"with university liberals and with rugby-playing conservatives. In New Zealand a rugby player is an everyman, and the game and play present a model of society in the end of the 1970s on the eve of the 1981 Springbok Tour. The play has a stylistically unusual ending, with the main character directly addressing the audience with a very long speech — or rather interrogation — questioning their own values: ""Whaddarya?"". McGee script-wrote for television, notably two mini-series: """" (an examination of the inquiry following the crash of Air New Zealand Flight 901 in Antarctica) and ""Fallout"" (a dramatisation of David"
"his play ""Foreskin's Lament"". It was produced by HTV Cymru Wales in association with South Pacific Pictures for the ITV Network. ""Old Scores"" revolves around a controversial (fictional) rugby match between Wales and New Zealand which was won by Wales. On his death-bed, the touch judge confesses to failing to disallow the winning try for an infringement by the Welsh scorer. The Welsh Rugby Union president announces that in order to set the record straight, there should be a rematch between the two teams - using the same players who had played the match 25 years earlier. The teams are"
"Springs, Colorado. In October 2011, he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, thought to be caused by concussions from playing over two decades of high school, college, and pro football. Forrest Gregg Alvis Forrest Gregg (born October 18, 1933) is a former American football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL), the Canadian Football League and the NCAA. A Pro Football Hall of Fame offensive lineman for sixteen seasons, he was a part of six NFL championships, five of them with the Green Bay Packers before closing out his tenure with the Dallas Cowboys with a win in Super"
"believed to be the first confirmed case of early onset dementia caused by CTE in a rugby player. Australian rules football player Greg Williams is thought to have CTE as a result of concussions over a 250-game career. In March 2016 Justin Clarke of the Australian Football League (AFL) team the Brisbane Lions was forced to retire at just 22 years of age due to a serious concussion sustained during off-season training two months earlier. He was the fifth AFL player in the previous ten months to retire with concussion related injuries, with Sam Blease (25 yo, Melbourne and Geelong),"
"""Sergeant McGee"". He also has a daughter named Jean, unknown to him until she reveals herself in ""The Lonely Silver Rain"" as the result of a long-ago love affair. He was a stand-out college football player (at tight end) but says in ""A Deadly Shade of Gold"" that he never played professional football due to a knee injury. However, in ""The Turquoise Lament"" he admits to a sports-trivia fan that he played professional football for a couple of seasons before his knees were wrecked in a tackle by an opponent from the Detroit Lions. Despite his age, he retains the"
"savings with Reg Welch that he can train any team to beat them. However, the 'Wheatsheaf Arms' can only muster a side of four whose pride lies in their unbroken record of defeat. The pitifully unfit set of men have to accept the help of a coach, who just happens to be a woman. They have to struggle through adversity, come up triumphant and become a team. They are given a bye to the final of the competition where they have to play The Cobblers. The sequel to the original play is centred on the return match between the amateur"
"the Rye Football Club. He played senior football for Rosebud Football Club as a full-forward. In August 1999, at the age of nineteen, he was playing for Rosebud in a game against Hastings Football Club when he broke his neck after being sandwiched between a teammate and an opposing player. He is a paraplegic, and requires use of a wheelchair because of paralysis that affects him from the chest down. He has limited use of his fingers and no use of his hands. Before his accident, he participated in a range of sports, including basketball, athletics, waterskiing, kneeboarding and wakeboarding."
"at the plant so they can play on the team, to the dismay of the plant workers. Mr. Burns also hires a hypnotist to train the team, and Wonder Bat is destroyed, to Homer's dismay, by a pitch from Clemens during practice. Before the game, eight of the nine all-star players suffer unrelated misfortunes that prevent them from playing: Clemens starts behaving like a chicken due to the hypnotist's incompetence, Boggs is knocked unconscious by Barney at Moe's Tavern after an argument over the greatest British Prime Minister, Griffey Jr. develops gigantism after overdosing on brain and nerve tonic provided"
"to become the Céide Fields project. As the two men talk, Haughey's remarkable rise and fall is acting out in flashback around them. John Breen (playwright) John Breen is a playwright from Limerick, Ireland known for his play Alone it Stands which tells the tale of Munster Rugby Team's legendary 12-0 victory over New Zealand's All Blacks in Thomond Park, Limerick in 1978. In the play six actors play 62 roles including the Munster team, the New Zealanders, the two coaches, the ref, the crowd, the press, a pregnant woman, several children and a dog. Breen also wrote ""Charlie"", a"
"games, missing only one game during his entire NFL career. He was a nominee for the Pro Football Hall of Fame in . While with the Redskins, McGee played in Super Bowls XVII (1983) and XVIII (1984), winning the former. McGee is the founder and host of the longest running minority-owned sports talk show in the Washington, D.C. region. His ""Pro Football Plus"" television show is celebrating twenty-nine seasons of broadcasting excellence. Tony McGee Anthony Eugene McGee (born January 18, 1949) is a former professional American football player who played fourteen seasons in the National Football League (NFL), including two"
"and during the big match. Stories of birth, tragedy and building bonfires prevail, as the play charts the personal stories of various characters and their whereabouts on the momentous day. In the play six actors play 62 roles including the Munster team, the New Zealanders playing on the All Blacks team, the two coaches, the ref, the crowd, the press, a pregnant woman, Bunratty singers, several children, a dog and even the ball itself. Alone it Stands ""Alone It Stands"" is a play by John Breen that tells the story of the 1978 rugby union match at Thomond Park between"
"a stevedore who, tired of his job, decides to give it up and join Jake and the other fishermen. Porgy, a disabled beggar, enters on his goat cart to organize the game. Peter, an elderly ""honey man"" returns, singing his vendor's call. Crown, a strong and brutal stevedore, storms in with his woman, Bess, and buys cheap whiskey and some ""Happy Dust"" off the local dope peddler, Sportin' Life. Bess is shunned by the women of the community, especially the pious Serena and the matriarchal cookshop owner Maria, but Porgy softly defends her. The game begins. One by one, the"
"of The Weakest Link raising $9600 for a nominated charity. Phil Gifford Philip Douglas Gifford (born 1947) is a New Zealand sportswriter and broadcaster. He has his own rugby radio show ""Front Row"" on Radio Sport from 8 to 10am on Saturdays. He writes a weekly column in the country's highest circulation weekend paper, ""The Sunday Star-Times"", and is a contributing editor to ""North & South"" magazine. He created the satirical rugby character Loosehead Len in 1973, and has seven books under that name. Gifford has written rugby best-sellers including his book on Alex Wyllie, ""Grizz, The Legend"" (1991, ),"
"Wheelchair rugby is also an included sport in regional events such as the Parapan American Games. Since 2000, it has been one of the sports of the Summer Paralympic Games. Wheelchair rugby was featured in the Oscar-nominated 2005 documentary ""Murderball"". It was voted the #1 Top Sport Movie of all time by the movie review website Rotten Tomatoes. The character Jason Street in the NBC television show ""Friday Night Lights"", having been paralyzed in a game of American football in the pilot, tries out for the United States quad rugby team in a later episode. Wheelchair rugby Wheelchair rugby (originally"
"later episodes. Hockey and soccer are favoured as sports to play. Once, when Franklin and Bear went to sign up for football, spaces had run out, so they were signed up for basketball instead. Owing to the show's Canadian roots, ice hockey has an important place in the ""Franklin"" world. It is featured in several stories, including one in which Skunk is taught by Franklin and Bear how to play. Franklin also gets to meet a couple of his professional hockey heroes in the fifth and sixth seasons of the programme. In addition to sports, the characters enjoy a number"
"encounter a squirrel called McSquizzy (Michael Gough) and his team of squirrels called the Furry Tail Clan (Carlos Alazraqui), who bash them with nuts. Boog meets a few members of Elliot's herd: Giselle (Kari Wahlgren), a doe whom Elliot has a crush on, and Ian (Patrick Warburton), the head of the herd who's always bullying Elliot. It's revealed that during this time of year, the Deer Games are held, with only one sport: Running. Elliot competes with Ian and wins the race, but he's kicked away by an angry Ian as punishment (which Ian calls ""Both Barrels""). In the Timberline"
"lives of several real-life footballers have been dramatised on stage. ""The Call"" (2004) is an adaptation by Bruce Myles of Martin Flanagan's 1996 novel of the same name. With football-inspired choreography by Koori dancers, the play explores the life of football pioneer Tom Wills and his relationship with aborigines. ""Krakouer!"" depicts the rise of Indigenous footballing brothers Jim and Phil Krakouer. It was developed by playwright Reg Cribb in 2009 from Sean Gorman's 2005 novel ""Brotherboys"". Many songs inspired by the game have become anthems of the game. Jack O'Hagan wrote ""Our Aussie Game"" in 1949. Mike Brady's 1979 hit"
"by Bob Whitewood, a city councilman and attorney who filed a lawsuit against an ultra-competitive Southern California Youth Baseball League which excluded the least skilled athletes (including his son) from playing. In order to settle the lawsuit, the league agrees to add an additional team - the Bears - which is composed of the worst players. Buttermaker becomes the coach of the unlikely team, which includes (among others) a near-sighted pitcher, an overweight catcher, a foulmouthed shortstop with a Napoleon complex, an outfielder who dreams of emulating his idol Hank Aaron, two non-English-speaking Mexican immigrants, a withdrawn and bullied boy"
"the story of the Mormon Yankees, starring Aaron Jakubenko as DeLyle Condie. Mormon Yankees The Mormon Yankees were an exhibition basketball team in Australia from 1937-1961. Composed of young Mormon missionaries the team played all over Australia and became widely known. One Mormon Yankees squad played exhibition games against International teams preparing for the 1956 Summer Olympics, which were held in Australia that year. James Naismith invented the game of basketball as part of his job at the Young Men's Christian Association. The phrase ""muscular Christianity"" was born as a description for using recreation for religious purposes in the early"
"Phil Gifford Philip Douglas Gifford (born 1947) is a New Zealand sportswriter and broadcaster. He has his own rugby radio show ""Front Row"" on Radio Sport from 8 to 10am on Saturdays. He writes a weekly column in the country's highest circulation weekend paper, ""The Sunday Star-Times"", and is a contributing editor to ""North & South"" magazine. He created the satirical rugby character Loosehead Len in 1973, and has seven books under that name. Gifford has written rugby best-sellers including his book on Alex Wyllie, ""Grizz, The Legend"" (1991, ), which has sold 30,000 copies, making it the biggest-selling New"
"written by Martin Flanagan, is a semi-fictional account of football pioneer Tom Wills. Set during the 1970s, the 1999 novel ""Saturday Afternoon Fever"" by comedian Matthew Hardy follows a boy on weekend trips to VFL games, specifically to see his hero, St Kilda's Trevor Barker. Tony Wilson's debut novel ""Players"" (2005) satirises the relationship between football and the media. In 2012, Paul D. Carter won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award for his debut novel ""Eleven Seasons"", a coming-of-age story about a teenager and the role football plays in shaping his identity. In 2002, Felice Arena and former AFL star Garry Lyon"
"link. EPA, the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are investigating. Nigel Maguire, formerly a chief executive for the National Health Service in Cumbria, claims that his son, a goalkeeper, could have developed Hodgkin's lymphoma by playing on an artificial surface. He has called for a ban on the surfaces, saying ""It is obscene so little research has been done."" In 2014, Amy Griffin, soccer coach at the University of Washington, surveyed American players of the sport who had developed cancer. Of 38 players, 34 were goalkeepers, a position in which diving to the"
"Goodies, led by Bill Brooke-Taylor, want to add some excitement to the lives of the people, and to get them excited about something again. In the attempt to add more excitement to 'rollerball', Graeme Oddie (a leading competitor of violent sports), and some of his equally violent friends, modify the game to 'rolleregg', a combination of an egg and spoon race and 'rollerball'. Graeme Oddie is the leading competitor for 'rolleregg'. Bill Brooke-Taylor wants to resurrect the ancient game of Cricket, with the idea that something which is truly boring might be enough of a novelty to be interesting to"
"watches enviously from the sideline. #7 and #14 bring their ski trip squabble back to the field as well. #14 expresses her anger towards her friend about her neglect during the trip and being left with a strange boy. They fight, and end the day on a terrible note. Tragedy strikes before the final game, leaving one member of the team unable to attend. The others are grieving, but are still adamant about finishing out their season. With a possible forfeit looming, it feels as though the Wolves’ season will end on the lowest possible note. The play was originally"
"work to make up for his shortcoming. Along the way, Gus reconnects with a former player he once scouted, Johnny ""The Flame"" Flanagan (Timberlake), who is now a scout for the Boston Red Sox, and who takes an interest in Mickey. When Mickey questions Gus about his leaving her with an uncle she barely knew as a child, after her mother's passing, the conversation takes a sour turn, and Mickey storms off, leaving Gus frustrated. As Gus, Mickey and a group of other scouts watch Bo play, Gus and Mickey realize he can't hit a curveball. Gus advises Johnny to"
"Sports"", to the German army of World War II. On the American frontier of 1874, a new railroad will soon be rerouted through Rock Ridge, in order to avoid running through quicksand. The conniving attorney general Hedley Lamarr wants to force Rock Ridge's residents to abandon their town, and sends a gang of thugs, led by his flunky Taggart, to shoot the sheriff and trash the town. The townspeople demand that Governor William J. Le Petomane appoint a new sheriff to protect them. Lamarr persuades the dim-witted Le Petomane to appoint Bart, a black railroad worker, who was about to"
"Tony McGee Anthony Eugene McGee (born January 18, 1949) is a former professional American football player who played fourteen seasons in the National Football League (NFL), including two Super Bowls with the Washington Redskins. After being dismissed from the University of Wyoming football team as part of the Black 14 in 1969, McGee continued his college football career at Bishop College and was selected in the third round of the 1971 NFL Draft by the Chicago Bears. Born and raised in Battle Creek, Michigan, McGee played college football at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. In his junior season was"
"Spirit of the Game (film) Spirit of the Game is a 2016 biographical film written and directed by Darran Scott aka Darran Page with cinematography by Brian J. Breheny (""The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert""). The film is based on the true story of the Mormon Yankees, an American basketball team which played in exhibition games before the 1956 Summer Olympics. The film stars, Aaron Jakubenko, Kevin Sorbo, Wade Briggs, Grant Pino and Anna McGrahan. It’s 1956 and 20 year old Delyle Condie travels to Melbourne, Australia, on a Mission for his Church in an attempt to recover"
"tragedy.) This all happened to the upbeat (and risqué) tune of ""I've Got Something in My Front Pocket for You"". Butters flatly refuses to participate in the show, even after further pressing, so the team has to settle for a dancing duck named Jeffy from a local farm. Jeffy has not danced to any songs other than those about drug use and domestic violence played by the farmer, all to extensively modified lyrics of the song ""The Crawdad Song"". On the day of the performance, Jeffy's ankle gets sprained during practice. The team looks likely to be forced to forfeit,"
"a football. A statue of Wills umpiring an 1858 football match was erected outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground in 2002. Wills is the subject of a series of paintings by Archibald Prize nominee Martin Tighe. Martin Flanagan's 1998 historical novel ""The Call"" is a semi-fictional account of Wills' life. In it, Wills is cast as a tragic sporting genius, and the dingo is used to symbolise his identity as an ""ambiguous creature"" caught between indigenous and non-indigenous Australia. In ""The Paddock That Grew"", released that same year, Keith Dunstan imagines Wills as a ghost touring modern Melbourne. Wills has inspired"
"Cricket and narrated by Dinah Shore. Based on the tale ""Little Bear Bongo"" by Sinclair Lewis, ""Bongo"" tells the story of a circus bear cub named Bongo who longs for freedom from captivity. Bongo escapes the circus and eventually forms a romantic relationship with a female bear cub named Lulubelle in the wild, realizing that he must prove himself in order to earn Lulubelle as his mate. The second story, ""Mickey and the Beanstalk"", is hosted by Edgar Bergen and is a retelling of ""Jack and the Beanstalk"" featuring Mickey, Donald, and Goofy as three peasants who discover the temperamental"
"ankle after a tackle (although it appeared to be a joke at first, Helliar did actually injure his ankle severely), putting the rest of his career in doubt. Bryan Strauchan suffered a shocking lower-leg injury during the 2012 EJ whittens legends game which may end his career for good In 2012, in a move by the fans, Strauchanie was voted President of the Melbourne Renegades Strauchan was a recurring character on the show ""Before the Game"", which features regular 2–5 minute segments about the goings-on in Strauchan's life. Collingwood Football Club personalities, including coach Mick Malthouse, president Eddie McGuire and"
"the Super Bowl to help Luanne with her puppet show. However his idyllic passion is golf which coincides with his love of lawns. He once converted his back yard into a putting green. He is however critical of some sports. He is critical of soccer, claiming to Bobby ""I didn't think I ever needed to tell you this, but I would be a bad parent if I didn't; Soccer was invented by European ladies to keep them busy while their husbands did the cooking"". He also hates tennis and appears to hate hockey as well. While more of a stereotypical"