Rugby League

Graeme Bradley, manager of Bradford Bulls, has signed a one-year extension to his contract, keeping him in the job until the end of the 1998 season.

St Helens, who, along with Wigan, were fined pounds 15,000 for a brawl during the Challenge Cup tie between the two clubs, have called for the right of appeal against such punishments to be reinstated. They also want a system of fixed penalties, similar to the one that operates in football, to apply to players' suspensions.

The administrators running the debt-laden Hull Kingston Rovers have rejected a pounds 914,000 takeover bid by a consortium headed by Bob Jamieson because of "insufficient financial guarantees." Jamieson tried and failed to take over Workington last year.