Recuperating Vickery to miss start of Six Nations

Wasps prop Phil Vickery will miss the start of the Six Nations contempt undergoing successful neck surgery. Vickery requires a minimum three months of reclamation from the injury sustained against Racing Metro last month.
With England opening their Six Nations against Wales on 6 February, Vickery has little hope of forcing his way back into the team until later in the tournament. But the Wasps director of rugby, Tony Hanks, is backing the 33 year old to make a complete recovery from his latest injury setback.

UB40 of king hits Provo

Founding member of legendary British and the former lead singer band UB40 hit the stage at the swish resort after midnight on Thursday evening.

But the late start did not stop hundreds of excited residents and holiday makers from bobbing and swaying to the intoxicating reggae beats.

Ali Campbell, who turned 50 this year, sold more than 70 million records worldwide with UB40.
He has four number one hits under his belt including ‘Red, Red Wine,’ ‘Baby Come Back,’ ‘I’ve Got You Babe,’ and ‘I Can’t Help Falling in Love With You.’

After three decades of success with the popular eight-piece Brummie band, Ali split from them in January 2008.

He added the break-up down to reoccurring problems with management and said he wanted to focus on his solo career.

In 2007 he launched a solo album called Running Free which entered the UK charts at number nine and earlier this year he released his second album Flying High.

Paul Sackey will miss the games of starting season

The 29-year-old has been tangential since problem his leg 10 minutes into his return to action verses Bristol in April, having hurt his calf during the RBS Six Nations.
And even though the revival process has gone well, Paul accepts he won't come back into action.
"My leg was broken in two places last season but it is healing well. I haven't started running yet and it may be that I miss one or two games at the start of the season. But that's better than rushing back too quickly and maybe suffering another injury as a result.
"As soon as the leg is strong and ready to go out there, that's when my date is. When I come back I want to be 100 per cent and hopefully fitter, stronger and faster than ever."
Wasps begin their Guinness Premiership campaign on September 5 verses Harlequins at Twickenham.

Ireland have named a 36-man Training squad

Ireland Training squad consists of players that were involved in the summer tours to North America and the Churchill Cup during May and June as well as several senior players who were not included for the summer tours.

Ireland have named a 36-man squad for the first of three summer training camps, which gets underway in Belfast next week.

The camp begins on July 26 in Northern Ireland, lasting for three days, with the other two sessions taking place in August and September.

There have been no players who toured South Africa with the British & Irish Lions over the earlier part of the summer named in the squad, whilst players recovering from injuries have also been overlooked.

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The 2010 Six Nations Championship are also called the 2010 RBS 6 Nations because of tournament's sponsorship by the Royal Bank of Scotland, RBS 2010 Six Nations will be the 11th series of the Six Nations Championship. The annual northern hemisphere rugby union championship is challenged by England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. The championship will start on the weekend of 6 February 2010, with the final games scheduled for 20 March 2010. The present holders of the Six Nations Championship are Ireland, who triumph the Grand Slam and Triple Crown in 2009.

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