Meet The Eagles--Episode 9 (Tess Feury)

Short, impromptu interview with Tess. Watch the Penn State youngster talk about her rugby family and muse about playing herself in a potential future movie called Feury.

Meet The Eagles--Episode 8 (Jess Wooden)

In this week’s episode, Jess Wooden talks about her rugby beginnings, playing overseas, and Canadian fans. Jess has been in the 15s National Team pool since 2012, and earned her first cap in 2015. In this interview, Jess and I let the conversation take us on some good tangents.

Meet The Eagles--Episode 7 (Catie "Peanut" Benson)

Catie “Peanut” Benson earned her first cap in 2015, and
scored her first try in the Eagles’ most recent match against Canada. In this
week’s interview, Benson talks about her favorite thing about rugby, what she
does outside of rugby, and The Great Peanut Conspiracy, among other things. The
WNT gang also make an appearance in this ad lib interview. 

Meet The Eagles--Episode 6 (Jordan Gray)

Watch Jordan talk about her family, rugby career and favorite music. Jordan earned her first 15s cap in 2015 and will represent the Women's National 7s team in Japan in about a week.

Meet The Eagles--Episode 5 (Hope Rogers)

Hope, who was one of the starting props in the 2014 World Cup, talks about all of the places she's played rugby, the difference between a 15s tour and a 7s tour, and Disney movies.

That Ten-Dollar-Milkshake

If you guys haven't had a chance to read my latest article on The Rugby Breakdown, check it out. In it I talk about my experience in Vegas, while on my first 7s tour. If you have read it, then you'll probably remember the part about the $10 milkshake (well, you'll remember if a part of you is still that eight-year-old kid who licked cake batter residue off the inside of your mom's mixing bowls...or that 33-year-old kid who did it this past Christmas). I'm sure most of you are probably thinking this thing must have been some giant vat of ice cream and milk if it cost $10. Not even close. It was a regular sized milkshake, but no regular milkshake was it.

I got the $10 shake at Milk Bar in the Cosmo. While a lot of things cost way more in Vegas, than they do anywhere else (go ahead and try to get a plain black coffee for under $4--I'm talking airport prices here), this slice of sweet, buttery heaven wasn't a markup by any means. It was palatable perfection, and if Milk decided they wanted to charge $10 for a little slice of the promised land, then $10 it is.

The thing had a piece of pie in it. Pie, guys. It was a combination of pie and ice cream, two of my favorite things. Of course, anyone can drop a dollop of ice cream atop a slice of pie. Hell, I wouldn't pay over $5-6 for a slice of pie with a dollop of ice cream. This was different. It was a cup of ice cream with pie, and mixing them together created some sort of synergistic sugary reaction that took the milkshake to another level--they couldn't even call it a milkshake; it's called a MilkQUAKE.

Now let's talk about the pie. No question, it was the pie that made the Milkquake the prodigious masterpiece of a dessert it is. If you can see the ingredients in the picture, the crack pie, features butter and brown sugar. My order with the cashier went something like this:

Me: So what is 'crack pie'?
Cashier: It's made of brown sugar, butter...
Me: Yup, go ahead with that. Crack pie Milkquake.

Turned out to be a great decision. When you're trying to stick to a high performance diet, your cheat meals and snacks mean something to you. There's nothing worse than biting into a dry brownie or a burnt cookie when you've been looking forward to a sweet treat. The Crack pie Milkquake didn't disappoint. Scooping out big hunks of pie from a shake while hanging out with friends was a wonderful way to wind down after my first 7s tour.

Meet The Eagles--Episode 4 (Kelsi Stockert)

Get to know Kelsi Stockert, from her family and rugby background to her love of good jokes. Kelsi is a capped 15s player, and is poised to earn her first 7s cap this weekend in Vegas.