Sunday, February 15, 2009

Rugby and NASCAR

What a dilemma. NASCAR's new season starts today with the Daytona 500 while the 2nd day of the USA 7's rugby tournament is on Setanta sports live from San Diego. I've been flipping back and forth all day trying to keep up with both. So I got to see Jr. cause a big wreck and watched France come from behind to beat Scotland. The rugby match was the more exciting of the two. Scotland was ahead at the end of regulation time and France took possesion just before the buzzer. Then they managed to keep their play going for longer than they had possesion in the entire 1st half of the match until they worked it down the field and scored the winning try.
Somebody should have yelled at them in German, and they would have surrendered on the spot.


But England just took the lead back from South Africa.

If you've never watched rugby, give 7's a try. It's a shortened, faster version of regular rugby: very fast paced and exciting. Next year I may try to make it to San Diego for the tourny.

Argentina and USA in the Cup semifinal coming up in a few minutes and then the winner plays against the winner of SA v Eng later.

Update: Eng just won.

Update: the sequel--USA fall to Argentina 19-14 so they are out of the playoffs.

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