By Ian Gordon in Ilkley Dani Rowe produced another stunning ride to finish second overall at the Tour de Yorkshire. The Cardiff-based rider followed up her bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games road race in Australia last month with a gutsy display.

Friday 27th April will go down as an historic day for Torfaen Tigers Rugby League Football Club as they formally kicked off an official partnership with Super League giants Warrington Wolves. Warrington and Wales have always had strong ties, with no less than 60 full Wales RL international players having turned out for the club, whilst the Wolves and Tigers have always been loosely linked as the birth of the Cwmbran-based club in 2003 was assisted by former Warrington and Wales international, the WRL president Mike Nicholas, a man who is still a regular at the Halliwell Jones Stadium.

Wales Golf have linked up with the Stroke Association to encourage those who have survived a stroke to try golf or get back into the game they love. As part of this years New2Golf campaign, Wales Golf have partnered with the charity to highlight the accessibility of golf and demonstrate the benefits of golf for those who have survived a stroke.  

The ABP Newport Wales Marathon & 10K will return on Sunday 5th May, 2019 after the inaugural event proved a resounding success. Marathon entries are on sale now for those who want to challenge themselves on a course perfectly suited for smashing personal bests.

Players from Rhiwbina SRC are top seeds for two major squash tournaments in South Wales this month. Simon Dews is number one at the Ross Scaccia event which starts at Llanishen Leisure Centre this evening, while World ranked Peter Creed has top ranking for the $10,000 Welsh Open. Dews plays Rhiwbina clubmate Mark Davies in […]

Excitement, nerves and fear are all emotions likely to be felt by Cardiff City supporters at Sunday lunchtime but Bluebirds fan Geraint Roberts is putting the £100m game to the back of his mind to focus on his South Wales Warriors’ imminent British American Football league fixture.  The Warriors players will be arriving at Llanharan’s Dairy Field for their opening home game against the Jurassic Coast Raptors just as Cardiff City kick-off against Reading, at the Cardiff City Stadium 20 minutes east along the M4, in a match that could clinch promotion to the English Premier League.  Rhondda boy Roberts, once a follower of Cardiff City “home and away”, has accepted his duties as head coach of the only Welsh side in the British American Football Association (BAFA) National Leagues means he cannot witness a potentially historic day in the capital club’s history. 

By Tomos Hughes Aberystwyth Town director of football Neville Powell believes victory over his former club Connah’s Quay in the JD Welsh Cup final could inspire the club to a new era of success. This year’s final takes place at Newtown AFC’s Latham Park, and will be shown live on Sgorio on Sunday, 6 May. […]

The rise and rise of Welsh women’s hockey has continued post-Commonwealth Games with two players being selected in the England Hockey Premier League Team of the Year. The Holcombe HC duo of Leah Wilkinson and Sarah Jones returned from Australia to find themselves being honoured along with clubmate Emma Trunks in the top side, voted for by their peers. They were selected at the end of a season that saw Holcombe beaten 3-1 by Surbiton in the Premier League final last weekend.

Fifa-listed referee Cheryl Foster leads an all-female quartet of match officials who will take charge of Saturday’s Huws Gray Alliance Cup final at Ruthin Town (May 5, 2.30pm). Former Wales and Liverpool player Foster and her fellow officials will make history by setting a first for the men’s game in Wales. Foster, nicknamed ‘Fozzy’ by […]

Bethan Davies and Heather Lewis will be teaming up again this weekend when they don British vests in the IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships in China. Davies struck bronze in the women’s 20K walk at the Commonwealth Games on Gold Coast last month, while Team Wales colleague Lewis came home in a highly creditable seventh place. They are part of a five strong British team heading to Taicang for the 20k race.

dai-sport journalist Terry Phillips has been reporting on Cardiff City for a quarter of a century. Here is part one of his reflection on the Bluebirds’ promotion seasons. Frank Burrows and I had a love-hate relationship. There were times when we would meet at the Hilton Hotel in Newport and chat about Cardiff City over […]

Gareth Davies called the Dragons “average” on Saturday night and then spent Sunday morning writing out an apology, the Scarlets announced this week. What a load of nonsense, says Graham Thomas. In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell defined freedom as the right to say that two plus two make four. In modern day Welsh rugby, Gareth […]

Gareth Davies called the Dragons “average” on Saturday night and then spent Sunday morning writing out an apology, the Scarlets announced this week. Quite right, too, says Robin Davey. I’m not one bit surprised Scarlets scrum half Gareth Davies has been forced to issue an apology to the Dragons after the way he has slagged them off. The Wales scrum-half was speaking after another one-sided performance by the Scarlets against their East Wales opponents on Judgement Day when the result was never in doubt.

The Wales Rugby League under 16’s national team will be holding an open trial on Saturday June 2nd. The trial will take place at CCB Centre of Sporting Excellence, Caerphilly Rd, Ystrad Mynach.

The last time Mark Williams was snooker world champion, Swansea City were at the bottom of the Football League, Robert Earnshaw was scoring 30 goals in League Two for Cardiff City, and Steve Hansen was still the Wales rugby coach. But as Simon Kendal-Williams reports, sometimes the clocks can go backwards. What a difference a year makes. Following defeat to Stuart Carrington in the final qualifying round of the 2017 world championship, Mark Williams seriously contemplated walking away from the sport he had graced for more than 25 years.

Lukasz Fabianski believes battle-scarred Swansea City will have the mental edge over their rivals as the relegation scrap reaches a conclusion. The Poland goalkeeper was crowned player of the season at the club’s awards night on Wednesday, a deserved accolade for a 10-month stretch of consistency no other squad member could match. Without Fabianski’s ability, it’s easy to imagine the Swans’ predicament would be a whole lot worse. As it is, they enter the final three games of the season just a point above the relegation zone with three clubs beneath them and six above them still in theoretical danger of going down.

Teenage German goalkeeper Steven Benda shone for Swansea City in the Welsh Youth Cup final – and now he’s aiming for a trophy double. Benda, 19, was the matchwinner for the young Swans, saving penalties taken by Trystan Jones and Isaac Davies during a shootout at the Liberty Stadium. Now Benda, signed from 1860 Munich last year, […]

Terry Phillips takes an in-depth look at Sam Ricketts, the newly appointed Wrexham AFC manager. Ricketts has agreed a three-year contract at the Racecourse and he is intent on leading the Dragons back to the Football League. Sam Ricketts, Wrexham AFC’s new manager, overcame many major obstacles and a change of sporting career when he […]

West Wales Raiders have parted company with head coach Jon Ellis three days after their record 144-0 Betfred League 1 defeat by York. Ellis leaves with the Raiders bottom of League 1 just five games into the season having already conceded over 400 points.

Newport County are in it for the long haul as they prepare for Saturday’s final League Two fixture of the season. The Exiles follow a 1-0 defeat against relegated Chesterfield with a 600-miles round trip to play Carlisle United this weekend. “We’ve been on a decent run of form lately and just hit a brick […]