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Parents rugby your kids right now!
Feel free to take this subject line a few ways! How about this spring for really turning your kids on to rugby with some new and different approaches? Here are a few suggestions that are guaranteed to make your kids appreciate more about rugby. Take the little ones to watch big kids practice. Find out where your local men's and women's clubs run their practices near you and take an evening with the kids to observe. You can try out some of the things they see as a small group. You can bring their other little friends and have...
New friends in American Football, perhaps?
Right now, football has a truly huge issue with concussions and other injuries. The time is right for rugby coaches, staff and players to reach out to football enthusiasts and coaches and offer to bring techniques and skills to football that will benefit them.
They need us.
Feed refugees not hookers!
NFL fall out...will it mean new ruggers?
There is a lot of speculation that the NFL will be evolving into a new creature in the next decade. In front of millions of fans, the NFL is forced to cover up, yet slo-mo replay, the growing number of injuries to all levels of player on Mondays, Thursdays, and all day and night on Sundays. The politics of today have come into full contact with the NFL and the owners are squirming in every way, we imagine. Meanwhile, we have rappers stepping up and talking really big about starting leagues outside of the NFL. Of course, that's been tried...
The main reasons rugby players love their sport so much
[guest blog post via Kerri Steen!] Rugby players are a different breed of humans. This is why they love theirsport so much.For me, finding the “different” breed of humans was and is part of why I love rugby. When youtalk to other ruggers, they express the same idea. It is different here in North America, whererugby has been gaining momentum for the past 20 years.There is a rugby revolution, so to speak with the ruggers leading the charge getting people tolearn about and play this game. This is great because of its reintroduction to the Olympic gamesin the Sevens...