Dan Steinberg of the Washington Post has written an excellent article on Rugby in America, as told through a profile of standout flanker Inaki Basauri.
An excerpt:
That professional rugby even became an option was itself something of a fluke. Basauri had been your typical baseball- and football-playing suburbanite until middle school, when an Italian friend invited him to a youth practice with the Maryland Exiles.
You can read the full article here: