Five hundred runners will be heading to Llanelli’s Festival Fields on Sunday to take part in the Great Welsh Marathon and Half Marathon. Known as South Wales’ ONLY marathon, the race has been a long established event on the running calendar.

Mike Flynn insists he will offer no advice on how Newport County’s players should cope with the club’s day of destiny on Saturday. The caretaker manager – who has taken his team to the brink of survival – must inspire them for one last heroic deed at home to Notts County. If Newport can win, then they will preserve their status in the Football League, but anything less could mean final day relegation if similarly threatened Hartlepool manage to beat League Two title-chasing Doncaster Rovers.

Cardiff Devils are among five teams nominated for a leading European ice hockey award. Elite League champions Devils are competing alongside Champions Hockey League title winners Frolunda Gothenburg plus SC Bern, Tappara Tampere and Vienna Capitals. The Club of the Year nominations for the 2017 Fenix European Hockey Awards were decided by a group of […]

Head coach Trish Wilcox and her Celtic Dragons players have headed to the North East of England in search of success. Dragons have suffered bitter disappointment in their last two Vitality Superleague netball matches, leading at half-time against Manchester Thunder and Hertfordshire Mavericks before being edged out. Now they take on Team Northumbria away this […]

Former professional tour player Barry Hume will return to defend the Welsh Open Stroke Play title he won at Royal St David’s in 2016. The former Asian Tour player had a prolific amateur career before turning professional, but regained his amateur status in 2013.

Just two Welsh players – Scarlets pair Ken Owens and James Davies – have made the Guinness Pro12 Dream Team for this season. Owens, who is off on his first Lions tour later this month, makes the side at hooker, whilst Davies – who could make the Wales squad for their South Seas tour this summer – is included in the back row. But that is it as far as representation from the four Welsh regions is concerned with no-one from the Ospreys, The Cardiff Blues or the Newport Gwent Dragons making the cut.

Southampton is the first stop for the South Wales Warriors as they hit the road for a run of five away games while still searching for their first win of the season. The Warriors have lost three successive home games and begin their away schedule at the Solent Thrashers who are also yet to win this season. Though the Warriors haven’t won since taking the decision to step down from the Premiership, to the second tier, on Sunday the face the coach of the team they recorded their last win against.

Europa League Play-Off semi-final preview Bangor City will head into Saturday’s Europa League Play-Off semi-final (2.30) as favourites but can expect a tough test from a Newtown side who’ll be more than comfortable with their underdog status. Hosts Bangor are the highest placed seed in the end of season play-off to determine the final UEFA […]

The Ospreys have regularly been able to boss the West Wales derby. But with the Guinness Pro12 play-offs looming, Gareth Hughes reckons the Scarlets are now in the driving seat. On Saturday at Parc y Scarlets, arguably one of the biggest games in Welsh rugby for a decade will take place, with both sides playing for play-off places, to decide the 3rd and 4th positions in the Pro12. The Scarlets have turned their home ground into a fortress this season and with a potential full house will use that to their advantage. The Ospreys beat much-fancied Ulster last week, ending a run of defeats that threatened to derail their season.

Paul Clement insists he is going nowhere at the end of the season – even if Swansea City are relegated from the Premier League. As the Swans gear up for their next crucial survival task at home to Everton on Saturday, the head coach has moved to eradicate any speculation over his own future.

Geraint Thomas had to badger his Dad to upgrade the family television so he could follow cycling’s top races in Europe. Now the Cardiff-born rider is hoping to dominate that same screen when he launches his Giro d’Italia bid in Sardinia on Friday.

Mike Flynn will hold talks over his future with Newport County next week – regardless of whether or not they are still in the Football League. The caretaker boss wants to remain in charge at the club, even if the worst happens and they are relegated from League Two on Saturday night.

Bangor City’s Henry Jones should be regarded as favourite to win the Welsh Premier League’s Young Player of the Season award writes Matthew Burgess. The 23-year-old midfielder was named as one of three nominees to win the annual award earlier this week along with Bala Town’s Anthony Stephens and Llandudno’s James Joyce. James Joyce, 22, […]

TNS manager Craig Harrison has spoken of his desire to manage at the highest possible level after overseeing his side’s record-breaking campaign. Reports emerged last week linking Harrison with struggling League 2 outfit Hartlepool United to once raised questions over the long-term future of the record-breaking TNS manager. Harrison guided The New Saints to a […]

Might Newport RFC, if set free by severance on 9th May, actually be on the crest of a renaissance? Amidst all the doom-mongering over the future of rugby in Newport and Gwent, Geraint Powell looks at whether Newport RFC might possibly be on the verge of becoming much stronger in the Premiership if the shackles are finally released? It has perhaps to date been inevitable that the focus in Welsh and Gwent (including the city of Newport) rugby has mostly been on the future of the Newport Gwent Dragons professional regional franchise, with very little written in the media about the future of the historic Newport RFC itself and despite the references to this future in the documentation for the shareholders. It has perhaps to date been inevitable that the focus in Welsh and Gwent (including the city of Newport) rugby has mostly been on the future of the Newport Gwent Dragons professional regional franchise, with very little written in the media about the future of the historic Newport RFC itself and despite the references to this future in the documentation for the shareholders. The Newport RFC angle is frequently, if not unreasonably, dism

Just as those who wanted to do an Irish jig on the grave of Welsh regional rugby were reaching for their dancing shoes, two of them go and make the Pro12 play-offs. Not only that, says Robin Davey, but there are other reasons to be cheerful. It seems the much-heralded demise of the Welsh regions was something of a damp squib, after all. Just at the time when most, if not all, the pundits were fearful of where Welsh rugby was going – amid the sound and fury of the English and French scattering all before them – the Welsh regions have been staging something of a revival.

Alfie is back. But this time he is looking to get young people off the sofa and into their running shoes to take on the Cardiff University/Cardiff Half Marathon. Wales rugby legend Gareth Thomas has helped his band of ‘Alfie’s Angels’ go from novice runners to half marathon finishers over the last two years. But this time around he is inviting 100 young men and women aged 17-21 to join ‘Alfie’s Army’ for a challenge of a lifetime on October 1st.

Dinas Powys ran in nine tries to add the East District Cup to the Division 2 East Central League title they had gained three days earlier. Despite a lot of good play by Llantwit Major, especially in the second half, the match was really over well before half-time when the score stood at 45-14.

Chris Cooke admitted Glamorgan had left themselves too much to do after they went down to a second Royal London One-Day Cup defeat to Sussex Sharks at Hove. Despite a powerful innings of 62 from wicketkeeper Cooke, the Welsh county lost by 59 runs under the Duckworth-Lewis method on Tuesday.

Cardiff Devils are seeded 29th for the 2017-18 European Champions Ice Hockey League. Devils are among 32 clubs who have qualified for the CHL and the group stage draw will be made at the Laxness Arena, Cologne on Wednesday, May 17. Elite League champions Devils and Nottingham Panthers, who earned their place by winning the […]