Great Britain face one of the biggest netminders World ice hockey when they play Kazakhstan in Budapest on Tuesday. Stockholm-born Henrik Karlson, a 6ft 6ins former Calgary Flames NHL goalie nicknamed the ‘Swedish Wall’, took up Kazak citizenship this year and switched allegiance to his new nation. Karlson, 34, played for Sweden in exhibition matches, […]

Team Northumbria head to South Wales intent on spoiling Celtic Dragons’ return home after the Commonwealth Games. Dragons are intent on earning their third Vitality Superleague win of the season, while Northumbria made a difficult start to the 2018 season and have yet to win. Kiwi coach TeAroha Keenan, though, believes her team will break […]

Swansea City Ladies hit back from a goal down to beat the female Bluebirds and lift the FAW Women’s Cup. Alana Murphy fired Cardiff City ahead in the final, while Jodie Passmore equalised from a penalty and Jody Hosford struck a second half winner. “Cardiff are a counter-attacking team and we concentrated on possession and […]

Matthew Stevens crashed out of the Betfred World Snooker Championship as Kyren Wilson displayed the form which has catapulted him into the world’s top ten. It was always going to be a huge ask for the Welshman, Wilson having stamped his authority on their first-round clash by opening up a 7-2 overnight lead at The Crucible in Sheffield. A break of 121 stretched the 26-year-old’s lead further, before Stevens rallied to take the 11th frame with a gutsy 68 clearance.

Forget that little matter of the annual boat race between Oxford and Cambridge on the Thames, it’s the Welsh Varsity Boat Race that grabs the attention of students, lecturers and alumni at Cardiff and Swansea University as Owen Morgan reports.

Carlos Carvalhal insists Swansea City are still in control in their Premier League destiny, despite their crushing 5-0 defeat at Manchester City. The Swans manager watched his team equal their biggest losing margin in the Premier League against the new champions in a game that was utterly one-sided. The only consolation for Carvalhal was that Swansea remain four points clear of the drop zone in 17th with Stoke drawing with Burnley earlier on Sunday and Southampton in FA Cup action.

Three Welshmen and three English Cardiff Devils players are playing their part for Great Britain at the World Championships in Budapest. Matthew Myers (Devils), Jonathan Phillips (Sheffield Steelers) and Ben Davies (Guildford Flames) and the Cardiff-born forwards in the GB squad, while they are joined by Cardiff’s Ben Bowns, Thomas Murdy and Mark Richardson. GB […]

Danny Wilson hailed his side’s European Challenge Cup win over Pau as the best of his three year tenure in charge at Cardiff Blues. The 16-10 win set-up a possible perfect leaving present for the Blues head coach, and his assistant Matt Sherratt, before they move on this summer to Wasps and the Ospreys respectively. “For your last game in charge at home to be a European semi-final win is something really special and something I will certainly treasure,” said an emotional Wilson.

Llanelli Town had plenty of champagne available when they clinched the Nathaniel Cars Welsh League title. Their players are have to take a certain item to every match – and for their fixture at Port Talbot Town that item was a bottle of champagne each. Failure to turn up with the item selected results in a […]

Wales Rugby League have expressed their sympathies over former World Cup head coach Les Pearce who died on Saturday (April 21), aged 94. Pearce coached Wales throughout 1975, a record breaking year for the country where we played 10 international matches, two in the European Championship and then eight in the World Cup (known in 1975 as the World Championship).

Chaz Davies had to nurse his Ducati to the finish in fifth place in the World Superbikes race in Holland on Sunday.The Knighton-born rider was hoping to follow up his third spot in Saturday’s race at Assen which meant he started seventh on the grid.

Owain Jones scored a last gasp equaliser for Merthyr Town in their 3-3 draw against Banbury United in Oxfordshire. More than 500 spectators were at the Community Stadium for a match played with spirit and freedom. The Martyrs went ahead from a first half penalty converted by Ian Traylor, while Banbury twice took the lead […]

Man of the match Ben Bowns stood tall for Great Britain in their opening World Championship ice hockey match in Hungary. Cardiff Devils goalie Bowns made 34 saves in GB’s 3-1 win against a Slovenian team who played at the Winter Olympics in Korea earlier this year and were in the World Championship top tier […]

The Huws Gray cup final will feature Flint Town United against Gresford Athletic. Flint won 3-0 against Holyhead Hotspur, while Gresford fired eight goals against Llandudno Junction. Flint are through to the final for a third successive season, having lost against Caernarfon Town in the last two. A sublime move down the right led to […]

Michael Flynn is fed up and angry after Newport County’s dismal display against Barnet away. The Exiles manager knew his team were in for a tough time against relegation battlers Barnet, but they failed to match the home teams work ethic. “That was the worst performance under me,” said Flynn. “I can’t handle that or […]

Aron Gunnarsson just loves life in the Forest. The Icelandic warrior, who played a major role in Cardiff City’s promotion to the Premier League five years ago, fired the winner against Nottingham Forest. He has scored in his last three appearances for the Bluebirds against Forest. Absolute joy! Gunnar’s winning goal in the 2-1 success […]

Matthew Stevens has a mountain to climb to make the second round of the Betfred World Snooker Championship after Kyren Wilson took charge of their first-round clash. Carmerthen cueman Stevens, who came through three rounds of qualifying to reach the Crucible showpiece, looked comfortable enough in the early stages as the pair shared the opening two frames. matthew stBut Wilson – tipped by many as a potential world champion – showed why he has progressed to ninth in the world as breaks of 94 and 126 saw him open up a 7-2 lead after the first session.

Departing Scarlets forward Tadhg Beirne has admitted Leinster marginalised him from the action during their 38-16 hammering in Dublin on Saturday. Beirne has arguably been the player of the season for the Scarlets, but the Irishman admitted he was a peripheral figure during the one-sided European Champions semi-final where Scarlets hopes were crushed. The second row had hoped to be part of a Scarlets unit who would boss the breakdown, but he confessed they came nowhere near as Leinster eased to a comfortable five tries to one victory at the Aviva Stadium.

All good things must come to an end, but it has been a long run for Welsh marathon legend Steve Jones. His winning time in Chicago in 1985 of 2:07.13 has stood as the British record for more than 34 years, but will come under its most serious threat on Sunday at the London Marathon. It’s not that Mo Farah hasn’t tried to add it to his impressive collection of British records in the past, but this time it is for real. When he dabbled in 2014 he found it hard going, tougher than anything he had every done before.

Cardiff Devils netminder Ben Bowns says the Great Britain squad have settled in well to their surroundings in Budapest ahead of their opening World Championship match against Slovenia on Sunday. GB go into the tournament on the back of last season’s promotion from Division One Group B in Belfast, while Slovenia were relegated from the […]