You can’t beat the early January whiff of a giant-killing in the FA Cup and Wrexham will he hoping the air is pungent on Friday night.

Callum Sheedy’s match-winning boot may have grabbed the headlines at the Arms Park last weekend, but the Cardiff fly-half insists the real privilege came from learning from Leigh Halfpenny.

Wales could celebrate a major racing double this weekend as Haiti Couleurs bids to land the Betfair Chase at Haydock under Welsh champion jockey Sean Bowen for Pembrokeshire trainer Rebecca Curtis.

Wales have embraced a new coach and new players since Sean Lynn took charge, but one of the old school will hit a landmark in their Women’s World Cup opener.

The Scarlets have thrown off the gloves and are ready for a bare-knuckle fight with the WRU over how the game should operate in west Wales.

Steve Tandy will become Welsh rugby’s first Welsh-born permanent head coach since Gareth Jenkins (2005-2007) when he takes up his appointment on 1 September.

How bad is having no Welsh players in a Lions team? It’s the most damning expression of a country that has forgotten how to be good at its national sport, says David Parsons.

The Scarlets may be threatened by structural upheaval in Welsh rugby, but that won’t stop them looking forward to a return to the European elite.

It has been a disappointing World Rugby U20 Championship so far for Wales, who must now aim for fifth place in Italy.

Wherever you look in Welsh rugby there are new lows, uchartered depths. There's a record losing streak of 18 matches, a record low world ranking of 14, and now no Welsh players in a Lions team.

First it was Luka Modric, now Gareth Bale is said to be the figurehead for more wealthy Americans needing glamour to add to their banknotes.

It is two years since Gerwyn Price and Jonny Clayton put Wales on top of the darts world for the second time and now they are chasing a hat-trick, as David Parsons reports.