from Rugby Network: Through RFU.com, the match on March 17th at Esher RFC will be available at www.rfu.com/englandwomenlive ahead of the 2.00pm kick off. Users will be able to watch the match live and then in full for up to three days after the match, while highlights of England’s games against Scotland, Italy and Ireland will also be … Read more
The story of Iranian women’s rugby has been truly inspiring in recent years. Faramarz Beheshti’s remarkable film Salam Rugby has been shown around the world, and is still well worth catching if you get the chance. Against all the odds, faced with the sort of obstacles that we cannot imagine in the west, women’s rugby has … Read more
I’ve always been a big fan of Jonny Wilkinson and was sad to hear he had retired. I was thinking of doing a tribute post, but then realized that The Rugby Blog had already done it. Check it out here!
from IRB.com: A picture of Brad Thorn extending a hand of consolidation to Santiago Fernández after a thrilling Rugby World Cup 2011 quarter-final between New Zealand and Argentina has won the coveted IRB/Emirates Airline Rugby Photograph of the Year 2011 competition. The winning image, taken by Andrew Cornaga (Photosport) and entitled ‘Helping Hand’, was selected … Read more
USA 7s Women’s coach Ric Suggitt has named the 24 women who will represent the USA at the Women’s International Invitational 7s, Feb. 10-12 in Las Vegas. The USA will enter two sides: Eagles and Stars & Stripes. The USA contains four of the eight recently contracted 7s athletes who are in the process of … Read more
You read it here first! The ultimate “scoop” for YSC, coming exactly three weeks before the tournament… How can we be so sure? Well… we’ve seen the draw. In Pool B we find the current World #1 (Canada), South America’s #1 (Brazil), Europe’s #3 (Netherlands), and USA’s development squad. A pretty tough group by anyone’s … Read more
The HSBC Las Vegas 7s is set to be the largest rugby tournament in the world with almost 200 different team taking part during the Las Vegas Invitational and World Sevens Series. Tickets for the event have been selling superbly – and 2012 is guaranteed to be the biggest one yet. In conjunction with our … Read more
CHULA VISTA, Calif. – USA Rugby is proud to announce that seven women’s national team players have signed full-time training contracts with the union. The seven female athletes make history as the first-ever USA Women’s National team players to be contracted by USA Rugby. One player has yet to sign her contract, but as soon … Read more
In early December, Lisa Rosen approached YSC to see if we wanted to help do a women’s rugby podcast. We then brought in A Rugby Life as Hedley already does podcasts and rocks them! After several conference calls, emails and time…we’ve finally got it all arranged! Our first inaugural With You Podcast will be taking place next … Read more
Good news! USA Rugby is still offering specially discounted hotel & ticket rates for women’s supporters! This deal includes discounted hotel rates at the same hotel that the International Women are staying at, as well as discounted 3-day tickets to USA Sevens. While the discounted ticket price is incentive enough, the better news is that this is one … Read more