Rugby

Rugby player, Coach, Father, Husband, Knight companion and an NZ mental illness ambassador. (Video) “And they Put a name to it” It was called depression. The Story of John Kirwan illustrates his experiences as an iconic Rugby player and coach going through Anxiety and depression. Faced with the critical eye of society and continual expectations we look at the social construct surrounding feminization of a strong male figure pushing the boundaries of stereotypical gender roles of leadership.…

Matt Todd, a rugby player from New Zealand, suffered a hand fracture in an August 27 game. His team, Canterbury, was playing against another New Zealand team, Otago. While Todd finished the game, a visit to a specialist the day after the game confirmed that he had fractured his left hand. Todd is expected to be unable to play for at least a month. His injury came at an especially disappointing time since New Zealand is currently participating in the Rugby Championship, an annual rugby…

The sport we in the United States know as football is more so called gridiron football, for the vertical yard lines that mark the field. Closely related to some English sports, rugby and soccer gridiron football originated at collages in North America, primarily the United States, in the late 19th century. On November 6 1869, the players from Princeton and Rutgers held the first intercollegiate football contest in New Brunswick, New Jersey, playing a soccer style game with rules adapted from the…

Waikato Rugby Union speaks up about the match fixing game allegation (this is my feature story) After the Ranfurly Shield game that occurred on October 3, 2015, there is allegation that one of the team players in WRU organization, Stephen Donald was involved in a match fixing game. The Waikato Rugby Union had a press conference on October 7, 2015 to answer the match-fixing allegation that they received from the media during the Ranfurly Sheild game. In the press conference General Manager,…

Currently sitting in the National Rugby League's fifth position, the North Queensland Cowboys are a professional rugby team hailing from Australia. Even though the team is doing so well, many fans are not sure what the team is truly capable of and don't know what to make of them. Because of this uncertainty, we've decided to fill you in with some background information about them including who their star players are, some of their team history, what the outlook is for this team, and why they are…

needed to complete the test. Validity. This test will suit the candidate, because candidate is active and healthy person, and it is one of the best choices of flexibility test. Also this test suit the candidate, because he is rugby player and flexibility is really important in rugby to make tackles and diving to the ground, when got a ball. Testing validity refers to the degree of what the test actually measures what it claims that measure and extent to which inferences, conclusions…

of very few documentaries about disability release as major motion picture”. Murderball is documentary about the sport of wheelchair rugby between the Canadian and United states men’s team. Peter (2012) describes “wheelchair rugby is the most thrilling and brutal sport in the Paralympics”. In able- body society wheelchair represent as weakness but wheelchair rugby break up stereotype of non- able body society (Lindemann, 2008 p,1). It obviously represents masculinity with non- able body.…

Have you ever wondered how the sport football began? In 1869 the sport rugby was popular in colleges around the world. People would play the sport rugby and they played it a lot. But in the sport of rugby the people would get hurt because they played with no pads on the players. In 1880, a rugby player from Yale University, named Walter Camp changed the rules of rugby and transformed it into American football. Walter camp is known as “the father of football”, he was apart of the group called…

The time has come for the International Olympic Committee to decide who will host the 2028 Summer Olympics. There are many options for a host city, but the best option is Sydney, Australia. In Sydney, there are many things for tourists to do in their free time, there is infrastructure already built for the different events from gymnastics to swimming, because Sydney has hosted the Olympics once already, and it is an overall safe city. Australia has been the host for two previous Summer Olympic…

United States and Canada, it is often called gridiron or American football in different parts of the world. It evolved from rugby football, and the first game was played in 1869 between Princeton and Rutgers. A lot of people in america play football if it's not professional they play it professional and for fun it is a American Football grew out of English sports such as rugby and soccer and became popular on American college campuses in the late 1800s.American football (referred to as football…