I wrote last week about the upcoming 50th anniversary of the New Mexico State University rugby team. The event was last Thursday, Friday and Saturday and I have to say it was a spectacular success. It was put together by a bunch of rugby players (men and women) who I suspect most people would haveContinue reading “Planting the seed…”
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The scrum of the earth, celebrating 50…
This weekend is the 50th anniversary celebration for the New Mexico State University Chiles rugby team, which I am proud to say I coached for many years in the 1980s and 1990s. My proudest achievement with the team was when we made it to the Final Four in collegiate rugby competition (college rugby is aContinue reading “The scrum of the earth, celebrating 50…”
Then and now…
We’ve been watching a lot of the World Cup soccer tournament in the last couple of weeks. We were encouraged by the USA’s first two victories, then bummed when they lost literally in the last second on Thursday against a team everyone thought we’d run over. And not only that, we discovered that we’d beenContinue reading “Then and now…”
Art imitates life, then imitates art…
As my readers have probably figured out by now, the topics I write about involve all things New Mexico — historical, hysterical, personal and just plain weird. But for this post, I’m detouring about 45 miles south to focus on a topic that’s going on in our neighboring big brother city of El Paso. InContinue reading “Art imitates life, then imitates art…”
Giving someone a chance…
Several years ago, when I was the volunteer rugby coach at New Mexico State University, I was approached by a young man after practice who said he was interested in playing rugby. He explained that he was still in high school, but would be coming to NMSU in the fall and asked if I couldContinue reading “Giving someone a chance…”
They aren’t doing the Haka in Hatch
As a rugby player and coach for many years, I learned about the New Zealand tradition of performing the Maori warrior Haka dance before matches. The dance, which involves the players standing in a semi-circle facing their opponent, is performed prior to the start of the game as a way of intimidating the other team.Continue reading “They aren’t doing the Haka in Hatch”
Beyond Kiss-Cam…
I never cease to amazed at how fans at various sporting events clamor to grab t-shirts, mini footballs, baseballs and other trinkets tossed into the stands during breaks in the action. I’ve long suspected that if a cute cheerleader with a bucket of dead rotting fish started throwing them into the stands, fans would fallContinue reading “Beyond Kiss-Cam…”
