Major League Rugby is a professional USA league that began in 2018 and has teams in the U.S. and in Canada. Current MLR teams include Austin Elite Rugby, Glendale Raptors, Houston SaberCats, New Orleans Gold, Rugby United New York, San Diego Legion, Seattle Seawolves, Toronto Arrows, and the Utah Warriors. In 2020, teams in Atlanta, New England, and Washington, D.C. will join the league and have exhibition matches in 2019.
Rugby United New York signed Scottish Premiership Prop Callum Mackintosh for the 2019 Major League Rugby season. Callum is from Galashiels and lives in Edinburgh, UK. He attended Galashiels Academy and later Edinburgh’s Telford College. He played youth rugby with Gala RFC and then representative rugby Under-16s and Under-18s with Border Reviers. He then played with Gala in the Scottish Premiership, playing in the British & Irish Cup two years with the club. In 2017 he joined Hawick RFC and also played in the British & Irish Cup. He was also selected for the South of Scotland representative team. Callum…