The News Review:
- Rugby Club vies for league title
- SP Rugby Wins Bele Chere Sevens Tourney
- Will Chambers’ second thoughts
- Pirates could win rugby title today
- Mat Giteau denies the Wallabies can’t win in South Africa next week
- Wales’ big rugby matches must be free for all says BBC
Rugby Club vies for league title
Steamboat Pilot
Steamboat and Breckenridge play at 2 p. Saturday at Whistler Field to decide the 2009 Mountain League Championship. In a season shortened by scheduling conflicts Steamboat will have a chance to win its second league title in three years ? something the team set as a goal before the start of the season.
SP Rugby Wins Bele Chere Sevens Tourney
Southern Pines Pilot
Rugby Wins Bele Chere Sevens TourneyA short-handed Southern Pines Rugby team outplayed and outlasted 14 other teams to win the 2009 Bele Chere Rugby Sevens Tournament held this past weekend in Asheville. Throughout the tournament the Southern Pines team overcame injuries and younger opponents to win the title. In fact the team needed sudden death play in its semifinal and final matches to emerge victorious. “This is so deserving for our team after so many near wins in the different tournaments we have played in” said Steve Anchor captain of the Southern Pines Rugby club. “We had guys playing with stitches who were exhausted and physically drained so to come away with the championship trophy is a reward for the hard work in not only this tournament but for all the years we have been together.
Will Chambers’ second thoughts
Melbourne Herald Sun
article-tools –> Jim Tucker August 01 2009 12:00am MELBURNE Storm’s Will Chambers is devastated after Wallabies star Berrick Barnes reneged on a promise to mentor him in his debut rugby season with the Queensland Reds next year. In a shock move Reds five-eighth Barnes defected to the New South Wales Waratahs this week. Centre Chambers 21 is the Reds’ prized recruit for 2010 yet the turmoil in Queensland rugby this week has so spooked him that his manager wants to revisit the contract. Jim Banaghan spoke by phone with Reds general manager Daniel Herbert late yesterday to go over "the most basic premise of the contract not being fulfilled". It would be over-dramatic to say Banaghan wants the contract voided but the vibe was that if Chambers struck a deal today on his future it would not be at the Reds.
Pirates could win rugby title today
New Vision
30pm RhinosvBuffaloes 5pm Table standings: Heathens50 points Pirates50 Kobs47 G4S Pirates who had never even come within sniffing distance of the Super 8 Rugby League title now find themselves left with just one hurdle to negotiate to secure their first domestic crown. Pirates will trot onto the Kyadondo pitch today for their make-or-break encounter with MTN Heathens buoyed by a momentous victory over reigning champions Uganda telecom Kobs last weekend. Pirates who are at par with Heathens at the summit of the table with 50 points each need a win to virtually guarantee the title since their last game of the season is against feeble outfit Toyota Buffaloes. Soita was full of confidence at Thursday evening’s training session.
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Mat Giteau denies the Wallabies can’t win in South Africa next week
Fox Sports
And barring the first did it all within the space of 60 days. Such is the escalating momentum of South African rugby many believe this year’s Tri-Nations trophy is just another prize to be added to the haul of a powerful skilful and physically dominant Springboks team. Wallabies star Matt Giteau however prefers a different adjective for the 2009 Boks: "Beatable. " The five-eighth on Friday delivered his gun-barrel straight opinion of Australia’s chances against the in-form Africans as the Wallabies departed for Cape Town. Though impressed with their form against the Lions and the Kiwis Giteau refused to buy into the theory the Springboks are a class above all else in world rugby. "If you look at the way they have been playing they are playing some great rugby.
Wales’ big rugby matches must be free for all says BBC
Walesnline
The Government is for the first time since 1998 reviewing the system that protects the screening of sporting events on free-to-air television. And according to submissions made by the BBC Trust the broadcaster’s governing body believes that Wales is such a rugby-loving nation that the matches should be able to be seen by as many people as possible. They have drawn up a new “A-list” of live sporting events that have “resonance in the nations” including the Scottish Cup Final Commonwealth Games and the FA Cup Final. The Government announced an independent review into the events on the free-to-air list last year with former Football Association chief executive David Davies appointed as the review’s chairman while former lympic hurdler Colin Jackson is serving on a panel. The review is looking into the principle of having a list its content and the criteria determining which events may be listed. In new submissions to the Government the Trust says that research shows that licence fee payers see major sporting events as creating “value for society as a whole”.