Throwback to the start of the 2015 rugby league season, when James Gordon took part in the Kingstone Press Pressed for Time Challenge at the Kingstone Press Championships season launch. The game sees you try and swap 50 red and 50 green apples in to the opposite box, while answering questions. You earn points for […]
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Vacancy: Sports Content & Social Media Apprentice
JDG Media Ltd is looking for a sports-mad content producer to join their team. You will produce content for their in-house publications, including Love Rugby League and British Ice Hockey, as well as helping with the social media management.
This is a unique opportunity for a passionate writer and sports fan to gain a foothold in the industry without the requirement of a university degree.
Snooker player causes a stir by tweeting during match
Snooker player Judd Trump caused a stir over the weekend by tweeting during his World Championship match.
How digital content is squashing the traditional media
For sports like squash, social media and digital content gives the ability to reach out to a significant audience. With Premier League football dominating the traditional media, most have resigned themselves away from competing for that space.
RFL Programme Column: Looking at French rugby league
With Oldham rightly grabbing the headlines for their terrific win at Hull KR, two other results went slightly under the radar. Catalans re-affirmed their title credentials with an away win at St Helens, their fifth on the road already this season, and perhaps more significantly, Toulouse saw off Leigh 10-8 in the Challenge Cup.
Forty-20 Magazine: Wolves take Cheshire derby
As a sell out 15,008 crowd settled in to watch Super League’s top two battle it out on Good Friday, it was hard to believe that this derby has been missing from more than half of Super League’s 21 seasons to date.
Widnes’ lengthy stints in the second tier, from 1996 to 2001 and more recently 2006 to 2011, has meant Warrington’s local rivalry focus has shifted towards St Helens and Wigan, particularly in the last five years or so as they’ve fought for honours at the top table.
But this year, the “Cheshire derby” was arguably the most hotly anticipated of the whole weekend.
The Canadians are coming
The decision to bring a Canadian team in to League One is an absolute nonsense. There, I’ve said it. Billed as a pioneering first for sport, a trans-atlantic competition, further details are set to be announced this week. It’s pioneering because no other sport is stupid enough to do it.
The world’s most popular sports
An interesting infographic showing the world’s most popular sports – determined by which is the leading sport in each individual country in the world.
