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Vanderbilt Childrens Hospital Welcomes Nashville |
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Written by Roving Roo Reporter
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Saturday, 06 March 2010 |
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 On Friday February 26 the Nashville Kangaroos Football Team got together and made a rather special road trip, even though the footy season has not started yet. This road trip, while not a long one (it is actually just down the street from our home ground), is arguably one of the most important they will make this year. Nashville is home to some of the finest medical facilities in the nation and as such, patients from all over the country come to receive the very best care. The youngest of the patients are at the Monroe Carrell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt.
Nine of the Rooboys showed up to see the kids. Being an Australian Cultural Group, they brought a number of Australian themed handouts, including coloring book pages of Australian animals, a Word Seek of Australian animals, an Australian-English dictionary, USFooty playing cards, a whole basketful of mini-footies, and plenty of signed copies of the 2009 Nashville Kangaroos team photo.  Be first to comment this article I  Quote this article on your site I Views: 99
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Snow Balls Fly as J-Roos Tie |
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Written by Chet Ridenour
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Sunday, 10 January 2010 |
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 Columbus, OH – After a week of the biggest and most consistent snow falls of the season, the Columbus Jackaroos were keen as mustard to lace up their boots (literally), and have a rumble in the white, wintry tundra. Emerging from their warmed cars, dressed in plenty of layers, leaving only their rosy red faces exposed – a stark contrast to the abundance of skin shown in traditional attire – they stumbled in for an 11 am Saturday morning match. With about six inches of untouched powder on the local Thomas Worthington High School football field, these blokes, dressed in red and blue would square off in perhaps one of the most fun traditions yet for this young club, the Second Annual SNOW BOWL.
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Dallas Magpie is 60 years young |
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Written by Rick Kretzschmar
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Monday, 26 October 2009 |
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 What is old?
It's a question Rhett Rohde asks, but the example he sets can't exactly answer the question. He's 61 years old, yet continues to play a physically-demanding sport against opponents half, and sometimes a third, his age. Rohde plays it well, too. He's a member of the Dallas Magpies, an Australian Rules Football team. Rohde helped the Magpies win the Division III Grand Final of the United States Australian Football League on Sunday in Mason, Ohio, which is near Cincinnati. The Magpies crushed the Austin Crows 51-8 in the final.
Photo Rhett Rohde. Credit Les Hassell (News-Journal Photo)
Rohde — who is 5-6 and weighs approximately 125 pounds — plays forward-pocket, which puts him on the frontline of a sport which has elements of rugby and American football, where making tackles and getting bumped in mid-flight is common, and without pads. Steve Cassity, a Magpie teammate of Rohde's, said Rohde will go up against opponents who are in their 20s and can be as tall as 6-8. "I know I'm sore all over after playing, and that's just after a practice. It's Aleve and an ice-water bath for me," said Cassity, another forward-pocket and a 41-year-old construction worker from Coppell. "It's amazing he is still out there. He has all the odds against him, but he comes out a winner." Be first to comment this article I Quote this article on your site I Views: 507 |
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Heathcote takes NC Tigers Best and Fairest |
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Written by Chris Adams
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Wednesday, 21 October 2009 |
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 The head coach of the North Carolina Tigers, big Jason Heathcote, took out his third Tigers Best and Fairest award for the most valuable tiger in 2009. In winning the award, Heathcote had 5 best on grounds over 13 games for the season. Heathcote was excited to win the award but more excited to see his charges doing well. "It is a nice recognition to win the award, but as coach I was a lot more satisfied with those players who polled well who are relatively new to the game. Of our top 5 players, nearly all were American who have played the game less than four years. That was the most pleasing thing for me."
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Video: Eagles lift the bar |
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Written by Les Carpenter
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Sunday, 11 October 2009 |
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Report from Washington Post staff reporter, Les Carpenter, on the Baltimore Washington Eagles. View video HERE. Be first to comment this article I Quote this article on your site I Views: 546 |
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Written by Les Carpenter
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Sunday, 11 October 2009 |
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 This was supposed to be a story about what happens to young men who move to Washington for big new jobs, knowing nobody, who leave those big new jobs every evening and come home to empty apartments and lonely lives and who find themselves drawn to a sport bewildering to most Americans. It was a story about the bonds that come from running around on a field hitting people and then hitting the bars. It was about a little Australian rules football and a whole lot of beer.
Photo by Toni L Sandys. Rob Strange listens to coach Tyndall.
Because for the first eight years of its existence, that is what the Baltimore Washington Eagles Australian Rules Football Club was all about. Until the young men discovered how much more they liked to win in a physically demanding game that is similar to rugby, but faster paced and with a different scoring system.
As the team stood in a circle on a dry, cracked field near Rosecroft Raceway in Prince George's County, it was easy to see just how much the story had changed. In the middle of the circle stood the team's player-coach, Aaron Tyndall, shouting in a thick Australian accent. He was imploring his team, which would soon be ranked first in the 29-team amateur U.S. Australian Rules Football League (or U.S. Footy) to bury the opponent of the moment -- a seemingly hapless club called the North Carolina Tigers.
"You need to dictate play!" he cried. "Don't let them do it to us!"
The Eagles led 33-0 at that point. They would win 222-7.
It was only two years ago that the same North Carolina team was beating the Eagles by lopsided scores. Everyone did. This was back when the team seemed to exist less for footy and more for drinking, when it proudly became known as the only team at the annual national tournament that would race to the beer tent between games.
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