The USA 7s schedule for the now three-day tournament is clearing up, as now posted on the USA 7s website is an outline of how the competition will be organized.

Fans will get three days of international rugby competition in  this, the 5^th stop on the nine-event HSBC World Sevens Series.

Two pool matches will be played on Friday, February 10. Matches will begin at 4pm and run until 9pm – giving fans plenty of time to enjoy Las Vegas, or the nearby Las Vegas Invitational, early and late in the day.

Saturday will be a full day of rugby, but not as full as it was last year. The USA 7s will run the final pool matches, plus the Cup and Bowl quarterfinals.

During that time, Sam Boyd Stadium will also host several Las Vegas Invitational finals, such as the Collegiate Rugby Championships qualifier, and the Men’s Elite 7s. The Women’s International semifinals will also be held at the stadium on Saturday.

Day Two will run from noon to 7pm.

Day Three will begin at 9:30 and finish around 3pm and will have all the semifinals and finals, plus the Women’s International Final.

 2012 USA 7s General Schedule 

Tickets for the event are on sale now at www.usasevens.com, and discounts are available for orders before Jan 2, 2012.

Buy now and a field reserved ticket for all three days is only $85 – for over 15 hours of international rugby.

So the Beard that Roared continues to gain notoriety as the media converges on Adam Kleeberger and his fund raising drive associated with the removal of his facial hair on Monday afternoon. Famous CBC comedian and show host Rick Mercer manned the clippers to take the top layer off Kleeberger, who enters his ninth month with the amazing growth.

Under sunny skies and in front of 500 adoring fans Mercer manned the equipment and mowed down the famous beard at the University of Victoria Student Union Building.

Mercer, earlier in the day, spent time with the Canadian men's sevens team - including interviews with Kleeberger, 15s coach Kieran Crowley and a number of the players participating in some hijinx that are staple for the popular Mercer Report - seen on Monday nights on CBC.

At one point, flanker Nanyak Dala lay down on the field and bench pressed the diminutive Mercer, who was celebrating his 42nd birthday in Victoria.

Fundraising is still being accepted at the two below links - thanks to everyone to date that has donated over $5000 combined.

Kleeberger is asking his fans to support the Shear the Beard campaign in one of two ways. The first for New Zealand, because of the great support shown to the Canadian team during their time at the tournament, Kleeberger is urging donations that would go to helping rebuild Christchurch, the town that was nearly leveled by an earthquake this past February and led to World Cup games being pulled out of the area to other cities around New Zealand. To participate in fund raising for Christchurch Earthquake Relief go to http://donate.rugbycanada.ca/e/Shear_the_Beard

In Canada Kleeberger would like to see supporters donate to his Movember page.  Movember, the month formerly known as November, is a month-long campaign where men start clean-shaven and grow a moustache to raise awareness and funds for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer. Kleeberger's 'Shear the Beard' will get him ready to grow a big hairy ribbon for 30 days starting Movember 1, 2011.  To support Adam's Movember campaign - go to http://mobro.co/SheartheBeard. To join Adam on his hairy journey register at www.movember.com.