Say what you want about the All-Star Break… it sucks to be a sports fan right now. So much so I have to get my stories from abroad.
This one comes from Spain, and if you ask me, this is taking equal rights and the women’s movement a bit too far:
Women in the northern Spanish […]

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Here’s to hoping the IRB has the balls to schedule referee Stuart Dickinson for at least one of France’s 2007 Rugby World Cup games.
After France’s 42-11 loss to New Zealand last Saturday, the referee knew that he blew a few of the calls - as referees often do - and had the maturity and professionalism […]

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Danny Grewcock unfortunately has the most humorous name in all of professional sports in my opinion. The 6′5″, 260 pound second row, who is also a black belt, is understandably one of the angriest men in rugby. I am sure I’m not the first to find humor in his family name, who I […]

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So here’s the deal. Spain has had their national anthem since the 18th century, and that entire time, more than 200 years, it has been sans lyrics. It is just a tune, but just a tune no more.
After complaints from Spanish athletes, who long to be reduced to an overdone cliche and be […]

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Want to root for Qatar?
Yea, at first neither did I, but that was before I found out that they are so desperate for fans at this year’s Asian Cup, that they are going to clothe and pay people to root, root, root for the away team.
Qatari delegates made enquiries about enlisting 10,000 local fans during […]

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This is called getting your ass handed to you. It’s also called a great showing by our own USA Eagles 7’s squad

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Since rugby is not exactly a sport that everyone is familiar with here in the US, and it is probably my favorite sport to watch and play, I decided to start regularly posting highlight clips that don’t involve eye gouging, fan punching, nut grabbing… unless of course they are really funny, and then they get […]

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This is just so sad, its comical. In Sweden, a conference between Muslim imams and Christian priests was supposed to conclude the talks and events with a soccer game and show the world that people of both faiths can get along.
Church of Norway spokesman Olav Fykse Tveit said the imams refused to play against […]

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Try being this guy, who just got suspended two years from rugby for testing positive for cocaine.

Paul Price of Lydney RFC, who pleaded guilty, tested positive following a National League Three South game against Cinderford at on 17 March 2007.
The suspension by an RFU disciplinary panel runs until 17 April 2009.
It includes playing, training with […]

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Not officially or anything, its just my best guess, that during a race there are two things cyclists fear most: random drug testing, and being trampled by a rogue horse..

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