John Mastrini

UoN Badminton head coach Martyn Lewis tells Impact Sport about the fastest racquet sport in the world that’s hitting Nottingham… What exactly is the National Badminton League? The NBL is a brand new, game-changing and exciting opportunity for badminton. It’s the first ever national badminton league which has been created...

The seeds have been announced, the draw has been made. We now await the start of the first Grand Slam of the tennis year in Melbourne on Monday. But before the action gets underway, let’s take a closer look at the draw for the Men’s Singles. Top quarter The...

Last month, Saracens chief executive Edward Griffiths called for a complete abolishment of the salary cap for English Premiership clubs, claiming that he had the backing of six other major teams. As it stands, Premiership clubs are restricted to spending £5m on player’s salaries. Though this is rising to...

A humiliating 56 minute 6-0 6-1 annihilation at the hands of Roger Federer at the ATP World Tour Finals last week was hardly the climax to 2014 that Andy Murray would have wanted.  After coming through a gruelling six-week schedule to make it to the O2 Arena, his year...

Impact Sport‘s Fabiola Kaiser caught up with Rick Passmoor, manager of Notts County Ladies FC, and defender Sophie Walton to talk about women’s football and the rise of the Lady Pies…   Fabiola Kaiser: Rick – moving to Nottingham and rebranding Lincoln Ladies to Notts County LFC was polarising...

Nottingham has always been a footballing city. It boasts the oldest professional football club in the world, Notts County FC (founded in 1862) who famously supplied Juventus FC with their black and white kit, and Nottingham Forest FC who previously won Division 1 in 1978 and the European Cup twice,...

America’s National Football League (NFL) to many a Brit, including me, is an unfamiliar, unexplored and misunderstood phenomenon. So when the Jacksonville Jaguars decided to travel across the pond, make London’s Wembley Stadium their honorary home and play host to the Dallas Cowboys, the opportunity to delve into this world...