Former Salisbury rugby player Chris Sams is running across America to promote fitness, and he needs help. He'll be running from Maryland to San Diego and will be relying on volunteers to host him at different locations across the country, as he runs 25-30 miles a day.
Check out his website to find more information about his route and his story. Below is a video Chris made to explain what he's doing and why.
Former Stanford football star and current Cleveland Browns hopeful Johnson Bademosi spoke with Cleveland.com about how rugby helped make him a better football player. Bademosi was a star for Gonzaga HS in the DC area, and also for the USA U19s and U20s.
He is hoping to hook on with the Browns as a defensive back.
USA 7s coach Alex Magleby got a tip of the cap from ESPN Boston Sunday, as the 2012 and 2016 Olympics creep closer.
"I hope the public's perception would be that they expect us to win gold," Magleby said of the 7s Eagles who are yet to qualify for the 2016 Games in Brazil. "We should be a podium team. We're a country of 300 million-plus people and we produce athletes with a far-ranging base of skills. We just have to expose them to the sport."
Blogger and rugby player Stephanie Esposito posts a scathing commentary on the Ralph Lauren Olympic outfitting controversy, and gets in a nice dig on the fact that Ralph Lauren owns rugby.com.