Counting the cost of rugby injuries Back pain treatment increased by 215% during 2014. The cost of dental implants averaged more than R9 000 per rugby player. Repetitive strain injuries on the knees have been the most common. 2014 has seen an increase in rugby-related injuries. Monday 24 November 2014 – Even though South […]
Bona fide legend: All Blacks’ captain Richie McCaw Photo: GETTY IMAGES Richie McCaw: The quest for perfection – what makes the New Zealand captain the world’s greatest player Inspirational All Blacks’ World Cup-winner is the game’s imperishable totem whose remorseless sense of duty has defied the limitations of age to reinvent himself Richie McCaw was […]
Heroes and heroics come in all shapes and sizes in sport. But sometimes it comes where and when we least expect it, like the dying days long after the final whistle has blown, writes Ewan MacKenna This is the story of two very different men from very different sports who played at very different levels […]
Matt Cassidy selects the Foreign XV, a team of Irish rugby stars that were born outside of the Emerald Isle. Finally, the first week of November has arrived and that means only one thing for the rugby public; the Autumn Internationals. Joe Schmidt and his men start their countdown to the next World Cup in […]
Gordon D’Arcy’s ferocious commitment to self-improvement has kept him at the top at the rugby game and tomorrow in LINEOUT magazine, published with the Irish Independent, the Ireland and Leinster centre admits that his “career would never be this long if I was starting today”. “The game is more physical, more confrontational and it is […]
WHY? Unbroken by blindness in 1998, Mark Pollock suffered a catastrophic spinal cord injury in 2010 that left him paralysed. As Mark strives to walk again, his most complex journey is ahead of him – to find a cure for spinal cord injuries for him and the millions of paralysed people around the world. The […]
Ulster Teams 30+ Games in a season (there are less than 30 weeks in a season) Connacht, Munster & Leinster 20+ Games That A 30% Difference! Some people have averaged a figure of 30 games per season for Ulster players. The factual basis of this comes from counting up the numbers of games. A little […]