Showing posts with label All Blacks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label All Blacks. Show all posts

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Who to root for in Rugby World Cup Final b/w All Blacks and France: Unless you're married to Binoche, Doutey, Delpy or Frégé, root for New Zealand


Elodie Frégé -Et maintenant (circa 2004)

Who to root for in Rugby World Cup Final b/w All Blacks and France: Unless you're lucky enough to be married to Juliette Binoche, Mélanie Doutey, Julie Delpy or Elodie Frégé, root for New Zealand
Match starts Sunday at 3:45 a.m. Eastern Time

You can watch LIVE in U.S./U.S. Territories for $29.99 via

Same-day tape-delay on Sunday on NBC-TV from 3-6 p.m,
Repeats Sunday on NBC Universal Sports/DirecTV Channel 625 from 8-11 p.m.;
Monday 12:30 a.m.-3:30 a.m.

I watched most of the France-Wales semi-final match, as well as the third-place match between Australia and Wales.

The question of the day at BFM TV's website, http://www.bfmtv.com/
Mondial de rugby : le XV de France a-t-il une chance de battre les All Blacks?


This was BFM TV's last rugby-related video of Saturday, taken at l’Hotel de Ville de Paris.

Oui, since I mentioned her among other Gallic super-talents j'adore, I went 'old school' up at the top of the blog by posting an older clip of Elodie singing "Et maintenant" on Star Academy seven years ago, the year she won by virtue of her deep emotional connection to TV viewers. They love her!
D'accord!

"Et maintenant" was a song I once knew backwards-and-forwards when I was the top French student at NMB Senior High in the late '70's, and we'd often hear that song on certain Fridays as sung by the immortal Gilbert Bécaud.
That happened when my great teacher, Pearl Chiari, decided that we all needed a change of pace, and needed some genuine French culture and musical immersion while we took turns reading Pearl's collection of Paris Match and Le Point instead of simply using our ALM text books.

It was positively shocking to me once I got to Bloomington and came to realize how very little of consequence the other smart students in my French classes at IU -from all over the country- actually knew regarding French life, culture, politics or traditions -good and bad- much less, how little they knew about how and why the French think and act the sometimes peculiar way they seem to -again, good and bad- at least from an American or British p.o.v.
My insight came from the best French teacher there was -Pearl.

If DVD technology and the Internet had existed then, Pearl's easy manner and charm would've helped her make a fortune selling DVDs and teaching people how to speak French.

Gilbert Bécaud - Et maintenant (1962)
http://youtu.be/hmSBAJdie7E

France has all this, let New Zealand have something to celebrate!

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Friday, September 9, 2011

Rugby World Cup 2011 in New Zealand: When the All Blacks were expected to win, what usually happened? Just ask "Sonny Wool"


Rugby World Cup 2011 New Zealand: rugby star ad tribute
Rugby World Cup 2011 in New Zealand: When the All Blacks were expected to win, what usually happened? Just ask "Sonny Wool"
At 5:45 a.m. Eastern, I'm currently watching the first game between New Zealand and Tonga -from Eden Park- on Universal Sports, DirecTV Channel 625, and the game will be repeated from 5-8 p.m. U.S. Eastern later on Friday.

(Universal Sports is currently being shown on a Free Preview basis on DirecTV thru September 30th, and starting October 1st, it will be offered as part of the Sports Pack, which I already subscribe to. Since the Rugby World Cup will still be going strong, there's the possibility of seeing lots of high-quality action.)

The U.S. plays Ireland in New Plymouth on Sunday, New Zealand time, which will be televised on a taped-delay basis in the U.S. on Sunday from 5-8 p.m. Eastern and repeated from 10 p.m.-1 a.m.
Reminder: Auckland is 16 hours ahead of Miami/Eastern US


The Telegraph
Rugby World Cup 2011: let battle commence
Rugby’s World Cup will be about thunderous combat, with none of football’s petulance.
By Ian Chadband
9:10PM BST 07 Sep 2011

Here are some things you should know about the Rugby World Cup, which will kick off in New Zealand tomorrow. It will be interminable, running on and on for some seven weeks; it will be predictable, with the chances of a new winner’s name being inscribed on the trophy minimal; and it will be peppered with lots of awful mismatches, taking its cue from tomorrow’s opening game, when New Zealand will roll over plucky little Tonga like 15 big All Black bulldozers.
Read the rest of the article at


Meanwhile, in the world of psychic animals and sports predictions... AFP is reporting that:
A rugby-mad sheep touted as the world's latest animal pyschic picked the All Blacks to win their opening World Cup match Friday, in New Zealand's answer to the late, great Paul the Octopus.
Read the rest of the article at:


Telegraph video: Rugby World Cup 2011: England arrive to haka welcome in New Zealand

And despite what the Kiwis say, don't sleep on Martin Johnson's England side.
They play their first match of the WC against Argentina on Saturday, though team captain Lewis Moody will not see any action in Dunedin.




AFP video: England rugby squad named for 2011 World Cup

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