Sadly, the Bears did not win the rugby world cup this season. The world cup is so-called because it's a contest between the (traditionally) best Canadian team and the (traditionally) best American team. They play two matches (one at each home pitch) and the team with the combined highest total score wins. I don't know why they don't call it the North America's cup, but hey, since we often win, I don't mind it being the world cup. Hey, how about we call it the world cup when the bears win, but north america's cup when the Thunderbir wins. Ok, so to get on with it,
The UBC Thunderbirds won the North America's Rugby Cup last Saturday, defeating the bears 26-17. It must have been a great match. You can read the recap if you're interested.
In more rugby news, the Bears will be demolishing Cal Poly this Saturday. It should actually be a pretty good match, with Cal Poly coming in as the #1 seed for Southern California, and, of course, the Bears as #1 for Northern California. Match details. The game's at 1 o'clock on Witter field, and you can sure expect to see me there.
In other sports news, I guess the baseball season has started. I don't know this because I pay attention to baseball, or because I happened to hear the match on the radio, or because I actually care, no. No, I know because, well, the radio has once again started talking about the scandal with the stupid performance enhancing drugs (and I don't mean the Levitra kind).
Look people, as a culture we worship sports heros. We pay them stupid amounts of money to be good at a game. If you don't want fools to do drugs to be better, stop caring so much about who's the best. Hell, go watch little-league or something, and find out which little kid works the hardest in practice, and cheer for her, or him, or whatever. If you do care about who's the best, go watch TV and see some drugged up dude hit the ball over the fence 44 times. Either way, enjoy, but stop clogging up public airwaves with your whining about moral decline and integrity.
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