The News Review:
- JP Morgan Scores Investment-Banking (Rugby) Win in London
- Rugby makes inroads in Ethiopia
- First collegiate rugby game to be aired
- n The Rugby Club…
- ‘Voice of rugby’ knighthood call
- Women’s rugby team advances to Pacific-area playoffs
- Area Rugby League Growing Action Packed
JP Morgan Scores Investment-Banking (Rugby) Win in London
Wall Street Journal Blogs
Morgan Diamonds team captained by J. Morgan Asset Management’s Dave Allen and coached by England rugby scrum half Danny Care put on a dazzling display to defeat their archrivals from the other half of the “House of Morgan” Morgan Stanley after scoring in overtime. The event which was organized in association with Harlequins rugby club and law firm Norton Rose and took place throughout yesterday afternoon at the Honourable Artillery Company in East London included teams from Citigroup Credit Suisse Group ING Groep UBS HSBC Holdings and Nomura Holdings as well as Norton Rose Ernst & Young KPMG and Thomson Reuters. Each team was coached by a member of Harlequins.
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Rugby makes inroads in Ethiopia
Ethiopian Review
?They are fighting each other. ?Watchful Welshman David Thomas takes care to approach Ethiopians who stumble across the spectacle to tell them that it is not a fight. The men are playing rugby. Still viewed with suspicion by many locals ? and once moved on by the police for causing a disturbance ? the Addis Nyalas Rugby Club have now attracted Beyene and other Ethiopians into their ranks. The ultimate ambition for Ethiopians ? famous for their athletics prowess ? is international seven-a-side competition. ?Seven-a-side rugby is a form of rugby which is a lot more accessible to smaller nations and nations which lack the necessary mass of rugby players to play 15-a-side rugby? said Thomas a 25-year-old microfinance consultant and president of the club. The team are using membership fees from foreigners and money raised from an exhibition tournament to water and seed the dilapidated Jan Meda ? a public amenity ? and pay for health insurance for their Ethiopian players in a country that is still desperately poor.
First collegiate rugby game to be aired
BYU Newsnet
BYU crushed UVU 40-3. With two more huge victories in the bag the BYU rugby team looks ahead to its second meeting with the Utes on Friday and to its Saturday game against Utah State where they will become the first collegiate rugby program in America to broadcast a live match nationally. The Cougars easily handled UVU and Boise State defeating them 106-12 and 86-5 respectively. With an open substitution policy BYU was able to let over 30 of its players get in the game. ?We did okay this weekend? assistant coach Kimball Kjar said. ?It gave a lot of our reserve players a chance to come out and get some more experience.
n The Rugby Club…
SkySports
But as usual there is little time to dwell and straight away attentions turn to this summer’s Lions tour of South Africa and the boys select their starting XV for the first Test on June 20. We’ve got the best of the action from last week’s Premiership games plus footage from the England-Scotland and Wales-Ireland Tests in the Women’s and Under-20s Six Nations championships. We also speak to Worcester ahead of Sunday’s live game with Bristol knowing they are 80 minutes from securing their Premiership status for another season. Saracens take part in Scott Quinnell’s Crossbar Challenge and London Irish scrum-half Paul Hodgson reveals that he spends time with three amateur rugby sides each week in addition to his professional club.
‘Voice of rugby’ knighthood call
BBC News
The internet campaign was launched on the social networking site Facebook at the beginning of the month. Scotland and Glasgow centre Graeme Morrison has supported the bid saying the 86-year-old Borderer’s commentaries were "synonymous with rugby". Mr McLaren from Hawick retired in 2002 and has already received an BE CBE and MBE for services to the sport. Rugby fans would like to see him become Sir Bill McLaren in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
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Women’s rugby team advances to Pacific-area playoffs
The rion
Chico State and the Brigham Young University Cougars who placed second will advance to the Pacific coast regional playoffs April third and fourth at Stanford said head coach Alex Triantafyllou. Friday’s game determined if the Wildcats would enter play-offs or end their season he said. “We needed to win this tournament to get the best seed at Sweet Sixteens” Triantafyllou said. “We started off with intensity and maintained it for two 80 minute games.
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Area Rugby League Growing Action Packed
Greater Tulsa Reporter Newspapers
CAMERN for wasso Rambler2009 has been a year to remember in klahoma high school rugby. The league’s official name Green Country High School Rugby has been outgrown with member teams in Norman Edmond and Mustang fielding very strong clubs and other potential clubs popping up in Bartlesville and even Canton kla. But the heart of the competition has remained in Tulsa. Broken Arrow Bixby Jenks and The Brethren (a combined team of players from many schools in the Tulsa area) have shown loads of rugby talent thus far in the season and Union is battling to remain a viable club. The highlight of the 2009 season thus far has been the Green Country Showdown Tournament that took place on February 28 and March 1.