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:
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.
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&
Live collegerugby 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!
The Seawolves Rugby Academy at Stony Brook University has donated mouthpieces to the MetNY Under 19 and High School teams (both boys and girls). After learning more about the dangers of playing without mouthpieces at the MetNY AGM by Dr. Lopez, the Seawolves Rugby Academy thought the donation would be a great opportunity to promote player safety within the MetNY.
