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Ferguson’s McClure High School football team, The Comets, are back training and ready for the first game of the season this weekend. We speak to their coach Mario MacDonald. What impact have the riots in Missouri had on young people in the area?

Miners’ Strike
Whilst attention might have been on the start of the English Premier League season, you might not have realised that on the same day the search to crown the 2015 FA Cup holders also began. We’re with Atherton Collieries who beat St Helens in the extra preliminary round and are now just 13 matches from the final!

Queen of Kings
Is chess rife with sexism? The 41st Chess Olympiad in Tromsø earlier this month turned out to be the last in the career of the most successful female player in the history of the game, Judit Polgar. In 1991 when Hungarian Judit was just 15 she became the youngest person ever to achieve the status of Grandmaster. Although that record has since been broken, she still holds many more! As a woman she had to fight to gain acceptance in a sport she describes as sexist.

From Nowhere to Olympics in VX Years
Is VX, the best sport you've never heard of? According to its creator it is made up of "a pinch of pelota, a hint of hockey, a dash of dodge-ball and a little lacrosse" Created eight years ago, it is one of few mixed sports with no gender or disability classification. Is evolving this niche sport into an Olympic disciple just a pipe dream? Sportshour goes armed with scoops, a stick and some tennis balls to the VX World Championships to see Scotland’s Meghan Plummer take on Ugandan Malingha Timothy.

Power-chair Football
We’re at the Australian national Power-chair football finals finding out about a sport designed for those in power assisted wheelchairs that offers a chance to those who thought they’d never be able to play football again.

Darts Delivers
As the first World Darts Series event takes place in Singapore, we ask arrows legend Raymond Van Barneveld whether darts can conquer Asia - and about its popular computer version of the game.

Losing Battle?
Are the high numbers of those emigrating from the Republic of Ireland threatening the future of its native sports like Gaelic Football?

The Benefits of Football
How a football project in Denmark is improving the lives of homeless people through the physical and psychological health benefits derived from cardio activity.

Sporting Witness… In 1992 a brilliant generation of players made Lithuania one of the most popular basketball teams in Olympic history. With unexpected help from rock band The Grateful Dead, the newly independent nation won a bronze medal and secured a famous victory over the former Soviet Union.

Photo: Police in riot gear stand in position as they watch demonstrators protesting the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri(CREDIT Joshua LOTT/AFP/Getty Images)