SATURDAY JD WELSH PREMIER LEAGUE PREVIEW Cardiff Met will need disrupt The New Saints’ title march to prevent their hopes of automatic European qualification slipping away in this evening’s televised fixture. The injury-hit Students have hit a rocky patch of form since the league split and find themselves on a run of four straight league […]

Former Merthyr Town manager Steve Jenkins and a number of ex-Martyrs players are closing in on the EvoStik Southern League title. Welshman Jenkins is assistant to manager Peter Beadle at Edgar Street, while Ryan Green, Eliott Richards and Keyon Reffell are playing key roles in their promotion chase. The Bulls are 10 points clear of […]

Airbus Broughton in North Wales and West Wales club Aberystwyth Town host the FAW Trophy semi-finals on Saturday. Greenfield and Rhos Aelwyd clash at Airbus in Flintshire, while Conwy Borough and Penydarren BGC play their tie at Aberystwyth’s Park Avenue Stadium. Welsh Premier League referees Huw Jones and Nick Pratt take charge of the games. […]

Renato Sanches has not played his last game for Swansea City, manager Carlos Carvalhal has insisted. Bayern Munich’s on loan Euro 2016 star Sanches has been back home in Portugal trying to recover from a hamstring injury and has not played for the Swans since January – sparking rumours that his one-season spell at the club is effectively over. But Carvalhal insists the 20-year-old has only flown south for the benefit of warmer weather and is expected to return to Wales later this month.

Wales’ medal hope Dewi Griffiths has been forced to pull out of the Commonwealth Games due to injury. The Swansea Harrier had been selected for both the 5,000m and 10,000m at the Games on Australia’s Gold Coast, but has been suffering from hamstring problems in recent weeks. Griffiths pulled up in the Welsh Cross Country Championships two weeks ago and also had injury problems competing in Slovakia in December.

Warren Gatland is hoping the handing of the captain’s armband to Taulupe Faletau will improve the one area of the back row forward’s game where he falls below expectations. The phrase “lead by example” might have been made for softly-spoken Faletau since he is a player who prefers to communicate through deeds rather than words. When the Bath No.8 speaks up, ears usually have to be leaned in his direction and anyone who misses the start of things has normally escaped the core message.

Llanelli-born James Loveridge struck a crucial blow for his home town club in Nathaniel Car Sales Welsh League. The former Swansea City youth forward, who has also played for MK Dons, Newport County and Port Talbot, scored the only goal for Llanelli Town in their top of the table clash with Penybont FC. Loveridge, 23, […]

Mike Jones, who won the 1987 MSA Asphalt Rally Championship co-driving for Steve King in an Opel Manta GTE, will contest the opening round of this year’s series, Sunday’s Melvyn Evans Motorsport Tour of Epynt, with Chris Ransley in a BMW M3. The young-at-heart Tumble-based navigator started rallying in 1973, with his very first event being the wonderfully named Doodle Doodle Rally, which started from Swansea University. Since Mike has rallied all over Europe and in the USA – most notably finishing fifth overall on the Laughlin Rally, which went up and down Grand Canyon! He has also guided drivers to podium results on some of Ireland’s biggest rallies, including Galway, Sligo and Wexford.

Cardiff City finished with 10 players in their Professional Development League Under-23 match against Ipswich Town at the Vale Resort. The young Bluebirds had used three substitutes when Jamie Veale, who had gone on for Jamie Ward, was forced to limp off with an injury. Cardiff led 2-0 when Veale went off after 84 minutes […]

Barry Town have confirmed that striker Kayne McLaggon has withdrawn from the Wales C squad ahead of their forthcoming clash with England C on March 20. McLaggon would have been in line to have started the fixture at Barry Town’s Jenner Park having scored 12 goals in his debut WPL season. The 27-year-old limped off […]

The South Wales Warriors will open their British American Football season away to league newcomers the Somerset Wyverns. The Taunton-based outfit will have a tough introduction to the British American Football Association’s (BAFA) Southern Football Conference Division Two West as they face the Warriors in their first fixture since completing the associate process to gain a place in the league.

Airbus Broughton have moved to within a point of Huws Gray Alliance leaders Caernarfon Town – and the top two clash this weekend. The Wingmakers won 3-0 at Flint Town United and now travel to Caernarfon’s Oval stadium on Saturday (2.30pm). Airbus completed an Alliance double against Flint thanks to goals from Kristian Platt, Lewis […]

Netminder Ben Bowns believes Lithuania will provide Great Britain with a stern test ahead of next month’s World Championship in Budapest. Yorkshireman Bowns, playing a leading role for Elite League leaders Cardiff Devils in their quest for title glory, helped GB earn promotion last season. Britain play in Division One of the World Championships soon […]

Live top level rugby on BBC Wales will end this season after the broadcaster opted not to meet the bidding price reached in rights negotiations with the Guinness Pro14. Robin Davey says the final whistle could soon be blown on all live rugby on free-to-air TV. Rugby has become the latest sporting target for the string of pay-per-view companies which have sprung up. Football, boxing, horse racing and cricket are front line sports which have ditched terrestrial television in favour of taking the big money on offer from satellite TV.

The question of WRU governance modernisation is never far from the lips of Welsh rugby fans interested in the sport’s politics. In his latest blog for Dai Sport, Geraint Powell looks at recent developments. Having twice looked at the vexed question of WRU governance modernisation earlier this season (www.dai-sport.com/welsh-rugby-reform-needs-unity-not-war-money-men-blazers/) (http://www.dai-sport.com/gareth-daviess-wru-reforms-must-mean-one-thing-leads-another/), it was interesting to receive news this week of considerable progress at the last WRU board meeting.

Olympic Sevens specialist Jaz Joyce will return for Wales Women this Sunday when they face Italy at the Principality Stadium. Wing Joyce and scrum-half Keira Bevan and are involved for the first time in this year’s Six Nations tournament. Bevan returns from an ankle injury suffered on international duty during the autumn, while Joyce has been involved in Sevens preparations for next month’s Commonwealth Games in Australia.

Italy are reportedly unimpressed by Warren Gatland’s “disrespectful” decision to make 10 changes to the Wales team for Sunday’s Six Nations match. Robin Davey is not enamoured, either, but for different reasons. Warren Gatland’s latest Wales line-up raises more questions than it provides answers as the build-up to the World Cup gathers pace. Sure, Italy at the Principality Stadium on Sunday may be the right game to experiment, consider options, try out new combinations and establish some depth.

Her teammates want to erect a statue to her, but Stef Collins would rather every penny in basketball is wisely spent protecting a sport in financial crisis. Tom Guntrip talks to the Cardiff Met Archers player, good enough to have won 139 Great Britain caps and respected enough to already have a seat on the sport’s board of directors. In the corner of a small café, in the corner of a small university campus, in the corner of Cardiff, Stef Collins sips her coffee. Stef has spent her life in various corners, but she refuses to be put in one.

There really is a genuine romance that surrounds the Welsh Cup, and already this year it’s written us a handful of stories. None more so than this season’s quarter-final stage. Penydarren’s attempt of sparking one of the Cup’s biggest upsets of all time when they visited Bangor City last weekend, and Connah’s Quay eliminating favourites […]

Wales Golf has launched its 2018 New2Golf, Back2Golf scheme which aims to promote golf to women and girls, families and those with disabilities specifically, highlighting how the game can be tailored to individual needs. This year sees the introduction of Tailored Golf, a pick ’n’ mix opportunity for groups not as highly represented in the sport who will be given exciting incentives to give-golf-a-go or get back into the sport again, tailoring the game to their specific needs and choices. Encouraging people into the sport through its flexibility, finding what form of the game fits into their lifestyle.