Monthly Archives: August 2018

This past weekend saw a historic weekend for Great Britain’s Wheelchair Basketball teams with the men emerging victorious against the USA, whilst the women fell just short in the final and the Netherlands in the Wheelchair Basketball World Championship finals in Hamburg.

The GB Men defeated the Rio Paralympic champions for their first global gold medal, claiming a 79-62 win over the USA.  The men had gone down 66-59 to the USA in the pool stages but 17 points apiece for George Bates and Harry Brown saw them avenge that defeat in the showpiece. Sunday’s showdown was the third time the USA and Great Britain battled for the world title. The US came out on top in the previous ones, in 1994 and 2002.

Molten are delighted to announce our formal partnership with Totally Netball, the leading Netball organisation in the Midlands who will now be using Molten Netballs across all of their leagues.

Totally Netball is all about giving Netball back to ladies who loved playing when they were younger but allowed life to take over. Having only started in 2017, Totally Netball have gone from strength to strength having already expanded to 10 leagues in 11 locations.

Molten are the proud leaders in the design and manufacture of sports equipment including the

Snooker is a sport that demands precision and quality in order to be the best. Thankfully, Powerglide have the range of cues to match your every snooker need. But you don’t need to take our word for it, take former Snooker World Champion John Parrott’s word instead.

At Powerglide we pride ourselves on the quality of our hand-made cues, but sometimes it’s nice to hear from those who know more about what a professional-standard player looks for in a cue.We sent John a few cues to try out recently, two of which were 3/4 joint cues and the other was a two piece, or 50/50, cue. 

It's crunch time in the Vitalist Blast T20 competition as 8 sides compete for a spot at Finals Day on September 15. Your favourite team may be already be out of the competition, but GM fans will be safe in the knowledge that as many as 14 GM players will be involved in elimination matches this week.

Somerset v Nottinghamshire Outlaws – Sunday 26 August

The match featuring the most GM players in the quarter finals this week will be played in Taunton, where the Notts Outlaws travel to winners of the South Group, Somerset.

In action for Notts will be a combination of the GM bowling cartel, Luke Fletcher, Harry Gurney and Jake Ball. Gurney has led the way for The Outlaws, picking up 20 wickets to date with a best of 3/24 and a terrific economy rate of just 7.33 per over. Gurney has been ably supported by Fletcher and the all-round

Team Unicorn star Seigo Asada was victorious on the fourth weekend of the 2018 PDC Asian Tour, as the circuit visited Kuala Lumpur.

Japanese thrower Asada followed up his Asian Tour win in South Korea in March by opening the weekend in Malaysia in style.

Asada landed an Asian Tour record average of 107.60 in his semi-final win over Lourence Ilagan, before edging out Royden Lam 5-4 in the final of tour event seven.

Asada unfortuntely saw his hopes ended at the last eight stage of Tour event

Ian White has extended his stay with Team Unicorn.

The popular 48-year-old has penned a new deal as he bids to turn on the style in the big TV tournaments.

The World No.13 has been frustrated by one stat....he’s never been past the quarter-finals of a PDC ‘Major’

“It does annoy me because I know I have the game to win a TV tournament. It isn’t for lack of hard work that’s for sure,” he said.

“The other big aim this year is to get into the world’s top 10. That would be a great achievement for me.”

In 2018 White has won two more events and hit a 9 darter in the Pro Tour.

“The link up with Unicorn has been brilliant