Castleford Tigers main rivals are Featherstone Rovers, Leeds Rhinos and Wakefield Trinity Wildcats.

Its two most famous institutions are horse racing at Pontefract Racecourse and Featherstone Rovers, the area's professional rugby league club.

* Featherstone Rovers founded

* Steve Nash, halfback from Featherstone Rovers

* Graham Steadman, Former York Wasps, Featherstone Rovers, Castleford Tigers & Great Britain Rugby League footballer.

Nigel Stephenson was appointed as coach and Huddersfield were helped by several clubs, in particular Featherstone Rovers, to put a reasonable squad together.

Rovers finished second in 1966 / 67, their highest place for over 40 years and the Yorkshire Cup was won with a 25-12 victory over Featherstone Rovers.

* Yorkshire Cup – Leeds 5 – 0 Featherstone Rovers

* Michael Smith ( rugby league ), rugby league footballer of the 1970s and ' 80s for Featherstone Rovers

The town's sport scene is dominated by local rugby league club, Featherstone Rovers, who have won the Challenge Cup on three occasions most recently on 7 May 1983 and won the League Championship in 1976-77.

The Featherstone Rovers stadium ( traditionally known as Post Office Road ) was renamed in January 2010 to " The Bigfellas Stadium ", following the completion of a sponsorship deal with Pontefract night club Bigfellas.

Wins over Wigan, Castleford and Leeds led to the final against Featherstone Rovers which Warrington won 4-nil.

Warrington beat 24 – 9 Featherstone Rovers for the second time that season in a cup final to win the Challenge Cup.

* 2006-2007: S Wagner, Featherstone Rovers

A bold plan for the 2002 season failed, and when only one draw, 12 – 12 against Featherstone Rovers, was recorded after the first two months Thunder were forced to cut their losses.

The current champions are Grand Final winners Featherstone Rovers who are also the League Leaders.

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In a tense Challenge Cup final they squeezed past Warrington 5-3, and three weeks later the Holy Grail was achieved when they comfortably eased past Featherstone Rovers 11-0 to take the Championship.

As well as news, Ridings FM covers local sports teams from the Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, Castleford Tigers and Featherstone Rovers in rugby league, to Ossett Albion, Ossett Town, Frickley Athletic and Wakefield F. C.

He was named coach of the Wales national rugby league team toward the end of the 2009 season after finishing his playing career at Featherstone Rovers to move onto Crusaders as assistant.

Harris had been linked to a player-coach role with Crusaders, but he decided to sign for National League One club Featherstone Rovers instead.

Harris signed a 2 year deal at Featherstone Rovers, as well as playing, he also took his first steps into coaching and working in the marketing department of the club.

On announcement of his tenure as assistant coach to Brian Noble at Celtic Crusaders, he agreed termination of his contract at Featherstone Rovers and an immediate end to his playing career.

During the Co-operative Championship grand final rugby league game between Featherstone Rovers and Halifax on 26 September 2010, a fire beneath the terraced West Stand broke out, forcing all of the fans housed in the stand to be evacuated onto the field, holding up the game for around 45 minutes.

The 2003 film Reeseville starring Majandra Delfino, Brad Hunt, Angela Featherstone, Mark Hamill, and Cotter Smith was based and filmed in Reeseville.

Minister for Equalities Lynne Featherstone said:

This was attended by Lynne Featherstone, the minister for equality ; Evan Harris, president of Liberal Democrat LGBT group DELGA ; and Steve Gilbert, the Lib Dem MP, all of which said they support full LGBT marriage equality and a poll commissioned by Pink News and answered by more than 800 of their readership found 98 % in support of full marriage equality.

Smaller communities within the municipality are Attercliffe Station, Balmoral, Bodri Bay, Brookers Bay, Byng, Canborough, Canfield, Cheapside, Clanbrassil, Crescent Bay, Decewsville, Empire Corners, Featherstone Point, Fisherville, Garnet, Hoover Point, Kohler, Little Buffalo, Lowbanks, Moulton, Mount Carmel, Mount Healy, Nanticoke, Nelles Corners, Peacock Point, Port Maitland, Rainham Centre, Selkirk, Sims Lock, South Cayuga, Springvale, Stromness, Sweets Corners, Townsend, Willow Grove, Woodlawn Park and York.

The Honorary President is Dr Evan Harris, and the vice presidents are Bernard Greaves, Sarah Ludford, and Lynne Featherstone MP.

The characters are: Val ( Ricci ) and Stephie ( Hoffmann ), teens from Ronkonkoma who get lost in the seedy Alphabet City section of the borough and wander into a punk club where they meet Dave ( Diaz ) and Tom ( Casey Affleck ), who have a " package " they need to deliver ; ditsy and awkward Cindy ( Hudson ) who is on a dinner date with the paranoid Jack ( Mohr ); Lucy ( Love ) and her best friend Kevin ( Rudd ) who are struggling with the sexual tension between them ; Kevin's feminist ex girlfriend Ellie ( Garofalo ), who walks in on Kevin and Lucy mid-coitus in a restroom stall ; a dim-witted and flirtatious bartender ( Ben Affleck ); competitive friends Bridget ( Parker ) and Caitlyn ( Featherstone ) who attempt to ditch Bridget's boyfriend Eric ( McCardie ) ( who is also Monica's ex boyfriend ); and the eccentric cab driver ( Chappelle ) who takes them all around town throughout the evening in his disco themed taxi.

All Saints ' Church ( Anglican ), the Methodist church, and the South Featherstone Gospel Hall are also still active churches.

There are many historic properties nearby, including Featherstone Castle, Blenkinsop Castle, Unthank Hall, Bellister Castle and Thirlwall Castle.

There are also derbies with Huddersfield and Wakefield Trinity, and to some extent Hull, Castleford and Featherstone Rovers, St Helens and Wigan.

Featherstone Rovers are the local professional club based in nearby Featherstone.

In an article about the Crazies published in 2007, Al Featherstone stated, “ Duke ’ s crowd may or may not be the best student section … but it is the standard by which all others are measured ".

Featherstone Rovers are a semi-professional rugby league club, based in Featherstone, West Yorkshire, England.

Featherstone are in a rare situation, that they own an expanse of land around the current stadium.

Its settlements include Brewood, Cheslyn Hay, Codsall, Featherstone, Great Wyrley, Kinver, Perton and Wombourne. Most electoral wards are safely Conservative with Labour's only real area of strength being the ex-mining town of Cheslyn Hay.

During this same period, and by now in her very early forties, she also played the elderly, paranoid and morose customer Mrs Delphine Featherstone ( nicknamed " The Black Widow ") in the BBC comedy Open All Hours.

Other regulars included the milkwoman ( Barbara Flynn ) with whom Granville had a romantic fling ; Mavis ( Maggie Ollerenshaw ) a young woman who can never make up her mind what to buy ; Mrs Blewett ( Kathy Staff ), with a critical word for everyone ; and Mrs Featherstone ( Stephanie Cole ), nicknamed " The Black Widow ", a sour-faced, miserly hag who admires Arkwright for being likewise and shows a degree of romantic interest in him.

In a game vs. the St. Louis Blues Roenick got into an altercation with Blues defenseman Glen Featherstone.

Formerly known as Featherstone Technology College, the school successfully made the transition to an E-ACT sponsored academy with English and Enterprise specialisms.

Pseudo Echo reunited in March 1998, with Canham and Gigliotti joined by Danielson on drums and Tony Featherstone on keyboards ( ex-The Badloves ) to tour.

The link with " Featherstone " is probably not traceable, but people researching both spellings ( and others such as " de Fetherestanhalgh ") contribute to the collection of pages in the website called " The Featherstone Society ".

Their main rivalry is with Castleford but they also have rivalries with Huddersfield, Leeds and Featherstone Rovers.

Wakefield were down to merge with Castleford and Featherstone Rovers to form a new club, Calder, which would compete in the newly formed Super League.

Shortly afterwards, Coonan and his second in command Mickey Featherstone were called to a meeting with Paul Castellano, becoming a de-facto arm of the Gambino crime family and agreeing to share 10 per cent of all profits.

Halifax have also formed a Championship rivalry with Featherstone Rovers due to events over the past 3 years when the clubs have clashed.

The club enjoy intense local rivalries with Featherstone Rovers and Wakefield Trinity.

When the Super League competition has been proposed, it was suggested Castleford merge with Wakefield Trinity and Featherstone Rovers to form ' Calder '.

Featherstone is a small former coalmining town with a population of around 16, 000 and for many years " Fev " have graced the top levels of the game in a manner that belies their small-town background.

In 1913 Featherstone Rovers merged with Purston White Horse.

Featherstone Rovers were asked to merge with local rivals Castleford and Wakefield Trinity to form a new club, Calder, which would compete in the Super League.

After finishing 5th again, in November 2002, Featherstone went into administration, owing the Inland Revenue £ 97, 000 and with total debts of £ 403, 000.

Featherstone did apply for the first round of licences though with the popular view this would not be successful and could be used as a learning experience for future bids.