Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf and Aberdare Community Comprehensive School have qualified for the national rounds of the Year 11 Champion Schools rugby league cup competition. The draw for the last 16 has been made with Glantaf, whose players won the year 7 Final at Wembley Stadium in 2015, taking on Manchester-based St Mary’s Catholic High School in Loughborough on Thursday 17 January.

Head coach Pete Russell says Great Britain’s five international challenge games in the UK next year will be excellent preparation for the World Championship in Slovakia. GB first return to ice hockey’s elite level for the first time since 1994 next May and their training camp will include five top class international games. Ice Hockey […]

Tesni Evans has vowed to kick on in 2019 as she targets a place in the top five in the world. The Cardiff-born player will be back home in St Asaph over Christmas having already achieved one of her goals for the season.

Cardiff Devils set out to fire up their Elite League title challenge when they take on MK Lightning away this evening (Thursday, 7.30pm). The clash with Lightning is the start of an exhausting run of six matches in 11 days – four away and two at home. MK face ab even busier schedule with six […]

Former captain Mark Wallace has vowed to put Glamorgan back on the path to success after being named the new director of cricket. The 37-year-old succeeds Hugh Morris who left the role to focus on his position as chief executive with the club having struggled in recent seasons.

Wayne Pivac will bid to persuade Alun Wyn Jones to carry on with Wales after next year’s World Cup. Pivac – who joins the Welsh Rugby Union in July along with Stephen Jones and Jonathan Humphreys – plans talks with Jones about staying on when the Scarlets coach takes over the national job from Warren Gatland at the end of the tournament. Jones turns 34 on the eve of the competition in Japan, but Pivac says he wants the current captain to stay on board and offer the wealth of his international experience.

Welsh boxers will have British titles in their sights over the Christmas and New Year periods with Church Village middleweight Liam Williams kicking-off the title chase this weekend in Manchester. Williams has already been crowned British, Commonwealth and European Super Welterweight champion in the course of his 21 professional fights, but missed out on the interim WBO World crown last year when he was beaten by Liam Smith on a technical knock-out at the same MEN Arena he will return to on Saturday night. Now he gets his chance to claim another British title when he goes up against the unbeaten Oldham middleweight Mark Heffron on the undercard of the Josh Warrington v Carl Frampton contest for the IBO World Featherweight title.

Scottish forward Craig Moore has returned home and joined Fife Flyers in the town where he was born. The all-action and versatile Moore will play for Kirkcaldy-based Flyers over the rest of this season and says: “I want to thank Devils for giving me the opportunity to play in Cardiff and to be a part […]

IT’S derby time when grounds will be packed over the holiday period and the battle for who’s best, east or west, will resume. Largely because of the Dragons’ ineffectiveness – to put it politely – the west has generally proved to be best which would delight the late, lamented Ray Gravell.

Wales Rugby League have appointed Great Britain legend Lee Crooks as their new under 16 international side’s head coach. The 55-year old will work in this role alongside his current positions in rugby league in Hull, where he is Director of Rugby at St Mary’s College and also assists with the development programmes at City of Hull Rugby League Academy, the programme that feeds players to both Hull FC and Hull Kingston Rovers.

With both the 1st and 2nd teams already in the Christmas spirit after the culmination of their 2018 campaigns, it was left to Penarth Hockey Club’s lower XIs to carry the banner on the final weekend of Verde Recreo league action. PENARTH ‘B’ 5-3 Bridgend ‘B’ The 3rd XI entertained Bridgend in a late afternoon game at Stanwell that did well to survive the inclement weather conditions both in the hours before and during the match itself.

Welsh Gymnastics are celebrating having 15 gymnasts selected for British squads for 2019. A magnificent seven girls have been picked for the GB Home Nations Squad, while three more have made it into the GB Performance Pathway Squad.

All 12 Welsh Premier League managers will be cautiously navigating their way through the festive period fixtures over the coming weeks before rolling the dice on their respective teams’ ambitions in the January transfer window. Most will be working on their board to loosen the purse strings and forced to operate on a ‘one in, […]

Stephen Jones is expected to be confirmed as Wayne Pivac’s right-hand man with Wales on Wednesday as the rest of the post-World Cup regime takes shape. Jones, who is currently assistant to head coach Pivac at the Scarlets, has been the subject of five months’ of negotiation between the region and the Welsh Rugby Union. The compensation package between the parties has since been finalised and the appointment of Jones as backs coach is set to be announced along with that of Jonathan Humphreys as forwards coach.

Graham Barrow has been confirmed as the new manager of Wrexham after initially insisting he would not take the job. Barrow has been in caretaker charge at the Racecourse Ground since stepping up from assistant when former boss Sam Ricketts left to join Shrewsbury Town. Barrow maintained he was only filling a gap between appointments and that he was not keen to be a permanent solution, although he would be willing to remain as assistant.

Ryan Giggs has been priced as a 10-1 fourth favourite to become the next permanent manager of Manchester United following Jose Mourinho’s sacking. The Wales manager – who has previously managed United in a caretaker role – is behind French pair Lauren Blanc and Zinedine Zidane as well as Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino in the early betting. Giggs was given a four-year contract by the FAW when he took over from Chris Coleman back in January, but it was not clarified at the time of his appointment what release clauses had been inserted.

Merthyr Town have been caught up in a Buildbase FA Trophy row and as a result their EvoStik Southern League fixture against Weymouth has been postponed. The fixture, scheduled for the MetCoaches Stadium in Merthyr, was called off because of Weymouth’s trophy clash with Needham Market. But Suffolk club Market then withdrew from the competition […]

The hottest ticket in town will soon be Wales v England in the Six Nations. But what about the regions? How warm are those seats? Not heated by enough bums on them, according to Peter Jackson of The Rugby Paper, who has compared the numbers watching Wales’ favourite rugby team with those who supply all their players. A startling fact can be unearthed from the mound of attendance figures at the Millennium Stadium last month – that more than 36,000 fans support Wales at the expense of their regional teams.

James Waite, a Welsh teenager with bags of ability, led the charge when Cardiff City powered to a 7-0 under-23 win against Colchester United. The Bluebirds included four over-age first team players in their team, which is within the rules, with goalkeeper Alex Smithies, Matt Connolly, Loic Damour and Gary Madine starting. But 19-year-old Waite […]

Wales will return to play at the Racecourse Ground in Wrexham for the first in 10 years for an international challenge match against Trinidad and Tobago on March 20 next year. The game will be the first match of  2019 for Ryan Giggs’ side as they prepare for their first EURO 2020 qualifying match against Slovakia in Cardiff four days later.