The News Review:
- Rugby teams aim to keep teeth in battle for title
- Japanese university rugby club players hit by sex scandal
- Rugby murder accused in court
- Super 14 Rugby Super Rugby News Fixtures and Results
- Rugby World Cup 2011 The Unofficial Rugby World cup website
Rugby teams aim to keep teeth in battle for title
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – May 15, 2007
but it’s different. Maybe hockey minus the sticks has something to do with it too. What is definite is people huddle up in what looks like a celebratory group hug then a ball that is oval like a football but bigger is dropped in the middle and it no longer looks like a celebration. It then resembles more of a riot and sometimes players climb on each other’s shoulders like a chicken fight. If you’ve never seen rugby played live it is a pretty cool sight. There are a ton of gross and semi-amazing stories like a guy splitting his head open and because there was no trainer teammates taped his dome with duct tape and he played on.
Japanese university rugby club players hit by sex scandal
Taipei Times – Taipei Times – May 15, 2007
The three second-year students at a high-profile private university near the ancient city of Kyoto are accused of ambushing a 20-year-old woman on her way home in Kyoto’s southern suburbs on April 30 a police spokesman said. “They are suspected of trying to drag the woman into a vehicle by wrapping their arms around her neck and other means with an intent to molest her” he said. “The suspects fled the scene as the woman screamed for help. Yuki Toyoda 20 and his two 19-year-old teammates belong to the Doshisha University Rugby Football Club which was established in 1911 and is the country’s third oldest rugby team.
Rugby murder accused in court
Independent nline – May 15, 2007
Ben Zimri and Wayne Matthee appeared in court on Tuesday facing charges of murder following the death of Rawsonville rugby player Riaan Loots. Loots died after a fight broke out in a match between his team and Delicious in Ceres in June last year. Worcester senior prosecutor Charlene Mostert said the case had been postponed to allow the director of public prosecutions to give his decision about representations made to him by the defence.
Super 14 Rugby Super Rugby News Fixtures and Results
Super 14 – May 15, 2007
sportsdigitalcontent. Bulls coach Heyneke Meyer has dismissed the notion that playing in Durban will be a major disadvantage to his team or the fact that the Sharks beat them (17-3) at the same venue in Week ne of this year’s round robin stages will count in the home side’s favour. “For sure it will be a huge game” Meyer said of the fact that the Bulls will return to Durban. “We are really looking forward to it and we are very excited about it. “However we are just happy that the Final is in South Africa and we are proud to be South Africans – we are proud that a South African team will win it this year for the first time.
Rugby World Cup 2011 The Unofficial Rugby World cup website
Worldcupweb.com – May 15, 2007
sportsdigitalcontent. Freshwater suffered the injury in Perpignan’s 12-11 defeat to Stade Fran?s at the weekend and his projected injury recuperation time will see him desperately short of match practice ahead of the Rugby World Cup. Meanwhile England will decide on Tuesday whether Gloucester flanker Peter Buxton is fit to tour South Africa with three players in the frame to replace him if as expected he is ruled out of the tour. Buxton dislocated his right thumb in Gloucester’s Guinness Premiership final defeat to Leicester and had the digit “repositioned” on Monday. Initial indications after the match were that Buxton had no chance of making the flight but England already short on options are prepared to give the 28-year-old every chance to prove his fitness.