Geraint Thomas will return to action in Italy on Saturday as he continues his build-up to defending his Tour de France crown. The Cardiff-born rider will compete in Strade Bianche and is then set to stay in Italy to ride next week’s Tirreno-Adriatico. Thomas will be joined this weekend by countryman Owain Doull who is fresh off the best result of his road racing career when he finished second in Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne last weekend.

Padraig Amond’s sensational goals for Newport County in their run to the fifth round of the FA Cup have helped to earn him a call-up to the Republic of Ireland squad. The 30-year-old League Two striker from Carlow has been included in the 22-man provisional squad by Mick McCarthy for the European Qualifying matches against Gibraltar and Georgia.

Cardiff Devils players meet up with a former team-mate when they take on Fife Flyers in Kirkcaldy, Scotland this evening. Craig Moore was born in Kirkcaldy and has played 22 Elite League matches for Flyers since he made the move from South Wales back home. The all-action, versatile Moore says: “Devils gave me an opportunity […]

By Gregory Harrand Kevin Davies powered to a third victory on the Bro Caron as Lampeter and District Motor Club hold their annual event in the road rallying calendar, the Bro Caron. Davies, with navigator Alan James, achieved an excellent comeback to win the rally in their Ford Escort Mk2 having last won the event in 2017. Master’s class winners were Mark Lennox and Ian Beamond in their Escort after setting great times in the tricky condition. Finishing in an excellent second overall and winning the expert class were Carwyn Davies and Ryan Griffiths in their Mk2 Ford Escort.

Graham Potter is getting ready for the toughest footballing week of his life. The Swansea City boss is preparing to face Championships leaders Norwich City on Friday night and Premiership top dogs Manchester City in the FA Cup eight days later. Sandwiched in between is another Championship away day at promotion-chasing West Brom on Wednesday, leaving Potter with little chance to catch his breath.

Project Shitstorm – obviously hatched in a secret war room in Edinburgh Castle – appears to have done its job. You can hardly see Saturday’s Six Nations fixture in front of you, for all the muck that has been thrown around in the past few days. But Robin Davey insists Wales can rise above the stink, keep their noses clean, and gain the whiff of a Grand Slam in the air by the time they return to Cardiff. Wales should have nothing to fear at Murrayfield this weekend – apart from the echoing bickering going on back at home. Certainly, when you look at this Scotland team and compare it to Warren Gatland’s side then the form, the experience, and the quality stacks up clearly in the visitors’ favour.

Welsh Youth Cup semi-final Swansea City 1, Cardiff City 0 Oli Cooper, the teenage son of former Cardiff City, Wimbledon and Wolves player and coach Kevin, sent the Bluebirds crashing out of the FAW Youth Cup at Llanelli’s Stebonheath Park stadium. Cooper, aged 19, struck just before half-time in in fiercely contested semi-final, earning the Swans […]

Anna Hursey and Lara Whitton are fast becoming the best of friends and the biggest of rivals as they rise through the ranks of Welsh table tennis. The world learned about the prodigious talent of Cardiff High School student Hursey when she became the youngest Wales representative at last year’s Commonwealth Games in Australia at the age of 11. She has since travelled further around the world to train and play despite her tender years and is currently ranked at No 5 in Europe and No 14 in the World at Under 15. Next month, she will join Charlotte Carey, Josh Stacey and Callum Evans in representing Wales at the European Senior Championships in Budapest – two months before her 13th birthday.

Exclusive by Owen Morgan Welsh sprinter Jeremiah Azu is a young man who seems to thrive on overcoming disappointments and turning them into positives. Last weekend, Azu brought a close to a blistering indoor season with a 60m win in the junior international match against England at Cardiff’s National Indoor Athletics Centre. But he puts his success over the past few weeks down to the disqualification he suffered at the same venue back in January.

Pembrokeshire athlete James Tomlinson will represent Great Britain at the European Throwing Cup in Slovakia this weekend. Tomlinson, who has been named in a nine-strong Great Britain team, will compete in the under-23 men’s discus competition. The event in Samorin on Saturday and Sunday will see some of the world’s top senior and junior throwers taking part.

Mark Jones has plenty to consider and weigh up after naming his latest Wales ‘C’ squad earlier today. Jones has two weeks in which to select his starting team before facing England in Salford on Tuesday 19th March. The Wales ‘C’ manager has 21 players to select from, although it is understood a 22nd player, […]

Welsh Wizards have moved top of their Premier Squash League division after beating Chichester 3-2 in Sussex. Peter Creed, Emyr Evans and Tesni Evans were the Welsh players who won at Chichester and lifted Wizards one point clear of Tradition@RAC. Creed returned from winning the Top Squash Open in Luxembourg, beating Australia Cameron Pilley in […]

The Scarlets have finally agreed with the Ospreys. . . the merger is off. The two regions have now issued statements in the last 24 hours in complete accord that all merger discussions have been taken off the table and it’s as you were in Welsh rugby. Following the Ospreys’ statement yesterday accusing the Professional […]

Manager Mark Jones has named a 21-man Wales squad for the ‘C International Challenge Match’ against England at Salford City’s Peninsula Stadium on Tuesday, 19 March. The squad from the JD Welsh Premier League includes a blend of experience and youth with Barry Town having the biggest representation with five players.

Colin Ingram has insisted Glamorgan can recover from last season disastrous campaign – and has underlined his faith by signing a new two-year white ball contract with the county. The South African batsman will captain Glamorgan in the T20, but is unlikely to be available for the One Day Cup from 2020 onwards as he is pencilled in for a slot in the new 100-ball tournament. Hard-hitting Ingram, 33, has a year remaining on his current deal, but the extension will take him up to 2021.

Welsh riders  Connor Brace, Lorcan Williams and Sean Bowen all caught the judge’s eye at Exeter. Brace took the opening handicap hurdle on Phillip Hobbs’s Smarty Wild.  Just over 40 minutes later, Williams was successful on the top weighted Truckers Lodge for Paul Nicholls  and later in the afternoon Sean Bowen won the principal race […]

Laura Deas will miss the Skeleton World Championships in Whistler after suffering an injury in the team competition earlier this week. Wales’ Olympic bronze medal winner in PyeongChang last February sustained a whiplash type injury in the combined bobsleigh and skeleton event in the early hours of Monday morning. Management of the injury is ongoing but Deas has been forced to withdraw from the individual competition in Canada this Thursday and Friday.

Wales head coach Gareth Williams has made four changes to the starting line-up for Friday’s fourth round clash in the U20 Six Nations against Scotland at Meggetland (7.30pm). Gloucester winger Alex Morgan replaces Tomi Lewis, who limped out of the tense victory against England in the last round, with the remaining three changes in the pack. Jac Price returns to the second row having missed the games against Italy and England through suspension after starting against France. Moving up from the replacements bench, Scarlets prop Kemsley Mathias and Llanelli flanker Ellis Thomas earn their first starts of the campaign.

First it was on, then it was off. Then it was just another back-of-the-fag-packet plan tossed into the bin after 15 months of waiting for Welsh rugby’s leaders to show the way ahead. The shambles of Project Reset is picked over by David Williams who just wants to flush the chain and run away. When is a merger not a merger? When it’s a takeover. That seems to be at the heart of the ‘on-off’ relationship between the Scarlets and Ospreys and their proposed gathering of the west Wales clans for the betterment of Welsh rugby. But who proposed such an unhappy and unlikely marriage in the first place? That seems to be the question exercising most people. Was it a WRU suggestion, or did it come from the supposedly cash-strapped Ospreys?

Merthyr Town football secretary Jamie Mack will step down from his role at the end of the 2018/19 season. Mack has held the role for nine seasons, beginning when the club reformed in 2010 as Merthyr Town FC.   He told club chairman Jonathon Davies and manager Gavin Williams that he wishes to take a break […]