The News Review:
- Scrummy! New novels put the romance into rugby
- Australian Rugby Union shares Wallaby pay cuts
- Stevens case damages rugby’s reputation says England boss Johnson
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- Inner-City Youth Heading to England to Play Rugby
- Scottish club form heartens Hadden ahead of Six Nations
Scrummy! New novels put the romance into rugby
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The romance imprint has teamed up with rugby’s British governing body for a series of novels in which gorgeous women fall for athletic alpha males adept at making passes. There’s even sex at Twickenham the home of English rugby. Story continues below ?advertisement |.
Australian Rugby Union shares Wallaby pay cuts
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5m loss in 2007 returned to the black last year. But the cost-cutting measures are regarded as fiscally responsible in uncertain economic times. The ARU has already undertaken a series of cost-cutting measures including the scrapping of the Australia A program and Australian Rugby Shield. * NSW captain and openside flanker Phil Waugh has been ruled out of the trial against Fiji in Newcastle tonight after spraining an ankle at training. Prop Al Baxter will captain the Waratahs while Beau Robinson has been promoted from the bench to start at No7. Queensland coach Phil Mooney is looking for young five-eighth Quade Cooper to show more maturity as the playmaker after his successful tour of Europe with the Wallabies. Cooper will control the Reds’ play in a trial against the Blues in Auckland tonight but he has been warned to be more judicious in taking options.
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Stevens case damages rugby’s reputation says England boss Johnson
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The Bath prop forward is facing a two-year ban after testing positive for a recreational drug thought to be cocaine. South Africa-born Stevens 26 confessed to failing a test last week and was promptly suspended by Bath as well as being excluded from England’s squad for the Six Nations – where Johnson’s men open their campaign against Italy at Twickenham on February 7. Johnson speaking at the 2009 tournament launch here Wednesday made no attempt to hide his disappointment with Stevens’s conduct and said the player faced an uncertain future. “Matt has the hearing – and because of the length of ban he’s looking at he won’t be playing for England for a fair while” Johnson said.
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30pm Thurs Sky Sports 1 and HD1 9. 30am Fri Sky Sports 3 and HD32pm on Sky Sports 2 and HD2 The Rugby Club is back live this Thursday at 6pm on Sky Sports 2 and HD 2 when Simon Lazenby Stuart Barnes Dewi Morris and Will Greenwood will discuss all of the big stories in the game this week. We preview the meeting of the top two in the Guinness Premiership as Gloucester welcome London Irish to Kingsholm in our live game on Saturday afternoon. After being knocked out of the Heineken Cup last week Gloucester boss Dean Ryan admits in a revealing interview that things have to change at his club while leaders London Irish tell us of their preparations for the big game. We review the final round of European matches and look ahead to the quarter-finals and Stuart assesses the form of an Irishman who looks a good bet for a place on the plane to South Africa with the Lions this summer. We catch up with the England Saxons squad ahead of their first game of the season with Portugal on Friday there is First Division action too and Newcastle step up to Scott Quinnell’s Crossbar Challenge.
Inner-City Youth Heading to England to Play Rugby
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4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:. 0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10. 0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} By SYLVESTER RIVERS CNTRIBUTING WRITER Students at five middle schools and four high schools in inner-city Los Angeles are using the sport of Rugby to help expand their horizons. A dozen African American young men will voyage to England to battle against other high school rugby teams at Wellington College. ?They?re going to my high school in England? said David Hughes rugby coach at View Park Preparatory High School in Los Angeles. ?My (old) high school is a boarding school and they?re looking after the 12 boys for a week as a favor to me as an old student. ? Wellington College is a day and boarding school.
Scottish club form heartens Hadden ahead of Six Nations
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But last year they recorded their first win in Argentina while this year has seen both Glasgow and Edinburgh achieve European Cup wins in France – over Toulouse and Castres respectively. “It is really important that both Edinburgh and Glasgow won in France this season” Hadden speaking at Wednesday’s Six Nations launch explained. “There is no doubt that winning is the most important ingredient for the development of confidence and self-belief that you need for international rugby. ” Those wins were encouraging signs ahead of a Six Nations which sees Scotland away to England at Twickenham where they haven’t won since 1983. In the amateur era Scotland were to select players from a wealth of club sides but have now just two full-time teams. That means several members of their Six Nations squad earn their living abroad which in turn causes difficulties over player release. But Hadden has been buoyed by scrum-half Chris Cusiter’s decision to return home to join Glasgow from French club Perpignan at the end of the season.