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Yahoo
13 hours ago
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Rugby legend Kevin Sinfield to share his story at North East event
Rugby legend and charity fundraiser Kevin Sinfield will share his story at a special North East event. The former Leeds player and successful Super League star is launching The Extra Mile speaking tour. On Thursday, September 25, he will stop at Gateshead's The Fed, recounting tales from his career and his team's charitable efforts, which have raised millions for motor neurone disease (MND) charities. Kevin Sinfield going the extra mile (Image: Alamy) The multi-award-winning player, who earned 26 caps for England and 14 for Great Britain, will particularly highlight his fundraising for ex-teammate Rob Burrow. Sinfield and Burrow formed a strong bond over 15 years of playing rugby together, which extended beyond the field. When Burrow was diagnosed with MND, Sinfield committed to running seven marathons in seven days to raise £77,777 for his friend and the MND Association. This initiative alone raised over £2 million, with the current total from Kevin and his team's efforts exceeding £12 million. The funds have been crucial in aiding research into the cause of the debilitating disease. Sinfield continues to support MND research, balancing his fundraising with his career and personal friendships, which will all feature in his talk. He said: "I can't wait to bring the event to the North East. READ MORE: Band raises £50,000 for children's cancer charities in memory of Darlington teenager County Durham salon refused by council after source of 'noise and disruption' Popular Spennymoor butchers with 40 years' experience named The Northern Echo's best "Every time we have visited for the challenges the people have come out in force to support us, and I am really grateful, hopefully we will see a lot of old friends there." Tickets for the evening at The Fed are priced at £30 for silver tickets and £50 for VIP tickets which include a signed copy of Kevin's book, The Extra Mile, and a printed photograph with the player. They are available at
Yahoo
14 hours ago
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Rugby legend Kevin Sinfield to share his story at North East event
Rugby legend and charity fundraiser Kevin Sinfield is set to share his inspiring story during a special event in the North East, as part of his newly launched speaking tour, The Extra Mile (Image: Supplied) Rugby legend and charity fundraiser Kevin Sinfield will share his story at a special North East event. The former Leeds player and successful Super League star is launching The Extra Mile speaking tour. Advertisement On Thursday, September 25, he will stop at Gateshead's The Fed, recounting tales from his career and his team's charitable efforts, which have raised millions for motor neurone disease (MND) charities. Kevin Sinfield going the extra mile (Image: Alamy) The multi-award-winning player, who earned 26 caps for England and 14 for Great Britain, will particularly highlight his fundraising for ex-teammate Rob Burrow. Sinfield and Burrow formed a strong bond over 15 years of playing rugby together, which extended beyond the field. When Burrow was diagnosed with MND, Sinfield committed to running seven marathons in seven days to raise £77,777 for his friend and the MND Association. Advertisement This initiative alone raised over £2 million, with the current total from Kevin and his team's efforts exceeding £12 million. The funds have been crucial in aiding research into the cause of the debilitating disease. Sinfield continues to support MND research, balancing his fundraising with his career and personal friendships, which will all feature in his talk. He said: "I can't wait to bring the event to the North East. READ MORE: "Every time we have visited for the challenges the people have come out in force to support us, and I am really grateful, hopefully we will see a lot of old friends there." Advertisement Tickets for the evening at The Fed are priced at £30 for silver tickets and £50 for VIP tickets which include a signed copy of Kevin's book, The Extra Mile, and a printed photograph with the player. They are available at
Daily Mail
21 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Bettys loaf cake, beer snakes and polite applause are the perfect antidote to football's tribal toxicity: OLIVER HOLT spends a day basking in the cricket at Headingley
Summer started on a heavy, hot day in Leeds on Friday. It started with the morning sun glinting off the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and cricket supporters striding happily along the towpath through its Victoriana, past Granary Wharf and Monk Bridge Viaduct, towards the cathedral of Headingley, on the hill. It started with a bacon and sausage butty from Ugly Mugs Cafe on St Michael's Lane, opposite the ground, already busy more than two hours before the first ball of this Test summer was bowled, the summer that is a prelude to an Ashes winter in Australia, the summer when Bazball is being told to grow up or go home. Ugly Mugs is David Lloyd's pre-match eatery of choice and there is an item called Rob Burrow's Number 7 on the menu, in honour of one of Leeds' favourite sons. It is a place to watch the cricket walk by. 'You just missed Harry Brook,' one of the customers said to no one in particular, as he peered over the mountain of his full English from one of the outside tables. Queues had already started to form outside the gates. Signs pointed us to summer, too. They pointed to familiar, comforting names such as the Kirkstall Lane End. Inside, the great expanse of the Western Terrace lay empty and expectant and daunting, ready for its bacchanal. The nets were up on the outfield and there was the smack of ball on bat, and the buzz of broadcasters doing pieces to camera. Ben Stokes was on the front cover of the programme, with his collar turned up, and on the desks in the press room there were pieces of loaf cake from Bettys in Harrogate that had been 'steeped' in Yorkshire Tea. And Bumble was here now and Michael Atherton and Nasser Hussain, broadcasters who have done so much to illustrate their game with colour and life and beauty and complexity. On the field, Stokes won the toss and said, 'We'll have a bowl', and the hum grew a little louder. Some looked up at the sky and saw it was blue and wondered at the wisdom of the decision. Others pointed out that the previous six Tests on this ground had all been won by the team bowling first. Music from a DJ booth called Punjabi Roots drifted over the ground. Yashasvi Jaiswal pushed the first ball of the day from Chris Woakes judiciously away, left the next four and then guided the final delivery through gully to the third man boundary for four. It was the start of a day of elegance and admiration. Jaiswal was a joy to watch. He gave a first hint of what was to come with a sumptuous drive through mid-off from the penultimate ball of Woakes's second over. Soon after, he carved Brydon Carse like a dish fit for the gods, viciously through point to the boundary. Soon, it started to feel as if maybe India were not going to miss Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma quite as much as everyone had thought. Jaiswal and KL Rahul drove and cut with majesty. Stokes offered some resistance, as Stokes always does. England's captain is never less than a force of nature and he removed India's debutant, Sai Sudharsan, for a duck with the last ball before lunch. It was only a brief reprieve. By mid-afternoon, as India began to accelerate away from their hosts, Stokes's decision to put them in started to excite comparisons with Hussain's decision to bowl against Australia at the Gabba in 2002. That didn't end well. On the evidence of the first day, at least, neither will this. But this is only the opening skirmish. Just the first day of summer. England were strong favourites to win this series before the start, so this was just the start this five-Test challenge needed. The first signs are that it will be a battle royal. The crowd seemed to recognise that, too. When Jaiswal was finally dismissed for 101, clean bowled by Stokes, after tea, the crowd crammed on to the Western Terrace — even those involved in the patient building of a gargantuan beer snake — stood to applaud him as he headed back towards the pavilion. That kind of generosity is not uncommon in cricket but after another season of football's endless toxicity and relentless tribalism, it still felt like a cool breeze in the stifling heat of the afternoon. It was not England's day but it was impossible not to appreciate the feast India were serving up. Nor did they relent. Shubman Gill, who some had expected to wilt under the pressure of being the new India captain, ended the day unbeaten on 127. He brought up his century with a stunning cover drive off the bowling of Josh Tongue. It was a sobering day for England's bowlers. Their attack looked light and ineffectual. Maybe Jofra Archer will be back for the second Test at Edgbaston. England need him. Mark Wood is sorely missed, too. His return will take longer. There was no flurry of wickets before stumps. Rishabh Pant took his turn to cut loose. He clubbed his second ball of the day back over Stokes's head for four. Stokes grinned broadly. Game recognised game. In the final overs, Pant hoiked a six high over the midwicket boundary off the bowling of Woakes, as India raced towards 359 for three at the close.
The Guardian
09-06-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
Wigan great Billy Boston to be knighted in historic first for rugby league
The Wigan Warriors legend Billy Boston will become the first rugby league player in the sport's 130-year history to receive a knighthood on Tuesday. Rugby league has never had a player awarded the highest accolade in an honour's list, with calls increasing in recent years thanks to the fundraising done away from the field by the likes of Kevin Sinfield – who is expected to be given a similar honour at some stage – and the late Rob Burrow. But Boston's name has also always been high on the list of candidates overlooked. Sign up to The Recap The best of our sports journalism from the past seven days and a heads-up on the weekend's action after newsletter promotion However, that will finally change this week. Boston is expected to be named as a knight to finally end the sport's wait for such an honour. The 90-year-old is not only one of rugby league's greatest players, but one of the pioneering black figures in British sporting history. Boston was born in Cardiff but his opportunities in rugby union were limited. That led to him signing for Wigan in 1953, where he would remain until 1968, setting a number of astonishing records along the way in a glittering career. In 488 games he scored 478 tries, establishing himself as the club's leading try-scorer with a record that will surely never be beaten. Boston was also a member of Great Britain's World Cup-winning squad of 1960, playing for his country on 31 occasions. His accomplishments laid the platform for more players from Wales to make the transition to rugby league from union, with a statue in the centre of Wigan immortalising his importance to the town's history. There is a similar statue in Cardiff of Boston and two more trailblazers from Wales that starred in league, Clive Sullivan and Gus Risman. Boston's accomplishments will finally be recognised on a national stage. It is a symbolic moment for league as well as Boston, with the sport getting the honour many believe it has undeservedly lacked for decades. Dozens of high-profile figures from rugby union have been knighted over the last century, with nobody from league achieving a similar honour until now.
BBC News
03-06-2025
- General
- BBC News
Bradford 10k record broken by runner recovering from bad knee
A runner recovering from a bad knee set a new course record in a West Yorkshire 10k Jack Cummings knocked 15 seconds off the best time for the Epilepsy Action Bradford 10k race on 27-year-old's time of 30:47 broke the 6.2-mile course record of 31:02 set in 2013 by Tesfaye Cummings, who also won May's Rob Burrow Leeds half-marathon in 1:08:36, said the moment of victory in his latest win was "unreal". The personal trainer said: "I didn't actually know the record but since I've broken it, it's been lovely. "I used to be in the middle of the pack when running but I fell back in love with it about six years ago. "I really found my feet. I've had no special training and no coaches. "I've been recovering from a knee injury so when I completed the 10k, it felt unreal."This year's race celebrated Epilepsy Action's 75th anniversary as well as Bradford becoming UK City of Culture in 2025. The charity, which aims to improve the lives of people living with epilepsy, said this year's course was the flattest to date, taking runners through the newly pedestrianised streets of the city centre.
