Newport County are keeping things tight in their quest to make a late dash to snatch a League Two play-off slot. The Exiles are five points away from seventh place with six matches left and their remarkable defensive record is keeping hopes alive. Goalkeeper Joe Day has conceded only one goal in the last four […]

Sarah Jones has been named in the GB squad for the FIH Pro League game away to Germany later this month. The midfield powerhouse had been a regular in coach Mark Hager’s squad for the competition so far.

Swansea’s Gower Riders are celebrating after winning a number of awards and accolades as they gear up to the next stage in the club’s development and bid to boost cycling. The cycling club, currently based at Gowerton Comprehensive School, enjoyed a phenomenally successful 2018, which saw young riders achieve an extraordinary 106 top three places, including 40 wins, at cyclo-cross, road, track and mountain bike races.



by Twm Owen Colin Jackson has praised the advice he received as a young athlete from Nigel Walker – and insisted the sprinter turned Welsh international was a better hurdler than he was a rugby player.  Two-time world 110m hurdles champion Jackson said just training alongside and observing 1984 Los Angeles Olympian Walker while still a teenager helped set him on track […]

Andrew Lord wasn’t on the best of terms with a Cardiff Devils defenceman nicknamed ‘The Silent Assassin’ when this season started. There was an uneasy truce between head coach Lord and 6ft 4ins Mark Louis during pre-season, but the man from Ponoka in Central Alberta proved his worth over the last eight months. So much […]

Pembrokeshire’s James Bowen had only two rides at Warwick in midweek and won on both of them  – an 89-1 double (writes Brian Lee). Both were trained by fellow Welshman Christian Williams at Ogmore-By-Sea. The double was initiated when six-year-old Fifty Shades, a 5-1 chance, won the handicap chase by a length from The Last […]

Harry Wilson is counting down the days to Wales’ next Euro qualifier and the chance to take centre stage instead of watch from the sidelines. The Derby County star – on loan duty under Frank Lampard from parent club Liverpool – has six Championship matches remaining with the Rams which will determine whether or not their season is extended with play-offs. Either way, Wilson is already looking forward to Wales’ second qualifier out in Croatia on June 8

Joel Makin will face No 8 seed Marwan Elshorbagy for a place in the quarter-finals of the DPD Open in Eindhoven. The Haverfordwest-born player set-up the second round clash with the world No 11 with a comfortable first round victory in Holland.

Natasha Cockram is relishing her London Marathon bow this month after giving her preparations the ideal boost in Vienna. The 26-year-old smashed her personal best for the 10km to win in the Austrian capital last weekend.

Wales forward Siwan Lillicrap believes today’s women’s Varsity match marks a significant step forward for female sport. The Swansea women’s player – who is also head of rugby at Swansea University – believes Wednesday’s fixture is helping cement the women’s game on an equal footing with the men’s. It is only the second time that both fixtures have taken place at the same venue, the Principality Stadium in Cardiff.

Graham Potter insists Swansea City will just focus on winning rather contemplating the chances of a successful late charge into the play-offs. Another Daniel James-inspired victory – this time over Stoke City on Tuesday night – has moved the Swans to within seven points of sixth-placed Aston Villa. Given that there are also six other Championship clubs between the Swans and their target, they would appear to be no more than rank outsiders to claim a play-off place.

A week ago, Robin Davey suggested there was plenty to be alarmed about in Welsh rugby when it came to the dysfunctional Premiership. Now, the sirens have started wailing with the news that Cross Keys do not even have enough money to finish the season. And they are far from alone. The desperate news that Cross Keys have launched a survival fund just in order to finish the season proves just how quickly the shine from a Grand Slam can fade. Scratch below the glittering surface of Welsh rugby and there is so much that looks in a state of disrepair – like a respray job covering a multitude of sins under the bonnet.

Welsh race walkers Bethan Davies and Heather Lewis have been included in a strong Great Britain team to compete at the European Race Walking Cup in Lithuania next month. Lewis has made a spectacular start to 2019, having claimed the British Indoor 5K title in February and lowered her 10k personal best in March, before setting  a new PB over 20k in the Czech Republic last weekend. The Pembrokeshire athlete slashed 11 seconds off her previous best time as she clocked 95:04 at the Poderbrady Race Walking Competition, taking her to fourth on the UK’s all-time list over 20K.

The 2019 Rallynuts Stages Rally is set to be one of the biggest in its 46 year history as over 130 crews head to Llanelwedd this Saturday (13 April) for the popular annual forest stage rally. A top-quality entry will assemble in Mid-Wales to tackle over 44 miles of competitive driving in the nearby forests, many of which have been made famous by Britain’s round of the FIA World Rally Championship, Wales Rally GB, in the past. Names such as Hafren, Sweet Lamb and Coed Sarnau forests will offer an action-packed day’s motorsport in the region. The rally is once again sponsored by established racewear and accessory firm Rallynuts Motorsport, who enter their fourth year as title sponsors. Their support, coupled with a progressive format helped to secure the event in the Jordan Road Surfacing BTRDA Rally Championship calendar in 2018, returning after a long break.

Penarth Hockey Club’s on-field success story has again filtered down to its junior section, with one team qualifying for the Welsh Cup finals, another narrowly missing out and a third claiming the South Wales Plate. U13s earn shot at Welsh title

Billy Root has been backed to make a major impact for Glamorgan this season as he bids to step out of the shadow of older brother Joe. Root scored a century for the county on his debut in the drawn friendly against the students of Cardiff MCCU this week – a side picked from Cardiff Met, Cardiff University and the University of South Wales – to show an immediate claim to form. With Glamorgan due to start their Specsavers County Championship season at home to Northants on Thursday, new captain Chris Cooke is hopeful Root can bring more strength to the side’s batting line-up.

Wales Girls claimed one of their best wins with victory in the Irish Girls U18 Stroke Play Championship, seeing off teams from the Home Nations and around Europe. Pontyclun schoolgirl Ffion Tynan was second in the individual event, after leading going into the final round, with Newport Links’ Carys Worby in 13th and Isle of Wedmore’sHarriet Lockley in 23rd.

Monza will be the first destination on Seb Morris’ extremely busy 2019 race schedule, where the hotly anticipated new Blancpain Endurance Cup season will get underway with the first three-hour race of the campaign. One year on from a stunning debut in the pan-European championship at the Italian circuit, where the Welshman achieved a sensational second place finish in the Pro-Am class, Morris is back for a major title bid with Team Parker Racing and a brand new Bentley Continental GT3. Adding to the seamless continuity, the Wrexham-born 23-year old will also team-up once again with Derek Pierce and Rob Smith as the hugely successful driving partnership, first formed last year, reunites to take on the world’s biggest and best GT3 championship.

Shaun Edwards has revealed he has still not decided on a return to Wigan – increasing the possibility he could yet remain with Wales. Wasps director of rugby Dai Young is also very keen to take on Edwards, who is in demand despite his claim during the Six Nations that he would be unemployed after the World Cup. The Wales defence coach was unveiled as Super League champions Wigan’s next head coach from 2020 last August, with another former player, Adrian Lam, holding the fort until then following the departure of Shaun Wane.

Ashley Williams can remind Wales fans he still has plenty to offer Ryan Giggs when he returns to Swansea City tonight. The Wales captain – who has lost his starting place for the national side after also struggling to be selected at club level – is poised to lead a  Stoke City trio of former Swans players at the Liberty Stadium. Joe Allen and Sam Clucas could also feature for the visitors as Graham Potter’s side bid to make it three successive victories and keep alive their outside hopes of reaching the play-offs.