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New Zealand Rugby Player's Family Performs Haka For Him After He Makes His Debut
A lot of athletes have their parents in the stands for their games, but how many get a haka performed for them? New Zealand rugby union player Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi made his debut for the All Blacks in Saturday’s 46-24 win over Argentina, and his father, father-in-law, and partner treated him to a ...

A Brief History Of Rugby Teams Trying To Respond To The Haka
The haka, performed by the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team, is one of the most famous spectacles in sport. The traditional pregame challenge is an exhilarating display that gets the blood pumping through the veins of the Kiwi players as they prepare themselves for the game ahead. The All Blacks’ h...

Who Bugged The New Zealand Rugby Team?
Perhaps inspired by the New England Patriots, someone hid a bug inside a chair in a New Zealand rugby team’s meeting room last week in order to spy on them, per the New Zealand Herald. The All Blacks were staying in a hotel in Sydney, and set to meet in the conference room where they found the bug. ...

Former Teammates Perform Haka At Rugby Legend Jonah Lomu's Funeral
New Zealand rugby star Jonah Lomu died at the age of 40 earlier this month. At his funeral today, many of his former All Blacks teammates performed a traditional haka as pallbearers carried Lomu’s casket. ...

Julian Savea Scores Impressively Violent Try Through Three Frenchmen
The Rugby World Cup is currently heading towards its conclusion in England. Three of the four semifinalists have been set, and we have South Africa, Argentina, and New Zealand to look forward to in the next round. This is the furthest the Argentines have advanced in their country’s Rugby World Cup h...

New Zealand Rugby Celebrations Are Beastly
New Zealand's rugby team, the All Blacks, won the Hong Kong Sevens tournament on Sunday with a 26-7 victory over England. To celebrate, they performed a Haka dance—a traditional Māori dance they typically try to intimidate their opponents with before the match—in the middle of a rain storm and creat...

New Zealand Rugby Player Goes On Naked, Drunken Rampage
Zac Guildford is a 22 year old member of the famous New Zealand All Blacks rugby squad. Zac Guildford is also a 22 year old with a drinking problem, apparently....

One "All Blacks" Fan Stands Out In This Rugby World Cup Crowd Shot
Writes tipster Ryan W., "The Rugby World Cup finals are on currently airing NBC. I took a break from watching terrible NFL games to catch some of the finals between France and New Zealand (aka the 'All Blacks'). During a shot of the New Zealand crowd, I spotted this charming young man on the right ...

New Zealand's All Blacks Get Into The Viral Video Business
This ad for the Rugby Channel shows the Kiwis have caught up to American sports drink manufacturers in using CGI-aided commercials. Not the Mike Vick one, though; that was real....

Creative Ways to Cheat Your Way to Success Back at the Office
Over the weekend, we've been presented with numerous ways to succeed by circumventing unfair and inappropriate "rules" meant to hurt you and not others by not giving you everything you want immediately. As we close out this weekend, let us give you the tools used by sports teams across the globe so ...

Hawaii Loves Its Haka
The Hawaii Rainbows have taken, to fire themselves up, to doing the Haka before games. The Haka is mostly famous for being the intimidating pregame ritual for the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team. Now the Rainbows do it, mostly because their name is the Rainbows. But the WAC is not happy about it,...