A Community Discovers Rugby

This is one of the fun articles where a town is starting a new rugby team and the newspaper gets to explain what this crazy new sport is to the townspeople. This time, Bartlesville, Oklahoma will be unveiling the new Bruins High School Boys’ Rugby Club.
Came up in my google search because it briefly mentions [...]

Almost 2006 …

I found this picture on CNN this morning. The fireworks celebration on the Sydney Harbour Bridge in Australia. You can see the Opera House with its origamiesque white sails in the corner. I love to see photos of this bridge and the Sydney Harbor, so it was fitting that this photo helps me bring in [...]

USRFF Update

Just a quick note on the fundraising efforts of the US Rugby Football Foundation. According to Executive Director Briar Vizard, there are 10 days left of the 2005 campaign and they are still $15,000 short of the overall goal of $25,000.
However, the rugby community’s recent effort to raise funds has brought in money and [...]

Bombers to Start Women’s Team in St. Louis

The St. Louis Bombers, a men’s Super League club (new in league for 2006) with Division I, II and Old Boy’s Sides, is adding a women’s side in the coming year. I found this bit of news at Tackle Girls’.
According to the Bomber President Dan Ward:
“It seemed like a natural time for us to [...]

Cold, Wet & Unpleasant Rugby

A preview piece from Goff on the Eagle Women’s upcoming United Kingdom tour. The Americans will play Scotland, Ireland and England’s A Side. Subscription required, so full piece below.
Harsh Scotland Awaits Eagle WomenBy Alex GoffDecember 29, 2005 – The New Year will begin with the USA women’s team touring the United Kingdom and facing Scotland, [...]

Up & Runnin’ On The New Laptop

It’s taken a few days, but I finally found some time tonight to sit down and play with my new laptop. It’s got a great widescreen, is fast and only took me a few seconds to hop on the Web with our home’s wireless. Can’t do much else since I need to load up all [...]

Rants & Raves on a Thursday Morning

Rave: To Alex Goff for remembering that women’s rugby was played, and played well, in the United States in 2005 during his monthly lookbacks. It may not have been the headlines, but thanks for including it. I still think all your articles should be free, but I understand that you need to pay the bills [...]

More on USA Rugby Dropping the Ball …

Alex Goff must have just sat down to read his December issue of Rugby Magazine yesterday … some of the columns, especially it seems the Arnot interview, sparked a fire and he wrote up a second editorial piece, “Can You Sell American Rugby?”, in between the 2005 lookback articles.
Goff’s piece brings us back to some [...]

Unhappy Employees in the National Office?

In between his monthly recaps for 2005’s end-of-year lookbacks, Alex Goff at GoffonRugby discussed the possible morale issues allegedly happening in the USA Rugby offices out in Boulder, Colo. Subscription required, so here’s the full piece:
The Morale Question at USA RugbyBy Alex GoffDecember 28, 2005 – Is there a morale problem at USA Rugby? Hard [...]

Thank You and Goodbye Bill Pitcher

Here in Wisconsin, our city’s men’s team lost one of its strongest supporters recently. A nice article from one of our local papers, The Capital Times:
In the 1960s Pitcher managed the Cue, a pool room on Gilman Street downtown. He’d played some snooker in England, but what he really wanted, he said, was to open [...]