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March 31st, 2016 at 10:55 PM
Story Of A Season

Alamosa Bill:  "I don't suppose there's any other way we could work this out? Nah. Well, let's get to it. Ten steps?" Billy the Kid:  "Suits me. You count 'em." Billy the Kid:  "You ain't thought of another way, have...
March 25th, 2016 at 1:32 PM
Story Of A Season

Embed from Getty Images   The Lions and the Cheetahs have always had an interesting rivalry. In a way they’re like a big brother and a little brother; their relationship never really boiling over into the kind of white-hot...
March 18th, 2016 at 11:51 PM
Story Of A Season

The only thing that counts at the end of a game is the scoreboard. But the only thing a scoreboard can tell you is the score. If you want to learn more about the state of a team, as a coach does – where your players need to improve, whether your...
March 11th, 2016 at 11:02 AM
Story Of A Season

Novelists are told to write what they know. Sports writers must write what they see. It’s tempting to default to cheerleading after a win, or to be a bully after a loss, but in rugby there can be good defeats and bad victories and we must find the...
March 1st, 2016 at 9:59 PM
Story Of A Season

In the early 1940s rugby in fascist Japan was derided for being a foreign game. It was largely thanks to the patronage of the Japanese Royal family, in particular Prince Chichibu, that “fighting ball” survived and flourished after the war. On...
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