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• Efforts being made to house world cup tourists

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 458
  Rugby New Zealand and the government are working together on options to help visitors for the 2011 Rugby World Cup find accommodation. Twenty-three towns and cities will host 20 international teams during the competition. There are 16 centres in the North Island and seven in the South Island which will host at ...
  3 days ago

• Kiwis open their homes to tourists

  
  Keo.co.za — Authority: 144
  The New Zealand government will link foreign rugby fans with Kiwis willing to open their homes for the 2011 World Cup.As many as 35 000 casual visitors are expected for the tournament, with other fans using official packages. The latter group should be put up in hotels while the casual visitors may need to find [...]
  5 days ago

• G&GR Wallaby Tries of the Decade #5

  
  Green and Gold Rugby THE Aussie Rugby Blog for fans of Australia and the Wallabies — Authority: 135
  Try Time!!!! Coming up with a list of the top tries of the decade was a tough one. What makes one try stand out from another? Is it individual brilliance we are gauging it on, or is it whole of team involvement? Rehearsed tries from a set piece or instinctive brilliance? Does a try against the All Blacks or in a ...
  5 days ago

• Sports Books Bullying Literature Around the SA Book Sales Ring

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 483
  That sports titles like Captain in the Cauldron: The John Smit Story easily outstrip literary book sales in South Africa can be ascribed, on the one hand, to a culture of celebrity, and, on the other, to a lack of a culture of reading, say book personalities Stephen Johnson, Jenny Crwys-Williams and Jonathan Ball ...
  5 days ago

• Top 20 moments of the decade: Jonny Wilkinsons World Cup winning drop goal

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  Was Jonny Willkinsons drop goal to win the 2003 World Cup the outstanding sporting moment of the noughties?
  6 days ago

• Weekend Box Office: You Don’t Want to Hear About “The Morgans” or “Avatar” (& Probably Not “Invictus,” Either)

  
  Debbie Schlussel — Authority: 671
  By Debbie SchlusselThis weekend at the box office sounds like a bad sequel to a movie, Lame & Lamer.*  “Avatar”:  Read my complete review from yesterday.  This movie is yet another lame remake of the same storyline:  evil White American males destroy the planet, the environment, and indigenous peoples who ...
  1 week ago

• World Cup free rides may be hollow promise

  
  NewsWire.co.nz — Authority: 133
  RUGBY fans forking out big bucks for quarter final rugby tickets in 2011 may have one less cost to worry about. Wellington’s Westpac Stadium will host quarter final games on October 8 and 9 – and Greater Wellington Regional Council has promised free public transport for everyone that weekend. The promise to ...
  1 week ago

• Title defence begins on north island

  
  Keo.co.za — Authority: 144
  The Springboks will be based in Wellington and the north shore for the group stages of the 2011 World Cup.The New Zealand World Cup chief executive Mark Snedden announced the final venues for the tournament on Friday. John Smit’s charges will be in the Kiwi capital for 17 nights and on Auckland’s north shore for ...
  1 week ago

• rugby world cup and my city

  
  Kiwi travel writer — Authority: 122
  BREAKING NEWS: Christchurch will host Australia, England and Argentina during the Rugby World Cup in 2011. England will train at QEII during their 19-day stay, Australia at Rugby Park during their 16-day stay in the city and Argentina at Christ’s College during their  23-day stay. This morning’s ...
  1 week ago

• There’s light at end of tunnel for the 2009 Wallabies

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 458
  A first defeat to lowly Scotland in 27 years, four more losses to New Zealand – making it a sorry seven straight – last place in the Tri Nations, three wins from their past 11 Tests and no Australian franchise in the Super 14 finals. Yet the Wallabies remain among the favourites to host the 2011 Rugby World Cup. ...
  1 week ago

• Invictus: this Movie Shows why South Africa still Matters

  
  Victor Dlamini — Authority: 106
  There was a time when South Africans thought the world had forgotten about them, lost interest in their story of transformation from pariah state to one with a moral compass. This movie should lay their fears to rest; the presence of the likes of Morgan Freeman, Clint Eastwood and Matt Damon in their country, to make ...
  1 week ago

• Invictus Opens: Interviews with Morgan Freeman and Joel Stransky (incl Podcast)

  
  Penguin SA — Authority: 123
  The Clint Eastwood-directed adaptation of John Carlin’s Invictus (originally titled Playing the Enemy ) opened around the world this weekend. As might be expected, media coverage of the story of South Africa’s fabled 1995 Rugby World Cup win - and the crucial role that Nelson Mandela played behind the ...
  1 week ago

• Are Open Substituions Killing Club Rugby?

  
  Bleacher Report — Authority: 773
  After a proud history of amateur competition spanning over a century , Rugby Union bit the bullet in the mid 90’s and, as we all know, decided to embrace professionalism. Along with this came rule changes which were designed to speed up the game, mainly in an effort to make it more “watchable” and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wallaby Blind Side Flanker of the Decade

  
  Green and Gold Rugby THE Aussie Rugby Blog for fans of Australia and the Wallabies — Authority: 135
  He was Samo player! The Blind Side Flanker position has been an interesting one for Australia, not only over the last decade, but in the last few decades. Whereas we’ve usually gone for out and out poachers at Open Side; Strong running Number 8s; Ball playing inside centres, and big kicking fullbacks, we don’t ...
  2 weeks ago

• Invictus conquers with an uplifting tale

  
  Calvin Palmer's Weblog — Authority: 125
  By Calvin Palmer The unifying role of sport is the theme of director Clint Eastwood’s latest film Invictus , starring Morgan Freeman in the role of South Africa’s president, Nelson Mandela. The story tells of Mandela’s bid to unite a country after the decades of Apartheid kept blacks and coloreds apart from ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rugby World Cup restrictions ‘mad’ say tour operators

  
  NewsWire.co.nz — Authority: 133
  By Daniel Simmons Ritchie SMALL tourism operators complain that advertising restrictions set for the World Cup are too strict and will see New Zealand companies losing out to big business. “RWC” and “World Cup 2011” are some of 50 terms forbidden to those who are not  official sponsors of New Zealand’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• 5 New Movies Coming out This Weekend…

  
  All Women Stalk — Authority: 445
  New movies come out and people enjoy watching them every Friday. Are you the type that enjoys watching them every Friday? Movie time is the time to get out and escape all of the stress brought on during the heavy work week. It’s a time to go out with your loved ones, your children and your friends. Which reminds me, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wallaby Number 8 of the Decade

  
  Green and Gold Rugby THE Aussie Rugby Blog for fans of Australia and the Wallabies — Authority: 135
  Match winner! Finally! On to the REAL men.  The pigs. The pack. The piano movers. The forwards! Starting at the back of the scrum we consider the top Number 8 of the decade, and I reckon it is a bit of a battle. There are, realistically, three stand out candidates and each have had moments of superb form. But each ...
  2 weeks ago

• Invictus | The Story Behind The Glory

  
  Personal Money Store — Authority: 579
  1995 Rugby World Cup: A Contest Of Epic Proportions The Springboks. From Wikimedia Commons. Note the big man wearing #1, he was at the 95 World Cup. Weve all seen trailers for Invictus.  The film stars Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman,  and centers around Nelson Mandelas adroit use of the 1995 Rugby World Cup ...
  2 weeks ago

• Eden Park Link Lane Work Starts – Houses Being Relocated, Demolished (Photos)

  
  Auckland Trains — Authority: 143
  As work progresses on improving Kingsland train station, including a new underpass for pedestrians, work has started on work around Sandringham Road itself. Work is beginning on relocating three houses within their existing boundaries on Sandringham Rd, right opposite the Kingsland station. Being shifted are houses ...
  2 weeks ago

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