Since winning the US Amateur title on Sunday, Jack Whaley has had messages of praise from Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus, received a video from Luke Donald in which the Ryder Cup trophy sat tantalising...

Maisie Bond wasn’t even 10 years old the first time she stood on the 10-metre diving board and peered down into the big blue below her at Ponds Forge in Sheffield, a world-class facility that is just ...

MERVIN JAMES hopes a Super League Basketball Cup competition in which he has a personal incentive to atone can help kickstart Sheffield Sharks’ season.

At this week's route announcement for the 2027 Tour de France Femmes in Leeds, one half expected Gary Verity to emerge from behind the giant projector screen, resplendent in mustard trousers, a yellow...

Hang out the bunting, paint the bikes yellow and start graffitiing the roadsides - the Tour de France is coming back to Yorkshire.

The British Basketball Federation (BBF) went bust owing nearly a half a million pounds, The Yorkshire Post can reveal.

The British Basketball Federation has announced it has ceased trading but the controversial start-up league that sparked a furious civil war within the game is refusing to go quietly.

The British Basketball Federation (BBF) is fighting for its future after Super League Basketball (SLB) was handed a major victory in the long-running dispute that has driven a wedge through the game.

One of the rising stars of Great Britain’s men’s basketball team has spoken of his disappointment at the cancellation of forthcoming fixtures and implored the sport’s decision-makers to do all they ca...

British basketball has endured another damaging few days with the governing body’s chair resigning and the game’s global powerbrokers hitting the national game with heavy sanctions.

The external league awarded the licence to run British professional basketball’s men’s competition from 2027 insists it remains unmoved in its commitment to the project despite losing its biggest ally...

For anybody outside Super League's traditional big four, the Theatre of Dreams has felt more like a house of horrors.

More than a few knowing glances will have been exchanged among the clubhouse patrons and boardroom bigwigs at Clifton Lane this week when the news broke that Lee Blackett has been appointed as England...

Players, coaches and fans will be glad for the return of actual basketball action on the court on Friday night following a draining week off the hardwood at the end of another long summer of upheaval.

When his name appeared on the Sheffield Sharks’ roster for the TBT tournament in America earlier this summer, it was a big indicator that Mervin James was headed for a longer stint in the blue and yel...

Super League Basketball is on the verge of landing a significant blow in its civil war with the sport’s governing body by launching a team in Liverpool that could be on court as early as next month.

The 2025/26 Super League Basketball season is set to go ahead on time with clubs planning for a late September tip-off, despite their ongoing war with the sport’s governing body heading for the courts...

Fourteen years ago I was invited down to our nation’s capital by Welcome to Yorkshire for a tour of the Olympic Stadium to mark 12 months to go to London 2012, when that very same setting would be hea...

A former world No 1, a major winner and a European Ryder Cup star tee off on a level footing with satellite tour players and emerging amateurs on Tuesday in the race for one of just a handful of place...

American football touched down in Yorkshire this week but there wasn’t a helmet, shoulder pad or 300lb defensive lineman in sight.

When he was running around Augusta’s back nine with his hair on fire, drinking enough water to force a hosepipe ban, it was pertinent to think Rory McIlroy was not only conquering his own demons but w...

It was hard not to feel like a torch was being passed along the Esplanade by the seafront in Redcar on Thursday.

No Norrie, no worry. There’ll still be a tennis party at Ilkley this week.

Bosses behind a controversial new league set to run professional basketball in Britain have plans to move more than a quarter of games away from clubs’ traditional home courts to larger arenas where t...

Redemption is on the mind of Georgia Gayle when her Sheffield Hatters team take to the court for their Super League Basketball play-off semi-final with Newcastle Eagles on Sunday.

The future of the league may be up in the air and their title hopes now extinguished but Sheffield Sharks are plotting the conquering of two different continents in the coming months.

British basketball’s civil war is being closely watched by central government.

At a time when British basketball should be celebrating Newcastle Eagles’ run to a European final, when it could be using its national teams’ qualification for EuroBasket this summer as a vehicle for ...

Sheffield Sharks and Sheffield Hatters are expected to return to the court this weekend following a ceasefire in the stand-off between the two clubs and Super League Basketball’s referees association.

Sheffield Sharks will travel down to Bristol as normal on Friday in anticipation of their Super League Basketball game with the Flyers going ahead – even if, as it stands, the match officials have gon...

Sheffield Sharks’ long-standing head coach Atiba Lyons claims he has been the victim of unconscious bias and racial profiling in British basketball as the escalating crisis in the sport deepens.

From the chronicling of Yorkshire men’s team’s first season back in Division One to the chip on the shoulder the women’s team will play with, and everything in between, The Yorkshire Post has you cove...

Sheffield Sharks have finally thrown the monkey off their back with a powerful performance to win the Super League Basketball Cup final and end their nine-year trophy drought.

Six weeks ago on a rare Sunday off, Prentiss Nixon - one of the hottest players in Super League Basketball - headed to Birmingham to sit among the fans and watch the first showpiece final of the domes...

The Sheffield basketball fraternity descends on Nottingham on Sunday with the city’s leading men’s and women’s professional teams hoping to land a trophy double.

FOR three decades Sheffield’s two basketball clubs existed as separate entities linked only by the hard-working volunteers who kept them competitive to the verge of dominant during halcyon days for wo...

Sheffield Sharks have signed a new player for the run-in and could have two key men back for next weekend’s Super League Basketball Cup final.

A week in York had a galvanising effect on Steve Borthwick’s England team a year ago, transforming them from a team demoralised after defeat to Scotland into one that ended Ireland’s grand slam quest ...

Sheffield Sharks captain Rodney Glasgow Jnr says he is relishing being a part of a club fulfilling its potential as they chase glory on two fronts this season.

There was a line in Tom Burrow’s interview with The Yorkshire Post last Saturday that struck a chord with Stuart Dixon, the head of the Yorkshire RFU Academy from which the former had graduated.

Atiba Lyons hailed the contribution of his role players as an injury-hit Sheffield Sharks backed up their Super League Basketball Cup semi-final triumph by chalking up another win in the league on Wed...

Two of the architects of Sheffield Sharks’ move to their new arena 18 months ago say all the hard work and sacrifice that went into realising that dream laid the platform for their return to silverwar...

Sheffield Sharks are heading to their first major final in seven years after putting the seal on a two-legged triumph over Bristol Flyers at a rocking Canon Medical Arena on Sunday afternoon.

It was a signing that epitomises the term ‘statement of intent’ when Sheffield Sharks drafted in Rickey McGill three weeks ago.

From a track day with friends at a disused airfield in Gainsborough to the podium at Le Mans in the space of five years, the story of Darren Leung has to be one of the most unique in the history of mo...