The News Review:
- Banks Lower the Volume at Hong Kong’s Rugby Bash
- Rugby bidders get home ground treatment in NZ
- The weekend in Colorado rugby
- Cougar rugby team score season high in first televised match
Banks Lower the Volume at Hong Kong’s Rugby Bash
BusinessWeek
Any bank that has taken (or been forced to take) government money to help buoy its bottom line went to great lengths to demonstrate how modest its Sevens box was. They noted that the bankers who flew in for the event did so on their own dime that the live music or elaborate sound systems of previous years had been replaced by i-Pods and that they had not splurged on decadent decorations. Also there was a distinct lack of scantily clad women and no excess of branded give-away T-shirts hats rugby balls toys or beer mugs. In fact most banks had refrained from having a theme altogether settling for a few rugby-inspired pictures on the wall and the action on the pitch below as the main attractions. Morgan Stanley even went as far as reusing the decorations from last year after finding them still on the walls when they returned to set up their box last week. Tightening the belt even more Goldman Sachs and Bank of America-Merrill Lynch had no boxes at the executive level at all this year although Goldman did have a reserved seating area downstairs. Many of the hedge funds and private equity firms who had boxes—or at least stalls—last year had also not booked their own area this year and were probably pleased to attend one of the bank boxes—even if the hospitality was more restrained than in yesteryears.
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Rugby bidders get home ground treatment in NZ
SI.com
Ex-Fiji captain Waisale Serevi told members at the NC general assembly on Tuesday that the inclusion of Rugby Sevens in the 2016 lympics would increase the chances for small countries to win medals. “Small nations such as Fiji Samoa Tonga Kenya Argentina and New Zealand would be in with a chance” he said earning nods and smiles of approval from the members for the Pacific island nations. New Zealand is one of the game’s heartlands and will host the 2011 Rugby World Cup. It is also home to the famous New Zealand All Blacks the code’s No.
The weekend in Colorado rugby
Examiner.com
A fifty-five meter penalty kick gave the Santa Monica Rugby Club the win as time expired and dropped the Barbarians to 1-2 with four games remaining in the regular season. The loss puts Denver in fifth place in the.
cool math
Cougar rugby team score season high in first televised match
BYU Newsnet
BYU?s rugby team scored a season-high 111 points against Utah State crushing the Aggies 111-3 on a televised Senior Night Saturday at South Field. Game officials called off play with 10 minutes left in the game. BYU?s goals coming into the game were to avoid foolish penalties and to play at their own tempo. The Cougars struggled a bit in the first half to keep these giving up repeated penalties and turnovers but the Aggies were only able to capitalize on one of them scoring their only points off a penalty kick. ?It was a bit loose at times? BYU captain Steve St Pierre said.