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On Saturday June 19, England Saxons beat Canada to reclaim the Churchill Cup before a large crowd at REd Bull Arena, just across the Hudson River from New York City. Television cameras broadcast all three finals matches via Universal Sports nationally and Sky TV in dozens of countries. In the 3/4th place match, France beat the USA, and in the 5/6th place match, Russia beat Uruguay.
Xavier High School also received the trophy for their recent National High School Championships. The rugby community turned out in unprecedented numbers, making the largest crowd for any rugby event in the New York area and probably the Northeast, let alone a paying ticketed audience. The afterparty, sponsored by Papillon Bistro, East 54th Street and Madison Ave, capped a phenomenal week for rugby in New York.
Here's a link to the Flickr event group, post your photos of this amazing day.
Here's a link to the Wall Street Journal article about USA Rugby scrumhalf Mike Petri -
Here's a link to the highlights on Youtube.
Here's our Facebook page, please post your reactions, comments and suggestions.
Thanks for everything the clubs, referees and supporters have done to make this event amazing. It was an transformative day for rugby in our area. Please join us on Randall's Island on Aug 28-29 for USA Rugby's National Al l Star 7's Tournament. |
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Last Updated on Monday, 21 June 2010 12:10 |
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Tomorrow's 7s tournament in Rockaway and the Churchill Cup finals in Red Bull Arena will cap an amazing week of events in New York.
Yesterday, Thursday June 17, IRB CEO Mike Miller announced at the 21 Club in New York that NBC/Universal Sports will broadcast the Rugby World Cup in 2011 and 2015. And PlayRugby USA hosted a very successful and well attended benefit for it's biggest ever Mayor's Cup, which recently featured 600 of the best rugby playing kids and 1,000 people from all over the city.
Today, USA Rugby selected New Yorker Mike Petri to be USA's starting scrumhalf in tomorrow's inerntational vs France at Red Bull Arena at 5:30 pm. Mike was just interviewed on WNBC- TV, see the great footage at:
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/station/as-seen-on/Mike_Petri_New_York.html?code=2.wn69zqwCN56XacIgZ3940A__.3600.1276884000-554330836%7Czj5rTaX8HxFcNsXynDpfF01AUkg.
Met NY president Toby Butterfield and Met NY Summer 7s Series Director and Village Lions RFC president Bret Costain with the Webb Ellis Cup at the Universal Sports/IRB press conference, New York, New York June 17, 2010.
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Apparently for the first time ever, a New York rugby event is being advertised on TV. Custom-produced 30 second ads now run on various Comcast channels thoughout New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania, and should appear on SNY, Fox Sports, Fox Soccer, Fox World and other channels. The ad couldn't yet capture the thrill of rugby in the new state of the art Red Bull Arena, as it only just opened and this will be the first rugby event there, but here it is: http://www.youtube.com/v/T_i5Xvida7A&hl=en_US&fs=1&
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_i5Xvida7A&feature=player_embedded
Please comment, and share with those who might be interested, especially alumni and those who lost touch with the game. |
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Live college rugby on NBC Sports!!! In anticipation of the 2016 Olympics, NBC Sports and USA Sevens bring you the inaugural Rugby Sevens Collegiate Championship Invitational LIVE on NBC Sports June 5-6 from Crew Stadium in Columbus OH! Sixteen elite college squads take the first step towards the Olympics in Brazil and all of America gets to see what we've been talking about for years! Visit www.usasevenscci.com for television listings and more information! |
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