Fort Reno Park Closed Immediately and Indefinitely
Fort Reno Park... is closed immediately and indefinitely after United States Geological Survey satellite imaging reports found high levels of arsenic in the soil.
This is the park that we use for rugby practice. We are supposed to be reassured by the fact that you can only get arsenic in your system through ingestion... but this is not particularly reassuring when you play rugby, a sport in which you use a mouthguard (that you'd better believe is frequently dropped in the mud) and spend a lot of time on the ground literally "eating dirt."
I guess this is what happens when you attend a university that was a WWI military base/weapons development center...
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Friday, May 2, 2008
Live! Rugby! Online!
I am a happy, happy Pink: USA Rugby is broadcasting the collegiate women's D1 championships LIVE online!!
At first the page just flat-out wouldn't load. I was stuck g-chatting with everyone else who was (unsuccessfully) trying to get it to work, and I ended up just refreshing the USA Rugby homepage to get the scores of the Brown/Penn State game.
But then, about twenty minutes from the end, it started working! And oh man, but I just about had a complete scrumgasm. This is my division of rugby (even if these teams do honestly play on a different level than AU does). And it was pretty exciting to watch PSU beat the pants off of someone that wasn't us.
Right now it's half-time in the Stanford/Navy game. I was rooting for a Navy/PSU final (wouldn't it be cool if PRU D1 was AU, UMD, and the two best teams in the nation?) and for awhile, it looked possible - Navy spent a considerable portion of the first 30 minutes in Stanford's 22, but Stanford's defense was pretty impenetrable, and Navy finally took a 3 point kick off of a penalty.
However, in the end of the half Stanford scored not one, but two tries... here's hoping the next 40 minutes will go Navy's way!
At first the page just flat-out wouldn't load. I was stuck g-chatting with everyone else who was (unsuccessfully) trying to get it to work, and I ended up just refreshing the USA Rugby homepage to get the scores of the Brown/Penn State game.
But then, about twenty minutes from the end, it started working! And oh man, but I just about had a complete scrumgasm. This is my division of rugby (even if these teams do honestly play on a different level than AU does). And it was pretty exciting to watch PSU beat the pants off of someone that wasn't us.
Right now it's half-time in the Stanford/Navy game. I was rooting for a Navy/PSU final (wouldn't it be cool if PRU D1 was AU, UMD, and the two best teams in the nation?) and for awhile, it looked possible - Navy spent a considerable portion of the first 30 minutes in Stanford's 22, but Stanford's defense was pretty impenetrable, and Navy finally took a 3 point kick off of a penalty.
However, in the end of the half Stanford scored not one, but two tries... here's hoping the next 40 minutes will go Navy's way!
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