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Unrealistic Expectations
The USA national team isn't winning, but maybe our expectations are too high. And maybe we shouldn't be putting resources where we are now. An opinion column by Ed Hagerty. (The future of the Eagles. Rikus Pretorius boots one out for the USA Selects against England Counties. The Selects did well, but still lost, showing once again it's always an uphill battle. Ed Hagerty photo.)
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Help the USRFF Campaign
Help the United States Rugby Football Foundation reach its campaign goal of $50,000 by the end of the year. (Brian Viard presenting rugby academy scholarships to Scott LaValla and Taylor Mokate.)
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USA Rugby Signs National Guard as Sponsor
USA Rugby and the Army National Guard announced today that they have signed an agreement that will make the Army National Guard an Official Sponsor of USA Rugby.
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US v Munster Game Photos
Photos from the US v Munster game. Photos by Blake Mannion, Rugby Magazine
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Nat. Club Championship Special Offer
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USA Rugby Teams Up With State Of The Art Sports Performance Center
USA Rugby has announced a partnership that makes Impact Sports Performance the National Team’s High Performance Training Center.
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Collegiate Sweet 16 - Live Bracket
It's time to fill out your bracket, the National Division I Collegiate Sweet Sixteen National Championship starts today!
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HK7s At Home Today
The Versus Network (formerly Outdoor Life) is showing a 30 minute highlight special from this years Hong Kong Sevens. The eagles had a good showing at 3-2 and will be included in today's broadcast.
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Providence Men, Boston Women Take Four Leaf 15s
Providence bested the host Village Lions 14-12 in the Club final of the Four Leaf 15s in New York City March 24, while Boston won the Women’s Club bracket after blanking Providence in their final.
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North American Four Tournaments
The dates and venues have been set for the spring contests of the four American and Canadian teams that will participate in 2007’s IRB NA 4 tournaments. The “spring training” will determine who from the squads is picked to represent the two nations in September’s World Cup.
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Nando Parrado The Ultimate Teammate
It is the eve of a Rugby World Cup qualifying match between the United States and Uruguay, and I’m enjoying a meal outdoors on a warm, South American spring day at a suburban Montevideo restaurant. At about this time of year, 34 years earlier, the man with whom I’m sharing food, drink and rugby stories left Montevideo with his rugby team, the Old Christians, bound for a match in Santiago, Chile – a journey that would result in one of the most horrific experiences in the annals of sports-related travel.
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PAC 10 or UCLA Tournament?
Ten college rugby teams met on the campus of UCLA this January to play a two-day tournament. Officially it was the UCLA Rugby Tournament, but by coincidence every team involved came from schools in the Pac-10 Conference.
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Interview With USAR CEO Nigel Melville
MELVILLE: People get carried away with the notion that professionalism just means money. It’s not entirely about money as far as I’m concerned. It’s looking at everything: the way teams prepare for games, the way individuals prepare, the way everyone - players, coaches and referees - go about their jobs. Professionalism means so much more than:
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Tuipulotu Back at San Mateo
January 12, 2007 – San Mateo will start two Eagles in their center threequarter unit this weekend, as Vaha Esikia makes his league return from Las Vegas, and Albert Tuipulotu has returned to his hometown from Overmach Parma.
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Canada to Card Women Players
Sport Canada announced that it will fund the Athlete Assistance Program for the national senior women’s rugby program in 2007.
Bolstered by the national team's 4th-place ranking at the 2006 World Cup, and the knowledge that there will be a Women's 7s World Cup in 2009 (and the fact that the Canada women's 7s will compete in San Diego in February).
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