Nick Westby

A SWITCH of priorities to the Premiership Cup is exactly what Doncaster Knights need as they look to refine the issues that have plagued them at the start of the Championship season.

Mark Aston is to appeal against the 18-month suspension he has been served for breaking rugby league’s player welfare policy and denies ever making the statement that is one of the key pieces of evidence used against him.

It has been a topic of debate all week: the haka - sporting tradition or “ridiculous” and in need of “binning” as Joe Marler, the England prop, wrote on social media.

Before tip-off against the Bristol Flyers, the reasons why Sheffield Sharks wouldn’t win their Super League Basketball Championship home opener were mounting.

THE BEST 70 players on the DP World Tour tee off in the first of two lucrative, season-ending play-off events in Abu Dhabi on Thursday with five Yorkshire golfers in action, but neither of the White Rose county’s major winners.

Sheffield Sharks’ fan favourite Bennett Koch has been ruled out until the tail end of the season at the earliest after it emerged he may require surgery on his back injury after all.

From Emma Smith-Chaston’s double on New Year’s Day at Catterick to Gavin Sheehan’s dual success on Charlie Hall day at Wetherby just last week, 2024 has been another year of magnificent moments in Yorkshire racing.

It has been quite the week for Cindy Ngamba, feted at Buckingham Palace alongside Great Britain’s Olympic and Paralympic medallists on Thursday, and then honoured again in her adopted hometown of Sheffield 24 hours later as one of South Yorkshire’s heroes from a golden summer in Paris.

Next year’s Rugby World Cup across England has the potential to be the women’s 15-aside game’s Lionesses moment, believes one of the leading ambassadors for her sport.

Sheffield Sharks tasted victory and defeat in the tightest of Super League Basketball fixtures over the weekend.