Why is it that although the ITV cameras were at Twickenham to televise the England men playing Ireland in the 6 Nations on Saturday, the women’s match, played directly afterwards, could not be televised too. Is it enough that the women’s team have the ‘honour’ of playing at Twickenham once a year? Three times this
Would you like to play in a 57-hour five-a-side marathon for Sport Relief? Sport Relief has teamed up with The Premier League and the BBC for the /Battle of the Five-a-Sides/, an epic rolling football event taking place in a custom built arena on the Piazza at MediaCityUK in Manchester. Football stars Alan Shearer and Robbie
University of Bath sporting scholar Sydney Gregson has been named in the England Women U20 starting XV for Saturday’s rugby international against France. The Sport Performance student, who is supported by a Trendell Sports Scholarship, will start at full-back for the match at Esher RFC (2pm). Three of Gregson’s University of Bath team-mates are on
World Rugby maintained its commitment to drug-free sport with a record programme of intelligent testing, education and Keep Rugby Clean awareness in 2015. With a budget increase of almost 30 per cent, World Rugby carried out more tests in 2015 than ever before – a total of 3,562 – showing a real commitment to protecting
On Saturday 5th March at 12.45pm, the 76th Women’s Head will take place from Mortlake to Putney. Entries this year have flooded in, leading to the maximum number of entries with just under 24 hours to go to the deadline. Even after entries had closed, there were a considerable number of crews contacting the committee,
Eurosport will show live and highlights coverage of the YONEX All England Open Badminton Championships 2016, which runs for six days from next Tuesday, 8 March. Eurosport’s agreement with Badminton England will allow British and Irish fans the chance to watch the current world champions Carolina Marin of Spain and Chen Long of China, as
Manchester Thunder slumped to disappointing 49-55 defeat to Surrey Storm. The Black and Yellows put in a performance littered with unforced errors throughout and ultimately could do nothing about the defending champions inflicting a first loss of the season on them. Surrey travelled to Manchester knowing they needed a win to get their title chances back
It was a sunny but cold winter afternoon at the Northern Echo arena as Sharks ladies welcomed Bristol ladies for the latest round of the RFU Senior Cup. From kick off Sharks Lisa Cockburn fielded the ball well and ran back at the Bristol defence with intent, the ball was quickly recycled and passed out
England Women U20 Coach Jo Yapp has made a number of changes to the squad which takes on France U20 at Esher RFC on Saturday 5 March, KO 2.00pm. Yapp brings four new names into the squad of 23 since their most recent game against Army Women on 18 February, while three of the starting
Yorkshire Jets were slain by Celtic Dragons in the Vitality Netball Superleague Round 6 – in Leeds to leave them rooted to the bottom of the Vitality Netball Superleague table. Anna Carter was faced with injuries to two key players, Jess Shaw and Alex Kirk, and their loss showed on court as Jets went down to a
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