Mike Blair, Scotland's back-up scrum-half, has been ruled out of Saturday's Test against Australia after failing a fitness test on an injured ankle. The Edinburgh number nine suffered the injury in last Saturday's 23-10 win over Fiji after coming on to replace co-captain Chris Cusiter. Blair will be replaced on the bench by Gloucester's Rory Lawson.
GETHIN Jenkins was the only ex-Pontypridd player in the starting line-up as Wales kicked off against Samoa – but later in the game he was joined by two more Sardis Road graduates.
Jonny Wilkinson has warned England will have to toughen up if they are to stand any chance of overturning the odds and beating New Zealand at Twickenham on Saturday.
• Wales wing alarmed by lack of attacking rugby • 2008 world player of the year sees O'Driscoll as successor Shane Williams has expressed concern at the amount of kicking in rugby union and the world player of the year for 2008 has pleaded with teams to "throw the ball around more". The 32-year-old Wales wing has scored only two tries for his country this year and is contemplating...
• Racecourse Ground to share fixtures with Newport • RFL wants club to retain strong presence in south Wales The Crusaders, Super League's struggling Welsh club, appear increasingly likely to be forced to scuttle north to Wrexham at regular intervals next season because of the lack of financial backing from south Wales. Leighton Samuel, the Bridgend businessman who has funded the club since...
From my Surly Editor® Mike James , a vintage clip I'd all but forgotten. I don't know HOW: it's brilliant, timeless and more than a little Pythonesque. You don't see many station promos this whimsical anymore, but it's really no sillier than your average spot featuring some middle-aged weatherman all puffed up and voguing atop his very own Doppler tower. Now for something completely different...
MinOnline Steve Smith says the digital version of December's GQ isn't exactly the "App of the Year," "but Conde Nast's launch of the GQ 'Man of the Year' issue in an iPhone version brims with intriguing ideas about how to handle deeper magazine content on mobile platforms large and small."
Leicester head coach Richard Cockerill has been summoned to a Rugby Football Union disciplinary hearing after being charged with two offences of match official abuse.
I have gotten a plethora of cool press releases have been flooding my inbox recently that you may find interesting. This post will include blurbs on Chuck , Christmas in Rockefeller Center , WWII in HD , The Lost JFK Tapes: The Assassination , When Crocs Ate Dinosaurs , Caprica , and Delta Blues . - I was never a fan of the idea of Chuck returning before the Olympics and it looks like NBC will be fumbling...
A goodly haul today: Irene Gammel (ed.), Making Avonlea: L. M. Montgomery and Popular Culture (U of Toronto Press 2002) Irene Gammel (ed.), The Intimate Life of L. M. Montgomery (U of Toronto Press 2005) - probably not as racy as you think it is Siân James, A Small Country (Collins, 1979). and finally Star Trek (the new film). Man cannot live on Anne of Green Gables and Stephen Greenblatt alone....
flyhalf Jonny Wilkinson The Saturday recovered the England team to face Australia at Twickenham in test match. Le XV de la Rose is decimated by injuries. Wilkinson, 30, coach of inexperienced players, since it will play between ... Wilko guide More ... (more. ..)
“Notes from Norway Abercrombie&Fitch : on an opportunity to surmount kind instead of the care and renew the will Some kind to the gale of achieving special quests against character,” says Geoffrey Kent, Founder, Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Abercrombie & Kent. Nevertheless sometimes it’s the little-by-close challenges and triumphs experienced On the Trail of the Polar Bear (March 21-30, 2009)....
Morgan Palmer receives French rugby international Serge Betsen Betsen after the World Cup rugby, held in France. Teaser of the show. Production Contact: unafroaparis@yahoo.fr Serge ... trailer ...