Record crowd sees Harlequins and Leicester share the honours

In front of the biggest crowd ever to witness a regular-season Premiership game, Harlequins drew 26-26 with Leicester Tigers ...

27DEC08 - photos Andrew Tobin / UNiCOM

50,000+ supporters saw Nick Evans earn Harlequins a well deserved draw after a stunning comeback against Leicester at Twickernham today ... MORE

[right] Toby Flood and Tom Williams jump for possession

Vainikolo Charged

England and Gloucester winger Lesley Vainikolo has been charged with causing grievous bodily harm following an incident outside a nightclub in Bath. MORE

13DEC08

After a 16 year break the thrills and spills of senior Ice Hockey finally returned to central Bristol last weekend as the New Bristol Pitbulls faced off against Vectis Tigers at the City's John Nike Leisure Sport Ice Rink.

The Pitbulls compete in the ENL Division ... MORE

photos Pete Tiley / Titan Images

EXCLUSIVE - 07DEC08

Beijing Olympic diver Tom Daley got his hands on the coveted BBC Sports Personality of the Year award last weekend .... albeit only temporarily.

The young Team GBR star was a guest at the regional event in Bath and was only too happy to pose for a bristolsport.net picture with the trophy.

"In your dreams Tom!" ....

photo Gary Bray / UNiCOM

Wasps Sting Saracens

Three tries in the final 10 minutes saw London Wasps run out eventual winners against Saracens in a game that showed just how thrilling Guinness Premiership rugby can be ...

photos Andrew Tobin / UNiCOM

20DEC08

LONDON WASPS 33 - SARACENS 24

With just minutes to go the Adams Park faithful were resigned to defeat at the hands of visiting Saracens ... but not so the reigning Champions out on the field. To a man they all dug deep and turned the tide with tries from Hoadley, Sackey and Lewsey in quick succession ... MORE

Paul Sackey of Wasps breaks Neil de Kock's tackle to score

JOE EL ABD

photo Pete Tiley / Titan Images

15DEC08

Bristol Rugby's Head Coach Richard Hill has revealed that club captain Joe El Abd could be out of action for a few weeks after injuring his bicep during last weekend's 25-21 ECC defeat at the hands of Northampton.

It's a bitter blow that struggling Bristol could well do without ahead of this weekend's vital Guinness Premiership clash with 8th placed Worcester Warriors at Sixways. Bristol are currently 7 points adrift of the Warriors at the bottom of the table.

Para-Equestrian Dressage rider Anne Dunham has been named as the 2008 BBC West Sports Personality of the Year.

Together with countless silver and bronze medals, Anne has won 12 golds and was part of the winning GBR team at the Bejing Paralympic Games. MORE

photo Gary Bray / UNiCOM

BAWFC 1 - ARSENAL LFC 4

Against all expectations, and to the joy of the Oaklands Park crowd, BAWFC opened the scoreline and rocked visiting league leaders ALFC 30 minutes into the match with a fine goal from Grace McCatty. [Below]

Though the half-time whistle saw the Academy Women leading 1-0, the Gunners took to field for the second half with renewed vigour and within just 12 minutes Faye White had equalised. Team-mate Julie Fleeting then went on to seal the match for Arsenal with a superb hat-trick of goals.

photos Alan McAteer / UNiCOM

Dan Ward-Smith - photo Pete Tiley

20-20 FOR WORCESTER & BRISTOL

20DEC08

A last minute penalty kick from Ed Barnes combined with earlier tries from Lee Robinson and Dan Ward-Smith to secure Bristol Rugby a well deserved draw away to Worcester on Saturday. MORE

In other news, with financial help from the BRIS Trust, Bristol have secured the services of Welsh international centre Nathan Brew from the Scarlets.

Nathan Brew - photo courtesy Bristol Rugby

Brew is no newcomer to the payroll having previously served at the Club during the 1999-2000 season. Though he didn't make it through to the first team during that stint, Coach Hill is confient that he will provide "some additional options in midfield" this time around.