Belfast Giants 2, Cardiff Devils 4 Canadian defenceman Sam Jardine and goalie Ben Bowns played crucial roles in Cardiff Devils’ battling Elite League win against Belfast Giants in Northern Ireland. Former Toronto Marlies player Jardine scored Cardiff’s third goal of the match at a crucial time when Belfast had momentum and we’re attacking in waves. […]

Jade Jones earned a handy $20,000 Christmas bonus after finishing second in taekwondo’s richest tournament in China. Wales’ double Olympic and reigning world champion had to settle for silver at the Grand Prix final in Wuxi as the countdown to Tokyo 2020 begins in earnest. But first the Flint fighter plans on spending some time with her family and reflecting on her outing in the last tournament of the year.

Neil Harris insists Cardiff City are moving on from the route one era under Neil Warnock – even though results have stalled. After starting his reign with a draw and three straight victories, Harris’s Bluebirds have not managed a victory in three games and sit in the middle of the Championship, four points adrift of the play-off places. The latest frustration – a goalless draw at home to Preston – was achieved with little excitement but Harris says the team is evolving from the type of football they were renowned for under previous manager Warnock.

Andre Ayew is proving to be the rock of experience on which Swansea City are rebuilding their promotion challenge, according to manager Steve Cooper. The Swans striker scored the only goal of the game as his team made it back-to-back victories in the Championship with a 1-0 win at Luton Town. After six games without a win, which saw the club tumble down the table, Cooper’s men have now taken maximum points against Middlesbrough and the Hatters and can now make it three on the trot on Boxing Day when they visit in-form Brentford.

‘Squash on Fire’ sums up the Welsh performance at the World Team Championships in Washington, USA. Wales startled and stunned the World of squash with the sheer ferocity, passion, power and quality of their challenge at the newly opened and aptly named Squash on Fire centre. The four-man Welsh squad swept aside a number of […]

Merthyr Town manager Gavin Williams is working with one of the lowest playing budgets in BetVictor Southern League football – and the Martyrs are punching above their weight. A statement by the board of directors reveals Merthyr have the second lowest budget in the Premier Division and one of the lowest the club have had […]

Cardiff City (u-18) 1, Crystal Palace (u-18) 3 The young Bluebirds were shot down by South London-born striker Tetteh-Quaye Addy in their final Professional Under-18 Development League fixture of 2019.. Addy, known simply by his initials ‘TQ’ among team-mates scored the first two Crystal Palace goals at Cardiff International Sports Stadium on Friday. Central midfield […]

Liam Williams has chosen to return to the Scarlets next season after being swayed by Wales coach Wayne Pivac. The Wales and Saracens star had been weighing up a £700,000-a-year move to French giants Toulon as the alternative to returning to his former region for £400,000. But after talks with Pivac over what being based in the south of France might mean to his availability for Wales, the 28-year-old has opted for the coastline around Llanelli, rather than the Cote d’Azur.

Wales have gatecrashed the World Team Championship semi-finals In Washington, USA. They have joined Egypt, England and France in the semi-finals at Squash On Fire, the new state-of-the-art eight-court facility in the US capital. Wales, the 11th seeds for the competition, now play top ranked Egypt in the semis. “We’re playing Egypt now, the number […]

Cardiff City folk hero Sol Bamba is set to start his first match for nine months against Preston on Saturday. The central defender – who has not begun a game since March when he suffered a serious knee injury that required surgery – is likely to be restored to the Bluebirds defence as manager Neil Harris is without the injured Aidan Flint and suspended Sean Morrison.

Cardiff Devils 4, Belfast Giants 0 Devils won 5-0 on aggregate Cardiff Devils ripped the Challenge Cup from Belfast Giants grasp in ruthless fashion at the Viola Arena in Cardiff Bay. Holders Giants failed to score in either leg of their quarter-final with Devils winning 1-0 in Northern Ireland an d powering to a four-goal […]

Wales is to get its second Wheelchair Rugby League club next season following the launch of Ebbw Rollers, who have become South Wales’ first-ever side. North Wales Crusaders already field sides in the Super League and Championship and Ebbw Rollers are set to join them in the lower competition in 2020. They have also applied to enter the Wheelchair Rugby League Challenge Cup.

Not long left to the turn of the decade, not just the year. Sport Wales have been running an online poll to judge Wales’ sporting moment of the decade. Graham Thomas recalls a few. Ask any judging panel or TV producer to distil a year’s worth of sporting achievement into one nomination list and they […]

Are you a pressured parent? Does your son or daughter appear to have been swallowed up into some sporting “pathway” which is heading somewhere you can’t yet identify? Fear not – Owen Morgan has news of a route map for the disorientated mum and dad. We’ve all seen parents shouting encouragement and advice from the touchline as their little ones run around a muddy field on a Sunday morning. The advice may not always be the most well-informed, but the encouragement is usually well-intended, if, occasionally, over-enthusiastic.

Penarth based charity Challenge Wales has scooped an international award of ‘Sail Training Organisation of the Year’ at an industry conference in Antwerp. The Challenge Wales charity which operates the sail training vessels Challenge Wales | Wales Tall Ship and Adventure Wales won the award due to the work it has done during 2019 with hundreds of disadvantaged young people, helping them to develop their employability skills. The Charity is only the third UK recipient of the Award since the awards started in 2007.

Wales’s world champ Lauren Price has landed the top award for the second year running at GB Boxing’s Annual Awards. The 25-year-old Gwent fighter was named female Boxer of the Year after a stunning unbeaten run in 2019. Price struck gold at the 2019 European Games in June and followed it up by winning the World Championship […]

Christian Doidge aims to give Ryan Giggs a gentle elbow in the ribs on Friday night to remind the Wales manager not to forget him ahead of the Euro 2020 finals. Doidge will line-up for Hibernian at home to Rangers in the Scottish Premiership as the newly crowned Ladbrokes Player Of The Month in Scotland following an impressive few weeks. The Newport-born striker has struck seven goals in his last seven matches, a rate that has propelled him up to sixth place in the current scoring charts in his league and made him an increasingly talked about threat in Scottish club football.

Terry Phillips hands over to Philip Evans#BozmanRulings to reflect on Merthyr Town’s home defeat against Walton Casuals in the BetVictor Southern Premier with ‘The Night-Mayor before Christmas’. Read Philip’s amusing view from the stands: Merthyr Town 0, Walton Casuals 2 The tannoy system suddenly kicked in and boomed noisily around Penydarren Park. The volume was […]

Cardiff Devils face a gruelling seven matches in 15 days going into the New Year – and that is potentially their most critical spell of fixtures this season. Captain Joey Martin and his Devils remain in the battle for Elite League and Challenge Cup glory, but they face a huge test at their Viola Arena […]

Thirteen years ago Jimmy Watkins was finishing sixth at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Moscow. At 23, he was one of the rising stars of British middle-distance running – the first Brit to reach a world 800 final for 25 years. However, just two years later the Treorchy athlete would make his final indoor track appearance in the Celtic Cup at Cardiff’s National Indoor Athletics Centre.