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An episiotomy is a surgical cut in the muscular area between the vagina and the anus (the area called the perineum) made just before delivery to enlarge your vaginal opening.
Obstetricians used to do episiotomies routinely to speed delivery and to prevent the vagina from tearing, particularly during a first vaginal delivery, in the belief that the "clean" incision of an episiotomy would heal more easily than a spontaneous tear. Many experts also believed that an episiotomy might help prevent later complications, such as incontinence.
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The Word: Put some pants on, Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez is ridiculous.
I put up with her Fiat commercials. I admit I was a little thrown when the car appeared in her "Papi" music video (and a 30-second trailer for the video), but I dealt with it. But did a Fiat 500 really have to appear onstage with her during her performance of "Papi" during Sunday night's American Music Awards? Really? What's next? A staged paparazzi shot with one, strolling arm and axle on the beaches of Cabo?
It's just that everything lately with the singer/star has been so in-your-face. I realize she is trying to stage a comeback and is trying to refill her bank account, but it's reaching saturation point.
Like, what was up with that skintight Britney Spears-esque bodysuit she was wearing at the AMAs? We get it. You're 42 and still super hot — but come on, put some pants on. You're a mom now; you can be sexy without showing off your lady parts. She is acting like a slutty reality TV contestant instead of the true star she is.
Another case in point? She was sure to leak her behavior at a celebrity-packed AMA after-party to Us Weekly. The magazine reported that Lopez retreated to a private booth with her new boy toy, dancer Casper Smart, where she was seen grinding on his lap, rubbing his head and kissing him.
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So this is what it was supposed to be like, right? We were supposed to have Carlos Quentin all manly and sh_t demonstrating how home runs are to be hit at Petco Park while the young hot prospects like Logan Forsythe learn their lessons quickly and follow suit.
We were supposed to have Huston Street holding things down in the later innings, stealing a win on a comeback. We were supposed to have starting pitching that keeps us in games.
It's a good thing June is Look Towards the Future.
I, for one, hope that the Padres continue with the plan and let us see a little bit more of Carlos Quentin past this season. I also want to see a lot more of Logan Forsythe. That in itself would be epic.
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Alexander Lippisch
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Born | Munich, German Empire |
November 2, 1894
Died | February 11, 1976 Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA |
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Nationality | German |
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Significant projects | Messerschmitt Me 163 |
Significant advance | first delta wing to fly first mass-produced rocket fighter |
Alexander Martin Lippisch (November 2, 1894 – February 11, 1976) was a German pioneer of aerodynamics. He made important contributions to the understanding of flying wings, delta wings and the ground effect. His most famous design is the Messerschmitt Me 163 rocket-powered interceptor.
Lippisch was born in Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria. He later recalled that his interest in aviation stemmed from a demonstration conducted by Orville Wright, over Tempelhof Field in Berlin, in September 1909.[1] Nonetheless, he planned to follow his father's footsteps into art school. The outbreak of World War I intervened. During his service with the German Army from 1915–1918, Lippisch had the chance to fly as an aerial photographer and mapper.
Tailless aircraft[edit]
Following the war, Lippisch worked with the Zeppelin Company, and it was at this time that he first became interested in tail-less aircraft. In 1921 his first such design would reach production in as the Lippisch-Espenlaub E-2 glider, built by Gottlob Espenlaub. This was the beginning of a research programme that would result in some fifty designs throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Lippisch's growing reputation saw him appointed the director of the Rhön-Rossitten Gesellschaft (RRG), a glider research group.
Lippisch's work led to a series of tail-less designs numbered Storch I – Storch IX (Stork I-IX) between 1927 and 1933 (these were not related to the successful Fieseler Fi 156 Storch STOL aircraft of World War II). These designs attracted little interest from the government and private industry. Nonetheless, it was during this time that Lippisch's Ente (Duck) became the first aircraft to fly under rocket power.
Experience with the Storch series led Lippisch to concentrate increasingly on delta-winged designs. The Delta I was the world's first[2] tailless delta wing aircraft to actually fly (in 1931[3][4]). This interest resulted in five aircraft, numbered Delta I – Delta V, which were built between 1931 and 1939.[4] In 1933, RGG had been reorganised into the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug (German Institute for Sailplane Flight, DFS) and the Delta IV and Delta V were designated as the DFS 39 and DFS 40 respectively.
War projects[edit]
In early 1939, the Reichsluftfahrtsministerium (RLM, Reich Aviation Ministry) transferred Lippisch and his team to work at the Messerschmitt factory, in order to design a high-speed fighter aircraft around the rocket engines[3] then under development by Hellmuth Walter. The team quickly adapted their most recent design, the DFS 194, to rocket power, the first example successfully flying in early 1940. This was the direct ancestor of what would become the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet.
Although technically novel, the Komet did not prove to be a successful weapon, and friction between Lippisch and Messerschmitt was frequent. In 1943, Lippisch transferred to Vienna's Aeronautical Research Institute (Luftfahrtforschungsanstalt Wien, LFW), to concentrate on the problems of high-speed flight.[3] That same year, he was awarded a doctoral degree in engineering by the University of Heidelberg.
Wind tunnel research in 1939 had suggested that the delta wing was a good choice for supersonic flight, and Lippisch set to work designing a supersonic, ramjet-powered fighter, the Lippisch P.13a (wartime test footage). By the time the war ended, however, the project had only advanced as far as a development glider, the DM-1.
Post war in the United States[edit]
Like many German scientists, Lippisch was taken to the United States after the war under Operation Paperclip. Advances in jet engine design were making Lippisch's ideas more practical, and Convair became interested in a hybrid (mixed power) jet/rocket design which they proposed as the F-92. In order to gain experience with the delta wing handling at high speeds, they first built a test aircraft, the 7002, which became the first jet-powered delta-wing aircraft to fly on June 9, 1948.[5] Although the U.S. Air Force lost interest in the F-92, the next test model 7003 was designated the XF-92A. This led Convair to proposing delta wing for most of their projects through the 1950s and into the 1960s, including the F-102 Delta Dagger, F-106 Delta Dart and B-58 Hustler.
Ground Effect[edit]
From 1950–1964, Lippisch worked for the Collins Radio Company in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, which had an aeronautical division.[3] It was during this time that his interest shifted toward ground effect craft. The results were an unconventional VTOL aircraft (an aerodyne) and an aerofoil boat research seaplane X-112, flown in 1963. However, Lippisch contracted cancer, and resigned from Collins.
When he recovered in 1966, he formed his own research company, Lippisch Research Corporation, and attracted the interest of the West German government. Prototypes for both the aerodyne and the ground-effect craft RFB X-113 (1970) then RFB X-114 (1977) were built, but no further development was undertaken. The Kiekhaefer Mercury company was also interested in his ground-effect craft and successfully tested one of his designs as the Aeroskimmer, but also eventually lost interest.
Lippisch died in Cedar Rapids on February 11, 1976.[3]
Some Lippisch designs[edit]
- Lippisch SG-38 Zögling, 1926
- Lippisch P.01-111, designed as a competitor[6] to the Messerschmitt Me-163 Komet in 'Projekt X'.
- Lippisch Li P.04, a tailless airplane designed as a competitor to the Messerschmitt Me 329
- Lippisch Li P.10, 1942 tailess bomber design
- Lippisch P.11, designed to compete with the Horten Ho-IX; the latter went on to become the Horten (Gotha) Ho-(Go-)229.
- Lippisch Li P.13, 1943 push-pull bomber design
- Lippisch P.13a, a unique delta-winged, ramjet-powered interceptor.
- Lippisch P.13b, a unique airplane powered by a rotating fuel-table of lignite, owing to the fuel shortages late in World War 2 in Germany.
- Lippisch P.15, a development of the Messerschmitt Me-163 Komet.
- Lippisch P.20, a development of the P.15.
- Dornier Aerodyne, a 1972 VTOL testbed
See also[edit]
- ^ Wright Flyer over Templehoff
- ^ Ford, Roger (2000). Germany's secret weapons in World War II (1. publ. ed.). Osceola, WI: MBI Publ. p. 36. ISBN 0-7603-0847-0.
- ^ a b c d e F. Marc de Piolenc & George E. Wright Jr. Ducted Fan Design, Volume 1 (Revised). pp. 129–130. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
- ^ a b "New Triangle Plane Is Tailless", December 1931, Popular Science article and photo of Delta I at bottom of page 65
- ^ Aviation week , Volume 51. McGraw-Hill Pub. Co. 1949.
- ^ Masters, David (1982). German Jet Genesis (1. publ. ed.). London, UK: Jane's Publishing Company Limited. p. 142. ISBN 0-86720-622-5.
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From Latin recalcitrāns, recalcitrantis, present participle of recalcitrō, recalcitrāre ("be disobedient").
recalcitrant (comparative more recalcitrant, superlative most recalcitrant)
- Marked by a stubborn unwillingness to obey authority.
- 1908, Edith Wharton, "In Trust" in The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories:
- His nimble fancy was recalcitrant to mental discipline.
- 1914, P. G. Wodehouse, "Death at the Excelsior":
- There was something in her manner so reminiscent of the school teacher reprimanding a recalcitrant pupil that Mr. Snyder's sense of humor came to his rescue.
- 1959 June 8, "Kenya: The Hola Scandal," Time:
- Kenya's official "Cowan Plan," named after a colonial prison administrator, decreed that recalcitrant prisoners "be manhandled to the site and forced to carry out the task."
- 1908, Edith Wharton, "In Trust" in The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories:
- Unwilling to cooperate socially.
- Difficult to deal with or to operate.
- 2003, Robert G. Wetzel, Solar radiation as an ecosystem modulator, in E. Walter Helbling, Horacio Zagarese (editors), UV Effects in Aquatic Organisms and Ecosystems, page 13:
- The more labile organic constituents of complex dissolved and particulate organic matter are commonly hydrolyzed and metabolized more rapidly than more recalcitrant organic compounds that are less accessible enzymatically.
- 2004, Derek W. Urwin, Germany: From Geographical Expression to Regional Accommodation, in Michael Keating (editor), Regions and Regionalism in Europe, page 47:
- The Hansa had no legal status, independent finances or a common institutional framework, while the major weapon against recalcitrant members (or opponents) was the threat of embargo.
- 2006, Janet Pierrehumbert, Syllable structure and word structure: a study of triconsonantal clusters in English, in Patricia A. Keating (editor), Phonological Structure and Phonetic Form, page 179:
- Particularly recalcitrant examples which made it impossible to remove actual words while maintaining the balance of the set were resolved by altering a consonant in the base word to create a new base form.
- 2010, Brian J. Hall, John C. Hall, Sauer's Manual of Skin Diseases, page 251:
- However, when a clinician is faced with a more recalcitrant case, it is important to remember to ask the patient whether psychological, social, or occupational stress might be contributing to the activity of the skin disorder.
- 2003, Robert G. Wetzel, Solar radiation as an ecosystem modulator, in E. Walter Helbling, Horacio Zagarese (editors), UV Effects in Aquatic Organisms and Ecosystems, page 13:
- (stubbornly unwilling to obey authority): argumentative, disobedient
- (difficult to operate or deal with): stubborn, unruly
- (stubbornly unwilling to obey authority): compliant, obedient
- (difficult to operate or deal with): amenable, cooperative, eager
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marked by a stubborn unwillingness to obey figures of authority
hard to deal with or operate
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recalcitrant (plural recalcitrants)
- A person who is recalcitrant.
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This deluxe pretzel treat has a horseshoe shape...It's visual and different. Everyone seems to love the sweet-salty mixture! —Emily Baldwin Fort Collins, Colorado
28 Servings
Prep: 20 min. + cooling
1 package (10 ounces) large marshmallows
3 tablespoons butter, cubed
5 cups crushed pretzels
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup butterscotch chips
Place two 5-in.-diameter bowls upside down in the center of two 9-in.
round pans; coat bowls and pans with cooking spray.
In a large microwave-safe bowl, melt marshmallows and butter on high
for 1 minute. Stir in pretzels. Quickly add chips; stir gently until
coated. Divide mixture in half. Press one portion evenly into one
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Cool for 15 minutes.
Remove bowls. Run a knife around edges of pans to loosen. Invert each
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apart to elongate if necessary. Cool completely. Yield: 2 horseshoes
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Anyone who knows me knows that I love my dogs as if they were my children.
Troy and I have owned dogs all our lives and have rarely been without at least one dog at home to greet us after a long day's work. Being a pet owner is one of the joys in my life, but it can also bring heartbreak.
March promises many things here in the Commonwealth. It looks like it will start with some winter weather before we get any relief, the college basketball season heats up, and we in the Senate tackle the most difficult part of the job, the biennial budget. As we still wait for the House to pass their version of the budget, legislation continues in our chamber.
I don't want to discourage anyone, but it seems that I was correct in my assumption that we are never again going to see warm weather in this region of the country. It is nearly impossible to stay outdoors longer than a few minutes in these frigid temps, and people are starting to go a bit crazy with cabin fever. Last week it was reported that a mom in Cayuga not only completed her children's baby books, but she filled each one out in Klingon.
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Day Two at the Tokyo 7s produced three encouraging performances by the USA.
They won two matches, 12-7 over Kenya and 20-10 over Portugal, and they lost another, 17-12 in the Bowl Final against France.
And how it helps the USA the most, at least this year.
USA rugby found itself under some scrutiny as an organization twice in the past week or so, as the Cal playoff decision came down, and then, later, news that the lawsuit from Ruggers Inc/Kooga will be settled.
USA Rugby deserves a little positive press in these bits of news, and so here it is:
Are we going to see turnover in the national team? Seems unlikely. If you're going to the domestic camp at the US Military Academy at the end of May, you know you have plenty of hurdles to jump to get on the squad for Canada the following week.
For the last four years, teams had to play-in to the Girls High School/U19 National Championship, but 2012 marked the return to an invitational (the competition's format from 1999-2007). This year's teams had to apply for entry into the tournament, and not only had to prove their history of success on the field but also their financial aptitude. The goal was to get the best eight teams in the country competing, regardless of territorial seeds, and also alleviate the financial pressure of a late berth to nationals. But as with any new system, it was met with some resistance.
Six of the eight teams invited competed in the 2011 NIT and at least one other recent tournament. The 7th and 8th place teams – New York and Sebastian River (Fla.) – were replaced by Catholic Memorial (Wisc.) and Downingtown (Pa.).
First, the obvious choices: Fallbrook High School (San Diego) and Sacramento Amazons. The two California teams have been finalists the previous two years, splitting titles. Divine Savior (Wisc.) won the previous six NITs and finished 3rd the last two tournaments. Kent (Wash.) also has a slew of NIT appearances and always gives the top teams a run for their money.
Lakewood could easily find itself in a top-four spot, having lost to Kent by a point in last year's first round, and with multiple NIT trips under their belt. West Carroll, too, has been MARFU's best team the last couple of years and finished only two points shy of Lakewood for sixth.
Those six teams' invitations are difficult to dispute and all rightfully deserve their spot at nationals. But when it came to filling out the roster, the National High School Invitational Committee chose to double up in Wisconsin and Eastern Pennsylvania. Representing the girls' division was Marin Pinnell (Fallbrook), John Klein (DSHA), Bryn Chivers (USA U20 WNT) and Brad Rockwood (West Carroll).
"The applications were each evaluated, the references contacted and each team was contacted to discuss their structure, strength and history," USA Rugby Director of Youth and High School Rugby Kurt Weaver explained. "The goal is to get the eight teams that most deserve to be there from the applicants involved. The evaluation process went off the applications and prior national tournaments, prior state tournaments and prior play.
"The applications for those two teams [Catholic Memorial and Downingtown] and the other six were stronger than the other applications," Weaver continued. "Both New York and Sebastian River applied, but were not as strong applicants."
Sources close to the committee say that the debate over those final two teams was probably the most spirited discussion of any of the three championships, including the boys' high school and U19 divisions. Some were pushing hard for a second tier to ensure the right eight were picked at the top, and that might happen in 2013, but USA Rugby had already made plans for 2012 which precluded extra teams.
The good intentions are there, but the new process does take that wild-card factor out of the tournament. There's no rewarding an up-and-coming team until they prove their worth.
"I feel like this system is a bit bogus," New York coach Molly Dengler said. "I understand it because I realize that USA Rugby is a bit of an organizational mess these days, but try explaining that to the girls. It simply doesn't make sense that no matter how well you perform in your season and at the State Championships that there is no way to go farther now. I hope that this new system is only temporary, while the SBROs come together to provide another, more fair way of qualifying for nationals. It places unnecessary limits on new up-and-coming clubs that cannot prove longevity of success. Let's take the San Diego Surfers in the WPL as an example. The WPL structure made it possible for them to come in to the WPL and get the #1 seed in the conference going into nationals based on their stellar first season. Shouldn't this be a model for more national playoffs?"
Dengler admitted that her team would have had a difficult time affording the trip even if it had been invited to nationals. Additionally, New York's league schedule all but disappeared once the SBRO, Rugby New York, eliminated New Jersey teams from their spring lineup. New York struggled on the national stage last year and could have used another league to develop their talent. Dengler suspected that the aforementioned factors played a big role in why New York was omitted.
But having healthy competition and winning history within one's SBRO isn't necessarily a boon as far as nationals are concerned. Take Tennessee, for example. Even if two-time state champion Ravenwood applied for this year's NIT, they wouldn't have been able to attend as the USA Rugby championship is scheduled on the same weekend as states. Rugby Colorado's Summit High School, arguably the best team in the country under coach Karl Barth's direction, also didn't apply for the NIT, and likely never will since rugby is sequestered to one season (fall) the way most high school sports operate. In general, the NIT occurs too early (mid May) for high school sports to participate, and more coordination between USAR and SBROs is needed in order to expand the competition.
If the competition could expand to 16 teams, then room would open for squads like Mother Lode. One of the top two teams in the competitive Sacramento Valley region, Mother Lode was denied entry into this year's NIT.
"On February 4 we had a game with the Amazons and Mother Lode won 24 to 10," Mother Lode Ron Chance said. "We still did not receive an invitation and my girls are crushed. I understand the Amazons deserve an invitation because they were last year's runner-up. I'm disappointed the new selection process is not about getting the best teams at nationals and still mired with politics.
"I'm extremely disappointed," Chance continued. "We are clearly one of the best teams in the country. It is unfortunate we have the annual national champion or runner-up, Amazons, in the same town. I was under the impression that the new invitation policy was set up specifically to address this situation."
Even if Mother Lode beats the Amazons in their regular season match at the end of the month, or even at the league championships, there's no guarantee into next year's tournament, but that's how the excluded teams must view their current seasons – as fodder for next year's application.
Alex Goff uses a geological metaphor to explain some of the challenges facing USA Rugby a the Elite Level, and one move that the organization should make.
This is the latest King's Corner column from 7s legend Waisale Serevi. This time he reminisces about the legendary Hong Kong 7s.
I'm headed back to one of my favorite places in a couple weeks – Hong Kong! I love the city on many levels.
Alex Goff looks at whether it's time to use the F-word with the USA 7s men's team coach.
Eamonn Hogan has been travelling to the USA since 2005 assisting club, high school and national teams with refining their skills at the breakdown. He has coached rugby for nearly twenty years and is currently a contributor to Rugby Coach Weekly magazine based in the UK. He is therefore in a unique position to judge the view of 'foreigners' in the American game. In this follow up editorial, he looks at overseas coaches and where they can help the development of the game in America
Guest Columnist John O'Donnell gives you the basics on re-starting the season safely.
Guest columnist Eamonn Hogan discusses who American teams on tour, especially national teams, need help from referees in order to make the adjustment to the American game.
After participating in the first three tournaments of the HSBC Sevens World Series, the USA team has shown some interesting statistical trends.
Here's a look at some of the numbers:
Writer Kelly Crigger looks at what the USA could really bring to World Rugby, and whether the rest of the world wants it.
This is the 6th King's Corner column from 7s legend Waisale Serevi. This time he talks about the amazing evolution of 7s as a global sport.
I just finalized my tickets to Las Vegas for this year's USA Sevens Tournament at Sam Boyd Stadium February 10-12. Some of my colleagues here at Serevi™ will play in this event and I admit to some pangs of jealousy! Already several years removed from my 21-year international career, I still miss elite competition.
Eamonn Hogan has been travelling to the USA since 2005 assisting club, high school and national teams with refining their skills at the breakdown. He has coached rugby for nearly twenty years and is currently a contributor to Rugby Coach Weekly magazine based in the UK. He is therefore in a unique position to judge the view of 'foreigners' in the American game. In this editorial, he looks at the issue of players from overseas
In his Eagle Eye Column, Alex Goff looks at the list of players contracted to the Men's 7s residency program.
I've been asked repeatedly what I think is about to happen with the Eagle national team position.
I am honest. I don't know. It looks like we're down to a short list, and most of that short list is domestic-based coaches. That's all important and we look forward to how it all shakes out. But it's only one answer to the many questions; questions that need to be answer this year (I hope).
Few things are more important, now, and more convoluted and haphazard than the American club 7s season.
So this is my second end-of-year column, where I look back 14 years over what I've covered, and not covered, and try to give me 1997-self some advice, or maybe a pat on the back.
It's a way of seeing how far we as a rugby nation have come.
The Club GameNineteen ninety-seven was the year the Super League began.
Had I know then what I know now, I would have been writing some very different articles. Certainly I covered the Super League seriously; I was on the sidelines during one of the games of the first weekend, and I continued to cover the competition as if it was the top national league in the USA.
Which it was, and still is. But what I should have done was take a stand for the Super League and against USA Rugby. USA Rugby treated the Super League as an outlaw competition in its opening years, and as a result caused all sorts of difficulties. Had USA Rugby worked with the league leadership (and vice versa) we might have established a better domestic structure in this country.
What should have happened, is that the Super League should have been separated from the DI and DII club system. Player movement into the Super League should have been allowed, and everyone should have looked at the Super League as something for players to aspire to, not as a competition to shackle.
Had the American rugby community embraced the Super League as an elite league, and worked to support it as such, and worked to give it a season separate and distinct from the club season, we might be in a better state today.
I didn't call for any of that until far too late. The club structure remained as it was.
Today, I don't have too many complaints with the men's club structure. After many excruciating growing pains, we have a competitive system that provides a decent number of games for DI and Super League teams. The rules governing foreign players make sense, and the eligibility rules are generally fine and enforced (last year's Aspen/Glendale debacle aside) with some semblance of common sense.
There are still those who make decisions based on their own provincialism, or based on long-held grudges, but they are fading away, so that's fine.
The clubs themselves are getting better. They are focusing on getting their financial and organization houses in order. They are less focused on frittering away money on overseas players of dubious value. Instead they have seen the value of courting the college grad – which is how many of these clubs got started, after all.
One of my big beefs ten years ago was that clubs didn't give young college players a chance to play. Today an ambitious young player can find playing time in the Super League or DI, and become somewhat better. That's a step forward.
I pushed for that, for a long time. I've pushed, also, for clubs to take risks at certain positions. Too often I have seen clubs put overseas players at 8, 9 and 10. It's understandable; those are key decision-making positions and coaches are, by and large, a risk-averse lot and like to get a sure thing when they can.
But we desperately need to develop depth at halfback. I really, really wish clubs would work harder to put young American-eligible players into those positions.
One of the big changes in the club game of the last several years has been the move from sugar daddy rugby to the semi-pro game. In the old days, one or two well-off individuals financed a club. Those clubs won in part because they could pay for some cover from overseas, and also because players gravitated toward organizations where they didn't need to shell out large sums in order to play.
But ten years of uncertain economic times have taken down some of those sugar daddies, and other issues have taken others.
In their place have come clubs that are supported by a network of invested old boys dedicated to creating an organization, or clubs supported as a business venture, or clubs supported by a larger institution.
The Glendale Raptors have their own stadium and a city behind them. Life University has their institution behind them. The Kansas City Blues have gone into partnership with their local Major League Soccer team. The New York Athletic Club is associated with that club. San Francisco Golden Gate developed its own athletic club, starting rugby from U9 on up, using the entire club superstructure as a way to support itself.
There are many ways to organize and finance a club. And clubs are doing it. We've also seen some essentially disband. That's part of the growing process and not, I think, the sign that the game is weakening.
Club rugby was dying, but I don't think it is anymore.
What has died, and died a sad, lonely death, is select-side play.
I list this under club rugby because we're generally talking about select-side player for club players. There is now National All-Star Championship, and hasn't been since 2007. I supported changing that old competition, and I still think that was the right idea. But I also said the point was we should remake the NASC into something new. That never happened. I complained, but not enough. My good friend Ed Hagerty complained louder, and was right to do so.
We have no select-side play for post-college rugby players anymore. That's a crime. It's a crime that USA Rugby didn't fix it, and it's a crime that the territorial unions did nothing about it. They could have (and some said they would) sent TU all-star teams on tour or into challenge matches with other teams. It could have been done, but lack of will saw that ideal die.
It is not too late. We can, especially with the elimination of the TU system and creation of Geographical Unions, find new ways to reward players.
Yes we want to give Eagle-potential players a change to play at a higher level to help them be seen and to help them make the jump to international play. But I also think playing for an all-star team is meaningful in its own right. Canada now has a league of provincial teams. It would certainly be possible to create one based on leagues, or GUs, or states.
This is the overall message we should take from club rugby. Rugby players in America play rugby because it's fun, it's exciting, and they want to do something more than go to work and then go home and watch TV. Many of these players want to play at as high a level as possible. It's not about money for them, or fame, or accolades (I've seen enough players duck interviews to know that!). It's about challenging themselves.
I remember talking to USA scrumhalf Mike Petri about all the workouts he does and how he squeezes it all in around work and personal life. That, I said, is the price you pay for being a USA player.
"But Alex," he said. "Even if there was no USA National Team, I'd still do it."
A lot of players feel that way. They love it, and want to work as hard as possible to be good.
We need to ensure doors are open for those players. We should not be looking for rules to stop players from changing divisions (I think a player should be able to move up a division mid-season, even to a different club, with some minor restrictions, for example). We should be investing time and energy to find ways to revitalize select-side play. We shouldn't be dumbing down club rugby in this country, we should be encouraging excellence.
I think about it way too much, winning the lottery, but it sure is fun. I also think a fair amount about how professional rugby is most likely to succeed in the United States. The two lines of thought are not mutually exclusive.
I love the idea of professional 15s, as do probably most of you who will take the time to read this, but I don't think it's a commercially viable idea in the States just yet.
Brian Budzinski, the President of the Missouri Comets professional indoor soccer team, who came on one of our most listened-to podcasts to talk about niche pro sports, said about rugby something to the affect of: "I think there's a market for it, but not 15s. I would pay $25 to come to a 7s tournament, but you couldn't pay me $25 to sit through a 15s game."
Unfortunately, I think his sentiments are shared by a large amount of the American public. Fortunately, that means I think 7s, if wrapped in the right package, is something America is ready to buy now.
So back to the title, if I won the lottery tomorrow, I would begin plans for a professional 7s circuit, and here's how I'd start.
I'd pick about 8 cities in the United States I think would be really great places to host one of my events, based on a few factors.
We'd like each city to have a core team. If I'm in Seattle, OPSB has to commit to playing in six of my eight tournaments. Another criterion is that the city has a venue that could make money and accommodate media – like Silverback Stadium in Atlanta, Infinity Park in Glendale, Boxer Stadium in San Francisco, or Livestrong Sporting Park in Kansas City.
Other criteria are the city's population and rugby awareness. The Bay Area would be a must for this hypothetical competition because it has both. Salt Lake City would be a serious contender, too. Denver would make a lot of sense. Let's just say these cities, for argument's sake: San Francisco, LA/San Diego (SoCal), Denver, Dallas/Houston (Texas), Denver, Las Vegas, Atlanta, NYC/Boston/Philadelphia (Northeast).
I would offer serious prize money at each tournament. Every team plays for free, and I'd assure each tourney pays the top two teams. Let's say it's a $10,000 purse: $5,000 for 1st, $2,500 for 2nd, $1,500 for third and $900 for fourth. Winning my championship is worth $25,000. Finishing second is worth $15,000 and third $5,000. That brings my grand total of payouts to $125,000.
To cover the nut of the payouts I would need to average just under $16,000 of profit at each tournament. If I charge an average of $20 a head and average, say, 2,000 fans, less than half of what the aforementioned indoor soccer team averages a home game, then my budget is $40,000 a tournament. For every extra 500 people I get at each event, or every $5 I raise my average ticket price, I expand my budget by $10,000.
Take out the prize money for each event, and I have $24,000 to work with. I think I could rent the likes of Infinity Park, Silverback Stadium or maybe a Texas high school football stadium, pay referees, stadium/event staff and properly market the event for that kind of money, plus maybe leave a little on top for me. I could quite possibly find hotels for the core teams and feed the participant teams, for that, too. I haven't sold a nacho or a beer yet.
So, If I'm a club considering partaking in this circuit, perhaps as a core member, what am I looking at? Well, I have to pay to transport my teams to from city to city. That's a serious amount of money. But, several teams spend serious money already. O-Club has been to Denver 7s, Glendale went to San Diego and Dallas this summer, a Pacific Barbarians team always goes to Cape Fear, etc. Plus, 16 teams every year go to San Fran for Nationals, most of which fly.
And there's more prize money on offer than ever before.
Let's draw some comparisons. Let's say Belmont Shore, as national champs, mimics New Zealand's 2010/2011 IRB 7s World Series success on my circuit – they win $49,800. Schuylkill River, mimicking South Africa in 2010/2011, would bank $32,500. Utah (England) would make $19,900.
Are teams getting rich? No. But they aren't now, and they're playing in inferior competitions that have no potential to earn money.
If we add an average of 500 fans paying an average of $5 more at each tournament, and put it all into the prize kitty, you could triple those figures. Imagine the average attendance at each tournament is something closer to 8,000 people after a couple of years (that's still less than the CRC did in its first year) and it would create an extra $120,000 in revenue for each tournament, not to mention greatly increase the circuit's ability to garner sponsors.
Does this concept sound like something that already kind of existed, but on steroids? Yes, the Club Championship Series run by USA Sevens. The CCS was a great concept. Why did it ultimately fail? Probably because teams would collect the prize money from a qualifier and not take the trip to Vegas for the final tourney, and maybe moreso because USA Sevens had other things on its mind that beckoned for more attention, like USA Sevens.
Would players get paid? Something tells me Sean Whalen in Utah, David Pope with The Woodlands Exiles and Bill Gardner, formerly NOVA's financial backer, would see worth in a competition like this and spend enough to be competitive. Others would, too.
Plus, if successful, the circuit could expand in a million different ways. Maybe the Pat Clifton Pro 7s Circuit would contract a few guys, like Paul Emerick, Maka Unufe and Justin Boyd, and makes them the poster boys. Maybe the Utah event starts drawing upwards 10,000 fans each summer, and Whalen decides he wants to buy the tourney away from PCP7s (We'd probably have to hire a marketing person to come up with a better name), then that's a revenue stream for his team, and he just pays a royalty to PCP7s each season.
Would it be on TV? I don't believe TV coverage is the end-all be-all for sporting success, especially considering how far online video options have come, but, yeah, it very well could end up on the tube. I would think NBC Sports, set to enter your living rooms in 2012, would have interest.
I'm no genius, no innovator. But this makes sense to me, and I'm certain more thought, tweaking and number crunching by people far smarter than me could come up with something that made infinitely more sense. And the best part about it? It's doable without winning the lottery.
I have been reporting on rugby in America since 1997. My own perspective has changed somewhat since then, and certainly the game has changed. Sometimes, I think perhaps I've had a small influence on the positive changes. I certainly hope so.
If I were to get on the GoffonRugby secret subterranean bullet train and go really fast, fast enough to go back in time, I might go back to 1997 and help myself make some predictions.
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