Scottish fullback Stuart Hogg, the Lions' youngest player at 20, looked to get his tour off on a positive note but the beginning of a scything run a couple of minutes into the match was brought to juddering halt by a crunching tackle by Barbarians center Casey Lualala.

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The featured event Saturday night was the Linux Death Match, in which teams of network administrators tried to halt to one another's network services.

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