Our city’s very own team traveled to Nashville to compete in the international Bingham Cup tournament and finished in first place in their division, earning the Hoagland Plate. The three-day event, held over Memorial Day weekend, featured 46 teams with 1,500 players from 27 countries. The Armada came out on top during the first round…
The Tennessee Suicide Prevention Network (TSPN) is the Charity of Choice of the 2016 Bingham Cup, the world championship of gay rugby. The Bingham Cup is named after Mark Bingham, one of the passengers who helped overpower the hijackers on Flight 93 Sept. 11 and the tournament is one of the largest inclusive sporting events…
The Nashville Grizzlies, the only gay and inclusive rugby team in Nashville have just released their 2016 fundraising calendar. Founded in 2006, the Grizzlies’ goal is to create a safe space for players of all sexual orientations, backgrounds and experience level to learn about the sport and have fun. The team is in the middle…
The Nashville Grizzlies rugby team (http://www.grizzliesrugby.org) will host the Mark Kendall Bingham Memorial Tournament, also known as the Bingham Cup, the world championship of gay and inclusive rugby teams, in May 2016. The biennial tournament is the largest men’s rugby union tournament on the international rugby calendar outside of the World Cup. In May 2016,…
SYDNEY — As the Bingham Cup kicked off today in Sydney, two Rugby World Cup winning Wallabies’ captains joined senior federal politicians for every major Australian party, as the International Rugby Board (IRB) and the Australian Rugby Union made history. The IRB is believed to be the first major international sporting federation to publicly endorse…
As Gay Games 9 is set to begin in Cleveland tomorrow, Michael Sam, one of the world’s highest profile LGBT athletes, is urging people to take part in the first international study on homophobia in sports. The study is the first to collect national data about discrimination in the United States as well as other major,…
Two international rugby legends are congratulating Australia’s first gay rugby union team for its decisive win during an historic game. The Sydney Convicts are the first gay rugby team, and only the second gay team in the world, to play at a professional sporting event. On Sunday, the Convicts beat the Macquarie University Warriors 30-12…
Australia’s first gay rugby union team (the Sydney Convicts) will make history when they become the first gay rugby team in the world to play as part of a professional match. In fact, it’s only the second time in the world that a gay team has been invited to play a curtain raiser ahead of…
Australian/U.K. Rugby League stars Sam and Thomas Burgess have joined their South Sydney Rabbitohs teammate, Greg Inglis, in calling for an end to homophobia in sport. Sam and Thomas Burgess have also recorded a video, to be distributed by the NRL and others, encouraging people to take 10 minutes to tell their story in the…
SYDNEY– The five major sports in Australian have pledged to ‘eliminate’ homophobia and have committed to an ambitious timeline for implementing new policies and programs. Australian Football League’s Andrew Demetriou (CEO), Australia Rugby Union’s Bill Pulver (CEO), National Rugby League’s Dave Smith (CEO), Football Federation Australia’s David Gallop (CEO) and Cricket Australia’s Ben Amarfio (Exec….
