The Dynamo’s match on Wednesday against D.C. United was postponed, but the team continued their raod trip with a morning tour of the White House, met with President Bush and posed for a team picture in the Rose Garden.
“It was quite an experience,” defender Patrick Ianni said. “It’s always an honor to be able to [...]
The cruellest corner of rugby’s lexicon is dedicated to damnation by faint praise, and it can surely hold no more withering euphemism than the ‘journeyman’ tag that is routinely applied to decent but clearly limited players.
Just ask Matt Mustchin, the 31-year-old Edinburgh forward to whom the term has had a limpet-like attachment for most of [...]
Croatia face a perfect test away to in-form Hungary in their final Euro 2008 warm-up on Saturday, assistant manager Aljosa Asanovic said on Friday.
“The match is the final assessment of our abilities before the European championship and it will show how much progress we have made in training,” Asanovic told reporters in Croatia’s training base [...]
The New York Mets hope to close a disappointing road trip in winning fashion this afternoon when the play the rubber match of their three- game set with the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field.
After winning the first two games of the trip against the Yankees, the Mets lost the next five games of the trek, [...]
Australia will play Italy in a rugby union Test in the northern city of Padua to kick off the European leg of their international tour in November, the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) said Tuesday.
The Wallabies begin their trip with a Bledisloe Cup match against New Zealand in Hong Kong on November 1, before consecutive weekend [...]
He may be right about the desperation surrounding the Brumbies campaign that has them lying ninth with just three wins and four losses.
They need to get something going if they are to be playoffs contenders.
But there should be an equally desperate air about the Blues. Yes, they lie third, but they are in a poor [...]
As a youngster he would lie in bed and dream of playing the perfect innings at the spiritual home of cricket, the famous Lords ground in London, but through hard work, determination and a bit of luck, he joins a select club to actually get a chance to live the dream.
A colleague, and its difficult [...]
Lory Blanchard, a tough-as-nails forward in 16 tests for the Kiwis in the 1950s and the national coach from 1966 to 1972, received his award from NZRL chairman Ray Haffenden in Christchurch last night.
This is very close to my heart, Haffenden said.
Lory was my first coach at Linwood. New Zealand Rugby League only has 20 [...]
Australia will play Italy in a rugby union Test in the northern city of Padua to kick off the European leg of their international tour in November, the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) said Tuesday.
The Wallabies begin their trip with a Bledisloe Cup match against New Zealand in Hong Kong on November 1, before consecutive weekend [...]
Utility player Wairangi Koopu has replaced injured centre Jerome
Ropati for the Warriors’ third-round clash with Manly tomorrow
night.
Scans have confirmed 23-year-old Ropati has ankle ligament
damage which is expected to sideline him for three weeks.
Koopu was named as 18th man when the team was named on
Tuesday.
Former Melbourne centre Ryan Shortland, whose NRL debut was his
only match with [...]
