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Muslim women game for rugby

New Zealand's traditional game has a fledgling following in a very unlikely place. Following male-dominated Iran's relaxation of social rules in the 1990s, women began playing rugby union. Auckland-based, Iranian-born, film-maker Faramarz Beheshti, 51, was so fascinated he made a documentary about it. Salam Rugby will feature at the 2010 New Zealand International Film Festival, which screens until July 25 in Auckland.

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"Eastern Illinois – readers must know we have no love for their head coach. Frank Graziano has single-handedly scuttled the push for varsity women’s rugby. He could have used his post to meet with other ADs and outline how a rugby club becomes a rugby program, but instead turned his nose up at all of it, refused to even acknowledge rugby exists outside of him, and misled his players.

We have no use for the man, but the athletes are good, he has them believing in an exciting, if predictable, way of playing, and now they are in the full DI Midwest league. So we will see."

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