Five Top Tips for Running as a Beginner
Running is a fantastic way to stay in shape, lose weight, and maintain overall health. It’s a cheap and easy way to exercise; and all you have to do is run, with little gear required. In as small a time as thirty minutes you can get a very...
Match of the Week: A knock out boxing event
This week, Match of the Week headed to a different venue than Carnegie. If you hadn’t heard (or seen the many posters around campus), yesterday was the Boxing Varsity at Oceana, hosted by Voodoo Events. The event saw Leeds Met boxers and thai boxers compete with...
Match of the Week: Semi-finals
This week saw a number of teams playing in the BUCS semi-finals, hoping to make it through to the BUCS Big Wednesday, which is now less than two weeks away. Following on from their success at the BUCS Gatorade Nationals, the badminton team continued to dominate...
Campus Sport Events Week: 15th – 19th April
University sport may be coming to an end for this year, but Leeds Met are holding a number of sporting events in April for you to get involved with. Campus Sport Events Week will be the 15th – 19th April and there are plenty of events...
Arsenal Vs Bayern 2013 (3-1)
Peep Peep Peeeeep! The sound that echoed through 60,000 ears, to Signal Arsenal’s dreams of obtaining a trophy since 2005 whistled across the Emirates last night. With team morale down after the fifth-round defeat at home to underdog Championship side Blackburn Rovers, left the North London side with...
Match of the Week: Snow go for most matches due to weather
As you may have guessed, the majority of this week’s matches were postponed due to the flurry of snow that came down in Leeds. However, two of the games that did go ahead resulted in wins for the home side. The women’s second team took on...
Match of the Week: Men’s Lacrosse vs Leeds Uni
For our final instalment of Match of the Week (is it time to finish already?!) we braved the windy weather to watch the men’s lacrosse game against local rivals, Leeds Uni. Having beaten the Uni side at their last meeting, the Met boys were keen to uphold...
Football’s Dirty Secret; Europol Slam Elite Players as Cheats
Investigators from the European Policing authority, Europol, have claimed that they have uncovered a huge organised crime cartel which facilitated corrupt betting in Asia by match-fixing elite European football games across the continent. The vast betting-ring involved 680 matches and 425 individuals, including players and officials, making it the biggest...
Leeds Met Women’s Rugby team in Stylist magazine competition
Leeds Met Rugby Union girls need your votes to win magazine compeition. Stylist magazine are running a competition all about stamping out sexism in sport. A large number of teams entered and we are extremely proud to say our very own Women’s Rugby team have made it...
Here Wiggo again…It’s Sports Personality of the Year!
So it’s nearing the end of 2012 and amongst the inevitable novelty Christmas singles, bad TV specials and God-awful animated films, the television viewing public of Great Britain were treated to the annual glitz-fest that is BBC Sports Personality of the Year. This was a chance to...
Match of the Week: Rugby Union vs Durham
Yesterday we headed to the freezing rugby pitch (cup of soup in hand) for the final Match of the Week of 2012. Our last game was a tough rugby union showdown against Durham. As much as we would’ve loved a victory to end our 2012 MOTW...
Match of the Week: Women’s football vs Nottingham
A bitterly cold day awaited us at the 3G pitch for this week’s Match of the Week, where we saw our women’s football team take on Nottingham. We had very high hopes for a Met win, as the girls are at third position in the...
