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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...
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18 November 2009We’ve talked about anthems before here at Armchair Playmaker, but we have to admit it’s not a topic we expected...
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7 November 2009Almost a year ago, we commented on how New Zealand’s shock World Cup win over Australia is great for the...
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21 October 2009We’ve mentioned Karmichael Hunt’s much-publicized code switch from rugby league to Australian rules here before, and we had thought there...
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8 October 2009The Melbourne Storm may have beaten the Parramatta Eels in the National Rugby League Grand Final, but the Eels put...
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2 October 2009About a year ago, we mentioned that union might want to consider a league-style interchange law for substitutions after a...
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21 September 2009The 2008 film Forever Strong may have been rugby union’s most visible recent appearance in American media, but another film...
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16 September 2009In the wake of this week’s big music scandal over Kanye West interrupting Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music...
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10 September 2009For U.S. viewers, at least one good thing has come from the otherwise depressing saga of Setanta Sports’ ongoing financial...
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8 September 2009The Twitter online social networking tool is a hot buzzword right now, though not everyone may understand how it works...
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14 August 2009The recent departure of two high-profile Australian league-to-union converts from rugby union, Lote Tuqiri and Timana Tahu, has many deeming...
