Some clubs in England and France have questioned the rate of financial growth, McGrath says, and are encouraged by the potential for rugby's global expansion, particularly following the inclusion of rugby sevens, a shorter form of the classic game, in the 2016 Olympic Games.

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As Game 6 approached in the best of 7 classic, Texas had won three games and the Cardinals two.

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At a recent group exhibition of wildly inventive chess sets (Sellers's nod to the London Olympic Games), she sold a paper version of the classic game for next to nothing.

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