Rugby

Wallabies Keep Barnes, Omit Cooper for Rugby Championship Opener
Businessweek
Australia rugby selectors retained Berrick Barnes at fly-half and omitted
Quade Cooper from their 22-man squad to face world champion New Zealand in
this week's southern hemisphere Rugby Championship opener in Sydney. Barnes
kept his starting spot at ...
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2012 Rugby Championship: All Blacks vs. Wallabies Preview
Bleacher Report
As the inaugural Rugby Championship begins this Saturday, current Rugby
World Cup Champions New Zealand (All Blacks) take on the 2011 Tri-Nations
winners Australia (Wallabies) in the first match. With both squads
currently recovering from the ...
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Rugby player drowned after getting cramp
Stuff.co.nz
A Porirua rugby sevens player drowned accidentally after cramping up in the
sea off Wellington's south coast, a coroner has ruled. Anare Nayacatoga,
26, who played for Porirua's Pacific Warriors sevens team and was the
cousin of New Zealand sevens ...
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Culpeper Youth Rugby combined team places third in Subway Commonwealth ...
Culpeper Star Exponent
The Culpeper Youth Rugby Football Club "Minutemen" capped their
inaugural season with a third-place finish by the under-13 boys tackle team
in the Virginia Youth Rugby Championships Tournament. Culpeper's U-9
touch-rugby team also took part in the ...
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NRL Council a bid by clubs to regain control of rugby league
Herald Sun
While the Godfather may have been playing himself down yesterday, the
ongoing power struggle that is rugby league was considerably amped up when
Club Land's heaviest hitters filed, one after another, through the sliding,
glass doors of St George ...
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Boks preparing for northern hemisphere opposition
SuperSport
The inclement weather due to hit Cape Town later on Tuesday is supposedly
going to clear up by the kick-off of the Castle Rugby Championship opener
at Newlands on Saturday, but that won't stop the Springboks approaching it
as if they will be facing ...
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New Zealand's World Cup winning coach Graham Henry on beating Aussies ...
Herald Sun
It is the biggest trophy we play for, apart from the Rugby World Cup
obviously. The boys view it that way. Because Australia held it for four or
five years in the late 90s and early 2000s, these guys grew up with that.
So you never experience any ...
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Rugby: Get Genia high on All Blacks' agenda
New Zealand Herald
Will Genia was a rare shining light for Australia in the recent Super Rugby
competition, and not surprisingly the All Blacks have made it a priority to
snuff out his threat in Sydney on Saturday. Reds' halfback Genia almost
single-handedly hauled his ...
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Williams one step closer to signing with Roosters
Sydney Morning Herald
The Bledisloe Cup match isn't the only reason Sonny Bill Williams will be
in Sydney over the coming days, with the All Blacks No.12 to continue
negotiations with the Roosters about his long-awaited return to rugby
league. It's been more than a year ...
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Rugby: The battle lines have been drawn for buoyant Bletchley
Milton Keynes Citizen
The men from Manor Fields are no strangers to the underdogs tag having more
than held their own at level six of English rugby for the last six years.
But with this summer's restructuring seeing the South West 1 East division
become even stronger ...
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