Fiji eyes medals if golf rugby get lympic nod
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- Fiji eyes medals if golf rugby get lympic nod
- Rugby star Austin Healey touches down in Sardinia’s Forte holiday …
- English rugby club Harlequins to find final price of fake injury scam
- Tragic watching rugby being kicked to death
- Tuqiri back on the rugby field
- Greenwich store gets a kick out of soccer rugby
Fiji eyes medals if golf rugby get lympic nod
USA Today
Fiji a world power and gold medal prospect in seven-a-side rugby said Saturday it would call on Singh to lead its golf team in 2016 if the International lympic Committee approves its inclusion at a meeting in Copenhagen in ctober. Singh who was born in the Fijian town of Lautoka will be 53 in 2016. He won the 2000 Masters and the U. PGA Championship in 1998 and 2004.
Rugby star Austin Healey touches down in Sardinia’s Forte holiday …
Daily Mail
In rugby terms it’s like anticipating that your imminent fixture against the All Blacks will be a breeze. The Healeys have learnt this the hard way – and we now travel more in hope than expectation of enjoying the things most people take for granted on a seaside break. With four girls including twins Bibi-Dee and Betsy who are 14 months old massages on the beach drinks by the pool sunbathing and chilled-out meals are but distant memories for us. The thing that usually greets families with small children when they go away is bedlam: there’s the fighting to assert control worrying about kids falling into pools constant cleaning up plenty of complaining – and of course the feeling that everyone else wishes you and your screaming brood were staying somewhere else.
English rugby club Harlequins to find final price of fake injury scam
The Canadian Press
Quins’ use of fake blood to give a player the appearance of a mouth injury that allowed the club to introduce a potentially match-winning substitute into a game it was losing is one of the most outrageous episodes to hit the sport for years. Rugby is traditionally described as “a thugs’ game played by gentlemen” for the way its participants respect the rules of the bruising physical sport and like cricket prides itself on the absence of the petulant cynical behaviour associated with football. But the 143-year-old London club is in turmoil after its respected director of rugby former England international Dean Richards resigned over the incident in April. And Quins have been fined an unprecedented 215000 pounds (C$389000) over the ruse which failed to save the Heineken Cup quarter-final against Leinster.
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Tragic watching rugby being kicked to death
The Times
That the Boks can resort to this brand of 10-man rugby (okay let’s make it 12 by including the wings who do nothing but chase up-and- unders all afternoon) means that all the tinkering with the laws the ELVs and other variations designed to speed up the game and make it more attacking and attractive for spectators has meant nothing on the field of play. This is the exact opposite of what Peter de Villiers promised at the start of his tenure as coach. This was brought home when John Smit’s captaincy stats were flashed onto the screen before one of the recent games. Stats for ex-England captain Will Carling whose numbers were next to Smit’s showed that England had an incredible 74% win record under Carling’s captaincy. But if memory serves me this was an era in which England played boring rugby — the juggernaut pack would steamroller forward and Rob Andrew would slot the inevitable penalties.
Tuqiri back on the rugby field
Sydney Morning Herald
We use an id here to be able to jump to this section. –> Tuqiri back on the rugby field. –> Patrick Caruana August 15 2009 Troubled former Wallaby Lote Tuqiri has made his return to competitive rugby playing on the wing for West Harbour against Warringah in the NSW Shute Shield club competition. The former Test and NSW Waratahs winger had his $1 million a year contract torn up by the Australian Rugby Union on July 1 but the circumstances leading to his sacking have not been made public. He has since taken action in the NSW Supreme Court. Tuqiri found plenty of the ball in the first half on Saturday and also managed to save a certain try with a well-timed tackle. But he struggled to get near the pill in the second as the Pirates went down 23-16.
Greenwich store gets a kick out of soccer rugby
Connecticut Post
International Soccer & Rugby operated by the Avalos family will open its third store today at 42 W. in a space formerly occupied by The Right Start which closed this year. The opening should make the business more accessible to shoppers from as far away as metropolitan New York and Long Island said co-owner Gus Avalos a Fairfield resident who operates the business with his wife Fran daughters Michelle and Jessica and son Gus.
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