The Tuesday Update – The International Snapshot Edition

THIS WEEK'S TOP NEWS - Perennial fan favorite and former Highlanders TV legend (seriously, go visit YouTube and watch some Highlanders TV if you haven't already) Fumi Tanaka was part to the greatest rugby falcon since Elton Jantjies decided he hated his forward pack and this blog needed a masthead photo.  Here's a snapshot: For …

What’d We Learn This Weekend – The Abyss Edition

This past weekend may rate as the quietest on the rugby calendar, what with no Premiership, no European comps, and the November Internationals still a few days away. But hey, those Barbarian All Blacks were fun to watch, right? Indeed.  The Kiwi-laded version of the BaaBaas playing at Twickenham Saturday put on the most entertaining …

What’d We Learn This Weekend – The Champ is Here Edition

There's this little upstart rugby club operating out of London with some fair to middling results the last few years called Saracens.  Maybe you've heard of them. If not, well, you must have discovered rugby in the last few hours.  The two-time defending Champions Cup winners opened their most recent title defense against Northampton over …

What’d We Learn This Weekend – The Nothing Edition

Maybe I'm in the midst of the October doldrums, but I don't feel like we learned much last week.  So, let's look forward to next weekend and the European Champions Cup.  Here's a snapshot preview of some of what we'll see: Have Wasps been huffing bug spray? Make whatever excuse for them you like, nobody …

What’d We Learn This Weekend? – The US TV Crisis Highlights Week 1 in Europe

At a time where rugby has supposedly become the fastest-growing team sport in America, it is troubling indeed that we have fewer and fewer viewing options for international rugby in this country. Just a couple of short years ago, if you had a reasonably deep cable package, you had access to the following competitions on …