The newest alignment of rugby-playing colleges in Texas will begin with eight members, at the exclusion of a few notable names. The Southwest Conference Rugby Conference (SWCRC) became an official conference recently when USA Rugby accepted its bid to join the D1 hierarchy. Founding conference schools – Baylor, TCU, North Texas, University of Houston, Rice, [...]
St. Edward’s, Rice and Texas State won their respective divisions in the Texas college competition. But what if other teams wanted more games, as the champs ready themselves for playoffs? The Texas Rugby Union decided to get some of the non-playoff teams some extra games (which is really what we all want as rugby players, [...]
So, as we have heard many, many times from the regular media (and the blogs), there was some sort of weather event in Texas this past week. The whole state got ice and snow – even Far South Texas. DFW and North Texas got more snow and ice than Sarah Palin’s house. They got some [...]
Well, well. We come to the point in the week where this fair blog lists the games coming up in the land between the Sabine and the Rio Grande. Off the subject, you should really read “The Long Walk” by Slavomir Rawicz. It is now a movie starring Ed Harris and Colin Farrell called “The [...]
It is a rugby rugby weekend going on in the Big State this Friday and Saturday. In addition to a full slate of men’s games, the colleges get back into action and the high schools get really rolling. The Cap City Championship in Austin is a full-on rugby fiesta. WE NEED MORE REFS!!! Anyhoo, let’s [...]
After a week-long staff outing to Las Vegas, our highly-overpaid writers, artists analysts and photographers are back in the media wars. Run to the hills, Ma Barker. Texas Tech taking on UT in Austin is the biggest game on the college agenda. The mens’ D-III competition is fantastic, with a lot of contenders still. Nov. [...]
As usual, we will add scores as they come in. Dallas Diablos took first place in their Hellfest Tournament. College: Baylor 32 A&M II 15 Sam Houston I 23 Texas I 15 – UT coach Butch Neuenschwander said Sam Houston posed a physical challenge for the Longhorns, but his team got on the board first. [...]
Anyhoo, here is what we got. Women’s D-I playoffs going on at Burr Field in Austin. Day Of The Dead Tournament in San Antonio. Dallas Diablos Hellfest Texas State Women Round Robin Fort Worth @ Shreveport Texas A&M II @ Baylor Dallas Harelquins @ Austin Blacks Denton @ Frisco Griffins Woodlands @ DARC University of [...]
We’ll update as scores come in. College: University of Texas I 38 North Texas I 7 University of Texas II 26 North Texas II 7 St. Edwards 60 University of Texas III 0 UH 47 UTSA 0 Texas State II 17 Texas Tech II 5 Sul Ross 27 St. Mary’s 0 – Ref wrote that [...]
A whole host of matches are scheduled around The Republic this weekend. Men’s D-III is rolling, as is college D-II. Oklahoma City travels to Arlington, Fort Worth heads up to Denton for the renewal of a great rivalry. Galveston is at Austin Huns II, while Frisco takes on the Dallas Diablos in a night game. [...]
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