Last year, as you may recall, it took a ridiculous journey to get to the same tournament in Las Vegas, but it was all worth it. The US stop is in Vegas again this year – this weekend.
The cool part for us rugby idiots is that it’s on live television this year. NBC is airing matches beginning at 3:30 EST on Saturday and resuming coverage for the Cup Final Sunday at 4:30; their subsidiary Universal Sports, for those who get it, will have even more of the action at various times. The full schedule is here.
Even cooler for those of us who played Tribe Rugby (now known as Wren Wrugby) is that Brian Hightower, who lived, drank, puked, rucked and mauled with several Gheorghers way back when, is providing color commentary for the broadcast. This could be the beginning of a long and distinguished career for him if all goes well – and if rubgy continues its ascension in American popularity. We’ll see; in the meantime, tune in this weekend to catch some of the play.
Highcheese has also been tasked with writing some rugby-related pieces for a webpage called The Scrum on UniversalSports.com. Take a gander and learn a bit more if you're interested.
Oh… in unrelated news, Hightower was also DangerMan (almost).
In recognition of our old friend’s presence at the event that kicks off Saturday, I rang up The Thumb (also known as The Fireplug, The Glom, a Random Idiot, or simply Cheese) and borrowed 20 minutes of his time with a flurry of questions serious and less serious on behalf of Gheorghe: The Blog. Here was the result. (Brian sounds that way because I keep him in a little tin can.)
highcheeseinterview by whitneygtb
Tune in if you can. Sevens rugby is an awesome spectator sport, good for fans and ADHD sufferers alike. (7-minute halves, lots of scoring.) Enjoy.
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Whitney is whining the format is messed up on this post. It looks fine to me. Anyone else having issues?
By format, do you mean 4 audio clips instead of one?
May actually sit down and watch a little 7's this weekend just to hear highcheese.
I fixed the formatting - completely started over with the html code. This better work now.
82 minutes for Clyde? Toni Basil gets 24 hours and Clyde gets 82 minutes?
I spent a good 4 minutes preparing that post. Jeez...
Bitch to Whitney
Sorry, TR. This was time-sensitive, since I had to get the word out for people to watch the rugby and listen to the Hightower.
I always enjoyed the original "All Along the Hightower"...not all the covers work.
I enjoyed Afroman's "Because I Got Hightower."
i think i get universal sports-- despite not having any cable channels-- is it one of the digital nbc channels? because there was sevens rugby on the other night? i would love to hear that commentary . . .
i like the easter egg. cool.
Blondie - The Tide is Hightower
hey-- i didn't write in that question about the germans!
That must have been a different Dave from New Jersey who wrote in. You're not the only one, you know!
It was Dave Brown.
So Universal Sports is not on DirecTV or our local cable company. But you can stream it live over your computer. Looks like NBC at 3:30...
YOU ARE STREAMING LIVE!
Rippin and tearin.
Universal Sports is on Fios but not in high def. bullstein.
RIPPIN AND TEARIN! RIPPING AND TEARIN!
the poor souls that didn't watch that clip from yesterday...
Time sensitive means about 30 hours away? Interesting.
We're only 42 days into 2011 so this may not mean much, but it's the clip of the year to date.
the prospect excites me
robbie mentioned a gtb summit in orlando...in november...WUWT (what up with that)?
i'm game by the way. just wish i had more lead time to plan.
I believe the November G:TB summit will take place at the "It's a Small World After All" ride in the park.
I'm obviously down for that as well. Interested to hear if there's any shot of that happening. I'd be attending the mini-GTB summit at Jazz Fest but I don't think my bosses would be keen on me taking more vacation time so soon after my Vegas trip and my upcoming ten day honeymoon. Pretty shitty of them, I know.
who else is going to the orlando mini-summit?
besides me qand my mini-kids?
I'm in...
Details?
the dave and i are both taking our families to disney first week of november - total coincidence. as such, any other gtbers that would like to join us at some point would be more than welcome.
that would probably make the spouses real, real happy
i assume we'd grab some adult beverages after the kids were given knockout drops.
Whitney has a SoundCloud account? We need to set up a G:TB SoundCloud drop box.
Account activated this AM after GTB's IT guy (IT-J) couldn't provide a means of airing the interview.
whit-- did you mean embedding with soundcloud? or something more sophisticated?
http://www.slate.com/id/2284815/
TJ-D2.
Orlando mini-summit. Beers around the World at Epcot is always nice. As for the evening, well, downtown disney will do.
clippers threatening to ruin history
Still threatening...
There are a couple D1 CFB players who play in my regular (3-4x a week) pickup game. One of them playecd QB at UGA. Tonight he brought Mohamed Massaquoi with him.
and?
Not as big as I expected. Terrific athleticism. Pretty average player. Athleticism makes him a factor though. Nice, quiet guy. He didn't guard me but I crossed him up good one time.
damn right you did. g:tb, crossing up nfl wideouts and the general public since 2004.
Found this interesting article on Hightower and your trip. I have not seen the Thumb since I believe that 1995 Hong Kong Sevens, which he played in for the Eagles. We should not be surprised that he proved to be the most durable player from our old school.
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