Want to know the best place to read up on the quest for professional rugby in the United States? BigSoccer, of course. The venerable message board picked up the discussion after The Guardian posted a couple of pieces on RugbyLaw, a startup…
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Pack mentality hurting rugby
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I have to admit I’ve always been frustrated with the flow of rugby. Not the offshoot of “rugby league” is any better — come on, folks, just put on pads and play gridiron football if you’re going to run things…
Monday Myriad, March 18: Judges, skating, thin ice, etc.
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Monday Myriad, Feb. 11: Ligety, Ligety
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Headlines of the weekend: – The USA’s Ted Ligety won his second gold medal at the Alpine skiing world championships, adding the supercombined to the super-G. Super. – Norway’s Emil Hegle Svendsen won the sprint and held on to win the pursuit by…
Monday Myriad: Feb. 4
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Yes, this will be more of an evening thing from now on. The week’s headlines: – Jose Aldo defended his UFC featherweight title as Frankie Edgar suffered yet another close decision loss. The rest of the UFC 156 card scrambled…
Rugby’s hierarchy still set in stone
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Over the last seven men’s soccer World Cups, 28 teams have reached the quarterfinals (27 if you count Croatia and Yugoslavia as one). Only one country, Germany, has reached that stage all seven times. Then it’s Brazil with six, Argentina…
Rugby terms: Or why most people who say “scrum” are wrong
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“Oh, and there’s a scrum along the boards,” a hockey commentator might say. Not likely. A scrum is organized. Players get in specific positions and try to get the ball back to their teammates behind them. In hockey, a faceoff…
2011 in myriad sports
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Any listing of the year in sports is going to be selective, and this one is no different. The idea here is to get every world championship in every Olympic sport. Some sports don’t have world championships in odd years,…