One year after he left college early to pursue a career as a professional sprinter, Carlin Isles began to experience doubts about the path he had chosen. He had nearly exhausted his savings. He had ...

Certainly not Carlin Isles, the man who could possibly make a less-small portion of America care about Rugby. It’s been barely two months since we (at this site at least) first heard about Carlin ...

The Canton Rugby Club and Olympian Carlin Isles have nine indoor rugby clinics coming to the Hall of Fame Village Center for Performance indoor sports dome. A free session for kids in grades K-12 is ...

The U.S. rugby roster is filled with players who grew up playing football. Nate Ebner won Super Bowl XLIX with the New England Patriots. Perry Baker played in the Arena Football League for two years.

CLEVELAND -- Rugby has not been an Olympic sport since the United States won back-to-back gold medals at the 1920 Antwerp and 1924 Paris Summer Games. And Akron’s own Carlin Isles, a former Olympic ...

The fastest man in rugby came home to where his Olympic journey began. He also brought a camera crew and more than a few cases of Red Bull. Team USA speedster Carlin Isles was back at Powerhouse Gym ...

Carlin Isles has come a long way. The former track and field phenom-turned-U.S. rugby star from Ohio never imagined competing at an Olympic Games. Isles bounced around foster homes before he was ...

It was June 2012—just two weeks before the sprint trials for the London Olympics—and Carlin Isles was determined to get faster. One night after grueling training, the sprinter, ranked nationally at ...

LOS ANGELES — Carlin Isles runs like someone is trying to take something away from him and lives the rest of his life that way too. Isles, who stands as the speediest man in the world of rugby after a ...

The “fastest man in rugby” is to remain in the sport after resisting overtures from a major National Football League (NFL) team to sign for British team Glasgow Warriors. Carlin Isles built his ...

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