Australian rugby player Wycliff Palu got a yellow card in a match this week for a hard tackle on Ireland's Robert Kearney, and the hit -- and penalty -- have been a major source of contention among rugby fans.
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Yellow Card After Hard Tackle Causes Controversy in Rugby
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Australian rugby player Wycliff Palu got a yellow card in a match this week for a hard tackle on Ireland's Robert Kearney, and the hit -- and penalty -- have been a major source of contention among rugby fans.
International Rugby Board Vows to Eradicate Eye Gouging
A South African rugby player gouged the eyes of an opponent during a game on Saturday, setting off a raging controversy in the rugby world.
Rugby Coach Fines Himself $10,000 for Drunken Night Out
Here's what I know about rugby: it involves tight-fitting clothing, and a lot of guy-on-guy action. So, right, I'm no expert. But you really don't have to know the rules to appreciate this story.
According to the Herald Sun, Sydney Roosters coach Brad Fittler fined himself $10,000 and issued a public apology after the pressures of the job caused him to temporarily lose his mind.
Video: Rugby Players Brawl in Romania
Nine players have been suspended by the Romanian Rugby Federation after a brawl broke out in the opening minutes of a game between league rivals Dinamo Bucaresti and Farul Constata in Bucharest on Saturday.
Throwing a Fake Penis at People Is Apparently Acceptable in Australia
When you're famous, anything goes, and that includes hitting females with a fake penis while moseying around the business district in Melbourne.Australian Football Player Brendon Fevola, obviously wired with a different style of humor than me and my friends, was just walking around Fed Square in Melbourne, Australia on Monday wearing pink lingerie and a sex toy strapped around his waist. You know, for the fans.
Ah yes, in years to come, when robots take over the planet Earth and we are all subjected to slavery, the conversations will turn to the good old days when we could just roam the streets hitting girls with dildos. These acts will never die in our hearts.
Lucky for everyone still reading this story, there is actually a short video of the event someone captured on their cell phone. This is the first time I've ever been excited cell phones have the video feature. It is after the jump, and be warned, it is NSFW (or Thanksgiving dinner).
Four Minutes of Pornography Slips Into Kids' Rugby Game; Parents Surprisingly Not Thrilled
Pornography is very popular these days with the American working class (Woo! Stimulus checks!). But that does not make it FCC approved. And it certainly is not an acceptable mixer with children's rugby in New Zealand. But that's what parents and fans of the kid's sport were treated to while watching a live broadcast of "Grassroots Rugby" on the New Zealand television channel Prime.
A spokesman for Prime Television on Monday blamed a mixup in "distribution processes" for the error which inserted the hardcore segment in the regular program "Grassroots Rugby."
The segment was intended to air on an adult pay-per-view channel.
Did You See That?
Fans watch as a ball that popped loose out of New York Yankees' Johnny Damon's glove rests momentarily on the fence before dropping to the ground during the third inning against the Boston Red Sox in Major League Baseball action Friday, July 4, 2008 at Yankee Stadium in New York. Damon made a leaping attempt on a hit by Red Sox's Kevin Youkilis. Two runs scored on the play. Damon left the game after the play. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
Julie Jacobson, AP
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JULY 05: Jockey Craig Durden rolls after falling from Toulouse Lautrec the first time around in the Cleanevent Grand National Steeplechase during the Cleanevent Grand National Steeple Day meeting at Flemington Racecourse on July 5, 2008 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Mark Dadswell/Getty Images)
Mark Dadswell, Getty Images
Chaunte Howard clears the bar during the women's high jump final at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials in Eugene, Ore., Friday, July 4, 2008. Howard finished in first place to earn a place on the U.S. Olympic team. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Charlie Riedel, AP
Seattle Mariners center fielder Jeremy Reed dives to catch a fly ball from Detroit Tigers' Gary Sheffield in the second inning of a baseball game Thursday, July 3, 2008, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
Elaine Thompson, AP
In this photo provided by Six Flags St. Louis, Robbie Knievel jumps 25 Dodge cars at Six Flags St. Louis, traveling at approximately 85 mph off of a 25-foot ramp and flying some 25-feet into the air on Thursday, July 3, 2008, in St. Louis, Mo. Robbie dedicated the jump to his Dad, Evel Knievel. (AP Photo/Six Flags St. Louis, James Visser)
James Visser, Six Flags St. Louis / AP
San Diego Padres' Michael Barrett, center, is helped by an unidentified trainer, left, and manager Bud Black after Barrett was hit in the bridge of the nose by a foul tip in the third inning of a Major League Baseball game against the Colorado Rockies in Denver on Wednesday, July 2, 2008. (David Zalubowski, AP)
David Zalubowski, AP
Serena Williams of the US., reacts after winning her Women's Singles semifinal match against China's Zheng Jie on the Centre Court at Wimbledon, Thursday, July 3 , 2008. (Kirsty Wigglesworth, AP)
Kirsty Wigglesworth, AP
BHP Billiton China President Clinton Dines holds a Beijing Olympic Games gold medal before an official handing over ceremony in Beijing July 3, 2008. The Beijing organisers took possession of the 3,000 medals for next month's Olympics in a ceremony near Tiananmen Square on Thursday, 36 days before the start of the Games. (David Gray, Reuters)
David Gray, Reuters
OMAHA, NE - JULY 02: Brendan Hansen competes in the preliminary heats of the 200 meter breaststroke during the U.S. Swimming Olympic Trials on July 2, 2008 at the Qwest Center in Omaha, Nebraska. (Donald Miralle, Getty Images)
Donald Miralle, Getty Images
This handout provided by the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. shows the baseball Barry Bonds launched for his record 756th home run, now branded with an asterisk, at the Hall of Fame, Wednesday, July 2, 2008. (National Baseball Hall of Fame/AP)
National Baseball Hall of Fame/AP
Yeah, so, um, whoops? On the bright side of things, at least it puts the whole Janet Jackson - Nipplegate thing in perspective. Because, apparently, this was not just a little side boob getting flashed, it was the full hardcore pornography.
Video: Austrian Rugby Team Gets Naked
Normally when a team gets blown out 48-0 in a game of rugby, their first inclination would be to go to the nearest watering hole and down a few beers to drown out the pain.
The Austrian rugby team, however, decided to do something a little different and shed their clothes. (It's safe for work, don't worry)
The Austrian Rugby team has responded to their 48-0 thrashing by Lithuania on Saturday by staging a mass striptease in the capital, Vilnius, on Saturday night.
"Yes, these were the men we played against on Saturday ... I guess the defeat could have prompted them to do that," Lithuanian rugby federation President Aleksandras Makarenka told Reuters.
Delfi quoted the Vilnius police chief as saying stripping in public could be considered an act of hooliganism -- but by then the Austrian team had gone home.
Well, after doing a public striptease, it's certainly hard to remember that your team got thrashed. Of course, I'm sure the men didn't expect somebody to have a video camera handy to capture the action. Whoops!
New Zealand Rugby Player Cory Jane Takes 'Clearing Kick Square in the Face'
In case you're wondering, yes, a rugby player taking a "clearing kick square in the face" really is as funny as it sounds:
That was Cory Jane of the Wellington Hurricanes on the receiving end of a kick from Kurtley Beale of the New South Wales Waratahs. Here's how one rugby reporter described it:
From Deadspin via Green and Gold Rugby.
That was Cory Jane of the Wellington Hurricanes on the receiving end of a kick from Kurtley Beale of the New South Wales Waratahs. Here's how one rugby reporter described it:
Moment of the match: We can go for any of the tries, but early in the game Hurricanes fullback Cory Jane was pole-axed by an attempted clearance from Waratahs flyhalf Kurtley Beale - and that without even making much of an attempt to charge it down. All he got for his 'effort' was a bloodied nose and some jeers from the crowd for what they call a 'falcon' in Australia - hitting the ball with your head without intending to do so!
From Deadspin via Green and Gold Rugby.
The Other Big Upset This Weekend
Covering rugby for AOL this afternoon is a bit of an American indulgence at this point. Anyone following the Six Nations Rugby tournament was already well aware of Saturday's outcomes before Chris Berman went rumbling and stumbling to 12 hours of Sunday Super Bowl coveage. However, for the rest of us swimming in the American media stream, Das FanHaus is going back back back back to the big match between Wales and England. Much had been said about the heavily favored English team, and the relative ease with which they would dispatch their Welsh brethren. Favored by as much as 25 points, roughly 4-5 American touchdowns, the match was considered an afterthought well into the proceedings. With England leading 19-6, the Welsh came storming back scoring 20 unanswered points in 15 minutes. While the English had the talent and dominated the statistics to that point, they were unable to stop the onslaught and overcome their relatively sloppy play. Wales, to their credit, played a fairly flawless game, conceding few errors to the favorites. The win was their first at England in 20 years.
The match was an auspicious start to this years Six Nations Championship, with France dominating Scotland and Ireland squeaking by Italy. Week 2 begins this Saturday as Wales moves one step closer to a British sweep with a home match against Scotland while Ireland heads to France. England will try to right itself Sunday at Italy.
(HT: BBC Sport)
New Zealand Rugby Bans Borat Bikini
Scouring the internet for some kind of explanation, for any of this, we kept coming up with the same story. We don't really understand a word of it, but maybe its because we're both American and not really rugby fans. Apparently, Kiwi rugby fans enjoy wearing the "Borat" style of bikini (at right) to rugby matches. So many people, in fact, that the authorities felt compelled to ban the clothing-style from rugby competitions in plea to the fans' "sense of decency," citing that rugby will be a "family event." There could be some kind of awful costume malfunction, and no one wants that, not one bit. Still, we're trying to figure out how people thought this was a good idea in the first place.(HT: The Sun)
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