Friday (1st May) saw Yorkshire County Cricket Club launch a new 10-year strategy, Chasing Glory 2026-2036, as they begin their bid to return Yorkshire to the top of the game. Alongside the publication of their new plan, Yorkshire CCC has also published its FY25 financial results, which ‘provide a stronger platform for future investment and growth’.

The Cumberland and Carlisle United have celebrated the 20th anniversary of their Community Ticket Scheme partnership, which has given tens of thousands of youngsters free tickets to watch the National League club. In the scheme’s twenty years of existence, it has seen more than 30,000 tickets given to children so that they can support the Cumbrians at Brunton Park.

As another weekend comes to an end, the action on the field continues unabated, with many teams' aspirations and desires being showcased in venues across the region and beyond. If you need to pass the midweek time away with full-throttle action, then look no further.

Rowan Campbell-Pilling’s 2026 racing campaign will get underway this week as Silverstone hosts the opening round of the 2026 UK GB3 Championship. The Sheffield driver has made the step up to GB3, the UK’s leading single-seater category, after two successful seasons in F4, which saw him finish in the top 10 standings.

Less than 100 days remain until the opening ceremony of the 2026 Glasgow Commonwealth Games. One of the stars set to light up the city is Britain’s fastest ever woman, Dina Asher-Smith. Asher-Smith, the current European 200m champion, is the fastest British woman in history over that distance and she will be looking to add a Commonwealth gold to her 200m medal tally.

After just one year as Managing Director (MD) of Midlands Hurricanes, Eorl Crabtree, who played over 400 professional Rugby League games, has cemented the club and sport’s future in Birmingham. Since becoming the club’s MD last year,, Crabtree has tripled commercial income and achieved record season ticket sales whilst also securing a 20-year venue agreement.

Four amateur fighters from Doncaster’s HD Performance Centre distinguished themselves on the spring Caged Steel Show held at its regular Doncaster Dome venue. AJ Hall won his debut caged boxing fight with MMA victories going to Ramzi Braiek, Dylan Power and Rami Hameed.

A wide variety of action is on offer once again this week, from international football to local rivalries; there is so much on the line waiting to be grabbed or lost, either on the field or oche.

Two weeks after this year’s Formula 1 round in China, the sport headed to Japan for the latest Grand Prix at the iconic figure-of-eight circuit called Suzuka, which is located 240 miles southwest of Tokyo, and it was Mercedes’ 19-year-old Kimi Antonelli who earned the right to stand on the top step of the post-race podium, becoming the first teenager to lead the Drivers’ Championship in…

Featherstone weightlifter Finley Brierley-Fox travelled to Birmingham for a British Weightlifting show and came back as English champion, having won the gold medal in the male under-17 category with a 101kg clean and jerk lift. “It was a close competition,” said Fin, 16, who’s studying for a sports coaching diploma at Wakefield College. “The silver medallist lifted just a kilo less.

The European Figure Skating Legacy project, an innovative project which was created to help young people in Sheffield to learn how to skate, has been selected as a finalist in the 2026 Move More Awards. The project, which was a joint initiative between Sheffield City Council, Everyone Active, British Ice Skating and UK Sport, has been nominated for the Community Project of the Year category.