Thunder and Lightning tinker with selection for derby rematch

Brython Thunder will host Gwalia Lightning in the second Celtic Challenge Welsh derby during the festive period at Parc y Scarlets on Saturday. (KO: 2.30pm). Lightning beat Thunder 42-22 in the first of the Celtic Challenge Welsh derbies in a 10-try thriller at Ystrad Mynach last Saturday,  to kick-off the new expanded home and away […]

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Geoff Wheel to be remembered at Swansea’s SRC game

Swansea RFC will stage a minute’s silence ahead of their Super Rygbi Cymru game against Aberavon at St Helen’s on Saturday 28 December to honour the memory of one of their greatest players, Geoff Wheel. The 32-times capped Wales second row passed away on Boxing Day at the age of 73. He had been suffering […]

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Heta lands nine-darter as PDC world champion Humphries eases through

  • Heta’s feat is second nine-darter at 2025 tournament
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The world No 1 Luke Humphries continued his bid for back-to-back World Darts Championship titles after easing through to the last 16.

There was high drama in Alexandra Palace on the first day back after the Christmas break, where Damon Heta threw a nine-dart finish before Humphries enjoyed a serene evening.

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NBA Christmas Games Nearly Erase Season-Long Ratings Deficit

For the last two weeks, the sports-media cognoscenti have gotten themselves all worked up about the NBA’s TV ratings, divining disaster from a few desultory sniffs through the early-season results. For some, the declines were symptomatic of a greater disorder originating from within the league itself, something egregious enough to effectively drive a fifth of …

Sport in 2024: the moments that made us smile

Guardian writers recall their memorable occasions over the past year, from fraternity in the F1 paddock to an indiscreet moment in the darts

You hear all sorts of whispers at the Olympics; my favourite this year was about the 61-year-old grandmother Ni Xialian, who had an outside shot in the women’s table tennis. She won world titles for China in the early 1980s, then fell in love with another player, Tommy Danielsson, and moved to Luxembourg to run a hotel. She still plays and at this year’s Games she won her first match but lost to the world champion in the second. Afterwards, she spent a happy hour offering life advice to the assembled press. “I was worried if I was good enough, but if you never play, you’ll never know,” she said, “and as I always say: ‘I’m always younger today than I will be tomorrow.’” Andy Bull

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