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Sports, News - Krav Maga FREE Trial Class for MAY Only

	Learn how to defend yourself like Jason Bourne and The Bionic Woman. Amazed by Jason's fighting prowess? Come and try Krav Maga for yourself I will be teaching you how to escape from many different holds and locks, i.e side head locks, bear hugs and a variety of chokes and many more. Learn how to defend your self against attacks and how to fight back. Read more...

Sports, - Krav Maga Self Defence Classes -7.30pm Every Tuesday in Hull By Paul Riches

	Last month I started looking for something different to do in my spare time. I tried the usual suspects, yoga, pilates, spinning classes but they all felt a bit too tame or boring. I was fed up of the gym and all the big guys making me feel inferior. Then I came across Krav Maga, a self defence training seminar being held in Hull. Read more...

Sports - Hard (an exploration of sport and masculinity, from the perspective of a recently-retired loose forward) By Perry Farrell

	No more rugby, then. Played me last game. Twenty years of it. I had some great times - on the field and off. But what was the point? You can get into the habit of something and let it become so big, that you can't even remember why you started doing it in the first place. I think it was all about being macho. Being hard. You didn't know why, but if you had a certain personality Read more...

Sports, News - Report From England Athletics U23 And U20 Championships, Bedford 23rd - 24th June 07 By Jon Mattos

	Kingston upon Hull AC's promotion hopes have received a blow after Lee Blaymire suffered a hamstring injury at the England Athletics under-23 Championships. Blaymire has spearheaded Kingston's fine Northern League Division Three campaign with 12 wins from 12 to date but will have to sit out for 6 weeks following the incident at Bedford. With Kingston sitting Read more...

Sports, News - Reports From KUHAC (Kingston Upon Hull Athletics Club) Saturday 26th - Sunday 27th May 07

	Emma Jackson sits proudly at the top of the UK rankings over 200m after a fabulous eight days for the Kingston upon Hull AC athlete. The 14-year-old sprinter produced two masterful performances in the Young Athletes Northern Premier League before swooping for gold at the Northern Championships a week later. On home soil at the Read more...

Sports, Karting - Fast Track Karting By Julian Thorley

	If you have a need for speed, then it could easily be satisfied by going Karting. Having never experienced it before, I was looking forward to trying it with a number of work colleagues. We went to the Fast Track Karting circuit in deepest East Hull straight from work. First impressions of the place were good. A new building holding reception, briefing Read more...

Sports - Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting By Cilla Photographs by Roland Standaert and Mo
	The world of martial arts has always been a mystery to me. I wouldn't know the difference between a leg block and a karate chop. When I was presented with the opportunity to go a long to see what happens at a Kung Fu class, I thought it would be a good idea - it might help to de-mystify the sport. So one chilly Wednesday evening a couple of weeks ago Read more...

Sports, Rally - The Wold Construction North Humberside Forest Rally 2006 - Saturday 25th March 06 By Matt Rudd

	The third round of the BTRDA took place last as part of the Wold Construction North Humberside Forest Rally. The rally kicked off at the Jarvis Hotel in Willerby then a long road section to Gale Rigg for the first stage of the event. The weather of the previous day and night before the event would be decisive throughout the event with the stages being extremely wet and slippery. Read more...

Sports, Rally - Robin Hood Forest Stages Rally - Sunday 5th March 2006 By Matt Rudd

	As usual the Robin Hood Rally was split into 2 main categories; the Robin Hood Historic Forest Stages and the Robin Hood Forest Stages Rally. As well as having many stages on the Sunday, the Historic event also had 3 night stages on the Saturday. The Historic event was the opening round for this year's British Historic Rally Championship and therefore did Read more...

Sports, Rally - The Riponian Stages Rally 2006 - Sunday 5th February 06 By Matt Rudd

	My first gravel event of the year, like last year, was on the Riponian Stages Rally which this year took place on Sunday 5th of February. The event had a total of 14 stages with a mixture of gravel and tarmac on the stages. Like last year I was once again on the 2 Riccal Dale stages throughout the event. The rally did have a good entry - maybe not in terms of numbers, Read more...

Sports, Rally - The Jack Frost Rally 2006 - 15th January 06 By Matt Rudd

	The rallying year for me started even earlier in 2006 with my first event of the year on 15th January. The Jack Frost Rally was held at the Croft race circuit were we had been roughly three weeks earlier for the Christmas Stages. The rally attracted lots of big names including, Christmas Stages winner Tony Bardy in his Nissan Sunny GTiR. Other names included Read more...

Sports, Rally - The Christmas Stages Rally - Tuesday 27th December 05 By Matt Rudd

	The 2005 Christmas Stages Rally was held on 27th December. The rally itself was all based at the legendary Croft race circuit near Darlington (North Yorkshire). Unfortunately, I wasn't there for the whole of the rally due to snow (mainly in East Yorkshire). This was actually the first time I had ever been to a tarmac event in the 4 years I have been spectating, the nearest I Read more...

Sports, Rally - The 2005 Malton Forest Rally By Matt Rudd

	This years Malton Forest Rally took place on the 11th of December which was, for me, a great way to spend my birthday. This year it was the 3rd running of the event which was created in 2003 to replace the Dalby Gravel Sprint. The rally consisted of 9 stages at 3 different locations which meant each stage was repeated 3 times with slight modifications for each run Read more...

Sports, Rally - 19th - 22nd November 05 - Roger Albert Clark Rally 2005 By Matt Rudd

	The Roger Albert Clark (November 19th-22nd) is probably one of the most well known events in the British rally calendar. Last year the rally was resurrected by the Delacy Motor Club and following a great success, the rally returned once again this year. And with a stage at Bramham Park near Leeds on day 2 of the 4 day rally spectacular, I just had to attend. Read more...

Sports, Rally - The Hamsterley Forest Rally 2005 - 13th November By Matt Rudd

	The Hamsterley Forest Rally, only in its second year after its cancellation last year for lack of entries, returned back on the 13th November. The event itself was all based within the Hamsterley Forest complex, near Bishop Auckland in County Durham. The rally attracted a great entry; just slightly over 100 cars had entered which was the events maximum entry. Top names entered in the Read more...

Sports, Rally - The 2005 Trackrod Rally Yorkshire - 8th to 9th October 05 By Matt Rudd

	Yorkshire's biggest off road motor sport event returned to the forests of North Yorkshire on October 8th and 9th. This was of course Rally Yorkshire the penultimate round of the Kwik Fit Pirelli British Rally Championship. Apart from the BRC cars which ran both days the rally incorporated many almost support rallies these included the Landrover Challenge, British Historic, Read more...

Sports - Sunday 18th September 1.00pm - American Football Returns To Its Roots In Hull!

	The new Hull Hornets A.F.T have agreed a deal with the Ennerdale Sports Centre, Sutton Road, Hull. The Hull-City-council-owned centre last staged a competitive American football game in the late 1980s, when the city's former team the Kingston Liberators played at the site, although many people still associate the Ennerdale complex with American football in the city. Read more...

Sports, Speedway - Wednesday 13th July - Hull CPD Vikings v Glasgow Tigers KOC 2nd leg By Mark Oliver Photos by Adam Jennison

	Hull CPD Vikings: 44 Glasgow Tigers: 46 Heat 1 Re-run after Stancl fell on the first bend of lap 2. In the re-run Branney touched the tape so opted to go off 15m. In the second re-run Leverington won from the gate closely followed by Sanchez. Branney never really made the ground up from 15m back. Read more...

Sports, Rally - The 2005 Rainworth Skoda Dukeries Rally - Saturday 18th June By Matt Rudd

	The Dukeries Rally, like the North Humberside which was my last rally, is a round of the BTRDA rally championship. The rally took place on June the 18th which was one of the hottest days of the year which meant for the competitors lots of dust. The rally was based at Mansfield while most of the stages were in the Sherwood Forest complex. Read more...

Sports, F1 - Motor Racing - How Pathetic! By Matt Rudd

	I have always been a fan of motor sport, whether it was Rallying , Moto GP or Formula One. However on Sunday it was the US Formula One Grand Prix. To be honest this was the most pathetic race I have ever seen, instead of about 20 cars on the starting grid only 6 came onto the track these were the 2 Minardi's , Jordan's and Ferrari's. Read more...

Sports, Water Skiing - Splashing Out for The Summer By Michelle Dee and Lottie Clark

	Twenty five years ago Tony Edge a leg amputee formed the British Disabled Waterskiing Association. Tony Edge lost a leg in a flying accident during World War II. He believed there was an easier way to enable amputees to water-ski and he along with others formed the organisation to provide many disabled people a unique Read more...

Sports, Football - What a night. Liverpool European Champions By Gregory Anderson

What a night. Everything I've believed about football - Steven Everett spoke of it - has been kicked into row Z. Much will be written and spoken about the night Liverpool became football kings of Europe, and rightly so. Milan's first goal was, we must admit, a sickener. A set-piece from the first attack in the first minute. Traore - showing us the skill that scored that Burnley own goal - started as nervous as Read more...

Sports, Boxing - Fight Club By Stephen Allen

	Nobody told me I should do boxing. It was only my cousin Gavin who told me about the St Paul's Boxing Club when I was eleven. Gavin took me down there the first time. I didn't know what to expect. As we pulled up I saw a small brick building, with a blue sign saying St Paul's. Read more...

Sports - The Beverley 2k Fun Run By Eleanor Smith Age 7 and Eleanor's Mum
	I thought the Fun Run was very tiring but I tried to carry on. My Mum and my brother's friend Ross were doing it too. I wish I could do the big run when I'm older. When I was doing the Fun Run I had a stitch in my tummy but I carried on. My medal was excellent. I showed it too my class in 2FB Anlaby School. They wanted to do the Fun Run as well. My friend Eden was very very happy to see I had a medal and Read more...

Sports - Beware of the Cat - Beverley 10k - Sunday 15th May 05 By Mike Pullon
	The 2003 Beverley 10 k was , at 44 , my first attempt at any sort of competitive running for about 30 years. As part of a weight loss, and fitness gain, plan over the previous year I had been running about 2 miles a day and felt that this event would be a good test for me. My goal was to finish and if possible not last. In the event I found that the motivation Read more...

Sports - 2005 Beverley Annual Fun Run 13 page Photograph Gallery By Mo
	Well as the website is utterly buzzing from a home page link at the Beverly Athletics Club thanks for that! I have got together this 13 page gallery of the Fun Run for you all...Enjoy. Coming up next is the 10 Race Gallery, shortly when I have my breath back..cheers Read more...

Sports - The Beverley 10k Run - Sunday 15th May 05 By Jonathan Rollison
	The Beverley 10k - what a fantastic morning - well done Beverley Athletics Club! This was my first ever running event since school - 26 years ago. The main highlight was to see my 11 year old in the fun run come storming back into the main arena at full tilt looking determined to get a few places up the field in the 2k race. He admitted later that he started the home sprint too early, but Read more...

Sports, Speedway - Why Speedway? By Danny Searle

	Why do I love speedway? My Dad used to go before I was born. As I started getting older I went more often. But I remember I was four when I first started to go. I can't remember the first time I went to Speedway. I can however, remember two of the riders, Jan Stapman and Joe Screen. I can't remember Read more...

Sports, Bowling - Ten Pin Bowling - Championship Golden Bowl in Turin - 4th - 10 April 05 By Dom Gall

	Reigning European Ranking champion Paul Moor from England defeated tournament leader Osku Palermaa from Finland in the title match, 210-205 and 227-215, to win the Championship Golden Bowl in Turin and 10,000 Euro. This was Moor's second victory of this year's European Bowling Tour after winning the second stop in Read more...

Sports, Rally - The 2005 North Humberside Rally - Saturday 2nd April 05 By Matt Rudd

	The Wold Construction North Humberside Forest Rally took place on Saturday April the 2nd. The rally started and finished at the Jarvis Hotel in Willerby, just east of Hull. However the stages were situated in the North Yorkshire forests of Langdale, Cropton and Dalby Read more...

Sports - London Marathon 2005 - My story By Fergus Malone
	On Sunday 17 April 2005, I ran the London Marathon on its 25th anniversary and for my first time. 35,680 runners started the race. I came 7,666th. I had watched a mate of mine run it last year. Afterwards over a beer he gleefully suggested to me Read more...

Sports, Football - In Reply To Football Sugar Daddies - Helping or Killing (By Steve Everett) By Gareth Marshall

	First of all, I have to concede that I actually agree with Steve about the crux of his article. There's nothing more satisfying than seeing a team who seemingly represent everything that is bad about the modern game and who have pretty much had riches and success handed to them on a plate Read more...

Sports, Football - Football Sugar Daddies - Helping or Killing By Steve Everett

	Tuesday 22nd March. One of the richest clubs in the world, Manchester United, announce a shocking 50% drop in profits over the last half a year, claiming to have fallen victim to falling T.V. income and the cost of buying new players. This comes months after Read more...