Well, round 12 of Super Rugby got underway as the Crusaders thrash the Rebels in Melbourne (Although the game featured the return of first five-eighth Richie Mo'unga from a broken jaw & centre Jack Goodhue from a hamstring injury) with a double by hooker Andrew Makalio in his 1st start with the Crusaders then the Hurricanes (Captained by possible England back rower Brad Shields) defeat the Lions in Wellington with possible All Black winger Ben 'Blam' Lam (Well, is he good enough to be an All Black? Oh yes he will be in fact in due course) getting a hat trick of tries (Well, the Lions have lost their talisman hooker Malcolm Marx due to a groin injury so he had to return home to South Africa) before the Blues get better of the Waratahs in Manly, winning by just 3 points.
And finally...It's been a few weeks since Peter Burling had taken over the top job from Glenn Ashby as the new skipper of Emirates Team New Zealand (Although they're not going to use cyclors (They're using grinders instead for the new America's Cup AC75 class) because it is now illegal & prohibited under the new America's Cup boat rules & regulations) for the 2021 America's Cup defence (Burling was the helmsman when they won the America's Cup last year in Bermuda), but former Emirates Team New Zealand & Softbank Team Japan skipper Dean Barker has been appointed as the new helmsman for the New York Yacht Club under the name American Magic (Skippered by Terry Hutchinson (Formerly from AmericaOne, Stars & Stripes, Emirates Team New Zealand & Artemis Racing) so Barker would have to live in the state of Utah with his family there in order to comply with the new residency rules for the 2021 event just like Luna Rossa helmsman Jimmy Spithill (Actually it's Max Sirena who is the skipper) who'll have to reside in Italy with his family while British sailor Ben Ainslie has signed his America's Cup syndicate a new deal worth $153 million effectively becoming INEOS Team GB (Formerly Land Rover BAR (Ben Ainslie Racing) although they had to change their name to INEOS Team UK due to a dispute by the British Olympic Association) but there are 4 confirmed syndicates competing in the 2021 edition of the event (3 challengers (Including INEOS Team UK as I mentioned before along with American Magic & challenger of record Luna Rossa) & 1 defender (Which is apparently Emirates Team New Zealand).
So that is my 198th blog of the year 2018 (MMXVIII) & my 18th of this year.
P.S. And don't forget on the 26th of May is the UEFA Champions League final (It is a rematch of 1981 European club championship football final) between Cristiano Ronaldo's Real Madrid (Coached by the legendary former French player Zinedine Zidane who are aiming for a record 13th European club title as well as a threepeat after missing out on retaining the La Liga title which went to their El Clasico rivals FC Barcelona) taking on Mohamed Salah's Liverpool (Coached by ex Borussia Dortmund coach/manager Jurgen Klopp who have never won a European club title in 13 long years although Salah (Their star talisman) is the top goal scorer of the Premier League at the moment with 31 (4 ahead of Tottenham Hotspurs player Harry Kane) at the NSC Olimpiskiy Stadium in Kiev.
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