Cardiff Devils turn to a Slovakian challenge following their home and away Aladdin Cup double-header against Nottingham Panthers. Head coach Andrew Lord and his Devils were edged out 11-8 by Panthers over two fiercely contested matches and now play Poprad HK from Slovakia in back-to-back home fixtures next weekend. Lord’s men are some way from […]

Cardiff City’s under-23 development team open their 2018-19 season behind closed doors against Burnley at Turf Moor this evening (7pm). The young Bluebirds earned five pre-season wins, four of them during a week-long tour to Devon and Cornwall, and now turn to their Professional Development League Two fixtures. “It’ll be a great experience for the […]

Eddie Butler, Martyn Williams and Shane Williams will lead a group of high profile on-screen defections from the BBC to new rugby broadcaster Premier Sports. The line-up – due to be announced on Tuesday – could include as many as six regular BBC Wales faces and voices who worked on Scrum V and other areas of the BBC’s rugby coverage. It’s another blow for BBC Wales, who have been steadily losing rights for sports coverage and dropping sports programmes since 2006. Now, they find they are losing staff.

Erwin Mulder has told Swansea City manager Graham Potter the goalkeeping gloves are off in his fight for a starting place with Kristoffer Nordfeldt. Dutchman Mulder finally made his Swans debut in Saturday’s 1-0 defeat of Preston, 408 days after he joined the club from Heerenveen. If patience is a virtue then Mulder must be approaching sainthood status. Not only was he in the shadow cast by Lukasz Fabianski, before the keeper was sold to West Ham earlier this summer, but he was also eclipsed by Swedish World Cup squad member Nordfeldt in the battle to be No.2.

Ieaun and Owain Rowlands won the Minafon Garage Gareth Hall Memorial Rally by just one second in their Ford Escort Mk2, after a mistake on the final stage cost Dave Paveley/Rich Jones victory in their Mitsubishi Evo. The battle for honours over the damp and slippery Ranges Motor Sports Centre near Trawsfynydd saw the lead change six times during the exciting 12 stage event. Rowlands, who had been delayed early on with an engine misfire, and Paveley were neck and neck going into the final stage, but a mistake on a hairpin cost the Llandudno-based driver time – and victory by the smallest of margins.

Robert Croft still believes Glamorgan are well placed to make the Vitality Blast T20 knockout stages, despite losing their unbeaten streak. The head coach watched his team fall to a convincing defeat at Somerset on Sunday, the county’s first setback following five straight victories. A sustained display of powerful hitting by New Zealander Corey Anderson – who struck 72 from just 30 balls – proved the decisive innings at Taunton where Somerset won by 29 runs.

Melissa Courtney ran a huge personal best to break the 31-year-old Welsh 5,000m record in an eventful European Athletics Championships  final in Germany on Sunday night. The Poole AC athlete slashed almost 12 seconds off her previous best set in Holland in June. Courtney’s time of 15:04.75 eclipsed the previous Welsh best of 15:13.22 set by Cardiff AAC’s Angela Tooby in Oslo back in 1987.

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Caryl Jones produced a gutsy season’s best performance to help Great Britain to a hugely creditable fourth place in the European Athletics Championship marathon team event on Sunday morning. The five-woman GB team lost their two fastest runners  – Charlotte Purdue and Lily Partridge – who pulled out of the race after 10km and 25kms respectively.

Latvian-born Toms Rutkis underlined his potential with an outstanding personal performance for Cardiff Devils in Nottingham. Rutkis, a 20-year-old forward who plays for Devils on a two-way contract with Swindon Wildcats, started the 2018-19 ice hockey season in sensational form. He caught the eye during Devils’ open training session last week, while he scored against […]

Graham Potter has defended Swansea City’s deadline day exodus as resolutely as his players defended in their 1-0 victory over Preston. The Swans are in fourth spot in the early Championship table after a hard-fought victory decided by Jay Fulton’s only goal of the game. It was not always convincing in their first game of the campaign at the Liberty Stadium, but the result soothed what could have become a more fractious atmosphere following the selling spree on Thursday. Four players left the club, making it 12 in total during a downsizing summer which has improved the bank balance by £48m. Only four players have arrived for a quarter of that figure.

Neil Warnock’s Bluebirds’ Academy revolution has started in style. Cardiff City have signed eight players on new two-year apprenticeship deals – and opened their under-18 season with a 5-0 home win against Colchester United. Dan Griffiths (2), Sam Bowen, Sion Spence and Isaac Davies scored the goals for coach Craig Bellamy’s under-18 team, while goalkeeper […]

Bobby Reid and Josh Murphy have given notice they have the quality to make an impact at Premier League level. The Bluebirds’ signings impressed during Cardiff City’s 2-0 defeat against AFC Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium. Man of the match Reid started in attack, while substitute Murphy went on just after the hour and both […]

Wales put in an outstanding second half performance against Scotland to clinch third place in the Rugby League European Under 19 Championships in Serbia. They scored six unanswered tries in the second half to win 42-18 after being 18-6 down at half-time.

Wrexham kept a third successive clean sheet and went top of the Vanarama National League for a couple of hours, but manager Sam Ricketts is demanding more from his players. The Dragons won 3-0 against AFC Fylde in their 12.30pm kick-off match at the Racecourse and Ricketts said: “I’m satisfied because we’ve won, but I’m […]

Cardiff AAC’s Bethan Davies overcame difficult circumstances to finish 22nd in the Women’s 20K Race Walk at the European Championships. The women’s race around the streets of Berlin on Saturday morning had to be delayed due to a suspected gas leak on the course.

Wrexham start their day early at the Racecourse when they play Boreham Wood in a Vanarama National League match at the Racecourse (12.30pm). The Dragons have opened their season by earning four points from two matches and goalkeeper Rob Lainton has kept back-to-back clean sheets. “We are not happy, we wanted six points,” says defender […]

Swansea City’s owners are set to feel another blast of anger and disapproval heading their way across the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday afternoon. It may be the club’s first home match of their Championship season and Jason Levien and Steve Kaplan may have issued a statement attempting to explain their deadline day fire sale, but the heat has not been taken out of the supporters’ fury. On social media, Swansea fans have reacted angrily to the Americans’ outlining of their “strategy” and there have been calls for more of the venomous protests at the match against Preston that marked their final few matches in the Premier League last season.

Glamorgan all-rounder Craig Meschede still has ambitions of playing for England, despite his “out of the blue” call-up to the Germany squad for the upcoming T20 World Cup qualifiers in the Netherlands. Meschede – who hit 32 on Friday night as Glamorgan thrashed Hampshire at Sophia Gardens to climb to third place in the Vitality Blast South Group – can take advantage of the sport’s rules that allows players to switch national allegiance. “One of the guys got in touch with me to see if I could help out in any way,” Meschede explained. “I do have German roots and thought it would be a good thing to help out as my Dad is German. As long as it didn’t affect my English qualification, I was happy to do it.”

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