Rugby

Rugby's not so super travel ills
Independent Online
SA's elite rugby players taking part in the Super Rugby competition are two
to three times more likely to get ill when travelling across five or more
time zones to play games in Australia and New Zealand than when competing
at home. This is according to a ...
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North Shore Rugby celebrates 10 years
Wicked Local
As a part of the 10th anniversary celebration, the North Shore Rugby
Football Club successfully hosted the USA Rugby Coaching Development
Program at Salem State University over two days on the weekend of June 2,
when 32 coaches went through the ...
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London 2012 inspires future Rugby Olympians
Boxscore
International Rugby Board Chairman Bernard Lapasset is confident that the
success of the London 2012 Olympic Games will inspire Rugby Sevens players
hoping to participate in the world's largest sporting event in four years'
time. Rugby Sevens will make ...
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England Rugby Prop Matt Stevens Retires From International Play
Businessweek
"I have a young family and, conscious that I would not be able to commit
to the World Cup in three years, I have decided the time is right to call
it a day and focus on my rugby at Saracens," Stevens said in the RFU
statement. Stevens made his England debut ...
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Would a rugby region in the Valleys be sustainable?
WalesOnline
Well Valleys Rugby, which is being driven by an advisory board made up of a
number of leading business executives and Shadow Secretary of State for
Wales Owen Smith, are hoping that their revised business plan for a region
– principally based at Sardis ...
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Rugby: Question mark over SBW but Read good to go
New Zealand Herald
A question mark remains over the availability of Sonny Bill Williams but
Kieran Read is considered good to go for the All Blacks' first Rugby
Championship match against Australia next Saturday. Both are looming as key
figures for the All Blacks in their first ...
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Rugby: Why you should look forward to the Championship
New Zealand Herald
Hansen made it clear at the squad naming on Sunday that this isn't about
Hansen v Deans but in fact the All Blacks v Wallabies, and can we now talk
about the rugby please? (A sentiment, incidentally, that could easily have
come from the mouth of Deans).
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Lions host Cheetahs in campaign opener
SuperSport
For some teams it's an opportunity to get over disappointments suffered
during the Super Rugby season, for one it's a chance to show growth after
the Vodacom Cup, and then there is Western Province, who go into the Absa
Currie Cup season this weekend ...
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Top rugby competition on tap at Glendale's Infinity Park
Denver Post
If you scanned NBC's channels for Olympic rugby in London and couldn't find
it, it's because the event doesn't exist. Not yet, anyway. In 2016, at the
Rio de Janeiro Games in Brazil, Rugby sevens will compete for the first
time since 15-a-side rugby was in the ...
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Super Rugby Awards 2012
Bleacher Report
Another Super Rugby season has come to an end, with the Chiefs emerging as
victors in a rather one-sided final after a highly competitive season. It
was a season that produced some great rugby— nine teams were still in the
running for the top six heading ...
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