The Iron Maidens, Cleveland’s female rugby team, showed why they were last year’s national finalists by winning the first two games of the season against Akron and Rochester.
The stormy conditions on Saturday made the game resemble a mud-wrestling match. The ball was as slippery as a sea creature and the girls clobbered each other like WWE stars (“That bitch took out my leg,” complained one Maiden after emerging from a pile with a jagged claw scratches across her legs)…
This article appears in Mar 26 – Apr 1, 2008.