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Ireland's Brian O'Driscoll tackles France's Tony Marsh in the 2003 Rugby World Cup
A Cultural Preview of the 2007 Rugby World CupSticky Wickets[29 August 2007] by Robert CollinsRugby 101: the proverbial game for ruffians played by gentlemen (as opposed to soccer, a game for gentlemen played by ruffians).
Sticky Wickets
The Life and Death of the English Football SongRobert Collins23.Sep.08 Collapsed Lung's "Eat My Goal" is but one indication that the cute, fun, just 'getting behind the team' football song of days gone by had now become big business. 
Olympic Addiction? Guilty as ChargedRobert Collins13.Aug.08 Collins appeals to the Pope for forgiveness of his Olympics addiction -- human rights issues be damned. 
Lucha Libre LondonRobert Collins31.Jul.08 Twenty and 30-something Londoners, all eager to dive headfirst off the turnbuckle into another culture, weren’t going to be disappointed.
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Negritude 2.0: Retelling the Story of Black Music: When Black Pop Blew Up the First Time
By Mark Reynolds [1.Oct.08] Deconstruction Zone: Reinventing the Southern California Novel: Marisa Silver’s The God of War
By Rodger Jacobs [30.Sep.08] Negritude 2.0: Retelling the Story of Black Music: Bert Williams, Godfather of the Black Stage & Studio
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Just to correct one point, apparently the All Blacks are not called so due to the colour of their uniform, but rather because of a typographical error by a local scribe during the 1905 tour of the UK, who was trying to describe the NZ team as playing like “all backs”. No doubt the colour of the uniform helped make the name stick though.
Comment by Justin August from Japan — August 29, 2007 @ 5:14 am