The News Review:
- Border Rugby boss Pringle re-elected
- Minister says gay rugby team discriminates
- Rugby: Rugby loses support as fan fatigue hits clubs
- Rugby: Milestone for Sivivatu
Border Rugby boss Pringle re-elected
Dispatch nline – Feb 21, 2008
getElementById(“imgGalleryNav”). Pringle who coasted to a comfortable 19 votes to four win over Geoff Nomubutuma was voted in following a protracted five and a half hour annual meeting at the Absa Stadium yesterday. Immediately after the announcement was made at a packed Wedd Hall Pringle said he and his executive would do whatever was needed to further the interests of Border Rugby. “I’m surprised at how big the winning margin was but feel people voted in the interest of rugby and not through emotion. “We now have continuity and can start building on all the hard work put in over the past two years’’ Pringle said.
Minister says gay rugby team discriminates
Taipei Times – Feb 21, 2008
The Ulster Titans Rugby Football Club founded last year specifically welcomes gay rugby players. Sports Minister Edwin Poots an evangelical Protestant in the Northern Ireland government accused the team of being bigoted against heterosexuals. “I just cannot fathom why people see the necessity to develop an apartheid in sport” Poots told the Northern Ireland Assembly in Belfast. “It would be unacceptable to produce an all-black rugby team or an all-white team or an all-Chinese team.
Rugby: Rugby loses support as fan fatigue hits clubs
New Zealand Herald – Feb 21, 2008
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Rugby: Milestone for Sivivatu
New Zealand Herald – Feb 21, 2008
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