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NFL Playoffs & Super Bowl: How UK Fans Can Watch the Action

It’s football season in the United States right now, with the NFL Playoffs taking place and Super Bowl LX on the horizon. Over here, the growth of the NFL’s popularity has been remarkable, with millions of confirmed fans choosing to watch the action. In Exeter, pubs like the Black Horse will be showing the action , including Super Bowl LX on Sunday, 8th February.

The race to make it to the big game is an open contest, with DraftKings latest Super Bowl odds suggesting that the Seattle Seahawks are the slight favourites. But while we don’t know exactly who will be there, we do know...

The history of the Grand National

Authored by SamMorgan
Posted: Fri, 01/17/2014 - 12:19pm

When it comes to horse racing, there is no doubt that the long-standing favourite for the fans is the Grand National. Known as ‘the world’s greatest steeplechase,’ the Grand National is run over 4 miles 3 ½ furlongs, almost two circuits of the famous Aintree racecourse, and with competitors jumping 30 fences along the way. Some of these fences are among the most famous in racing, including Becher’s Brook, Canal Turn, and The Chair.

The event is always extremely popular and figures estimate that around nine million viewers tuned into the 2013 event in the United Kingdom, along with...

Exeter School wins U16 hockey finals

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 01/15/2014 - 11:45am

Exeter School is proud to announce its Under 16 Boys’ Indoor Hockey team has defended its National Indoor Hockey title.

The squad of nine, Luke Crocker (captain), Matt Marsh, Chris Richardson, Paddy Poustie, Tom Edgington, George Hoult, Ed Starling, Jamie Telford and Josh Hanna, won the prestigious title for the second year running.

The Finals took place last weekend at Whitgift School, Croydon. The boys were in a group of five schools with the top two teams to progress through to the Semi Finals. Exeter School got off to the best of starts beating the hosts, Whitgift, two...

City suffer stopage time heartbreak

Report: Bristol Rovers 2 Exeter City 1

Exeter City fell to a stoppage-time winner at the hands of Bristol Rovers, as the Pirates triumphed 2-1 at the Memorial Stadium.

The Grecians took a lead midway through the first period when Lee Brown mistakenly looped the ball into his own net, but barely a minute had passed when Rovers were back level as O’Toole made no mistake from the spot.

Despite chances at either end after the break, the game appeared to be tailing out all-square as neither side could burst the net again.

But O’Toole was alive deep into stoppage...

Chiefs Heineken Cup hopes are over

Exeter Chiefs 10 Glasgow Warriors 15

Having started their Heineken Cup campaign in sparkling fashion against Cardiff Blues back in October, the European escapades of Rob Baxter’s Exeter Chiefs side have rapidly lost their fizz ever since.

Sadly this latest loss to visiting Glasgow Warriors not only enabled the visiting Scotsmen to claim a third victory of the season over their Devon hosts, but at the same extinguished any semblance of hope the Chiefs had of advancing to European Rugby’s latter stages.

Having led 10-0 thanks to a converted Fetu’u Vainikolo try and a...

Chiefs side to face Glasgow Warriors

Authored by Mark Stevens
Posted: Fri, 01/10/2014 - 11:59am

Exeter Chiefs will have a new look to their line-up as they prepare to resume Heineken Cup action at home to Glasgow Warriors tomorrow (3pm).

Just days after slipping to a narrow 19-16 defeat to London Wasps in the Aviva Premiership, head coach Rob Baxter has shuffled his pack as the Devon club look to keep alive their European dreams for another week at least.

Just four players - Tom Johnson, Henry Slade and Luke Arscott - remain in the starting line-up from that which took to the field from the outset at Adams Park last Sunday.

However, it shows the array of...

Call up brings joy for Jack

Exeter Chiefs back Jack Nowell has admitted he was "amazed" to hear that he has today been named in Stuart Lancaster's England Six Nations squad.

Alongside club-mate Tom Johnson, the 20-year-old Cornishman has been promoted from the England Saxons ranks into the full senior ranks.

Nowell's elevation is just reward not only for a sparkling season to date, but also his efforts in the past 12 months which have seen him not only establish himself as a regular starter for the Chiefs in the Premiership and Europe, but also help England Under-20s to lift the Junior World...

Chiefs confirm Tui to depart

Exeter Chiefs head coach Rob Baxter has today confirmed that tight-head prop Hoani Tui is to leave the Aviva Premiership club at the end of the season.

The 29-year-old will join Lyon, the current leaders of Pro D2, on a two-year deal this summer after five seasons playing for the Chiefs in both the Championship and the Premiership.

Signed from Italian outfit Calvisano in 2010, the popular Kiwi forward has to date played 109 times for the Chiefs in all competitions, scoring six tries in the process.

A cornerstone of the Exeter pack since his arrival in Devon, Tui not...

Whitehead backs Chiefs to come good

Authored by Mark Stevens
Posted: Wed, 01/08/2014 - 12:00pm

Exeter Chiefs hooker Chris Whitehead knows the modern-day game has no hiding place, but he insists he and his team-mates will learn lessons from their recent run of defeats.

In what has been a testing block of fixtures for Rob Baxter's side, Sunday's narrow loss at London Wasps in the Aviva Premiership means the Chiefs have now lost seven or their past eight games in all competitions.

That sequence of results has not only see the Chiefs slip to eighth place in the current Premiership standings, but has also dented their hopes of qualification in both the Heineken and LV=...

Exeter City U21's beat Blackburn to book a place in quarter finals

Grecians into the quarter-final with win over Rovers

It was another famous night for the youngsters of Exeter City as they secured a place in the quarter-final of the Under-21 Premier League Cup.

City claimed another scalp and dominated the fixture throughout and were desperately unlucky to be the team trailing as Jordan Preston headed Rovers into the lead late in the first-half.

But quick-fire goals after the interval by Scot Bennett and Jimmy Keohane gave the Grecians the lead they deserved and a place in the last eight of the nationwide competition – and...

Mixed feelings for Lewis

Authored by Mark Stevens
Posted: Tue, 01/07/2014 - 10:34am

Scoring your first try for your club is always a special mention, but Dave Lewis admitted his celebrations were somewhat curtailed by the fact Exeter Chiefs slipped to a last-gasp defeat at Aviva Premiership rivals London Wasps.

With just 70 seconds played at Adams Park on Sunday, the scrum-half spotted a gap in the home defensive line before scampering under the sticks to give his side a dream start.

The Chiefs built on that early score and by half-time were 13-3 to the good thanks to further kicks from fly-half Henry Slade, who himself was making his first-ever start in...

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