On October 25, the calendar will be released. The proceeds will go to an NGO helping out Chinese children living in the streets.
Here is the cover of the calendar:
In order to foster teamwork, the managers of the South African rugby team submitted their players to strange physical training.
These very rare photos show some of the things that the Springboks had to go through:
- Cross an ice-cold stream, naked, while hanging to a raft
- Stand in the water, naked, at night, for hours, while singing the national anthem
- Jump fully clothed into the water, from a helicopter, 30 feet high above the water level.
All this happened in a military camp called Kamp Staaldraad ("Camp Barbwire").
For the 2007 Rugby World Cup, the training was less brutal and the team has now made it to the final game (against England).
But you do not have to buy the calendar to seen him naked: just watch any of the games that he plays.
Dear Sergio Parisse has a tendencey to lode his shorts during rugby games. Witness the pics here , from a game against Ireland and another one against Japan.
Maybe Sergio should wear underwear. Or not. You decide.
(Sources : CalcioFan via Oh La La)
Sébastien Chabal is a player that scares the s… out of quite a few players.
Chabal will face the English team this weekend. He knows a few them quite well: Chabal plays in the UK, for the Sale Sharks. His nickname is Seabass.
Here is the picture that very francophile Sun published this morning. Its tiltle was "French Monster Eats Babies".
Well, in the meantime, the English team is busy rehearsing a scene that they will play after meeting Chabal: healing their bruises an ice bath (see picture).
This reminded me of a video of a respectable English rugby club (Lincoln RUFC, established in 1882) where new players had to go through a funny initiation rite: they had to undress, get out of the bus, and run back to the club house. To make it more fun, they obviously has to do it through town.
Notice how fast the first one is going. This is a guy you want to see on a field.
In this case, TV caught a player amusing his friends with a little trick of his involving his genitalia (see video).
Funny, but the player is now embaressed and the TV crew got fired. Oops.
Read after the video how the press reports the whole story:
Manly Sea Rugby Player Gets Caught Swinging It
Manly camp last night called on the Rugby League Professionals Association to intervene - calling for all television cameras to be banned from dressing rooms until 45 minutes after fulltime. wide exposure for winger The vision, shot when Fox Sports interviewed Manly's Steve Menzies after the grand final loss to Melbourne, ended up on internet broadcast site YouTube.
While Menzies is interviewed by a journalist after the NRL decider on September 30, Robertson can clearly be seen in the background swirling his genitalia. Fox Sports believes Robertson was unaware of the camera being nearby and has apologised to Manly. The broadcaster screened the interview before spotting the offensive vision and taking it off air. Fox Sports employee gets sack But a Fox Sports employee then emailed the footage to a friend, who sent it on to YouTube.
That employee has since been sacked. Robertson denied he knew the camera was on him, saying: "I'm highly embarrassed for myself, the club and my family. "Somewhere along the way, a player's privacy has to be respected. "I would have thought the fact that it wasn't a live interview would have ensured the broadcaster involved would have ensured I wasn't filmed in a compromising position. "There has to be a period where the dressing room is a player's sanctuary. "There is no way the skylarking was meant for the cameras."
Call for player privacy Sea Eagles chief executive Grant Mayer said players must have dressing room privacy. "Michael was clearly unaware the camera was on him and surely there must be responsibility from the broadcaster - as well as the player - to maintain some sort of privacy," Mayer said. "Obviously cameras in dressing rooms are part of our game, but surely players should be able to shower and change without it being broadcast internationally. "One option is to make the cameras wait 45 minutes before they are allowed in. Another option is having an interview area away from the showers and dressing rooms. Michael is embarrassed."
Fox Sports director of specialist channels, Soames Treffry, said his company was disappointed the interview had been aired. NRL director of media and communications John Brady said Robertson had "no knowledge" of being filmed. "There has to be an element of shared responsibility around dressing room access," Brady said. "The players have to be aware of this, as do the TV crews."
This is not a recent calendar (2005/2006), but it is quite nice and you may still buy it online. (Buy)
The proceeds go to a charity whose goal is to help a little girl live despite an expensive rare genetical disease.
The firemen have created a site for the calendar, with lots of pictures. The site is called "Les Dieux du Feu". (Gods of Fire). The photographer's name is Rodolphe Perez.
Here are some pics from the calendar:
Women are quite aware of the dangers of breast cancer. Not so with men and testicular cancer. Yet, 1 out 250 men is hit by this cancer.
Prevention is easy: get naked, take a shower, and then feel your testicules for any strange bump. If you find something, go to your doctor's ASAP.
This is just what the brave rugby players from the Moseley rugby club are doing in this video. Watch and learn.
One of English girls' favorite players is James Haskell. The 23-year old is a flanker in the Wasps rugby team. He made it to the English national team for the first time in March 2007 against France. But this time, he will not be on the field against the French.
With a great body, James Haskell has attracted quite a few followers. He even has his official website: http://www.jameshaskell.com/
Here are a few pic of this rugby player:
Obviously, the English lads do not have the same money to hire world-class photographers. Yet, their yearly calendar is all what rugby is about: young men having fun, enjoying life, and practising the best sports on earth.
Their 2007 calendar has just been released, and the good news is that you may also buy the calendars from previous years, at a discount . Support the team and to the SHOP tab of their official website: http://shurugby.com
Here are some pics from the SHU Rugby calendar:
