With just days to go before the first ball is bowled in the eighth edition of the ICC Champions Trophy, the dates have been announced for when the trophies for the two events will take to the streets of the host cities. Sponsored by Nissan, the Trophy Tour will see both the ICC Champions Trophy and ICC Women’s World Cup spend 31 days travelling around the seven cities. They will start in Taunton on Tuesday 2 May and finish at The Oval on Thursday June 2 for England v Bangladesh.

Back-to-back defeats have seen Cheshire Phoenix fall further off the pace in the battle for the top eight.  Robbie Peers has brought back former guard, Mike DiNunno, for a second spell at the club and they face a tough double-header in the quest to get back on track. Firstly, they visit the Emirates Arena - the scene of their last league victory - having beaten Glasgow Rocks in the last game of 2016, before hosting Plymouth Raiders tomorrow.

Hot on the heels of Birmingham’s staging of the Müller Indoor Grand Prix, the world’s top indoor athletics meeting, USA Track & Field, the governing body for athletics in the US, have confirmed that their training camp will be based in the city ahead of this summer’s IAAF World Championships in London. Councillor Ian Ward, Deputy Leader for Birmingham City Council said: “I am delighted that USATF are returning to the city and we look forward to supporting their final preparations ahead of the IAAF World Championships in London.

There wasn’t a dry eye as the assembled gathering of some of the world’s greatest ever athletes; including Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps, Simone Biles, Beatrice Vio, Nico Rosberg and Claudio Ranierie, paid homage to one particulate winner at  this year’s Laureus World Sports Awards. It was the Refugee team – 10 hand-picked refugees from Syria, Congo, Ethiopia and South Sudan - which competed at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, taking part in athletics, swimming and judo was awarded for Sporting Inspiration.

International skating superstar Tony Hawk dropped in on Stockton Sand Dunes prior to defending his Masters title at GENERAL PANTS BOWL-A-RAMA which took place at Bondi Beach last weekend. During Tony's time at Stockton Sand Dunes he had the opportunity to sand board down some of the largest sand dunes in the Southern Hemisphere with local tourism operator, Sand Dune Adventures. Sand Dune Adventures is a not-for-profit enterprise owned and operated by the Worimi Local Aboriginal Land Council (WLALC).

The start lists are now live for the Müller Indoor Grand Prix Birmingham, which takes place at the Barclaycard Arena this Saturday February 18. A total of five Rio Olympic champions will be among 25 current global medallists competing at the world’s top indoor athletics meeting, which is the final of the IAAF World Indoor Tour. Sir Mo Farah will be one of those Olympic champions as he competes in the 5000m. The four time Olympic champion and five time world champion will face a field including Scotland’s Andrew Butchart, who ran the third fastest 3000m in the world this year with a time of 7:41.05 in New York on Saturday.