[limawhiskey]

This is derived from the BBC News (fast) code by Darko Miletic and Starson17. Despite the excellence of their recipe, there is a conspicuous absence of sports news, so I set out to fill that gap.

Spoiler:

__license__   = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2010, limawhiskey <limawhiskey at gmail.com>'
'''
news.bbc.co.uk/sport/
'''
import re
from calibre.web.feeds.recipes import BasicNewsRecipe

class BBC(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title                  = 'BBC Sport'
    __author__             = 'limawhiskey, Darko Miletic, Starson17'
    description            = 'Sports news from UK. A fast version that does not download pictures'
    oldest_article         = 2
    max_articles_per_feed  = 100
    no_stylesheets         = True
    use_embedded_content   = False
    encoding               = 'utf8'
    publisher              = 'BBC'
    category               = 'sport, news, UK, world'
    language               = 'en_GB'
    publication_type       = 'newsportal'
    extra_css              = ' body{ font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif } .introduction{font-weight: bold} .story-feature{display: block; padding: 0; border: 1px solid; width: 40%; font-size: small} .story-feature h2{text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase} '
    preprocess_regexps     = [(re.compile(r'<!--.*?-->', re.DOTALL), lambda m: '')]
    conversion_options = {
                             'comments'        : description
                            ,'tags'            : category
                            ,'language'        : language
                            ,'publisher'       : publisher
                            ,'linearize_tables': True
                         }

    keep_only_tags  = [
                       dict(name='div', attrs={'class':['ds','mxb']}), 
                       dict(attrs={'class':['story-body','storybody']})
                      ]

    remove_tags     = [
                       dict(name='div', attrs={'class':['storyextra', 'share-help', 'embedded-hyper', \
                       'story-feature wide ', 'story-feature narrow', 'cap', 'caption', 'q1', 'sihf', \
                       'mva', 'videoInStoryC', 'sharesb', 'mvtb']}), 
                       dict(name=['img']), dict(name=['br'])
                      ]

    remove_attributes = ['width','height']

    feeds          = [
                      ('Sport Front Page', 'http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/sportonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml'),
                      ('Football', 'http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/sportonline_uk_edition/football/rss.xml'),
                      ('Cricket', 'http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/sportonline_uk_edition/cricket/rss.xml'),
                      ('Formula 1', 'http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/sportonline_uk_edition/motorsport/formula_one/rss.xml'),
                      ('Commonwealth Games', 'http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/sportonline_uk_edition/commonwealth_games/delhi_2010/rss.xml'),
                      ('Golf', 'http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/sportonline_uk_edition/golf/rss.xml'),
                      ('Rugby Union', 'http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/sportonline_uk_edition/rugby_union/rss.xml'),
                      ('Rugby League', 'http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/sportonline_uk_edition/rugby_league/rss.xml'),
                      ('Tennis', 'http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/sportonline_uk_edition/tennis/rss.xml'),
                      ('Motorsport', 'http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/sportonline_uk_edition/motorsport/rss.xml'),
                      ('Boxing', 'http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/sportonline_uk_edition/boxing/rss.xml'),
                      ('Athletics', 'http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/sportonline_uk_edition/athletics/rss.xml'),
                      ('Snooker', 'http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/sportonline_uk_edition/other_sports/snooker/rss.xml'),
                      ('Horse Racing', 'http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/sportonline_uk_edition/other_sports/horse_racing/rss.xml'),
                      ('Cycling', 'http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/sportonline_uk_edition/other_sports/cycling/rss.xml'),
                      ('Disability Sport', 'http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/sportonline_uk_edition/other_sports/disability_sport/rss.xml'),
                      ('Other Sport', 'http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/sportonline_uk_edition/other_sports/rss.xml'),
                      ('Olympics 2012', 'http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/sportonline_uk_edition/olympics/london_2012/rss.xml'),
                     ]

If you want to customise which feeds this recipe grabs, just edit the last few lines to add or remove any feeds you want.

Please test it and leave some feedback. I'm quite new to coding and only have a rudimentary understanding of what's going on but I can at least attempt any necessary improvements!

Also I'm not sure whose is the copyright on derivative works, so I put my details as the most recent author. If I'm stepping on any toes, just let me know.