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DRAGONS WIN 78 – 69 AT BRIXTON TOPCATS

Bradford Dragons bounced back from the home defeat against Leeds Carnegie last week to win 78 – 69 on the road in their EBL division 1 game. The...

Building work gets started at Holt Park Active

A special event to celebrate the start of building work at the new £27m fitness and wellbeing centre at Holt Park took place earlier today. Lee...

Workshop: Sport England Small Grants Scheme

WYSport have a Running Sport ‘Sport England Small Grants’ workshop schedule for Wed 22nd February at The Glasshoughton Centre (near SnoZon...

Harlem Globetrotters ticket winner announced

Week one of the Harlem Globetrotters giveaway has finished. Congratulations to Dana Kima who has won a pair of Harlem Globetrotters tickets for ...

February Coaching Roundup with Les

Training Needs Analysis and Personal Development Tools sports coach UK has produced a guide to using training needs analysis (TNA) and personal devel...

33,000 youngsters inspired into sport as legacy programme gathers momentum

33,000 young people have been inspired to do sport in their own time in the first six months of Sportivate - Sport England’s Olympic and Paralym...

Kirklees U16s Central Venue League results - February 2012

The Kirklees Under 16s Central Venue League was hosted by Deighton Basketball Club on Saturday 4th February 2012. The teams competed against each oth...

Sport England grant for Keighley’s over-50’s table tennis players

Keighley’s over-50’s table tennis players have received a vote of confidence from Sport England: funding for a year’s coaching. Haw...

Pakistan RL Moves Step Closer

The establishment of Rugby League in Pakistan and South Asia has moved a step closer thanks to the efforts of former England RL international and...

DRAGONS LOSE 66 – 75 TO LEEDS CARNEGIE IN A PULSATING WEST YORKSHIRE DERBY GAME

Those Dragons supporters who battled through the snow where rewarded with an exciting game in which the lead changed 24 times before Dragons lost 66 &...

Win Tickets to see the Harlem Globetrotters!

Live Nation and the Harlem Globetrotters have kindly donated five pairs of tickets to West Yorkshire Basketball to help us promote basketball opportun...

Retired on a high at Heaton

Former badminton, squash and tennis players took to the courts at Heaton Tennis & Squash club.  This time they tried out the UK’s faste...

Do you remember the last time London hosted the Olympic Games?

With the London 2012 Olympic Games now just six months away, Leeds City Council has launched a special project to remember the last time the world&rsq...

Quest Taekwondo Competition News!

Quest Taekwondo prepared for the Children's International Championships in Germany by attending a 1 on 1 competition at Barnsley last weekend. The ai...

Sports clubs encouraged to bid for £10 million Olympic legacy funding

Sport England Chair Richard Lewis and Sports Minister Hugh Robertson today urged local community sports groups to bid for Olympic legacy funding ...

West Yorkshire Basketball players meet The Original Harlem Globetrotters

The Harlem Globetrotters are a worldwide icon, synonymous with family entertainment and great basketball skills.  The Globetrotters represent...

Anita Lonsbrough at Cambridge Road Baths in 1963 © Kirklees Museums & Galleries

Olympic Great returns to her roots

MBE and local Olympic great Anita Lonsborough will be returning to her roots on Friday February 10 when she visits her former place of work Huddersfie...

DRAGONS WIN 85 – 72 AWAY AT WORTHING THUNDER TO GO FOURTH IN THE LEAGUE

Bradford Dragons made the long road trip to play Worthing Thunder and came away with a deserved 85 – 72 win that lifts Dragons into fourth place...

Harlem Globe Trotters visit Bradford!

Are you interested in Meeting the Harlem Globetrotters? For your chance to meet these legends and discover why they are in Bradford read on! During ...

WEST YORKSHIRE SPORTS HALL ATHLETICS TRIALS 2012

The West Yorkshire Sports Hall Athletics Trials were held at the Richard Dunn Sports Centre on 22nd January . Over 100 Boys and Girls from all over We...

Sport Makers week on BBC Radio Leeds - 23-27 Jan 2012

All this week Adam Pope and the team at BBC Radio Leeds have been talking about Sport Makers culminating in a live outside broadcast of the Wes Butter...

Australia’s Olympic diving stars heading for Leeds

Leeds is marking Australia Day today with the announcement that the diving stars from Down Under are the latest athletes to choose the city as their t...

West Bradford Golf Club makes great contribution at golf's grass roots

West Bradford Golf Club’s efforts to reach out to the local community have boosted grass roots junior golf and won praise from leading golf char...

Run England update

Your latest update from Run England Welcome to eRunner! Below are the headlines from the last fortnight as well as the us...

Sport Makers hits 10,000 as sporting legacy gathers pace

  Seventeen-year-old Tamara Radford has become the 10,000th person inspired by London 2012 to sign up as a Spo...

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2012 Challenge Delivery Pack

The world’s biggest event is taking place in only a few months’ time and already 85,000 people across the country are celebrating by takin...

Leeds on its marks as Olympic countdown reaches 100 days

A celebration event was held today to mark 100 days to the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games.A hundred pupils from schools across Leeds made a hu...

FIELDS OF VISION –THE ARTS IN SPORT AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE - HEADINGLEY, 5&6 SEP 2012

The Fields of Vision conference of the arts in sport is convened by Leeds Rugby Arts [Leeds Rugby Foundation] and hosted in association with the Carne...

Volunteers needed for disability event at Leeds Met - 8 may 2012

Leeds Met Students are running an event for 200 disabled children with a paralympic theme on 8th May from 10am-2pm. We are looking for some qual...

Get the Olympic Torch Street Party Started!

Kirklees Council is encouraging communities, families and organisations to start planning to celebrate the Olympic Torch Relay when it comes to Hudder...

Free Olympic and Paralympic taster session on Briggate - Apr 6 2012

Calling young people from Leeds London 2012 is nearly here so come and join in on Briggate this Thursday 5th April Come along and try some Oly...

WYSport Event "The Way Forward" - April 19, 2012

West Yorkshire Sport hope you enjoyed The Way Forward 9am-2pm on Thursday 19th April 2012 at Odsal Stadium, Bradford. Keynote speaker Judit...

Keighley & Craven Open TracK Challenge Olympic Year 2012 - Middle Distance, Sprints & Jumps

Simple format, easy-to-enter, open challenges that are all about participants of all ages and standards challenging themselves and having the opportun...

Search begins for sporting golden oldies in Leeds

The search is on to find veteran athletes in Leeds as part of a special project inspired by the London 2012 Olympic Games.As part of Leeds City Counci...

Leeds charity Inter-Active granted prestigious Olympic Inspire status

Leeds based charity Inter-Active has been granted the prestigious Inspire mark by the London 2012 Inspire programme.The London 2012 Inspire programme ...