ESPNscrum was an online news site based in
United Kingdom
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dedicate to providing the latest news in
Rugby union
Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the Comparison of rugby league and rugby union, two codes of ru ...
. It provided live minute-by-minute updates on major international and club games and kept an in-depth statistics on every international rugby player and nation.
Founded in 1997 by
EMAP
Ascential plc, formerly EMAP, is a British business-to-business media business specialising in exhibitions & festivals and information services. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
History
Ri ...
, it began as an independent website under the domain "scrum.com". It was later sold to
Sportal in 1999 but after its collapse in 2001, the site was set for closure but was saved by a consortium of rugby lovers who bought the site for £100,000 from Sportal and ran the site under the name "Scrum Ltd" and paying for the sites maintenance from their own pocket for the next 6 years
In August 2007, American sports media company
ESPN
ESPN (originally an initialism for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by ESPN Inc., owned jointly by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%). The ...
bought the site in collaboration with
Walt Disney Internet Group.
The rugby section on the Spanish-language website
ESPN Deportes.com was branded ESPN Scrum in May 2009.
ESPN, deportes en alta definición
- 18 November 2009
By April 2015, ESPN's Rugby section was run by ESPNscrum, but ESPNscrum was no longer its own website.
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British sport websites
Rugby union mass media
Scrum
Internet properties established in 1997
Rugby football websites
Defunct British websites
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