06/02/2016 Saturday Sportsday

Hello and welcome to the BBC sports Centre. Over the next ten minutes we

will follow one of Britain's lesser-known world champions for the

start of the 50th Super Bowl weekend and we will see what the six Nations

might have in store, but first the headlines. England's cricketers are

taking on South Africa in the second one Day International in their

series. South Africa made 262-7 on their 50 overs. England are 30-1 in

reply. The unpredictability of results has been the big story this

Premier League season along with Leicester City's impressive form.

They are playing Manchester City, six minutes of that game have gone

and it is 1-0 to Leicester. 16-year-old Katie Swann was beating

in three sets this morning. And the first match of the women's six

Nations saw England defeat Scotland 32-0. Ireland play Wales at one

o'clock and France take on Italy this evening. At the start of 2016,

Laura Massaro was able to tick the final achievement on her list,

becoming the world number one. It has taken a decade to rise to the

top of the global world rankings. She is now balancing life on the

caught with the publicity that being the best in the world brings. An

unfamiliar stage for Laura, as a first time contestant on the BBC's

Question Of Sport. That is one of the fresh opportunities to come her

way since she broke new ground on the squash caught where she is much

more at home. Finally I suppose in your career you are the world number

one, how does it feel and what does it mean to you? It feels amazing, it

feels a long time coming and there was part of me that thought I would

never get there after playing in the same period as Nicol David, nine

years at world number one. This form I have had in the back of 2015 has

kicked in and the hard work and training has paid off. She has had a

14 match unbeaten run, and her spike in success came after a decision to

take time away from the sport. I felt very tired on caught, I felt I

couldn't concentrate. I couldn't play the way I wanted to play and I

didn't know if that was me nearing the end of my career or needing a

break. I took a break and after a month I felt like I wanted to get

back on the caught again and it has kicked on from there really. You

have won the British open, now you are the world number one, what else

do you want to achieve? I want to stamp my authority on the top spot.

It is about finding good form, carrying that on through 2016 and

hopefully if you can hold onto that spot for long time. Laura is still

learning about the high life but one of the biggest and most brash sports

events of the year is about to take place. It is Super Bowl weekend, and

when the Carolina Panthers take on the Denver Broncos it will be a

landmark for American football. This is Super Bowl L and here are the

facts and figures. -- Super Bowl 50. The famous Vince Lombardi trophy was

first fought over in 1967 but it was not even super back then, it was the

AFL NFL World Championship game, back then the average player got

around $6,000 per year, nowadays that would take the league's best

paid player just over an hour to make. There are now the famous

half-time shows, in nearly days you were lucky if you got a marching

band but Michael Jackson's performance in 1993 paved the way

for some of the biggest names in music to crash the party. And who

could forget his sister's wardrobe malfunction in 2004? Players have

changed as well, in the NFL size matters. The average player in the

1960s weighed in at 251 lbs. Now the majority of players are weighing in

at around 310 lbs. There have been plenty of fashion disasters over the

years, proving money cannot buy you everything. As the American football

season reaches its climax, rugby union's six Nations is about to get

under way and it is the most open tournament for many years. France

face Italy before Scotland host England. Defending champions Ireland

take on Wales tomorrow. It has been eight long years since

Scotland last lifted rugby's oldest trophy, the Calcutta Cup has

collected English dust but is change in the air? This time Scotland are

building on something England relaying foundations, they were

embarrassed in their own World Cup. Scotland made progress but that

didn't number paints of a late disputed Australian penalty in the

quarterfinal. I will take that to my grave with me. For your life's work

to end like that, it was difficult to take but we cannot feel sorry for

ourselves. Do you do detect a mood in the camp that they want to make

up for the World Cup? Yes, they are hungry, they want to put things

right. In Dylan Hartley and Eddie Jones England have a new captain and

coach, Scotland are at their most stable in years. Despite that,

England are the pretournament favourites, the expectation on

Scotland comes from within. We want them to be able to play and enjoy

the game, and they are competitors, they want to win. For me, pressure

is opportunity. People obviously expect us to win if that is the case

and you have got to get excited about that. The last two games

between these two haven't been close but they have always been

competitive, this one cannot be taken lightly. Do what we like

doing, play the game we like playing, and show some character.

The BBC's Six Nations coverage starts at 1:30pm on BBC One. The top

of the table clash in the Premier League sees Leicester City 1-0 up

against Manchester City. That's it for Saturday Sportsday, goodbye.