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dedicate to providing the latest news in

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. 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

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, it began as an independent website under the domain "scrum.com". It was later sold to

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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

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bought the site in collaboration with

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. The rugby section on the Spanish-language website

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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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