Cardiff Met will shoot for the biggest title in their history when they take on reigning champions Hartpury in the final of the BUCS Super Rugby Championship at Twickenham on Wednesday. Now in its second season, the BUCS Super Rugby competition features the top nine universities in England and Wales. Next season the number will grow to 10 with Cardiff University joining the elite tier. The Archers have won the BUCS Championship in the past, along with Welsh and British Colleges crowns, but the game at Twickenham is a step up. They finished third in the league and then beat Loughborough and Bath University in the play-offs to go all the way to Twickenham.

Rosie Eccles is relishing a good old-fashioned Wales v England dust-up with a gold medal at stake at the Commonwealth Games. Welsh boxer Eccles is through to the final of the women’s 69kg boxing, where she will face familiar foe Sandy Ryan of England. The two fighters met three years ago, when Ryan emerged as the winner. Eccles, 21, who fits out of the Pontypool boxing club, won her semi-final against Kaye Scott of Australia and can now become Commonwealth champion if she beats Ryan on Saturday.

Daniel Jervis and Georgia Davies are both targeting more success this year after finishing their Commonwealth Games efforts with hard earned medals for Wales. Part-time painter and decorator Jervis brushed up on his bronze medal in Glasgow four years ago, by taking silver in the men’s 1500m freestyle. Davies claimed a bronze in the women’s 50m backstroke – her third successive Commonwealth medal in three Games for a competitor who always delivers for Wales.

The Bluebirds are now the Championship hunters and manager Neil Warnock says: “We must make the most of it.” Cardiff City lost 1-0 at Aston Villa and slipped from second to third, behind leaders Wolves and Fulham. “It’s nice to be the hunter not the hunted all the time,” said Warnock. “Fulham are a good […]

The eyes of the world will be on the Welsh capital again Sunday October 7 when the 2018 Cardiff University/Cardiff Half Marathon plays host to the inaugural Commonwealth Half Marathon Championships. Elite athletes from across the globe will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Cardiff Empire Games when they battle it out ahead of 25,000 runners of all ages and abilities on the iconic 13.1 mile course.

Wales Wheelchair have released their squad that will compete in the Celtic Cup on Saturday April 28 at Deeside Leisure Centre in Queensferry (10.30am) There are two debutants for the three-game day-long tournament with North Wales Crusaders duo Lucie Roberts and Stephen Halsey in line for their first international caps.

Chaz Davies is ready to take his World Superbikes title bid up a notch in this weekend’s first European round in Spain. The Knighton-born rider is full of confidence after winning the last race in Thailand last month.

Leah Wilkinson said Wales were left frustrated after a narrow 1-0 defeat by Malaysia in their final women’s hockey pool game on Wednesday. A second period goal was enough to give the Malaysians victory though Wales had chances to at least level the match.

Philippa Tuttiett and Alisha Butchers have been forced to withdraw from the women’s Commonwealth Games sevens squad due to injury. Tuttiett was set to captain the team on Friday at the Robina Stadium – in what will be the first time women’s sevens has been included in the Games – but a knee ligament issue has ruled her out.

Melissa Courtney admitted she was gobsmacked after striking Commonwealth Games 1500m bronze for Wales. The Poole-born runner finished strongly in the home straight to set a new personal best of four minutes 03.44seconds.

Wrexham are in my home county of Kent this evening, taking on an Ebbsfleet United team who still believe they can qualify for the play-offs. Ebbsfleet were called Gravesend and Northfleet when I was a teenage sports reporter working for the Kent Messenger and reporting on the club. Club chairman Roger Easterby’s day job was […]

Ben Bowns says Cardiff Devils are ’Simply The Best’. Cardiff Devils netminder has been named the last Elite League Player of the Week in 2017-18 and said: “This is the best team this country’s ever seen.” The 27-year-old Yorkshireman played a massive part as his team scooped the PredictorBet Play-off title, beating Sheffield Steelers 3-1 […]

Leah Wilkinson wants her Welsh Women’s hockey team to end their Commonwealth Games pool campaign on a high by beating Malaysia on Wednesday, 11 April. A 2-0 defeat against South Africa has left them struggling to finish in the top two in Pool A, but they could still finish third if they can beat Malaysia. The two teams played out a 0-0 draw in Glasgow four years ago and Wilkinson is hoping for better in the return game. “We were really disappointed with the result against South Africa, although the fact the we’re all so upset shows how far we’ve come as we were facing a team ranked 14th in the world,” said Wilkinson.

If there has been was one swim that topped the league of the unexpected and quirky at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, it was surely Alys Thomas‘s historic 2:05.45 Games-record victory for Wales – in the very event Wales is associated with in Britain, the 200m butterfly. Performance head Martyn Woodroofe was the Olympic silver medallist of 1968, and Jemma Lowe is the British record holder. Polish that perseverance award: it has Thomas’s name on it.

Andrew Lord and Neil Warnock are men of a similar mentality. They may be completely different in character plus approach and come from either side of the Atlantic Ocean, but they are men who know how to get the best out of their players. Lord’s Cardiff Devils have won a trophy treble this season – […]

Anna Hursey got her table tennis singles campaign off to a flying start with a crushing 4-0 defeat of Uganda’s Halima Nambozo. The 11-year-old Cardiff High School sensation was a picture of calm as she stepped up to demolish her 18-year-old rival 11-5, 11-4, 11-5, 11-4. In only conceding 18 points in the match, she made a statement ahead of her second match in Group 9.

Sam Ward broke Welsh hearts as he completed a hat-trick to complete a magnificent English fightback to turn a two goal deficit into a 3-2 win to keep his side on course for a Commonwealth semi-final berth in the men’s hockey. In their first competitive meeting since 2002, England were rattled by Wales early on and conceded two brilliant goals from Luke Hawker and Ben Francis as the men carried on their good work from the game against India. Having seen the women’s side set the tone at the Gold Coast with their 3-2 opening match victory over the Indians, the men have also put in some inspired performances that have carried on the improvements made since earning promotion to the European League top tier last year.

Bangor City manager Kevin Nicholson has labelled his side’s Welsh Cup defeat as embarrassing after they capitulated against Connah’s Quay Nomads in the JD Welsh Cup semi-final. Connah’s Quay thumped Bangor 6-1 last Saturday as the Citizens were unceremoniously dumped out of the Welsh Cup. The two sides meet again this weekend in a crucial […]

David Phelps turned back the clock to recapture his golden form as he celebrated his 41st birthday in style at the Gold Coast by winning his second Commonwealth Games gold. Twelve years on from his first success in the Melbourne Games, Phelps set a Games record in winning again in the Men’s 50m Prone Rifle as he kept Scotland’s Neil Stirton and England’s Kenneth Parr at bay.

The Welsh Rugby Union’s plan for an alcohol-free trial at Wales matches will take place in a section of the Principality Stadium where there are no bars. The Union have announced the experiment of no booze in a designated area will be tried – in a section behind the posts in the oldest part of the stadium – at this year’s autumn internationals against Scotland, Australia, Tonga and South Africa. The move comes after growing dissatisfaction from fans over disturbance and the worsening atmosphere inside the stadium, leading to a Dai Sport campaign for change.