Monday 07 August 2017
SPORTS PREVIEW
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NUMBERS – 2 Daily Millions draws per day – Lucky Monday Numbers
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FOOTBALL
Monday August 7
National League North – Bradford Park Avenue v Southport, 7:45pm
National League South – Gloucester City v Truro City, 7:45pm, and Hungerford Town v Weston-Super-Mare, 7:45pm
Bundesliga 2 – St Pauli v Dynamo Dresden, 7:30pm, BT Sport 3
Portuguese Primeira Liga – Portimonense v Boavista, 5pm –Feirense v Tondela, 7pm – Rio Ave v Belenenses, 9pm
Brazilian Serie A – Fluminense v Atletico Goianiense, midnight on Monday
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HORSERACING
The Monday line-up is :
Salisbury, 2pm – eight races, with field-sizes of 10-10-10-14-14-14-8 and 14; the feature is the £12,000 Bathwick Tyres Fillies’ Handicap at 5pm; jockeys riding on the card include Andrea Atzeni, Frankie Dettori, David Probert, Oisin Murphy, Adam Kirby, Dane O’Neill, Sean Levey, William Buick, Jim Crowley, Pat Dobbs, Fran Berry and Jamie Spencer
Cork, 2:05pm – Seven race National Hunt card which begins with a 2m Maiden Hurdle and finishes with a 2m 3f National Hunt flat race. The card features the €21,000 Joe Walsh Memorial Hurdle (3:35pm) – Willie Mullins runs the likely favourite ‘Coquin Mans’, who is 2 from 2 over hurdles since joining the Mullin’s yard
Ripon, 2:15pm – seven races, with field-sizes of 11-8-6-11-8-6 and 8; the feature race is the £20,000 Armstrong Memorial Handicap (3:45pm); jockeys riding on the card include Phillip Makin, Tom Eaves, Danny Tudhope, Silvestre de Sousa, Paul Mulrennan, PJ McDonald, Paul Hanagan, Connor Beasley, Joe Fanning, Jason Hart, Shane Gray, Andrew Mullen, James Sullivan, Graham Lee and Cam Hardie
The Curragh, 2:25pm – Seven race flat card featuring the €21,500 Eleanor Comer Memorial Race (3:25pm) – Aidan O’Brien runs the likely favourite Fleet Review who was a course and distance winner last time. Also on the card is the €18,500 Luke and Nellie Comer Memorial Handicap (4:55pm)
Windsor, 5:10pm – seven races, with field-sizes of 11-8-6-10-12-10 and 7; the most-valuable race is the £11,500 Sprint Series Handicap at 6:45pm; jockeys riding on the card include Oisin Murphy, Tom Marquand, Stevie Donohoe, Harry Bentley, Fran Berry, James Doyle, David Probert, Martin Dwyer, Fergus Sweeney, Shane Kelly, Ted Durcan and David Egan
Carlisle, 5:30pm – This is the track’s annual Pro-Am Lady Riders’ meeting; seven races, all of them handicaps, with field-sizes of 14-11-7-13-11-12 and 17; there are £10,000 races at 6:30pm and 7:30pm; jockeys riding on the card include Joanna Mason, Jane Elliott, Hollie Doyle, Rachel Richardson, Shelley Birkett, Sammy Jo Bell, Megan Nicholls, Gemma Tutty, Serena Brotherton, Carol Bartley, Emma Sayer, Paula Muir, Becky Smith, Jess Cooley and the McCain sisters, Abbie and Ella
They also race in India at Hyderabad (10:45am) and in Germany at Bad Doberan (4:35pm); later in shops it isPhiladelphia, 5:55pm, in the USA and Valparaiso, 9:15pm, in Chile
The Turf TV USA line-up is: Saratoga, 6pm, Finger Lakes, 6:10pm, Delaware Park, 6:15pm, and Louisiana Downs, 9:15pm
The South African meeting is Fairview (12:05am)
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GREYHOUNDS
The Monday line-up is as follows:
11:03am – PERRY BARR
11:11am – SWINDON
2:08pm – MONMORE
2:18pm – SHEFFIELD
6:28pm – NOTTINGHAM
6:38pm – ROMFORD
6:59pm – YOUGHAL
The next live meeting is the William HillPeterborough Derby meeting from Peterborough on Weds August 23
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ATHLETICS
The World Athletic Championships run from Friday August 04 to Sunday August 13, from Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, England.
Some of the world’s top athletes will be competing at the stadium where the 2012 Olympics took place, among them Mo Farah and Usain Bolt.
The London Championships will be the 16th in the event’s 34-year history with the first IAAF World Championships having taken place in Helsinki in 1983.
Live action :
Live coverage of day four
BBC One, from 8:30pm and on BBC Two from 6pm
6pm, Eurosport 1
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AUSSIE RULES
Round 21 of season:
Friday 11 August
Western Bulldogs v GWS Giants , 10:50am
Saturday 12 August
Sydney Swans v Fremantle , 4:45am – Geelong Cats v Richmond, 5:10am –Brisbane Lions v Gold Coast Suns, 7:35am –West Coast Eagles v Carlton, 8:40am – Essendon v Adelaide Crows, 10:25am
Sunday 13 August
Melbourne v St Kilda , 3:10am – Hawthorn v North Melbourne, 6:20am – Port Adelaide v Collingwood, 7:10am
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BASEBALL
The 2017 Major League Season continues; it runs to October 1st
There are 7 games taking place today, with start times ranging from 12:05am on Tuesday to 3:07am on Tuesday, i.e. – all early Tuesday morning
Live :
Milwaukee Brewers @ Minnesota Twins , 01:10am, BT Sport 3 – i.e. late Monday night/early Tuesday morning
Chicago Cubs @ San Francisco Giants , 03:00am, BT Sport ESPN – i.e. late Monday night/early Tuesday morning
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BASKETBALL
No key games scheduled
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BOXING/UFC
Check out this website – h ttp://boxingschedule.boxingsociety.com/
Big fights coming up:
Sunday August 20, 2017 – Terence Crawford v Julius Indongo, WBC, WBA, WBO, IBF Super-Lightweight, from Pinnacle Bank Arena, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2am, Sky Sports Arena, i.e. late Sat night/early Sun morning
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
Monday August 7
TEST Series 2017 – Sri Lanka v India, 5:30am
TEST Series 2017 – England v South Africa, 11am coverage of the fourth day of the Fourth Test Sky Sports Main Event/ Sky Sports Cricket, 10:30am
Tour Match – Kent v West Indies, 11am
Under-19 Youth ODI Series 2017 – England U-19 v India U-19, 11am
County Championship Division 1 – Middlesex v Warwickshire, 11am –Yorkshire v Essex, 11am –Hampshire v Lancashire, 11am – Somerset v Surrey, 11am
County Championship Division 2 – Derbyshire v Nottinghamshire, 11am –Leicestershire v Durham, 11am –Northamptonshire v Gloucestershire, 11am – Worcestershire v Sussex, 11am
CPL T20 – Trinbago Knight Riders v St Lucia Stars 00:30am, BT Sport 2 – i.e. late Monday night/early Tuesday morning
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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
7-13 Aug – BinckBank Tour, Netherlands/Belgium – Stage one featuring a 179.7km journey from Breda to Venray, 4pm Eurosport 1
08-12 Aug – Tour de l’Ain, France
10-13 August – Arctic Race of Norway, Norway
10-13 August – Colorado Classic, USA
10-13 August – Czech Cycling Tour, Czech Republic
This week:
From the track calendar:
09-14 August – National Elite Track Cycling Championships, Couva, Trinidad and Tobago
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DARTS
Next up:
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
Monday 7 August
All-Ireland SFC quarter-final replay – Mayo v Roscommon, Croke Park, 2pm – RTE2
All-Ireland MFC quarter-final – Dublin v Clare, 2pm, Portlaoise
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GOLF
PGA European and USPGA Tour – The US PGA Championship, Quail Hollow Club, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, Thurs Aug 10 to Sun Aug 13, (the fourth and final major of the season)
LPGA Tour – The Solheim Cup, West Des Moines, Iowa, USA, Fri Aug 18 to Sun Aug 20, (a biennial tournament contested by teams representing Europe and USA)
On the (Seniors Tour), The Willow Senior Golf Classic, Hanbury Manor Marriott Hotel & CC, Ware, Hertfordshire, England, August 25-27
On the (Champions Tour), The DICK’S Sporting Goods Open, En-Joie GC, Endicott, New York, Fri Aug 18 to Sun Aug 20
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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 10 August
Super League – Wakefield Trinity v Leeds Rhinos, 8pm
NRL – South Sydney Rabbitohs v Canterbury Bulldogs , 10:50am
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RUGBY UNION
Next up:
Saturday 12 August
Currie Cup – Free State Cheetahs v Griquas, 2pm, Sky Sports Action –Western Province v Blue Bulls, 4:15pm – Golden Lions v Sharks, 6:30pm, Sky Sports Arena
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SNOOKER
Next:
World Open Qualifiers – Preston, August 06-09
Evergrande China Championship – Guangzhou, China, August 16-22
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TENNIS
Upcoming tournaments:
ATP Coupe Rogers , Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Mon Aug 7 to Sun Aug 13 – coverage of day one from the Uniprix Stadium 5:30pm Sky Sports Action/ 4pm BT Sport 1 also 7pm and 11pm, Sky Sports Main Event
WTA Rogers Cup (Presented by National Bank) , Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Mon Aug 7 to Sun Aug 13 – opening day, live on BT Sport 1 at 4pm
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OTHER SPORT
Speedway – Kings Lynn v Somerset in the SGB Premiership – 7:30pm BT Sport 2
Posted: 7th August 2017