Though defending World Champion England’s 28-10 defeat of the USA national rugby team might not seem like such a big deal, I’ll try to put it in some perspective for you. For the (mostly) amateur Eagles to play a halfway competitive game against one of the tournament’s powerhouses is analogous to say, a top 5 ranked NCAA football team almost losing to a Division I-AA school. Which, of course, would never happen.
Since the above game probably won’t feature too heavily on “Sportscenter” tonight, you might wanna check out Paul Doyle’s reliably irreverent live blog of the match, one which he allegedly completed while covering Scotland’s Euro 2008 qualifier win over Lithuania at the same time.