Rugby

A Rugby game in French Catalonia — Bon cop de falç! A good blow of the sickle. The national anthem of Catalonia echoes around the stadium, playing the tricks sound plays in places like this, open to the sky but ringed in on all sides. The lips don’t match the music, bad dubbing on an old foreign film. And this is…

And then she was gone — She was a rugby mom like the rest of us. She stood on the sidelines watching her son the same way the rest of us watched our sons — hands over our eyes, fingers parted just enough to be able to see. Rugby is so tough — as evidenced by…

And how to know when YOU’RE ready for your kid to play rugby — As I’ve mentioned previously, rugby is not for the faint of heart. It’s for the fast, strong, tough types who enjoy tackling and being tackled — in nothing more than a tee-shirt and shorts. You may have one of these types in your house. A rough and tumble son or…

I have an issue regarding the Women’s Six Nations, but before we get into that, here’s an intro. Founded as the Home Nations Championship in the 1990s, the tournament has grown to include an ever-improving France, and Italy, who (I’d say, “controversially”) replaced Spain in 2007 — the organisers wanted…

Take a number — I’ve reached the point in my life where whenever I get together with my girlfriends the conversation ultimately turns to aging parents and poop. Not aging parents and their poop. No one wants to talk about that. But our poop. How often we go. The crazy places we’ve gone. …