Rugby
stoat | January 23, 2010In which I yet again abuse science blogs to discuss matters of little import to general readers. But it's my blog, so there.
The rowing was the Head to Head, which involves rowing the 2 km form the Railway bridge to the Motorway bridge, spinning, and then rowing back. You get a rest of ~20 mins while the division comes through, or maybe more, I wasn't timing it. Our time turns out to be a bit rubbish but we weren't that bad. The first leg, which is downstream, was OK; the second, against the stream and therefore slower, we stuffed up somewhat with poor technique and a few mini-crabs; the…
drorzel | September 17, 2009They're discussing stupid playing-through-injury stories on Mike&Mike this morning-- Golic talked about injuring his shoulder badly enough that he couldn't lift his arm above shoulder level, and using a wall to push his hand up higher than that, so the trainer would let him go back in for the second half. Having separated both shoulders playing rugby (at different times), I know just how that feels. One of my senior-year games against amherst, I had to have my fellow second row lift my arm up for me a few times in the try zone, to loosen it up enough to keep going. (We lost the game, but…
drorzel | April 10, 2008I'm feeling pretty harried this week, because I'm teaching using a new curriculum, which requires all-new lecture slides and notes and homework assignments. I'm also going away this weekend, to Williamstown for the celebration marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of my college rugby club.
As a result, I've been losing more mental processor cycles than usual to thinking about my own college days, and remembering the lyrics to the dozens and dozens of songs I used to know. So, because it's on my mind anyway, and because the mixing of college sports and alcohol would really cheese off…
drorzel | March 18, 2008J-Dog asks:
So, how come you don't blog more about Rugby?
Because it's not on tv regularly, and I can't blog about sporting events that I don't see.
This is a persistent source of irritation, though. For example, Wales just won the Six Nations, and the only mention of it I've seen on the "Worldwide Leader in Sports" was a quick clip in the Top Ten Plays on SportsCenter the other day. There hasn't been any continuing coverage of one of the biggest events in international rugby.
Meanwhile, though, we get half an hour every night of Gilette Fusion Presents the Miller Lite NFL Draft Report…
grrlscientist | October 30, 2007tags: talking parrot, African grey parrot, streaming video
This video is a follow-up of the story I linked to earlier from Birds in the News 102 where Gloucester UK residents, Taffy and Jean Howells' African grey parrot, Severiano Ballesteros, is a big rugby fan [1:19]
AN avid rugby lover's pet parrot has taken to speaking the lingo of the fans who stand in the legendary 'shed' week after week.
Taffy Howells' African grey parrot has picked up the legendary cry of "Glawster, Glawster" which reverberates up and down Gloucester Rugby's famous stand at Kingsholm.
And the parrot, named…
drorzel | October 16, 2007Via a mailing list, the Gingerbread Haka:
If you don't get the joke, there's a video of the original below the fold, with bonus shirtless ruggers:
There are dozens of other versions on YouTube, including one with French subtitles, if you really want to know what they're chanting. It's a pre-game tradition for the New Zealand All-Blacks, based on a Maori dance.
It's worth watching a couple of them, just for the "What the...?" looks on the faces of the opposing sides, who have to stand there and watch this.