Join us in beautiful Big Bear this October for the Riverside Rugby Rucktoberfest 2007!!! Admission is Free for spectators.
Some of the best Rugby in the US is played right here in Southern California. Come see what all the excitement is about!
This is a great chance to see the teams tune up for the […]
Archive for September, 2007
*These are the sole views of the author and does not represent the views of riverside rugby. I have intentionally eschewed a game commentary to address broader issues.
The match today, or the mismatch as it where compels most knowledge rugby aficionado’s to summarily dismiss Coach Peter Thorburn’s recent and overly sanguine assessment that United States […]
Eagles: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, Deja Vu all over again
Published by 8 months ago 0 CommentsToday the United States fielded a the same side that played against England only four days earlier, altered only by Emerick’s suspension, and it showed against a well rested Tongan side. The fresh Tongan forwards drew first blood a scant two minutes into the match when Maka rolled the listless USA pack for a try. […]
Dan Steinberg of the Washington Post has written an excellent article on Rugby in America, as told through a profile of standout flanker Inaki Basauri.
An excerpt:
That professional rugby even became an option was itself something of a fluke. Basauri had been your typical baseball- and football-playing suburbanite until middle school, when an Italian friend […]
It was simply the best showing against an English side in the modern era. Forget about those glad handed Churchill Cup matches with England A in Canada, the last time it really mattered against a full English side in 1999, England ravished the United Sates 106-8.
Yet, today the Eagles stood tall against England. Ultimately […]
The grizzled old boys descended upon Killarney’s to watch the open match of the 2007 Rugby World Cup, and we treated to a gutsy performance by Argentina. It took a while to get started because the opening ceremony was far too long and typically French. Once this excruciatingly poor and foul parody of Cirque de […]
It has been announced that Killarney’s in Riverside is carrying the Rugby World Cup package from Setanta. The first match will be France v. Argentina Friday morning at 11:00 AM. There will also be matches this Saturday including England v. USA. Former Riverside Rugby player from the 2003 National Championship team Andrew “Tui” Osbourne has […]