, the hard-hitting Anthem RC lock could have a key role to play Will Sherman may be the future of US rugby, but his roots are in the game\u2019s American past. The 22-year-old standout second-row forward for Anthem Rugby Carolina in &#8230; <a title=\"Rising star \u2018Wreck-It Will\u2019 Sherman has roots in US rugby\u2019s past and eyes on its future\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/rising-star-wreck-it-will-sherman-has-roots-in-us-rugbys-past-and-eyes-on-its-future\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Rising star \u2018Wreck-It Will\u2019 Sherman has roots in US rugby\u2019s past and eyes on its future\">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-70857","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\/70857","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=70857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}