There was a win for Wales in the Premier Squash League on Tuesday, but it was a night when the Welsh Wizards failed to start at RAC. The winner was Joel Makin, from Haverfordwest, when he defeated Australian World number 23 Cameron Pilley while playing for University of Birmingham Lions. They won 3-2 against Newcastle […]

The Lions are now an endangered species, says Robin Davey. Once vast wild beasts that roamed on tour for months on end, they risk becoming puny pussycats, pushed to scavenging on the margins for fixtures when they should still be kings of the rugby jungle. The very future of one of rugby’s greatest institutions is under real threat as a result of dramatic changes in the English calendar just announced. And that has to be a real rugby tragedy.

Newport County are in good shape after 15 League Two matches and ready to step up their promotion push. Their gritty 1-1 draw against Bury in Greater Manchester is a positive result, while the return of Joss Labadie has added to the feel good factor at Rodney Parade. Manager Michael Flynn and his team are […]

Manager Sam Ricketts expressed his delight after Wrexham’s 2-0 Emirates FA Cup replay win against Harrogate Town at the Racecourse. Akil Wright scored his first Wrexham goal, Luke Young added their second and ‘keeper Rob Lainton kept a 12th clean sheet of the season. The reward for Ricketts’ Dragons is a first round match against […]

More than 300 young golfers entered this year’s Wales Mini Masters – a record number – with the final at Celtic Manor still to come at the end of the month. More than 50 clubs from around Wales were represented in the competition, which has proved a breeding ground for many of the top players.

By Brian Lee Silver Streak won on the richest race day of the year at Ffos Las. A bumper crowd attended, there were 80 runners in total and more than £100,000 of prize money on offer across the eight races. That included £45,000 for the Dunraven Group Welsh Champion Hurdle feature race.  The Champion Hurdle […]

Penarth Hockey Club missed out on a victorious clean sweep at the weekend, as the 1st XI succumbed to defeat with the last touch of their Verde Recreo Premiership game against Clifton Robinsons. After bouncing back to winning ways in their only home game of the campaign so far, the 1st XI were looking to build some momentum as they travelled to Coombe Dingle to take on fellow top five club Clifton Robinsons.

Liam Rice-Wilson is relishing facing France this weekend after linking up with Wales’ squad as they prepare for the European Championship and 2021 Rugby League World Cup qualifier. John Kear’s men take on the French in Carcassonne at 5pm on Saturday, with two places at the 2021 World Cup up for grabs during this year’s tournament.

Phil Bennett was born on October 24th, 1948. His 70th birthday is an occasion when anyone still in love with Welsh rugby should raise a glass to a man who embodied its spirit. And anyone too young to remember him should get on YouTube. Graham Thomas pays tribute.  Phil Bennett is 70. But it’s not all bad news because as Wales and Warren Gatland suffer uncertainty over who to pick at fly-half next month, the great man seems willing to consider a comeback.

Graham Potter admitted his Swansea City youngsters needed a half-time lecture before giving Blackburn a second-half lesson. The Swans claimed only their second win in eight games after recovering from trailing to a penalty.

Damian Cole will drive his Get Connected Ford Focus WRC05, in which he won five consecutive Asphalt Rally Championship titles, for the first time since 2015 when he contests this Sunday’s Ford Parts Cheviot Stages Rally. The Abergavenny driver will be seeded at car number one on the final round on the 2018 Protyre MSA Asphalt Rally Championship, having won the event last year in his Fiesta WRC. The six-time Asphalt champion has an impressive record in the Focus – winning 24 events outright, six of them on the Otterburn Military Ranges in Northumberland, where the Cheviot Rally is held.

With only two rounds of the 2018 FIA World Rally Championship remaining, Elfyn Evans will be hoping that his rotten luck will change this weekend on Rally Spain (25-28 October). The RallyRACC Catalunya – Rally de España, as it’s officially called, is the penultimate round of the series and the only mixed-surface event on the calendar, combining one day of gravel stages with two days on asphalt. Co-driven by Dan Barritt, Rally Spain is an event that should suit Evans and his M-Sport Ford World Rally Team’s EcoBoost-powered Ford Fiesta WRC – although in five previous starts, his best result is seventh in 2017.

Cardiff Fire are turning on the style to show their National Ice Hockey League credentials. Captain Alan Armour and his team have earned three successive wins, bouncing back strongly after losing their opening two fixtures. Now the task for Fire is to show there is real substance to their recovery when they play Slough Jets […]

Wales will not have to tame The Beast this autumn when South Africa visit the Principality Stadium. Tendai “The Beast” Mtawarira will miss the Springboks’ November tour due to a neck injury the prop sustained playing against New Zealand earlier this month.

Cardiff’s Elliott Morris Devred is a Wizard when it comes to squash and he underlined that on his Premier Squash League debut. The 20-year-old, who joined the professional World tour this year, defeated Coolhurst’s Nick Mulvey 12-10, 11-5 in his opening match for Welsh Wizards and makes his second appearance against Trads@RAC in London this […]

Former Swansea City striker Danny Graham has vowed there will be no sentiment when he aims to lift Blackburn Rovers into the Championship play-off places on Tuesday night. Graham – who spent two seasons at the Swans and scored 21 goals before leaving in 2013 – is part of an in-form Rovers team heading for the Liberty Stadium. Back-to-back victories over Bolton and Leeds have put them seventh in the table and a third victory is likely to push them into the top six.

Wrexham goalkeeper Rob Lainton has been immense for Wrexham this season and took his excellent form from league to cup. Lainton, who is playing for the Dragons on loan from Port Vale, has kept 11 clean sheets in 17 appearances, and shut out Harrogate in the Emirates FA Cup. Wrexham earned a goalless draw at […]

Gleason Fournier, a hugely talented French-Canadian defenceman, says playing for Cardiff Devils is an ‘awesome experience’. Fournier has been in sizzling form and is the second Devils player to be crowned Elite League player of the week. Joey Martin, man of the match in the 7-2 win against Fife on Sunday, was the first and […]

Newport County have been drawn away to Metropolitan Police in the Emirates FA Cup, but manager Michael Flynn won’t be thinking about that tie just yet. The Exiles travel to play the Met over the weekend of November 10, but Flynn’s focus is strictly on Tuesday’s League Two trip to Bury. Police play in Southern League Premier […]

Two Welsh coaches are finalists in the 2018  UK Coaching Awards. Francesca Lewis and Lee Coulson are finalists for the 2018 Talent Development Coach of the Year and Community Coach of the Year awards, respectively.