2000s (decade) organized in France. Bloodgate is the nickname for a rugby union scandal involving the English team Harlequins in their Heineken Cup match against the Irish side Leinster on 12 April 2009. It was so called because of the use of fake blood capsules, and has been seen by some as one of the biggest scandals in rugby since professionalisation in the mid-1990s, indeed even as an argument against the professional ethos. The name is a pun on Watergate. The New York Yankees won the first Major League Baseball World Series of the decade in 2000, as well as the last
Launceston Rugby Union Football Club Launceston Rugby Union Football Club Launceston Rugby Union Football Club is a Rugby Union club in Tasmania. Established in 1999, the club is a member of the Tasmanian Rugby Union and Tasmanian Rugby Union Juniors, affiliated with the Australian Rugby Union and plays in the Tasmanian Statewide League. The club's home ground is at Royal Park in the Launceston, Tasmania. Known as "the Tigers" or "the Bumble Bees", the club colours are blue and yellow. The club currently fields teams in Men's First Division and Senior Women's Sevens Division. The club resulted from a merger of the Glen Dhu Rugby