Following Rory McIlroy’s thrilling US Masters win, thatgives him the career grand slam of all four major titles, we’re joined by golf professional (and regular guest) Andy Wild to give us his expert insights into a fantastic and popular win for the Northern Irishman.

In football Liverpool took another step to the PremierLeague title after their close win, whilst title rivals Arsenal were held to a draw. Newcastle strengthened their push for a Champions League spot, as well as giving Andy Null & Void bragging rights with a 4-1 win over Tony’s Manchester United.

In the Women’s 6 Nations England made it 23 games unbeaten with a tough win over Ireland, France kept up their grand slam quest with a win over Wales and Scotland let slip a 12-10 lead in a home defeat to Italy. And in the European Champions Cup, Leinster and Toulouse marched into the semi-finals where they will face Northampton and Bordeaux with the winners progressing to the final in Cardiff.

In Formula 1 it was the Bahrain Grand Prix, McLaren’s OscarPiastri won, whilst George Russell’s Mercedes held onto second despite being challenged all the way by Piastri’s team mate Lando Norris.

And in Curling, Scotland’s Bruce Mouat’s rink became thefirst team ever to win four grand slam titles in one season as they beat Swiss Team Schwaller in a repeat of the World Championship final.

We also have all the latest from netball, rugby league,tennis and a close finish in this year’s Marathon Des Sables. Another fantastic episode!

It’s another fully packed episode this week with 12different sports for us to discuss.

Football had a dull 0-0 derby day bore draw betweenManchester City and United, and whilst holders Liverpool’s slip at Fulham doesn’t seem to have dented their title aspirations, Southampton’s loss to Spurs givesthem the unwanted record of the earliest ever relegation from the Premier League. And in the lower leagues we have a fantastic feel good story after a lost American tourist was adopted by Southend fans and became a keen “Shrimper”.

In the Rugby League Road to Wembley, Tony’s Hull KingstonRovers made it to the semi-finals, but Andy’s allegiance now shifts to Catalans Dragons after they beat Salford. Bragging rights will be at stake in the semi-final as our teams play each other on 10th May as they vie for a place in the showpiece final at Wembley.

Golf’s US Masters takes place this weekend – the first majorof the year, so we have a preview despite the first day of practice being washed out by rain.

In Athletics it was the first event of Michael Johnson’sGrand Slam Track competition, where Britain’s Matthew Hudson-Smith took the $100,000 Long-Sprint purse for his 1st & 2nd places in the 200m and 400m respectively.

We have an update from our previous guest, Olympic RowingGold medallist Harry Brightmore, as he shares insights from his work as a coach with Oxford University Boat Club as they build up to this weekend’s Boat Race.

And it was Gold in Moose Jaw, Canada for Scotland’s men’scurling team. Having struggled through the pool stages, Bruce Mouat’s team beat Sweden, Canada and Switzerland in the knock out stages to take the World Championship title.

Another amazing episode.

It was FA Cup Quarter Final weekend, so we start Episode 192with an update on how our “Road to Wembley” teams got on, and what that means for who we follow in the Semi Finals.

The Women’s 6 Nations Rugby had another 3 cracking games. We look back on the action as well as the inspirational story of Abi Burton – who scored twice on her Red Roses debut just 3 years after having to re-learn to walk and talk after being put into an induced coma for treatment for auto-immune encephalitis.

In Tennis, Novak Djokovic’s defeat to 19-year old JakobMensik in the final of the Miami Open leaves the Serb on 99 career ATP titles, whilst Mensik’s first comes just a couple of week’s after he nearly withdrew from the first round with injury!

And in Winter Sports, Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson wonBritain’s first World Championship Ice Skating medal since 1984 by taking bronze in the Ice Dancing in Boston.

Another fantastic episode!

We start Episode 191 with all the news from the opening weekend of rugby’s women’s 6 nations championship with wins for France and England and a very close victory for Scotland.

Thomas Tuchel started his reign as England’s football manager with two wins from two, whilst Arsenal Women seem to have it all to do in the 2nd leg of their Champions League Quarter Final, after they lost 2-0 in Spain.

We have all the latest from the World Indoor Athletics Championships, with golds for GB’s Jeremiah Azu and Amber Anning and the 1500m and 3,000m double for Jakob Ingebrigtsen; meanwhile it was the Reading Half Marathon this weekend and former guests of ours Sir John Madejski and Phil Wortley were both involved.

There was drama in the first Formula 1 race of the season with Ferrari’s drivers Lewis Hamilton and Charles LeClerc both disqualified from the Chinese Grand Prix.

Our guest this week is a regular on the pod-normally Andy McMenemy is telling us about his endurance challenge or taking up paddle boarding, as well as sharing the linkages how his professional expertise as a psychotherapist and peak performance coach applies in sport.

However Andy’s story this week is very different as he tells us about the horrific injuries he sustained in a skiing accident that left him with multiple fractures of his pelvis. As well as talking us through the incident, Andy also shares with us his plans for recovery and how he is applying the mental skills he normally shares with clients to his own mindset as he sets about tackling his rehabilitation.

Another fantastic episode.

With our Football Correspondent Billy Carr as guest thisweek, we kick off Episode 190 discussing Newcastle’s League Cup win, giving the Magpies their first domestic trophy since 1955, thanks to their fantastic 2-1 win over Liverpool at Wembley.

Rugby’s Six Nations had a fantastic finale with Italyrunning Ireland close, England putting 68 points on Wales and France securing the title with a win over Scotland in Paris.

The reformatted Netball Super League got underway, with new sides Birmingham Panthers and Nottingham Forest in action – and it was Panthers’ Betsy Creak who made history with the Super League’s first ever two goal supershot after that was introduced for this season.

In The Players’ Golf Championship at Sawgrass, Rory McIlroyovercame terrible weather and fading light as well as the rest of the field to secure the title – as play continued into Monday and St Patrick’s Day to give the Northern Irish man the win. Meanwhile Britain’s Jack Draper won his first ATP Tennis Masters Trophy, beating Holger Rune in the Indian Wells final – a result that takes him into the World Top 10 for the first time in his career.

Billy Carr then looks back at the League Cup Final, as wellas taking us through what could come in the final 9 games of the Premier League season, the hopes of the remaining English sides in the final stages of European competition, and answers -and asks – questions about Thomas Tuchel’s first squad as the new England manager.

A great episode.

This week we bring you a sporting first for Null & Void as we cover the Rodeo for thefirst time, following Andy’s visit alongside 70,000 other fans in Houston, watching bareback riding, bucking broncos, barrel racing and steer wrestling!

We kick off with football, as Liverpool tighten their grip on the men’s Premier League,whilst Manchester City go into the women’s League Cup Final and FA CupSemi-Final despite having sacked manager Gareth Taylor for “not beingsuccessful enough”.

In the 6 Nations Rugby France’s victory over Ireland means that they go into the finalweekend as favourites for the title – with England and Ireland still incontention. Scotland’s win in the Doddie Weir Cup extended Wales’ losing run to16 games, whilst England overcame early injury and a spirited Italy side to runin 7 tries and give fans a glimpse of the running rugby they’ve been crying outfor.

We have previews of both the Formula 1 and netball Super League seasons, with themkicking off in Australia and England respectively this weekend.

We also have the latest from Cricket’s Champions Trophy Final, Golf from Orlando,Tennis from Indian Wells and multiple medals in Winter Sports from Lake Placid.

This week’s “Get A Grip” looks at the BBC reneging on its coverage commitments and askswhat is the licence fee for?

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With Andy working in the USA we have a man on the ground to report on the Rugby League extravaganza from Las Vegas, with sell out stadia and 10,000 fans attending the opening party on Freemont Street.

It was FA Cup 5th round weekend, and whilstManchester United and Newcastle both crashed out, we move one step forwards with our “Road to Wembley” teams.

England’s pitiful dismissal from Cricket’s Champions Trophywas all too predictable, also bringing the end of Jos Buttler’s time as captain after he resigned following defeat to Afghanistan.

Whilst some golfers may be lucky enough to hit a hole in oneduring their lives, in the South African Open Dale Whitnell managed to hit TWO in the same round, a feat that is reported to have odds of 64 million to one against happening.

In the Tokyo Marathon, British great Paula Radcliffe had afantastic finish to her first marathon in 10 years as she ran a time of 2 hrs 57 mins. And whilst Radcliffe has won many major titles, men’s winner Tadese Takele celebrated his first ever major marathon win as the Ethiopian finished in 2 hrs 3 min 51 secs.

Finally in our “Get a Grip” section we look at cycling andhow race organisers and the governing body are risking riders’ lives with some of the finishes, as well as the unreasonable attitude to cyclists from other road users in the UK.

We start Epiosde 187 with the question “was this the momentLiverpool won the league?” after their 2-0 win away at Manchester City.

We have all the updates from the weekend’s 6 Nations rugby,including Ireland’s Triple Crown win, England’s first Calcutta Cup victory in 5 years and France’s high-scoring win in Rome (although not as high-scoring as some media outlets first reported!).

This is followed by the amazingly inspirational story ofRichard Morgan, who won a  World Championship Indoor Rowing Gold aged 92, having only taken up the sport when he was 72!

We have all the action from Cricket’s Champions Trophy,where after just one game England’s chances are already in the balance. And we bring you the latest from golf, tennis, rugby league and cycling – where former Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas has announced his retirement at the end of this season.

Finally this week’s Get a Grip involves the booing crowd atthe Formula 1 season launch event – as ever we offer some forthright barbs to those that, we believe, fully deserve it!

We kick off this week with the latest from football’s Premier League, with Liverpool strengthening their title bid, whilst Spurs & Manchester United fought out a scrappy match.

In winter sports there were titles and medals galore as CorieMapp took a para-bobsleigh world title, Zoe Atkins sharing the freeski halfpipe World Cup Series title and Britain’s 4-man bob missing out on World Cup Series silver by just 0.04 seconds. Charlotte Bankes also moved top of the snowboard cross world cup standings with her 3rd win of the season.

Rugby League’s season kicked off with Super League’s veryfirst 0-0 draw, with champions Wigan finally losing to a Leigh golden point drop goal, giving Leigh a 1-0 win. At the other end of the scale, a severely weakened Salford were beaten 82-0 by St Helens in their opening game.

We preview the start of Cricket’s Champions Trophy whilstalso asking some tough questions about the ownership of the Hundred franchises after the sale of the 8 teams raised £975 million for English cricket.

And in Get a Grip we fire a broadside at Jannick Sinner andthe tennis authorities after a “settlement agreement” meant his lenient 3 month ban for a failed drugs test was also allowed to be taken at a time of his choosing, thus ensuring he avoids missing any Grand Slam events. Madness!

We kick off this week with a look back at the Super Bowl andthe brilliant performance of the Philadelphia Eagles in Denying the Kansas City Chiefs a 3rd consecutive title with a 40-22 win in the showpiece in New Orleans.

It was FA Cup 4th round, and whilst Tony and Andy’s“Road to Wembley” teams progressed, Plymouth caused the biggest upset with the Championship’s strugglers beating the Premier League leaders Liverpool 1-0.

The Vitality Nations Netball Cup concluded in London withEngland winning their first title thanks to a 61-55 final win against South Africa, whilst Uganda won the 3rd place final, beating Malawi 50-45.

It was medals and world titles galore in the Winter Sportsthis week, with Matt Weston and Mia Brookes each winning back to back world titles in skeleton bob and big air snowboarding respectively. Meanwhile there were European Championship bronze medals for both the 2-man and 4-man British bobsleigh crews.

Our guest this week is former UK & World Championpowerlifter John Carney. Having retired last year John shares with us some highlights from his outstanding career and how he is now enjoying training for fun without the pressure of competing. John shares with us his post-retirement plans regarding coaching, and as John was someone who played American Football to a high level in the UK, he gives us his thoughts on Sunday’s Super Bowl.