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 […]

Interim Carmarthen Town manager Neil Smothers has been appointed on a permanent basis the club have confirmed today. Smothers was initially given the role following the sacking of Mark Aizlewood last February and but despite losing just three of his nine league games in charge, was unable to steer the Old Gold out of the […]

Former Wales international Sam Ricketts has been appointed Wrexham’s new manager. Ricketts, a defender who played for Swansea, Hull, Bolton and Wolves, earned promotion three times during his 16-year playing career. He was captain of Wolves in League One and the Championship. Ricketts said: “The fans are everything at every club. We are nothing without […]

Penarth will be hosting some of Britain’s top ranked tennis players along with a number of world ranked professionals as it stages one of the country’s most prestigious tournaments next week. The LTA British Tour, previously known as the Aegon Tour, comes to Windsor Lawn Tennis Club in Penarth – the only Welsh stop on the circuit.

Take three top Welsh runners – in both the men’s and women’s race – blend in some spicy rivalry, food stalls, live music and a mellow Bank Holiday weekend vibe, and you get the growing appeal of the Cardiff 5K Race For Victory. Owen Morgan looks ahead. Three of Wales’ Gold Coast Commonwealth Games stars are set for a Bank Holiday showdown on the streets of Whitchurch this Sunday evening. The Cardiff 5K Race for Victory will once again double up as the Welsh 5k Road Championship – a title which has attracted a top quality field.   

Families and individuals can get out on the water for free and try sailing and windsurfing throughout the month of May in Wales. There are 11 sailing venues around Wales who will be opening their doors and running free or low cost Push the Boat Out ‘have a go’ taster sessions through the month of May.

Llandudno manager Iwan Williams is expecting a busy summer as he looks to improve on this season’s 10th place finish. Williams quit his post at Caernarfon Town to join Llandudno last November but endured a frustrating campaign in his first season managing in the Welsh Premier League as Llandudno struggled to make their mark. The […]

Craig Bellamy and his young Bluebirds are out to stop Swansea City’s run of success in the Welsh Youth Cup. Manager Bellamy and his under-19 players take on the Swansea in the FAW Youth Cup Final at the Liberty Stadium on Tuesday (May 1, 7:30pm). The Swans have lifted this trophy in eight successive seasons, […]

Wales’ autumn Tests are set to be televised on Sky from 2019 in another huge blow for BBC Wales. In a further disappointment for the corporation, they have also missed out on the TV rights for the Wales tour game against South Africa on June 2. That fixture is poised to be screened by Channel 4, with both setbacks following confirmation that Premier Sports have been awarded the live rights for the Guinness Pro14 in a three-year deal to start next season.

The Cardiff University/Cardiff Half Marathon has sold out in record time as running fever takes hold in Wales. Entries flew out after thousands of runners created history at the inaugural ABP Newport Wales Marathon and 10K on Sunday. Both the male and female winners of the 26.2 mile race smashed their personal bests, before the Cardiff University/Cardiff Half Marathon sold out hours later.

Dafydd Howells wants to re-ignite his international ambitions after joining the Dragons from the Ospreys on a two-year contract. Howells, 23, played 42 times for the Ospreys, scoring 12 tries over the last five seasons and but joins the Dragons after recent shoulder problems. The wing – who was capped by Wales as an 18-year-old on the 2013 tour to Japan – said: “I’m hoping I can get going next season, enjoy the environment at the Dragons and push on as I still have Wales ambitions.” The Ospreys have confirmed that a total of 15 players, including Howells, are leaving the region at the end of the season.

Wales Students have named a 32-man training squad for the Student Four Nations that will be held in Wales this year for the first time since 2012. This competition is held annually, except when it’s a World Cup year, Wales last winning the title when they were hosts six years’ ago. They also won the trophy the last time that the competition was held in South Wales, back in 2004.

Don’t try to tell Newport County staff and players they have nothing to play for during their last couple of League Two fixtures of 2017-18. The target for County is to set a record points tally since the Exiles returned to the Football League, says goalkeeper Joe Day. Newport are on 63 points and in […]

Canadian power forward Matt Pope has committed to Cardiff Devils for a second season. It was thought Pope would return to the Asian League for 2018-19, but he is among the first four players to make a Devils commitment. He has signed a new contract along with Joey Martin, Jory Haddad and Great Britain’s gold […]

By Simon Kendal-Williams Mark Williams booked his place in the quarter-finals of the Betfred World Snooker Championship for only the second time in eight years with a convincing win over Robert Milkins. Having established a 10-6 lead over the weekend, Williams ensured an early Monday night finish at the Crucible, dropping only one further frame on his way […]

Gareth Anscombe has paid tribute to Dan Biggar as the two Wales No.10s go their separate ways next season. Arsene Wenger’s farewell at Old Trafford was not the only meeting of old foes turned friends at the weekend. While the Arsenal manager shook hands and smiled with Jose Mourinho and Sir Alex Ferguson for one last time, Anscombe and Biggar did the same at the Principality Stadium at the end of Judgement Day.

Last year’s Dayinsure Wales Rally GB winner, Elfyn Evans, has given his backing to the new-look 2018 route – which will use new legislation to suspend the Road Traffic Act for authorised motor sport events, enabling stages to be linked and making the action even more accessible for spectators. Evans did what all professional rally drivers want to do in one magnificent performance last year – win his first World Rally Championship event and win his home round of the series! The 29-year old Dolgellau driver will return this year as team-mate to five time world champion Sébastien Ogier in a works M-Sport Ford Fiesta WRC, with his sights firmly set on repeating that victory. Whilst the vast majority of the 208 miles of competition will take place in the forests of north and mid Wales, the event will end with a truly spectacular Tarmac stage around the Great Orme and through the streets of Llandudno – finishing on the Promenade. And it was on these streets where Evans lifted the coveted gold Peall Trophy last year, as winner of Britain’s round of the World Rally Championship.

The route for this year’s Dayinsure Wales Rally GB (4-7 October) has been officially unveiled, with the four-day event ending with a spectacular stage around the Great Orme, which will take in Gloddaeth Street, a jump and a beachside finish along Llandudno’s Promenade. The extended Great Orme stage has come about thanks to the recent introduction of landmark legislation allowing local authorities in England and Wales to suspend the Road Traffic Act for authorised motor sport events. And thanks to the support of Conwy County Borough Council, the Great Orme Llandudno stage will be free for spectators, with a small charge for grandstand seating. But that’s not the only innovation to an exciting new-look event, with a ‘double header’ stage at The Slate Caverns, near Blaenau Ffestiniog – home to Zip World.

Terry Phillips pays tribute to a close friend and loyal, lifelong Bluebirds fan. If you knew Dave Jones, and so many did, spare a thought for him before the Reading match on Sunday. The other Dave Jones would have loved it. How he would have embraced Cardiff City’s victory at Hull City – and their […]