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  • Fans bid for handbag that made rugby player cry (Handbag reduces rugby player to tear)

    06/03/2006 7:10:11 PM PDT · by sully777 · 20 replies · 1,081+ views
    Reuters ^ | Fri Jun 2, 2006 10:09am ET
    SYDNEY (Reuters) - New Zealand rugby fans are bidding thousands of dollars for the chance to own the handbag that reduced a burly All Blacks player to tears. In one of the more bizarre off-field sporting incidents, former New Zealand captain Tana Umaga tangled with Hurricanes club team mate Chris Masoe in a nightclub after losing the prestigious Super 14 tournament final last Saturday. Masoe, who has played two tests for New Zealand, tripped over a man's feet in the Jolly Poacher bar in Christchurch early last Sunday and then hit the unidentified man in retaliation. Umaga, one of New...