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Exeter Chiefs were looking woeful post the January COVID-19 related break for English Rugby, but the time off and rest period seems to have assisted last season's Premiership winners in finding their elite form.

This past weekend saw the Chiefs extend their winning streak to three games consecutively, leaving the London Irish squad in the dirt as they pulled up behind Bristol Rovers with just one point separating each team in the table.

The London Irish were defending a six-game winning streak of their own, but a defiant performance from the Chiefs led Ali Hepher's team...

Basketball is very popular in the United States. More than 200 nations compete with each other in this fast-paced sport. The popularity of this game in the USA is unimaginable. Whenever someone says basketball, there is only one name that comes to our mind. That name is NBA, National Basketball Association. It was founded in 1949 and since then it has been entertaining us with some great basketball matches.

The league currently consists of 30 teams. Being a player in one of these teams is almost equivalent to being a Hollywood celebrity. Over the years, we see youngsters enter a...

Exeter Racecourse is not so dissimilar to Cheltenham, the home of National Hunt horse racing, as you might think. Both tracks have hills to climb in the back straight for one thing.

Those racehorses who have run well over jumps around Exeter this season go to the Cheltenham Festival with varying chances of success at the major meeting. It is worth noting down who these hopefuls are.

Cheltenham is infinitely more competitive with the best Irish National Hunt horses joining their British counterparts. Two-time Exeter winner Native River is quoted in the Gold Cup betting...

When you think of racing, you don’t just think of the jockeys spurring their horses on along the course. You also think of the crowds filling the stands, the roar of an audience passionately engaged with the spectacle before them. You think of racing as a social event: the frocks, the hats, the champagne and the picnics. You know instinctively that the crowds are what makes racing special, just as much as the horses, the riders and the race itself.

This is why the coronavirus pandemic has been so devastating for the horse-racing sector. Races being run effectively “behind closed...