Mystic River Rugby Club wins big at Pine Banks
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- Mystic River Rugby Club wins big at Pine Banks
- Popular rinda athlete dies after collapsing at a rugby party;…
- Rugby would scrap sevens World Cup for lympic status
- Gallen joins Australian racism hall of shame
- Australia look to ‘Super-size’ rugby
- Queensland full strength for rugby league State of rigin series
Mystic River Rugby Club wins big at Pine Banks
Boston Globe
The Mystic squad-an amateur team based in Malden that plays in a USA Rugby league-fell behind 13-0 early in the first half but had a 21-13 advantage at the break. The second half was all Mystic who cruised to a 47-20 victory. Dimitri Efthimiou lead the Mystic charge scoring four tries-similar to touchdowns-two of them on long runs late in the match. He said he had plenty of gas left as the clock wound down.
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Popular rinda athlete dies after collapsing at a rugby party;…
San Jose Mercury News
Gabrielli lives near Joseph’s family on Hillcrest Drive but it was not immediately clear whether the party was at Gabrielli’s house. Gabrielli could not be reached for comment. A friend said he believed it was a rugby team celebration. Gabrielli Advertisement yld_mgr. place_ad_here(”adPosBox”); and Joseph were teammates on the Lamorinda Rugby Club a regional team. Joseph’s family declined to comment Sunday referring questions to police. Coaches and teammates described Joseph as a natural leader.
Rugby would scrap sevens World Cup for lympic status
The Canadian Press
The Rugby World Cup Sevens in Dubai in March featured 98 games and had a television reach of 760 million viewers but the International Rugby Board which governs both 15-a-side rugby and the truncated version of the sport is prepared to sacrifice the event in favour of the lympics. “If we were to be re-included in the lympic Games our intention would be to stop the Rugby World Cup Sevens so there would be one pinnacle in the four-year cycle of rugby sevens” IRB chief executive Mike Miller said Tuesday. “That pinnacle would be the lympic Games. “Rugby which was dropped from the lympics after the 1924 Games is vying with golf baseball softball squash karate and roller sports for one of two spots at the 2016 Summer Games.
Gallen joins Australian racism hall of shame
Stuff.co.nz
Now the Kangaroos test forward faces losing the Cronulla captaincy after the National Rugby League (NRL) slapped him with a $A10000 ($NZ12600) fine under its racial vilification policy. Gallen reportedly intends to contest the fine and was understood to have told Paea he misheard the on-field outburst. Instead of calling him a “black c.
Australia look to ‘Super-size’ rugby
Scrum.com
Rather than contesting the semi-finals of the premier Southern hemisphere club competition disappointingly they will instead be turning snags at end of season barbeques. At least we had some weeks to get used to the idea as each of the franchises failed to find the consistency to churn out the necessary results. As it was the Waratahs still had an opportunity on the final day to sneak into the top four but it was their nemesis from the 2008 final the Crusaders who again spoiled the party and sealed fourth with a derby win over the Blues in Auckland. The Brumbies and Force both threatened more but ultimately discovered that Super 14 is more than a sprint race.
Queensland full strength for rugby league State of rigin series
The Canadian Press
New South Wales selectors hoping to avoid the worst losing record in the annual interstate rugby league series overhauled the Blues squad by including eight rigin rookies they’re hoping will unsettle the established Queenslanders. That will be difficult. Queensland coach Mal Meninga took charge of a squad Tuesday that includes the entire backline from Australia’s recent Test win over New Zealand for next week’s series opening match in Melbourne. Billy Slater was selected at fullback where he played for Australia relegating the Broncos’ Karmichael Hunt to the interchange bench. Lockyer will captain the side from five-eighth – he missed the last series with an injured knee – and partner Johnathan Thurston in the halves.
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