Newport's rugby league club are called the Newport Titans and play in the Welsh Conference Premier.

The new players signed for the new season under Lancaster were Leigh Hinton from Newport Gwent Dragons, Leinster centre Jonny Hepworth, wing / full-back Richard Welding from Cornish Pirates, scrum-half Jacob Rauluni ex-Earth Titans and Bristol, scrum-half Darren Edwards from London Irish, winger John Holtby from Earth Titans, and centre Anitelia Tuilagi, on loan from Leicester Tigers.

* Newport Titans

Played club rugby for Bridgwater & Albion RFC and Newport RFC.

* William Williams ( rugby ) ( 1925 – 2007 ), rugby union and rugby league footballer of the 1940s for Wales XV ( RU ), Monmouthshire, Newport, and Swinton ( RL )

is based in Caerleon along with two rugby union clubs ; Newport High School Old Boys RFC and Caerleon RFC whose grounds are less than a mile apart.

Separate grounds at Pontnewydd and Croesyceiliog house the town's two senior rugby teams, Cwmbran RFC and Croesyceiliog RFC, although many more of the town's residents support the rugby teams of the older, adjacent town of Pontypool, the city of Newport and the Newport Gwent Dragons regional team.

Newport is home to a large extent of different sports clubs, playing at all different levels of professionalism and covering all different sports, with all the main sports in the UK catered for in and around the town, with football, cricket, bowls and archery located in the Granville avenue / Audley avenue area of the town, surrounding Audley villa which was once the club house of Newport horse racing course, floodlit tennis courts are located in the High street, rugby is at top of Forton road, swimming and fishing located by Victoria park and most else can be catered for at Lillishall hall which is a national sports centre

Newport ( Salop ) Rugby Union Football Club is the highest ranked rugby club in Shropshire and the main club in the town Audley Villa, First built as Newport race course.

Newport Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union club based in the city of Newport, South Wales.

Due to the regionalisation of Welsh rugby in 2003 Newport RFC is now a feeder club to Newport Gwent Dragons regional team.

Newport RFC were formed in 1874 under the financial backing of the Phillips brewing family, and the playing talents of former pupils of Monmouth School, a public school which had adopted rugby union in 1873.

Newport was originally intended as an association football club, but was unable to find any opponents, but they managed to organise a rugby match against Cardiff RFC, and in 1875 played Cardiff in both clubs ' first-ever game.

Arthur Joseph " Monkey " Gould ( 10 October 1864 – 2 January 1919 ) was a Welsh international rugby union centre and full back who was most associated as a club player with Newport Rugby Football Club.

His other brothers were Harry, Gus and Wyatt, and all three played rugby for Newport.

In May 2012, Newport County announced that they had agreed a deal to move to the city's rugby stadium, Rodney Parade.

* George Thomas ( rugby player ) ( 1857 – 1934 ), rugby union footballer of the 1880s and ' 90s for Wales, and Newport

The league office headquarters has been located in Newport News, Virginia since the Fall of 2009.

His cousin, Alan Waddle, played league football for Halifax Town, Liverpool, Leicester City, Swansea City, Newport County, Mansfield Town, Hartlepool United and Peterborough United.

Newport Town were the league champions of the Shropshire County Premier Football League for the 2011-12 season, earning them promotion.

In the 1982 – 83 season Colin Addison, in his second spell as manager, led Newport County to their highest post-war league finish – just four points behind third-placed Huddersfield Town in the Third Division.

After two seasons back home in Newport at Somerton Park, football politics consigned them to a further two seasons of exile at Gloucester and the club was forced to resort to legal action to protect themselves from being forced out of the English football league system by the Football Association of Wales.

The club's first season back in Newport, in 1994 – 95, saw them promoted to the Southern League Premier Division by winning the Midland Division Championship by a 14-point margin ; on the way to that championship, the club set a then Southern League record by winning 14 successive league matches.

In his first full season in charge, Holdsworth led Newport to a 10th place finish in the league.

Newport went top of the league in September of the 2009 – 10 season and held onto the top spot for the rest of the season.

The league title was won in March 2010 after beating 2 – 0 at Newport Stadium with seven league games remaining.

In the Newport and District skittle league ( started abt 1927 ) the teams are made up of 12 players playing in groups of four v four ( three sections ) each playing 3 legs of 3 balls, the league did have 7 men's divisions of up to 15 teams but now down to 4 divisions ( 2009 / 10 )

However, Newport County, Colwyn Bay and Merthyr Town remain in the English league pyramid system.

This is because the four most populous areas of Cardiff, Swansea, Newport and Wrexham have teams that are long established within the English football league system.

This rule excluded the six Welsh clubs who played in the English football league system: Swansea City, Cardiff City, Newport County, Wrexham, Colwyn Bay and Merthyr Tydfil / Town.

* George Thomas ( rugby ) ( 1881 – 1916 ), rugby union and rugby league footballer of the 1900s and ' 10s for Pontnewydd ( RU ), Newport, Great Britain ( RL ), Wales, and Warrington

The city has its own league, the Newport and District Football League, which is part of the Welsh football league system and consequently some Newport clubs field teams in the Gwent County League.

Newport has a Skittle Alley League consisting of over 50 teams and play their league games on a Friday evening.

Along with Quincy Avenue and Southern Artery, other heavily traveled streets include Newport Avenue, which parallels Hancock Street to the west on the opposite side of the MBTA railway, Adams Street heading west from Quincy Center to Milton, and West and East Squantum Streets in the Montclair and North Quincy neighborhoods.

A tall obelisk stands at the Newport side, and a smaller one at the Dundee side, to commemorate Willie Logan, managing director of the company that constructed the bridge who was killed in a plane crash near Inverness, and five workers who died during construction.

Immediately on the northern side of the Ohio River from Covington and Newport is Cincinnati, Ohio.

Another facility capable of drydocking such carriers is Huntington Ingalls Industries ( HII ), located on the other side of Hampton Roads in Newport News, which is the only U. S. shipyard that currently builds and refuels nuclear aircraft carriers.

He was re-elected for Newport for the Long Parliament in November 1640, and took an active part on the side of the opposition.

Newport Town FC play in the West Midlands ( Regional ) League ( Division Two ) and have a reserve side (" Edgmond Rangers ") who play in the Mercian Regional Football League ( Division Two ).

He never played on the losing side for Newport at sevens.

At the age of fourteen Gould captained the Newport Junior team, and later played a few games for the Third XV, Newport Rugby Club's second reserve side, and was the replacement for the regular full back.

And the crossing is built near extensive mudflats in the Severn Estuary used by various migrating birds, although the Newport Wetlands Reserve was established nearby on the Welsh side in 2000.

However, Shepp, along with Tchicai and others from the Four for Trane sessions, then cut Ascension with Coltrane in 1965, and his place alongside Coltrane at the forefront of the avant-garde jazz scene was epitomized when the pair split a record ( the first side a Coltrane set, the second a Shepp set ) entitled New Thing at Newport released in late 1965.

Lovell's Athletic were a fairly well known team in the mid-20th century – due to the suspension of League football during the Second World War they were the premier team in the city, as Newport County did not field a side.

Next year the 1969 Springbok tour to Britain and Ireland found a new spirit and confidence had developed in Home nations rugby, and the tourists lost two of their seven games in Wales — against Newport and a composite side from Monmouthshire.

In 1908 and 1909, with permission of the Orange County Board of Supervisors, Collins moved his small dredge to the eastern part of the Newport bay, a mud flat called " Snipe Island ," and begin cutting a channel along the north side of the bay across from the Pavilion, piling the sand and silt up on the mud flat and thus Balboa Island was born.

The Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge ( 1969 ) connects Aquidneck Island to Jamestown on nearby Conanicut Island in Narragansett Bay, and subsequently to the mainland on the western side of the bay.

That year's cup run included a 6 – 1 first round win over then Fourth Division Newport County, equalling the competition's all-time record for a win by a non-league side over league opponents.

There is a motorway section ( the A48 ( M )) which is a spur from the M4 running from junction 29 on the west side of Newport.

When the B1230 was originally the A63, the main road through Gilberdyke was a dual carriageway for about three miles to the other side of Newport.

Raised in Newport Beach, he is Jewish on his father's side and connects and identifies with his father's religious and cultural background.

A number of sidings once existed at the station, now covered by car parking on the eastern side of the Newport bound lines.

File: Touro Synagogue Newport Rhode Island. jpg | < center > synagogue side view in 2008

The coach rolled on to its side after it clipped a kerb and then a lamp post and tree at the entry to a motorway slip road by the Newport Pagnell services area on the southbound M1 motorway.