The Sports Weekend with Nick Westby on January 12, 2024, reporting from the Canon Medical Arena in Sheffield.
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00:00 Hello and welcome to the Canna Medical Arena in Sheffield. Sports editor Nick Westby here.
00:04 I've just been watching the Sharks lose to the Caledonia Gladiators in the BBL Trophy on Thursday night.
00:10 We'll have news of that in Saturday's Yorkshire Post Sports Weekend.
00:13 Also coming up in Saturday's edition. Football wise, after the FA Cup weekend, we're back to EFL action.
00:20 Big games for Leeds United and Sheffield Wednesday on the road.
00:23 Plus Huddersfield Town, Rotherham United and Barnsley face key appointments on home soil.
00:28 Rugby union wise, we hear from Doncaster Knights on the RFU's radical Premiership 2 proposals
00:34 and how they and the rest of the Championship are greeting that.
00:38 We've got a big interview with skateboarding chief executive James Hope Gill
00:42 as the countdown to the Paris Olympics continues.
00:45 Plus as countdowns go, we're now just six weeks away from the start of rugby league's Super League season.
00:51 James O'Brien brings us all the key interviews ahead of that.
00:55 Plus we've got news from the world of tennis as the Australian Open prepares to begin
01:00 and from the world of ice hockey.
01:02 And our big Saturday interview is with Kat Ferguson, a real name to watch in the coming months and years.
01:08 She's a 17-year-old cyclist from Skipton and a sporting star to have on your radar.
01:13 That's it from here in the Cannon Medical Arena. Have a fantastic sporting weekend.