By Tom DegunOctober 5 - The England Hockey Board are launching an ambitious new programme titled Hockey

Nation which will see an exciting array of hockey events and activities take place over the next year

to take advantage of the increased profile that London 2012 will give hockey.

The project will cost the England Hockey Board nearly £1 million ($1.5 million/€1.2 million) and see

The England Hockey Board has been working hard behind the scenes for a number of years to prepare hockey

Hockey Nation," Munday told insidethegames."

Hockey Nation will be an umbrella for everything that will be great about hockey in 2012 and beyond so

There is The Big Dribble mass hockey participation event which will we see us dribble a giant hockey

By David GoldOctober 5 - There are just 100 days to go until the first ever Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck, where more than a thousand youngsters set to compete for honours.

Innsbruck will see a number of new Olympic events, including snowboard slopestyle, ski halfpipe and an ice hockey

By Tom DegunOctober 3 - International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge has claimed that he is supportive of the plan from the International Boxing Association (AIBA) to move towards professionalism after the London 2012 Olympics.

We have had the situation in other professional sports - tennis, football, basketball, ice hockey and

By David GoldOctober 2 - The first World Girls' Hockey Day has taken place across four continents and

19 countries, the first time the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) has staged the event, which

of girls joined in the fun today as professional athletes helped to inspire the next generation of hockey

aspirants.The event is designed to introduce girls to hockey in a fun and positive environment, giving

to both hone a potential new skill with a puck as well as meet new friends.Nineteen countries' ice hockey

to Finland.A "Women's Hockey to Sochi 2014" strategy was unveiled after the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games

by the IIHF, as they looked to make international hockey more competitive, with Canada having claimed

Britain's joyful hockey gold of 1988 is joyfully recalled by Barry Davies, another whose BBC commentary

By Tom DegunSeptember 29 - New images released by the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) show that Eton Manor, the only new permanent Paralympic venue, is on track to be completed by early next year.

competition and four warm-up outdoor tennis courts.After the Games, Eton Manor will be transformed into a hockey

centre with four indoor and six outdoor courts and provision for five-a-side football pitches.The main hockey

include 3,000 permanent seats with flexibility to expand up to a total capacity of 15,000 for elite hockey

The hockey centre and tennis centre will be to a high specification; hosting international events alongside

By Emily GoddardSeptember 20 - South Africa's men's and women's hockey teams have secured places at the

just slowed down the game to accommodate their opponents.A happy Dave Carr, President of South African Hockey

And then there is the Bolshoi Ice Palace, where ice hockey will be taking place.

management firm Investec are set to bring prize money of nearly £10,000 ($15,783/€11,470) to the Women's Hockey

as part of a landmark six-figure sponsorship deal they signed with England and Great Britain women's hockey

The Investec Women's Hockey League season will get underway this weekend, with the winners and runners

Investec we are now able to offer prize money to the country's most successful teams," said England Hockey

The clubs are at the forefront of hockey in England, developing players and working hard to strengthen

Leicester who they narrowly defeated 3-2 in the Championship Final last season.The Investec Women's Hockey

then turn to the London 2012 Olympics in July and August, with the top players in the Investec Women's Hockey

By Tom DegunSeptember 15 - The Great Britain wheelchair rugby team showed exactly why they will be strong medal contenders at the London 2012 Paralympic Games next year as they claimed second place at the 2011 GB Cup in Cardiff.

Wheelchair rugby is a terrifying fusion of ice hockey, handball and rugby while the game was founded

year's Champions Trophy after a late bid from India to remain as hosts failed, the International Hockey

After seeing the facilities and infrastructure first hand I am very confident that Hockey New Zealand

offer support to ensure this is a truly fantastic event," said Hilary Poole, the chief executive of Hockey

The FIH rejected the Indian Sports Ministry-brokered peace agreement between rival factions Hockey India

and the Indian Hockey Federation (IHF), saying there could not be more than one federation running the

 "All the meetings were positive but we made it clear that what FIH wants is a single body for hockey

By Tom Degun at City Hall in LondonSeptember 13 - Shaun Dawson, the chief executive of the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority, has told the London Assembly that there is still a possibility Leyton Orient could move to Eton Manor following the conclusion of the London 2012 Games.

first concern is the potential loss of around £30 million [$47 million/€35 million] of investment in hockey

I can also see some significant practical issues around the programming of hockey and tennis requirements

comments made by Baroness Ford saying that she was referring to the area of Eton Manor that features the hockey

By David GoldSeptember 11 - Swedish Paralympic and world champion Anders Olsson raced to victory in record time at the Swimming with the Centurions event in Alcatraz, which saw over 200 participants swim from the former prison island off the California coast to San Francisco.

story, which saw him paralysed from the waist down in the late 1990s after having been a promising ice hockey

By Tom DegunSeptember 7 - The Innsbruck 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games have been given a glowing review by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission, who have concluded their fourth and final inspection of the Austrian host city.

will be seen for the first time at an Olympics such as snowboard slopestyle, ski half pipe and ice hockey

By Tom DegunSeptember 6 - One of Britain's top wheelchair rugby officials has said that he is confident of medal success at the London Paralympics as the 2011 GB Cup gets underway in the Welsh capital Cardiff.

Wheelchair rugby - often referred to as "murderball" - is a fusion of ice hockey, handball and rugby