Wednesday 23 August 2017
SPORTS PREVIEW
Wednesday 23 August 2017
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FOOTBALL
Wednesday Aug 23
Champions League Play-Offs (2nd Legs) – CSKA Moscow v BSC Young Boys, 7:45pm (Agg, 1 v 0), eir Sport 1 – FC Copenhagen v Qarabag FK, 7:45pm (Agg, 0 v 1), BT Sport ESPN – FC Steaua Bucaresti v Sporting Lisbon, 7:45pm (Agg, 0 v 0), BT Sport 3 – Liverpool v Hoffenheim, 7:45pm (Agg, 2 v 1), RTE2/BT Sport 2 – Slavia Prague v Apoel Nicosia, 7:45pm (Agg, 0 v 2)
Carabao Cup – There are six games taking place, all at 7:45pm, except for Stoke City v Rochdale, 8pm, Live – Cheltenham Town v West Ham Utd, 7:45pm, Sky Sports Mix/Main Event/Football
Friendly Match – Real Madrid v Fiorentina, 9:45pm
MLS – Columbus Crew v Los Angeles Galaxy, 00:30am – D.C. United v Atlanta United FC, 00:30am – FC Dallas v Houston Dynamo, 1am – Toronto FC v Philadelphia Union, 1am – Real Salt Lake v San Jose Earthquakes, 3am – Vancouver Whitecaps v Seattle Sounders FC, 3am – Portland Timbers v Colorado Rapids, 3:30am
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HORSERACING
The Wednesday line-up is:
Carlisle, 1:35pm – eight races, six of them handicaps (including the finale, which is for Novice Amateur Riders) and two 2yo races (which start the card); field-sizes are 10-9-12-10-9-12-9 and 9; jockeys riding on the card include Ben Curtis, Tom Eaves, Graham Lee, Rachel Richardson, Connor Beasley, James Sullivan, Tony Hamilton, Jack Garritty, David Nolan, Andrew Mullen and Cam Hardie
Bath, 1:45pm – eight races, the first being a handicap for apprentice riders (one of seven handicaps on the card, the other race being a 2yo contest); field-sizes are 8-9-12-12-8-6-14 and 9; there’s a £10,000 fillies’ handicap at 4pm; jockeys in action include Silvestre de Sousa, Pat Dobbs, Dane O’Neill, Dougie Costello, Fran Berry, Liam Keniry, Stevie Donohoe, Seteve Drowne, Pat Cosgrave, Timmy Murphy, Tom Marquand and Eddy Greatrex
York, 1:55pm – Day-one of the Ebor meeting on the Knavesmire, the feature race is the £1,000,000 Group 1 Juddmonte International (3:35pm), although the card also contains the £170,000 Group 2 Great Voltigeur Stakes (3pm) and the £90,000 Tattersalls Acomb Stakes (2:25pm); the ‘International’ looks set to serve a fantastic race, with dual 2,000 Guineas winner Churchill, Royal Ascot winner Barney Roy, Eclipse Stakes winner Ulysses (Barney Roy finished second), and Epsom Derby runner-up, Cliffs Of Moher, among the seven declarations; in total, £1.47million in prize-money is on offer on the day; field-sizes are 20-11-8-7-17 and 20; jockeys in action include Ryan Moore, Frankie Dettori, Oisin Murphy, Danny Tudhope, Paul Hanagan, James Doyle, Andrea Atzeni, Gerald Mosse, Jim Crowley, Adam Kirby and more; runners from Ireland include Eddie Lynam’s Moviesta (1:55pm, Robbie Downey), Dennis Hogan’s Tithonus (1:55pm, Denis Hogan), Aidan O’Brien’s Fleet Review (2:25pm, Ryan Moore), Aidan O’Brien’s Douglas Macarthur (3pm, Wayne Lordan), Spanish Steps (3pm, Seamie Heffernan) Venice Beach (3pm, Ryan Moore), and Aidan O’Brien’s Churchill (3:35pm, Ryan Moore) and Cliffs Of Moher (3:35pm, Seamie Heffernan)
Killarney, 3:10pm – day one of the four-day August Festival at the track begins with a flat card that has as its centrepiece the €45,000 Vincent O’Brien Ruby Stakes (Listed Race, 4:45pm), which is named after arguably the greatest trainer who ever lived; the card consists of three handicaps (one of them for apprentices), a 2yo Plus10 Bonus maiden, a 3yo+ maiden, the Listed Race and the Irish Examiner Race (which closes the card and in which Aidan O’Brien, Dermot Weld and Joseph O’Brien all have runners); field-sizes on the card are 8-9-13-11-15 (plus 3 reserves)-7 and 5 and jockeys riding on the card include Pat Smullen, Kevin Manning, Colin Keane, Chris Hayes, Colm O’Donoghue, Shane Foley, Billy Lee and Declan McDonogh
Worcester, 5:00pm – a seven-race card, with field-sizes of 10-9-9-10-7-6 and 14; the most-valuable race is the £10,000 Startin Honda Handicap Chase at 5:30pm; jockeys with at least one ride on the card include Richard Johnson, Tom Scudamore, Sam Twiston-Davies, Sean Bowen, Tom O’Brien, Paddy Brennan, Aidan Coleman, Johnny Burke, David Bass, Nico de Boinville, Wayne Hutchinson, Harry Skelton and Noel Fehily
Kempton, 6:15pm – Six races – four handicaps plus a 2yo race to start with and a 3-5yo maiden as the second race – with field-sizes of 4-8-10-11-12 and 12; there’s a £12,000 handicap at 7:45pm; jockeys in action include Martin Harley, Sean Levey, Stevie Donohoe, Pat Cosgrave, Oisin Murphy, Tom Queally, Ted Durcan, Dane O’Neill, Tom Marquand, John Egan, Robert Winston and Silvestre de Sousa (who rides in the last two races on the card)
They also race in India at Kolkata (10:30am); later in shops it is Valparaiso 7pm, in Chile
The Turf TV USA line-up is: Saratoga, 6pm, Finger Lakes, 6:10pm, Delaware Park, 6:15pm, Louisiana Downs, 9:15pm and Del Mar, 10pm
The South African meeting is Scottsville (11:55am)
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GREYHOUNDS
The Wednesday line-up is as follows:
11:03am – PERRY BARR
11:11am – NEWCASTLE
2:08pm – HOVE
2:18pm – BELLE VUE
6:28pm – SWINDON
6:33pm – SUNDERLAND
6:39pm – PETERBOROUGH
The next live meeting is tonight’s William Hill Peterborough Derby meeting from Peterborough, 7pm, Sky Sports Action
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AUSSIE RULES
Round 23 of the season
Friday 25 August
Hawthorn v Western Bulldogs, 10:50am
Saturday 26 August
Collingwood v Melbourne, 4:45am – Brisbane Lions v North Melbourne, 5:10am – Sydney Swans v Carlton, 7:35am – Port Adelaide v Gold Coast Suns, 10:10am – Geelong Cats v GWS Giants, 10:25am
Sunday 27 August
Essendon v Fremantle, 4:10am – West Coast Eagles v Adelaide Crows, 5:40am – Richmond v St Kilda, 6:20am
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BASEBALL
The 2017 Major League Season continues; it runs to October 1st
There are 16 games taking place today, with start times ranging from 9:05pm on Wednesday to 3:15am on Thursday – i.e. late Wednesday evening/early Thursday morning
Live:
Los Angeles Dodgers @ Pittsburgh Pirates, midnight, BT Sport 3
Texas Rangers @ Los Angeles Angels, 3am, BT Sport 3, – i.e. late Wednesday evening/early Thursday morning
Little League World Series
Coverage of a match, 00:30am, BT Sport ESPN – i.e. late Wednesday night/early Thursday morning
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BASKETBALL
No key games scheduled
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BOXING/UFC
Check out this website – http://boxingschedule.boxingsociety.com/
Big fights coming up:
Saturday August 26, 2017 – Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor, billed as “The Money Fight” is an upcoming professional boxing super-fight between undefeated eleven-time five-division professional boxing world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. and the current UFC Lightweight Champion Conor McGregor. It will take place at the T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada
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CRICKET
Wednesday August 23
Women’s KIA Super League – Surrey Stars v Western Storm, 2pm, and Lancashire Thunder v Southern Vipers, 2:30pm
NatWest T20 Blast – Glamorgan v Leicestershire Foxes, 6:30pm, Sky Sports Cricket
Caribbean Premier League – St Kitts and Nevis Patriots v Trinbago Knight Riders, 11pm, BT Sport 2
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CYCLING
Check out this website – http://www.uci.ch/road/calendar/
Some of the next main events…
From the UCI road calendar
Vuelta a Espana – Stage five a 175.7km route from Benicassim to Alcossebre, 2:00pm, Eurosport 1
Sea Games – Kuala Lumpur, 2017, Aug 2-24
Tour du Poitou Charentes, Charente, Charente Maritime, deuz sevres, Vienne, Aug 22-25
Criterium de Montreux, Aug 25
Baltic Chain Tour, Aug 23-27
National Road Championships – Brazil, Aug 24-27
Commonwealth Cycling Classic (Virginia), Aug 24-27
From the track calendar:
GP Prostejov – memorial of Otmar Malecek, Aug 24-25
Irish National Track Championships, Aug 26-27
Track Sea Games Kuala Lumpur 2017, Aug 27-29
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DARTS
Next up:
Perth Darts Masters – Friday Aug 25 to Sunday Aug 27
ET9 – Dutch Dart Masters – Sept 01-03, Maastricht, Netherlands
Unibet Champions League of Darts, Sept 16-17
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FORMULA ONE
The next F1 race is the Belgium Grand Prix, Spa-Francorchamps, Aug 25-27
The next race after this will be the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, September 1-3
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GAA
Upcoming fixtures, as per www.hoganstand.com
Saturday 26 August
All-Ireland SFC semi-final replay
Kerry v Mayo, Croke Park, 3pm – RTE/Sky
All-Ireland Ladies SFC semi-final
Dublin v Kerry, Semple Stadium, 6.30pm – TG4
All-Ireland Ladies IFC semi-final
Meath v Tipperary, Semple Stadium, 4.45pm – TG4
Sunday 27 August
All-Ireland SFC semi-final
Dublin v Tyrone, Croke Park, 4pm – RTE/Sky
All-Ireland MFC semi-final
Dublin v Derry, Croke Park, 2pm – TG4
All-Ireland U17FC final
Tyrone v Roscommon, Croke Park, 12noon
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GOLF
PGA Tour – The Northern Trust, Glen Oaks Club, Old Westbury, NY, Thurs Aug 24 to Sun Aug 27
European Tour – Made In Denmark, Himmerland Golf & Spa Resort, Farsa, Denmark, Thurs Aug 24 to Sun Aug 27
LPGA Tour – Canadian Pacific Women’s Open, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Thursday Aug 24 to Sunday August 27
On the (Seniors Tour), The Willow Senior Golf Classic, Hanbury Manor Marriott Hotel & CC, Ware, Hertfordshire, England, August 25-27
On the (Champions Tour), Boeing Classic, The Club at Snoqualmie Ridge, Snoqualmie, Washington
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HOCKEY
Men’s EuroHockey Championships
Germany v Poland, Pool B 11:30am, BT Sport 3 – Ireland v England, Pool B, 1:45pm BT Sport 3 – Spain v Belguim, Pool A, 4:00pm BT Sport 3
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ICE HOCKEY
No keys games scheduled; the new NHL season begins on Wednesday, October 4
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RUGBY LEAGUE:
Thursday 24 August
NRL – Brisbane Broncos v Parramatta Eels, 10:50am
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RUGBY UNION
Thursday 24 August
Mitre 10 Cup – Southland v North Harbour, 8:35am, Sky Sports Action
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SNOOKER
Next:
The Paul Hunter Classic begins on Wednesday August 23rd and runs to August 27th. The tournament is named in honour and memory of the late Paul Hunter, a huge talent in the snooker world whose life was tragically cut short by cancer. It takes place in Fürth in Germany
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TENNIS
Upcoming tournaments:
ATP Winston-Salem Open, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA, Mon Aug 21 to Sun Aug 27
WTA Connecticut Open presented by United Technologies, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, Mon Aug 21 to Sun Aug 27 – Day four 5pm and Midnight BT Sport 1
WTA Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA, Mon Aug 21 to Sun Aug 27
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OTHER SPORT
Universiade – Coverage of fencing, 10am and Athletics, 11am, Eurosport 1 with live coverage of the swimming at midday, Eurosport 2
Posted: 23rd August 2017