Rugby Here & There

Still swollen like a chipmunk, but lots of rugby goodness has come across my Google reader, inbox and across the web. Keep sending your links, thoughts, ideas, etc to yourscrumhalfconnection@gmail.com!

• South East Asian Games: Women’s Rugby

  4 Women’s Teams and 6 Men’s Teams competed in the 24th Annual SEA Games.

  Gold Medal – Thailand
  Silver – Singapore
  Bronze – LAO Laos PDR

  South East Asian Games Singapore

  Singapore vs Laos; Singapore vs Thailand Recap.

  Cambodia Rugby at SEA Games

  I love finding out about rugby all over the world! Who knew that Cambodia had rugby? The site has some great shots of the SEA Games Cambodia vs Laos.

• Follow-up: the collegiate round of 16 / quarterfinals

  There’s been a lot of interest in the collegiate round of 16 and quarterfinals in Albuquerque. Check out this site where some more questions were answered about having Collegiate Round of 16 in Alb in 2008. Make sure to read the comments as there is plenty of good points in there.

• World Cup Sevens to be Hosted by Dubai

  The 2009 World Cup Sevens will take place in Dubai from 5-7 March, the International Rugby Board has announced.

  The event will have a women’s competition for the first time and the final 16 teams will have to qualify from 83 sides in regional tournaments. (The North American regional will be hosted by The Bahamas – Ed).

  On the men’s side, England and Scotland are two of nine automatic qualifiers as they reached the 2005 quarter-finals. Fifteen others countries will come from a qualification process starting in January 2008. Three qualifiers will come from Africa, two from North America, one from South America, two from Asia, five from Europe and two from Oceania.

• USRFF Annual Campaign – Give the Gift of Rugby While Supporting the USRFF

  Season’s Greetings!

  Here at the US Rugby Football Foundation, we feel extremely blessed this holiday season, as your gifts to us have been exceedingly generous: with less than three weeks left until our December 31st deadline, we’ve received donations of $41,000 to our 2007 Annual Appeal. With your continued support, we’ll soon reach and surpass our goal of $50,000.

  If you’re like me, you still have lots of holiday shopping to do. Why not give yourself or a loved one the gift of Rugby? With assistance from our friends at MediaZone.com we’re giving away one year MediaZone Rugby subscriptions ($100 value) to our most generous donors.

  * Donate $500 or more: Receive a 12-month subscription to MediaZone Rugby. 275+ matches direct to your computer, all year long. If you’d like the subscription to go to a friend or family member, simply indicate so in the Comments section of the donation form.

  Tis’ the season. Please give generously and support us in our mission.

  And remember, gifts of all sizes are important to us and those in the rugby community we serve. So, please do whatever you can to support the USRFF as we get ready to kick off a banner 2008.

  Happy Holidays,
  Brian Vizard
  Executive Director
  USRFF