Posts Tagged ‘rugby’

Extreme sports: Are you tough enough?

Skateboarding on water? Football without pads? Does this describe your after-school activity? For the average person, homework comes to mind, but for an increasing number of Belmont students, there are more adventurous options. Extreme clubs are making a significant appearance on campus. Look around...

October 28th, 2009 | Sports | Read More

Centennial gives ruggers send-off

Belmont’s rugby club is without a practice field as of Oct. 4 when Metro police told the club’s president it could no longer practice at Centennial Park. “He told me [it’s] because, one, it’s an organized sport and, two, that we ruin the landscaping of Centennial,” said Bethany Nelson, the...

October 28th, 2009 | Sports | Read More

‘The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle’

If there were a way to anthropomorphize a sport – to give it human qualities and imagine what it might act like – rugby would certainly be a crotchety old British man obsessed with talking about how hard things were “back in his day.” He’d have a slew of wildly exaggerated anecdotes to prove...