We have an identical concept in the Laws of Rugby, which has got to be the genesis of that rule: if a player in touch (out of bounds, in American football parlance) - and this can be a single toe on the line - catches (or touches) a ball, then the ball is in touch. The results can be very significant in terms of both…

I have a good friend who’s a NY State Trooper. His personal car is a decommissioned Texas Highway Patrol SUV. The thing is all blacked out and still has the external spotlight on it. He named it “Moses,” because the sea of cars parts when people see him in their rear view mirrors.

This is all I could think of reading this story:

I live just north of NYC and used to see Sam Waterston on the Metro North train every couple of months.

Actually, Charlotte “started it” by implementing a city ordinance ALLOWING trangendered people t use the restroom of their choice. The anti-LGBT law was brought as a means to prevent Charlotte and other municipalities from passing local ordinances to protect LGBT people.

Here’s a long, overly produced highlight reel of a 13 year old standout from New Zealand. You’ll see quite a lot of strong fends/shoves that send the defnder flying. All were fends to the chest or shoulder, wihout a strike, and therefore legal.

Truth. Though I live in NY, home of some of the most impatient drivers on the planet, Boston is the only place where I have been honked for not running a red light (it was red before I got even close to the intersection).

Dude - those are not helmets, they are scrum caps, whose primary purpose is to protect against abrasions and cauliflower ears in the scum. They do have very light padding, but that doesn’t really protect much against head knocks. They aren’t required under the Laws at any level, but a lot of kids (and even some backs…

Correction: your certainly may legally fend with a push, but you may not strike. In other words, if you engage with a bent arm (open palm to defender’s body) then push him away, you are in the clear. If, however, you strike him, particularly in the face of head (at the adult level, youth fends cannot be to the head)…

I can speak to this as I am, in fact, a rugby union referee. None of these fends looks to be a strike - the ball carrier engages with a bent arm to the chest and then pushes off. That’s legal. That said, if he caught the tackler in the face of head, at that age grade, I would certainly be penalizing. Same if he was…

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvZex3…

Speaking of monsters and racism (kind of, but as good an excuse as any to post this chestnut):

Is that backpack at the end a Blind Melon “No Rain” shout-out? I really want it to be, because that video was the first thing I thought of when I watched this one.

Everything about this kid, from his name to his hair, screams LAX BRO. He missed his true calling.

The radical answer is to take it back closer to its roots, with little to no protective equipment and a requirement that tacklers wrap their tackles without shoulder charges. Take away the helmets and padding, and the players lose their sense of invincibility and will play more in control. Further, you’ll see the…

He went to the first home game his freshman year and left before the half. He texted me that it was worse than high school football (and we live in NY, not Texas). No wonder day drinking is a profession in Oxford.

This. Thank you NBCSN, and Go you Sarries!

Umm, best known as AMY FUCKING POND, thank you very much.

Still a thing in adult club rugby. Less so in college rugby with the “liability” concerns of today. The rugby is much better than it used to be, though.