When the 51.9% of the UK who voted to leave the EU celebrated their win back in June 2016, the last thing they were probably expecting was a headline a year later insinuating more people […]
Daybell takes bronze at Slovenian Open
Francesca Bullock Kim Daybell, a 20 year old medical student at Leeds University and a member of the GB Para table tennis team, took bronze in the men’s class 10 singles at the Slovenian Open […]
Olympic hero Brownlee awarded MBE
Olympic gold medalist and University of Leeds graduate Alastair Brownlee has been awarded an MBE. Brownlee, 24, was personally awarded the MBE by the Queen in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday, after winning […]
2012: SPOTY the difference
WARNING: Satirical Content, all points made are intended to be light-hearted and slightly amusing. However the point about Chelsea is deadly serious. Award season has come upon us, X Factor, Strictly and now athletics […]
NFL set to touch down in London
NFL International Series Sunday’s sixth instalment of the NFL’s international series at Wembley Stadium pitted much vaunted New England Patriots against Missouri’s St. Louis Rams who made their first voyage across the Atlantic. The enthusiastic […]
Post London 2012 blues
Sunday night saw the close of what has universally been accepted as the greatest Paralympic Games of all time. With a record 2.7 million tickets being sold, and nearly all events being sold out […]
Leeds welcomes home Paralympic heroes
Leeds was delighted to welcome the return of four local Paralympians at a celebration on the steps of Civic Hall on Thursday. A passionate crowd filled Millenium square and listened as each Paralympian spoke about […]
London 2012: Whose Legacy?
The Olympics have ended, but something more important has begun. It’s been mentioned on this website, and was even afforded a Newsnight special. No sooner had the flame gone out than a whole new competition […]
London 2012: 'The Greatest Show on Earth'
Eternally branded as ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’, the London Olympics needed its greatest stars to perform to emphasize this claim – and empathically, they did. Just as Euro 2012 benefitted from some stellar performances […]
A Generation Inspired
LS Sport’s Ben Morris reflects on a memorable fortnight… I find myself in a dark place. Struck, dumbfounded, by a haunting sense of post-Olympic blues. Despite this, the past two weeks have redefined what it […]
Leeds graduates triumph in Triathlon
Two University of Leeds graduates have triumphed in the Olympic final of the Mens’ Triathlon. Alistair Brownlee, who graduated from Leeds in 2009 claimed the Gold, whilst his younger brother and History graduate Jonny Brownlee, […]
Top Five Olympic Reads
With Team GB finally storming the medal table, the British public are seeing gold- and what better time to pick up an Olympic read from our selection of the best sporting autobiographies past and present. […]