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1 October 2010Although college rugby fans in the United States usually need to wait for the national knockout rounds to see much...
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7 July 2010The third and final match of the 2010 State of Origin series kicks off in a few hours now, and...
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22 June 2010Today, it’s been fourteen years since one of the wizards of rugby union arrived on the scene. Stephen Larkham...
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12 June 2010Last weekend’s Collegiate Championship Invitational seven-a-side tournament underscored the relative promise of college rugby as the code’s most visible presence...
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18 May 2010It’s been an exciting season of the Super 14 so far, and the semifinal rounds this weekend promise more now...
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14 May 2010We talk a lot about how people (particularly Americans) can find ways to watch rugby union on television or the...
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16 April 2010“March Madness” in the United States may have ended a few weeks back when Duke University donned the crown, but...
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8 March 2010The always electric Super 14 competition is underway, and though it has been a scoring feast so far it looks...
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3 March 2010Despite the demise of Setanta Sports in the United States this week, Americans can still watch rugby union via Fox...
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14 February 2010The powers behind the Super 14 competition have made it clear via the new law interpretations that will be used...
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5 February 2010The Six Nations tournament starts this weekend in Europe. The round-robin competition, which along with the Tri Nations is one...
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20 January 2010If you watched more than a few rugby union matches before 2002 with the sound turned on, you probably heard...
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19 January 2010Rugby union’s disciplinary bodies have been dealing with dangerous foul play harshly, as is evidenced by last week’s finalization of...
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11 January 2010Although the United States’ player conditioning might not always be compared favorably to the worlds’ best rugby union nations, a...
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5 January 2010Given that we’ve just recently seen the year 2009 off, a year-end “best of” clip seems appropriate. We’ve found...
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1 January 2010In recent memory, four national rugby union sides have regularly performed a traditional war dance before their matches. For...
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25 December 2009With Christmas upon us, Armchair Playmaker is resting easy just like many others around the world. That said, it...
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24 December 2009Armchair Playmaker’s focus is on celebrating both rugby codes, so we prefer to celebrate them both and not get drawn...
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20 December 2009Because we have a dual-code rugby focus, we’ve been talking a lot here about Karmichael Hunt’s wanderlust across the sporting...
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11 December 2009When the Barbarians beat New Zealand last week, it was significant not only because it blemished the All Blacks’ otherwise-unbeaten tour through...
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22 November 2009American readers will be pleased to note that the USA Eagles qualified for the 2011 Rugby World Cup this past...
