Huw Jenkins has said it is “vital” Swansea City appoint the right manager following the departure of Carlos Carvalhal – sentiments the club chairman has expressed seven times in the last four years. Carvalhal – the man who often talked about throwing all the meat on the barbecue – finally ran out of gas on Friday. Five days after the club were officially relegated from the Premier League, the Swans issued a statement confirming that the Portuguese’s five-month stay would be extended.

It won’t be long before we find out if the Scarlets’ success last year in bringing home some silverware was a flash in the pan or if the Wayne Pivac plan is going to have some real legs. Only one team in the previous 16 years has been able to make it back-to-back titles, Leinster in 2013 and 2014, and the Scarlets have to get past the 2015 champions, Glasgow Warriors, to stand a chance of holding onto their title. They couldn’t have picked a tougher semi-final task than heading to Scotstoun on Friday night to see if they can head back to the Aviva Stadium to meet either the Champions Cup winners Leinster, or the team they conquered in such style in the Irish capital last year, Munster.

The 15th Student Rugby League Home Nations Championships kicks off in two months’ time with Wales confirmed as the host nation and all games being played at Sardis Road in Pontypridd.  International rugby league has been held in Pontypridd a number of times in the past.

Welsh ace Tesni Evans is calling on Cardiff, her home town, to host the British Open squash championships. Cardiff-born Tesni, who now lives in Rhyl, plays in the women’s Open quarter-finals against Camille Serme (France) later today. The 2018 British Open is being played in Hull and the championships will be looking for a new […]

Over 50 athletes at the Commonwealth Games, a record-breaking Winter Olympian, a constant flow of former students representing Wales in rugby and football – and England in cricket and basketball  – and two teams on the verge of Europe…Is Cardiff Met University the most important sports organisation in Wales? 

Swansea Spartans, Whitchurch HC and Cardiff University Ladies are all in EuroHockey Club Challenge action this weekend. Swansea Spartans head to Edinburgh for the Challenge I competition where they will face host club Edinburgh University, Russian side HC Metrostroy and Swiss hockey club Rottweiss Wettingen in Pool A.

Welsh Winter Olympic bobsleigh star Mica Moore will be amongst a strong contingent of Welsh athletics talent competing at the 60th Loughborough International this Sunday. Moore, who finished eighth in Pyeongchang with Great Britain team-mate Mica McNeill just three months ago, will run in the 100m and 4x 100m relay as part of a Welsh team which will take on England, Scotland, Great Britain Under-20s and British Universities.  

Tesni Evans has made history by reaching the British Open quarter-final after a 3-0 victory over New Zealand’s Joelle King. The Cardiff-born world No 12 is the first female squash player from Wales to reach the last eight of the so-called ‘Wimbledon’ of squash.

The celebrations from Cardiff Blues epic Challenge Cup comeback win over Gloucester in Bilbao may finally be subsiding. Now, as Geraint Powell argues in his latest column for Dai Sport, the issue is getting things right off the pitch to ensure future success. Few would begrudge the Cardiff Blues region their 31-30 win over Gloucester in the final of the second tier European Challenge Cup final in Bilbao last Friday.

Andrew Lord will meet up with a former team-mate and a new pal when Cardiff Devils play their Champions Hockey League group fixtures in the 2018-19 season. Devils will play SC Bern, Vaxjo Lakers and Red Bull Salzburg and Lord, who was in Denmark for the draw, says: “I’ve heard nothing but unbelievable things about […]

The Scarlets and the Ospreys have much to live up to after the Cardiff Blues’ display last weekend, says Robin Davey. But there are plenty of reasons for genuine optimism. It’s a big weekend for rugby in the west, with both the Scarlets and the Ospreys facing key qualification games. For the Scarlets, already buoyed by a hugely successful season which saw them reach the European Champions Cup semi-finals, it means a trip to Scotland to face Glasgow in a Guinness Pro 14 play-off on Friday night.

Andrew Lord has been granted his wish to go Swedish with Cardiff Devils during the Champions Hockey League – and the draw brings back big memories. Swedish club Vaxjo Lakers, beaten 5-1 at Ice Arena Wales in the group stages last season, go head-to-head with the Devils again. Lord had said before the draw: “I […]

Bangor City have announced this morning that they will no longer be pursuing legal action to challenge the FAW’s recent decision not to grant them a Tier 1 Domestic Licence. The club’s board of directors had initially threatened to ‘do everything possible’ to challenge the decision which resulted in the club being demoted from the […]

Swansea City have been relegated and the inquests are likely to continue for some time. The man who first took them up to the highest level, John Toshack, brings further bad news, as he tells Graham Thomas that their new division is among the toughest in Europe. John Toshack sips his coffee and looks concerned as he surveys the sail boats in Swansea Bay. The club he began his 40-year management career with, the one he pulled and heaved from the old fourth division to the first, have slipped out of the Premier League.

Welshman Joel Makin produced a battling display against Egyptian opposition at the Allam British Open squash championships in Hull. Makin, the first player from Wales to reach the Open main draw in a decade, went down 9-11, 10-12, 9-11 in 47 minutes, a fiercely competitive match in which Mohamed Abouelghar won points at crucial moments. […]

Cardiff Devils coach Andrew Lord says he has no preference on who his team could possibly draw in the Champions Hockey League. The two-time Elite League winning coach is in Copenhagen ahead of tomorrow’s draw and will be one of the guests invited on stage to help pull out the pucks. And he admits no […]

Craig Harrison could be set to make a return to Welsh football amidst growing speculation linking the former TNS boss with the vacant Bangor City job. Bangor City are due to appoint a new manager later this week after it was announced that Kevin Nicholson and Gary Taylor-Fletcher would not be staying beyond the current […]

Former Wales prop Rhys Thomas is back in rugby, the battery-charged coach at Newport High School Old Boys. Peter Jackson speaks to a man who has, literally, given his heart to the game and overcome all the odds. Rhys Thomas began the season waiting for a heart transplant at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. He finished it, against all the odds, by making probably the bravest and certainly the most improbable of come-backs. At a time when the column inches and social media equivalent keep racking up over Billy Vunipola’s hamstring, Dylan Hartley’s concussion and Manu Tuilagi’s knee, their predicaments seem almost mundane compared to the on-going life-or-death issues endured by the former Wales prop.

Often, it’s not the winning that reveals character, but the way someone recovers from setbacks. Rob Cole salutes former world champion Non Stanford – on the comeback trail after the Commonwealth Games. It was the great Aussie rugby coach Alan Jones who coined the immortal phrase to sum up the slings and arrows of often outrageous sporting fortune: “One minute you’re a rooster, the next a feather duster.” How often have we seen the mighty fall from grace to underline the beautiful unpredictability of sport?

Bangor City will make their fifth managerial appointment in two years this week after it was confirmed that Kevin Nicholson and player/assistant Gary Taylor-Fletcher will not be extending their current contracts which expire at the end of the season. The future of the pair had been uncertain following the club’s expulsion into the Cymru Alliance […]