I ran a search for mentions of rugby in blogs and found Robert Sarvis’ blog. He’s named Eagle Lee Knight as the BRPE … Best Rugby Player Ever.
Robert, here’s sending some readers your way with three cheers for supporting women’s rugby. The limerick is awesome.
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Entries from January 2006
January 31, 2006
Blogging in Support of your Favorite Rugby Player
January 31, 2006
Cardinal Women Hold Off Gauchos for Rugby Invite Win
The top-ranked Stanford Women’s Rugby team hosted and won its eight-team invitational this past weekend after holding off UC-Santa Barbara in the championship final. Here’s my earlier post on the invite.
Here’s the recap with scores via Stanford:
Stanford Invitational RecapEight teams gathered together on Steuber Rugby Field at Stanford University this past weekend to compete in [...]
January 31, 2006
Rugby Bits and Bites …
Some stories that have popped up in the past few days from around the rugby world:
• Ruggers Freeze for A Reason“It feels like you’re getting punched in the chest because it’s so cold.”
George Washington University’s men’s and women’s rugby teams did the Polar Plunge to help raise money for the Special Olympics. Some of my [...]
January 31, 2006
Women’s Six Nations Games Start This Week
We’ll get to see an idea of our competition for the upcoming Women’s Rugby World Cup as England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, France and Spain battle it out in the Six Nations.
The Women’s Six Nations is running at the same time as the men’s, not that we care …
Here’s more on the games [...]
January 31, 2006
"The USA are a very physical, well drilled and extremely fit team who tackled our players into the ground."
That’s what England A head coach Amanda Bennett had to say after the Eagles defeated the English team, 21-8, on Sunday. Here’s the full quote from Rugby World Cup Women’s 2006:
England A head coach Amanda Bennett told rfu.com that she was pleased despite defeat. “The USA are a very physical, well drilled and extremely fit [...]
January 30, 2006
Milestones …
I had to stop by work tonight and pick up some papers for an all-day meeting on Monday, so I thought I would check in on my little window to the rugby world.
And yes, the meeting will keep me away from a computer all day, so please except my advance apologies. I will try to [...]
January 29, 2006
Three Games, Three Wins for Eagles
It’s a trifecta of victories for our Women’s National Team. The Eagles beat the England A team 21-8.
1-29-2006 – Women Eagles Go 3-0 With 21-8 Win Over England Content provided by Julia Hutton and www.rfu.comLONDON –Despite freezing conditions, the USA Rugby Women’s National Team was hot and made it an unblemished sweep of United [...]
January 28, 2006
Eagle Starters vs. England and a bit of Preview
USA’s starters versus England via WomenEagles.com … it was kind of buried and I’ve been busy so I hadn’t really noticed it.
US Announces Roster for England A Match1.26.06 – Coach Kathy Flores release the final selections for Sunday’s match against England A.Position, Player1 – Danielle Miller2 – Mari Wallace3 – Jamie Burke4 – Chris [...]
January 28, 2006
Wales Rugby Names Squad for Six Nations
Don’t much about the Welsh women’s rugby team, but they have announced their team to play England on Feb. 4 at the Six Nations competition.
And to be honest, the only thing thing I do know about Wales is that Welsh people are rather hard to understand … but fun to social with.
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January 28, 2006
60% of the U.S. population aged 20 and older is obese
Got plenty of sleep last night. It’s always counter-intuitive when you find yourself in bed at 10 on a Friday night … oh well. I was happy. So I’m at Sparky’s apartment, couldn’t sleep anymore and got up to blog.
The first article I see was “How We Get Fat” from Forbes Magazine. But it was [...]
