TSN and RDS announced today they have reached an exclusive, multi-year, multimedia rights agreement with Rugby Canada, making TSN and RDS the official broadcasters of Rugby Canada. As part of the deal, TSN and RDS will broadcast several international events each year, including RUGBY WORLD CUP qualifiers, international friendlies, and the upcoming RUGBY WORLD CUP SEVENS 2013. TSN and RDS are also the exclusive Canadian broadcasters of the RUGBY WORLD CUP 2015 in England. "As we saw during the recent World Cup, more and more Canadian sports fans have fallen in love with rugby and are specifically drawn to the grit and determination of Canadas national team," said Shawn Redmond, Vice-President of Programming, TSN. "We are incredibly proud to become the exclusive home of Rugby Canada and look forward to showcasing Canadas mens rugby team as they prepare to take on the world at the RUGBY WORLD CUP 2015." "Rugby Canada is proud to partner with TSN and RDS as the official broadcasters of Canadian Rugby," said Graham Brown, Chief Executive Officer, Rugby Canada. "With Canada competing in the worlds top rugby events, including the mens and womens Rugby World Cups, Pan-American Games and summer internationals, were excited to have an exclusive, multimedia rights agreement with Canadas leading specialty channels to bring world-class rugby to our dedicated supporters and a legion of new fans across the country." Canada vs. Ireland – Saturday, June 15 at 8 p.m. ET on TSN TSNs live Rugby Canada coverage begins this Saturday (June 15) at 8 p.m. ET when Canadas mens rugby team takes on Ireland in an international friendly at BMO Field in Toronto. Calling all the action are play-by-play commentator Luke Wileman and analyst Brian Spanton, a former member of Canadas mens rugby team. Canadas national senior mens team is led by head coach Kieran Crowley and General Manager Gareth Rees. Currently ranked 13th in the world, Canadas mens rugby team includes several players who play club rugby in top tier European leagues, including Jebb Sinclair, Phil Mackenzie, and Taylor Paris. Upcoming Team Canada Fixtures on TSN • International friendly: Canada vs. Ireland – Saturday, June 15 at 8 p.m. ET on TSN • World Cup Qualifying: Canada vs. U.S.A. – Saturday, Aug. 17 at 6:30 p.m. ET on TSN2 • World Cup Qualifying: Canada vs. U.S.A. – Saturday, Aug. 24 at 4 p.m. ET on TSN2• International friendly: Canada vs. Maori All Blacks – Sunday, Nov. 3 at 1 p.m. ET on TSN RUGBY WORLD CUP SEVENS 2013TSN also confirmed today it will also have coverage of the RUGBY WORLD CUP SEVENS 2013 running June 28-30 in Moscow, Russia. Broadcast details to be confirmed shortly. Adidas Paul Kariya Jersey . Ashley Youngs cross was inadvertently headed by Chester into his own net in the 66th minute, allowing United to claim a third straight league win. 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Ortiz and Rodriguez were the last active links on each team to the last border war, in 2004, the last time the Red Sox and Yankees met in the postseason.In between has been clubhouse beer and fried chicken, the boom-and-bust of last place or championship on one side, yearlong drug suspensions and yearlong goodbyes on the other, and with the Blue Jays, Rays and the Orioles in the playoffs reviving themselves in between. Baseballs 50-year assault on the Yankee brand, the inability to get younger and a heavy caboose of big contracts have finally taken a toll in the Bronx.There was a time when we were the sun and all the planets revolved around us, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman told me. 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Even a one-time dream matchup between Theo Epsteins past and present isnt as good for the sport as a sustained return of Sox-Yankees. The San Francisco Giants, after being a version of the Red Sox in terms of success, heartbreaks and living in the shadow of a bigger, more successful rival in the Dodgers, won three World Series in six years but with one gigantic hole -- the Dodgers and Giants still have never met in the postseason.If baseball cannot generate a LeBron James/Reggie Jackson/Ken Griffey-style box-office hit, then it is up to the historical rivalries to give the sport games worth circling on the calendar. The Yankees folded in September, but the sudden star Gary Sanchez didnt. During a four-game sweep by the Red Sox at Fenway, Sanchez hit .368 (7-for-19) with two home runs. In the opener against the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday, Sanchez took David Price deep. The Yankees, old for so long, finally looked fresh. The day after Rodriguez was released, Tyler Austin and Aaron Judge hit consecutive home runs in their first at-bats as Yankees, then hit .197 and .179, respectively. Austin, on the bench much of this month, also took Price deep Tuesday.After dropping the enormous ballast that was Alex Rodriguez in mid-August, and now with no players on the roster who made their big league debut in the 1990s, the Yankees -- on the strength of their young players and the recognition that, yes, finally, the team was ready to move on from the old days -- have begun embracing the future.The month of September was brutal for the Yankees. They started off 0-2, won seven in a row, and started thinking big, in reach not only of the arsenic-laced wild-card game that is baseballs nonsensical one-game postseason, but also of the division. But the consecutive stretch of playing Boston and the NL West-winning Dodgers three times finished them -- at least for 2016.Baseball might have succeeded in neutering its most valuable asset in order for that dreaded word parity to have some sort of meaning, but the game loses power when there are no villains, no mountains to overcome, no wars worth fighting. Unless September will be remembered as nothing more than an empty tease, 2017 will begin with the Red Sox and Yankees as the favorites in the division: youth versus youth, the games greatest street fight renewed with new names finally unsaddled by the old ones. ' ' '