South Africa and New Zealand will play a rugby match at Baltimore's M&T Bank Stadium as part of World Rugby's effort to expand the sport in the United States. According to IOL, the governing body is banking on expatriate support and streaming broadcasts to draw in an American audience more familiar with the NFL. The fixture is framed as a test of whether rugby's American experiment can succeed.
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