ESPN Buys Rugby Site Scrum.com

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ESPN extended its online presence in international sports with the purchase of rugby news site Scrum.com from Scrum Ltd.

The sports network already runs soccer site ESPNsoccernet.com and cricket-news site Cricinfo, which it bought in June.

ESPN has rights to various rugby tournaments, including the Heineken Cup through 2010 in Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East and North Africa, and the IRB Rugby World Cup in 2007 and 2011 in Latin America.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.