You might be a basketball or ice hockey fan. You might support your local non-league football team. You might watch rugby in National League 1. If you're any of those things, you probably know what it's like for the media glare to point squarely... elsewhere.

Minority sports, and majority sports at a minor enough level, are very easily ignored. After all, the people who shout the loudest often get the most attention - and there are more Reading fans to shout than there are Maidenhead United fans.

That's why it usually takes something like the FA Cup, or a bizarre story, for local sport to hit the headlines. But therein lies an advantage for anyone with the freedom and inclination to devote a little extra time to these sports - if you go to places no one else goes, you'll find stories and characters no one else knows about.

This is the spark behind Sportsweek, a new part of our BBC site designed to focus on sports clubs which don't normally get our attention. Yes, Five Live got to the name first, but it fits the bill so I've stolen it.

We have two world-beating hockey teams, an Elite League ice hockey team, a top basketball side, two or three top rugby clubs and plenty of strong non-league football sides in our patch, so there's plenty of people to be talking to.

For our first week we've got interviews with figures from Newbury rugby club, Basingstoke Town FC, Reading Rockets basketball team and Slough ladies' hockey club - plus London Irish analysis from our reporter Graham.

Click here to take a look. The Reading Rockets interview is particularly good, since the team are embroiled in a tapping-up scandal with rivals Worthing Thunder. Just because a sport's out of the public eye, doesn't mean nothing ever happens.