Sports News

University of Birmingham Sport (UBSport) will be hosting their International Rules – Gaelic Football v Aussie Rules, to be played on Saturday, June 13.

A 52-strong Great Britain & Northern Ireland under 20 team has been selected to compete at the Loughborough International Athletics (LIA) on Sunday May 17 at the Paula Radcliffe Stadium.

The biggest names in  British athletics will line up at the Sainsbury’s Birmingham Grand Prix on June 7 when Mo Farah will be joined by the likes of Olympic, European and Commonwealth long jump champion Greg Rutherford and world and former Olympic 400m champion Christine Ohuruogu as well as a raft of other British stars.

Kyle Hogg will be holding a special evening to celebrate his career at Emirates Old Trafford after Lancashire Lightning’s first NatWest T20 Blast game this summer.

After resuming 107 ahead, at 39-5, at the Kensington Oval in Barbados, England were bowled out for 123, leaving the hosts with a target of 192. At one stage, they were 80-4 before Darren Bravo and Jermaine Blackwood shared 108.

Tim Sherwood insists he has no interest in the weekly machinations of the basement battle - as he eyes the points required to move up the Barclays Premier League table and away from trouble.

English soccer star Rio Ferdinand paid tribute to his "wonderful wife" after she passed away following a cancer diagnosis.

Liverpool striker, Daniel Sturridge, has been challenged, by his manager, Brendan Rodgers, to come back fitter and stronger.

With the Birmingham Bears first home game of the NatWest T20 Blast – against Worcestershire Rapids – just three weeks away, Warwickshire County Cricket Club has today announced record advance sales in the 12-year history of the tournament.

At noon on 6th June over seventy yachts will sail out of Falmouth Bay for the start of the Red Ensign AZAB 2015, the largest ocean going race leaving Britain this year.

Kent's Charlotte Edwards bids for record seventh county title, as other counties seek to break Kent and Sussex's stranglehold on 50-over competition.

West Bromwich Albion striker Saido Berahino has announced plans to launch a foundation in his name to help the vulnerable and disadvantaged.

World 400m champion Christine Ohuruogu will compete at the Sainsbury’s Anniversary Games, in the former Olympic Stadium, at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park from July 24-26.

The search is on at Edgbaston Stadium with a new regional challenge launched to find the biggest hitter of a cricket ball in club cricket.

On the day that tickets for the Sainsbury’s Birmingham Grand Prix have gone on general sale, Olympic champion and 800m world record holder David Rudisha has confirmed that he will compete at the event on Sunday June 7.