International Rugby News
Joan Ryan studied what makes a championship baseball team succeed so much that she wrote a book about it.
We know all about the stats and the metrics, but what about leadership, locker room cohesion, and a united sense of purpose? What about the intangibles and team chemistry. That's what Ryan talks about with Bruce Mclane and the insights are fascinating.
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The next thing in short-form video rugby content is coming together as a new venture, Rugbyfactory.tv, and is hitting the internet via all major social media platforms.
Rugby makes you do some weird things.
It makes you hang out with some odd people, and pack up and do some unexpected things; and there’s a series of films that spells all of that out in classic weird-rugby-guy detail.
USA Rugby has presented the various community groups with a breakdown of dues and insurance costs for when everyone gets back to playing rugby.
The breakdown hasn’t been received with balloons and confetti by everyone, but hasn’t outraged the masses, either. The upshot is this:
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games organizing committee and the International Olympic Committee have announced the revised competition schedule for the Tokyo Olympic Games, including the rugby competition.
The Games, of course, were postponed a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic with the Opening Ceremony now set for 23 July 2021.