The News Review:
- A Little Rugby With Your Cross-Dressing?
- USC Women fall in USA Rugby South Regional Championship
- Greenville advance to South Carolina High School Rugby championship
- Smit does what we all want to do: flatten one of those Super 14 …
- Play for Hudson Rugby Club
A Little Rugby With Your Cross-Dressing?
New York Times
But the weather did nothing to dampen the spirits — beer Pimm’s Cup and Jack-and-Coke mostly — at the Hong Kong Sevens rugby tournament. The Sevens has long been an annual coping mechanism for the BlackBerried and Burberried expatriate set the well-heeled bankers brokers lawyers and property developers across the Asia-Pacific region. The event has been inked into marketing plans and promotional budgets for decades now: Rent a luxury box fly in a few dozen favored clients and indulge in a weekend of off-the-hook drinking and off-the-record debauchery. Tickets to the three-day event — the fraction that were available to the general public — sold out in two hours this year as usual but the global economic crisis was apparent in the corporate hospitality suites at Hong Kong Stadium. “Maybe they need to be quieter and more sensible in their approach this year” Beth Coalter director of the International Rugby Board’s Sevens World Series said Thursday speaking about corporate bashes.
USC Women fall in USA Rugby South Regional Championship
Examiner.com
USC were defeated heavily by the University of Central Florida by a score of 64-0. The University of South Carolina women’s rugby team traveled to the final four in Tuscaloosa Al. with only 14 players. Add to this an early head injury to one of USC’s forwards and a tough job turned into the impossible. "They battled their hearts out but we just couldn’t do it" said USC Women’s Coach Daniel "Fuzzy" Cain. UCF have had a very successful season putting up 50-plus points four times in five games and only conceding 6 points along the way.
Greenville advance to South Carolina High School Rugby championship
Examiner.com
Greenville shut out Brookland-Cayce 13-0 to move on to a match with undefeated Gilbert Sunday. The match was marked more by the sloppy weather (rain rain and more rain) than anything else sets up the final four for the Commissioner’s Cup. Tomorrow morning the reigning Commissioner’s Cup champions Spring Valley will take on Chapin for their place in the final. Games will take place at Gilbert Middle School set to begin at 10:30 a.
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Smit does what we all want to do: flatten one of those Super 14 …
The Age
Whenreferees start complaining that players are affecting “my ball”then the code is in serious trouble. The overly complicated law book doesn’t help contributing tothe referees’ obsession in ensuring that players stay on their feetat the breakdown – something that has turned rugby into the mostinfuriating of stop-start affairs. Also the ridiculous situation where it is often an advantagenot to have the ball leaves one bewildered as to why rugby wants tobe so different to other ball sports – where the aim of the game ispossession. Something somewhere has been lost in the mix andrugby is certainly losing out. Elsewhere in the Super 14 half-term report there are positivemarks. The entertainment value is picking up especially with teamssuch as the Sharks and the Chiefs. The Reds have adopted the samethrow-it-to-the-heavens approach with less success – but at leastyou want to watch them.
Play for Hudson Rugby Club
Hudson Hub-Times
It is set to begin at 7 p. According to President Brian McCue all past present or interested members of the Rugby community at large and Hudson Rugby Club are invited to attend. The primary objective of the event is to update all of the rugby community on the activities happening in Hudson with the Hudson under-19 Rugby Club and a chance to get reunited with the game.