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The Toronto Arrows remain winless at home this year as they lost another game, this time at York Lions Stadium. Even with getting two recent draws at home, the Arrows are still struggling to get results at York Lions Stadium. Credit though to Houston, who saw this as a must-win game to keep their MLR […] READ MORE
INTERVIEW – Is Major League Rugby, America’s professional league, the sport’s most exciting prospect? USA Eagle Will Hooley believes so. MLR 2022 is in full swing, and you can watch all matches free of charge on The Rugby Network. LWOS spoke with Hooley about MLR’s potential, the USA National Team, and life after rugby. An […] READ MORE
Michael Hodge will be the first-ever head coach of the Dallas Jackals. He is also the youngest head coach in MLR at only 32 years old. A coach of relative inexperience, Hodge will look to make his mark in MLR. 📢 🚨 Dallas Jackals are pleased to announce Michael Hodge as Head Coach. Hodge is […] READ MORE
The 2021 MLR (Major League Rugby) Toronto Arrows draft was the debut process for the North American franchise, and the side will be boosted by their selection. As an overview, the MLR Collegiate Draft aims to provide a structure for managing the transfer of men’s rugby players from college to Major League Rugby in the […] READ MORE
There are a total of only two Northern Hemisphere rugby cities with a first-tier rugby league and union team in the northern hemisphere. One city, Salford, in the Greater Manchester area of the UK, has rugby league and union teams that date back to the 19th century. This is while Toronto, Canada, a city where rugby […] READ MORE
BC Place, in Vancouver, Canada and FMG Stadium Waikato in New Zealand, are two stadiums with fundamental differences in nature. Both sustain the same type of ball sports yet, they each use two dissimilar technologies to groom the playing surface on. For the sport of rugby union, many have talked about which is better. Artificial […] READ MORE
Major League Rugby (MLR) will be in its third season next year. For the first two years of its existence, MLR’s format had all teams in a single table format. However there will now be two divisions, the Eastern Division and the Western Division. Major League Rugby’s YouTube account revealed their new format this year. […] READ MORE
Major League Rugby (MLR) is an extremely young league, with only two seasons under its belt. Already in just a few short years of competition, Major League Rugby clubs have begun to obtained acclaimed International stars like ex-All Black, the wing Rene Ranger, as well as former Australian centre Digby Ioane. Add in European stars […] READ MORE
On March 12, Major League Rugby (MLR) went to twitter and announced it would suspend the 2020 Major League Rugby season. It follows suit with other competitions across the globe. MLR was one of several North American sports leagues that made these decisions in relation to the Covid-19 virus outbreak. Reacting to national and state […] READ MORE
Major League Rugby (MLR) commissioner George Killebrew gave a few minutes of his time to talk about MLR to Last Word on Sports. He talked about the present and future of MLR and how it compares to Major League Soccer (MLS). In this exclusive conversion leading into the launch of the new season, George Killebrew […] READ MORE
Raheem Bashir started blogging on a Gmail site called Blogger and has covered sporting events in rugby union/league and soccer. Since then he has become the Last Word on Sports writer for rugby, soccer, and previously basketball. He is also a member of the North American Soccer Reporters and The Rugby Union Writers’ Club.
Raheem graduated from George Brown College with a Digital Media Marketing Post-Grad Certificate in 2019. From the same college, Raheem also did a post-grad certificate in Sport and Event Marketing in 2017. Lastly, he did an undergrad Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto in 2016.