And put a pin in her map, you scurvy rugby lasses and lads …
(And no, I have no explanation for my use of pirate talk. Aarrrggghhhh!)
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Entries from April 2006
April 28, 2006
Help Blondie Be A Better Scrumhalf …
April 28, 2006
Thoughts on D-I and D-2 Teams
More thoughts from a reader on our discussion on the women shunning scrums article.
Ssee here, here and here for previous posts.
Emily in New Jersey e-mailed me this today about D-I and D-2 women’s teams (I added italics) …
Hi Blondie,In response to one of the comments on the page http://saturdayrugbyday.blogspot.com/2006/04/our-thoughts-on-women-shunning-scrums.html:
This I fully agree with:“Another issue [...]
April 28, 2006
HOGs Blog
The Denver Harlequin Olde Girls have a blog for their team, in shades of pink of course. I’ll throw it on the sidebar.
Thanks for the link HOGs and good luck this spring.
Tags: Women’s Rugby Women’s Sports Rugby Sports
April 28, 2006
Midwest D-I Women’s Schedule
Our team just got this from Meredith Horn, the Midwest D-I Women’s coordinator. Our schedule for our upcoming fall league season. Meredith had Kathy Flores and Candi Orsini help her draw the matchs randomly while watching the Philly/Chicago challenge match.
Had I known this, I would have tried to sway some of the selections with free [...]
April 28, 2006
Tsunami & Mountains in Montana
Last night when I was falling asleep, I had the television on and flipped to a show on the Discovery channel about the Tsunami in the Indian Ocean. It featured a collection of real video footage that people had shot that day and then interviews with survivors.
It was pretty hard to watch, but I [...]
April 28, 2006
Utility Player
I’ll be playing scrumhalf tomorrow, just found out last night. So to recap, in the past three months I have played: Lock, Flanker, Outside Center, Inside Center and Scrumhalf.
This does not include the random games in which I have played fullback, wing, flyhalf, no. 8 and prop (10s & 7s) throughout my almost 11 [...]
April 27, 2006
My Own Thoughts on Women Supposedly Shunning Scrums
What do you think of this article and why?
See my earlier post here.
Further thoughts on this, I understand why, when asked about our sport, people who are non-ruggers see only the contact, the injuries and the physicality of it.
We have to face facts, we don’t play a mainstream sport in the United States (think American [...]
April 27, 2006
Our Thoughts on Women Shunning Scrums
Big thanks to everyone who wrote in. I agree with a lot of you. Here’s what some of you had to say …
I’ll take on question #1: ” What do you think of this article? And why?”I’m thankful that you called out Mr. Shaw on writing the same old blood-n-guts rugby article that always gets [...]
April 27, 2006
It’s the simple moments you remember the most …
I opted not to blog yesterday when I got home.
I went and bought my friend a present of two new books to read on his flight this morning to Montana (our men’s team is going to Maggotfest in Missoula this weekend!), then chatted with my family a bit as my father helped my mother [...]
April 25, 2006
A Magical Place Full of Gum Drops, Flowers & Kittens … Racine!
This is your warning … Wednesday morning will be blog-free for Blondie.
I have practice tonight (where I will be *gasp* practicing at center! Oy!*), am hanging out with my friend afterwards, the insurance dude is looking at my truck (aka the Raspberry Beast) tomorrow morning** and then I am on the road again all day [...]
