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The 18-19 October 2008 saw the first ever British University baseball championships played at Nottingham's Grove Farm sports fields. University baseball competitions have been run on and off for the past 10 years in the UK, but this was the first official student-only tournament, run under the...

The largest permissible field of 150 riders once again took on the challenge of the 1 mile climb in the BUCS Hill Climb Championship held at Curbar in Derbyshire last weekend (26 October).  The men's BUCS Gold medal went to Tim Wallis (Southampton/ pictured) with an...

A maximum permissible field of 150 riders will compete in the Cycling Hill Climb Championship on Saturday 25 October 2008 taking in the 1 mile climb from Calver to finish at Curbar Gap in Derbyshire. Henry King (Leeds) and Andrew Steel (Sheffield), returning medallists from last season,...

Olympic hockey player Jon Bleby has joined Loughborough University’s coaching team as assistant men’s hockey coach. The Loughborough graduate, who in Beijing helped Britain to its best Olympic result since the 1980s, takes up his role with immediate effect alongside head coach David Ralph. Bleby...

Following on from the success of the Team GB rowers at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, where students and alumni brought home five of the six Olympic rowing medals, this weekend (25 – 26 October 2008) will see the first BUCS rowing event of the season take place at Boston Rowing Club, Lincolnshire. A...

This weekend (17 – 19 October 2008) witnessed hundreds of students from across the country taking over Newquay’s Fistral Beach for the first-ever British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS) Surfing Championships, sponsored by Ticket to Ride in association with the British Surfing Association...