Wigan Warriors beat Hull FC to go top of Super League as George Williams scored his first senior hat-trick.
Glasgow Warriors beat Ospreys at Scotstoun to go four points clear at the top of the Pro12.
Photo: A gym fills with screams and the sound of warriors beating one another with bamboo swords, but it's all friendly at the New York City Kendo Club.
But did he also, I wonder, enjoy Tennyson's own favourite sonnet, Montenegro, in which our Victorian Poet Laureate rejoices at the Montenegrin "warriors beating back the swarm/Of Turkish Islam…"?
Warriors beating back the swarm / Of Turkish Islam for five hundred years, / Great Tsernogora!" Tsernagora was Tennyson's transliteration of the local word for Montenegro; both names translate as Black Mountain.
When Warners and Universal both opted for the third weekend in May as the release date for their films Mad Max: Fury Road and Pitch Perfect 2, most industry analysts expected the rebooted road warrior to beat the glee club maidens.
Caught in a "time loop" — the plot device seen in the 1993 Bill Murray comedy "Groundhog Day" — the soldier must change his fate one death at a time, improving as a warrior to beat the mimics and save the world.
Along with the glamour and excitement that come with a visit from the five-time world champion is the sense that almost nobody expects the Taeguk Warriors to beat Brazil.
Warriors, who beat Hull in August's Challenge Cup final, scored 28 unanswered points to secure victory.
If a video warrior is beating the Taliban in Afghanistan does that "win" somehow deny and even demean the losses on the actual ground where real soldiers are ambushed and die?
