Monday 21 August 2017
SPORTS PREVIEW
Monday 21 August 2017
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FOOTBALL
Monday August 21
Premier League – Man City v Everton, 8pm, Sky Sports Main Event
Airtricity League Premier Division – Finn Harps v Cork City, 7:15pm RTE 2
La Liga – Levante v Villarreal, 7:15pm, Sky Sports Football – Malaga v Eibar, 9pm, Sky Sports Football
Portuguese Primeira Liga – Feirense v Pacos Ferreira, 8pm
Bundesliga 2 – Arminia Bielefeld v VFL Bochum, 7:45pm BT Sport 3
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HORSERACING
The Monday line-up is:
Lingfield, 2:00pm – seven races (five handicaps, one of them – the finale – for apprentice riders – and two 2yo races), with field-sizes of 13-8-10-13-5 (a £20,000 fillies’ handicap)-8 and 7; the meeting will be run on the turf track; jockeys riding at the fixture include Ryan Moore, Silvestre de Sousa, Jamie Spencer, Luke Morris, James Doyle, Harry Bentley, David Probert, Joe Fanning, Josephine Gordon and Dane O’Neill
Thirsk, 2:15pm – eight races (six handicaps – one of them, the finale, for Lady Amateur Riders – plus a 2yo race and a 3yo+ maiden), with field-sizes of 13-12-12-19-13-9-9 and 15; there’s a £10,000 handicap at 3:45pm
Roscommon, 4:40pm – An eight-race flat card, with field-sizes of 11-10-10-15-14-6-11&16, the Foran Equine Irish EBF Auction race (5:10pm, €25,000) is the most valuable race on the card. Top jockeys in action include Colin Keane, Pat Smullen, Kevin Manning, Seamie Heffernan, Declan McDonogh, Shane Foley, Chris Hayes, Billy Lee and Ronan Whelan to name just a few.
Hexham, 5:00pm – A seven-race card, with the finale (8pm) being a National Hunt Flat Race for Conditional jockeys’ and Amateur riders’. The Handicap Chase (6:30pm, £10,000) is the most valuable contest. Top jockeys in action include Richard Johnson, Brian Hughes, Paddy Brennan, Henry Brooke, Richie McLernon and Callum Bewley.
Windsor, 5:20pm – six races (four handicaps, a 2yo race and a 3-4yo maiden), with field-sizes of 12-10-9-16-10 and 11; the feature is the £75,000 Sky Bet Windsor Sprint Series Finale Handicap at 6:50pm; jockeys riding on the card include James Doyle, Adam Kirby, Pat Dobbs, Andrea Atzeni, Pat Cosgrave, Luke Morris, Harry Bentley, Sean Levey, Stevie Donohoe, Dane O’Neill, Robert Tart, Josephine Gordon, Tom Marquand and Robert Winston
They also race in India at Hyderabad (10:45am); later in shops it is Valparaiso, 8:45pm, in Chile
The Turf TV USA line-up is: Saratoga, 6pm, Finger Lakes, 6:10pm, Delaware Park, 6:15pm, Thistledown, 6:40pm and Presque Isle Downs, 10:25pm
The South African meeting is Flamingo Park (11:20am)
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GREYHOUNDS
The Monday line-up is as follows:
11:03am – PERRY BARR
11:11am – SWINDON
2:08am – MONMORE
2:18pm – SHEFFIELD
6:28pm – NOTTINGHAM
6:38pm – ROMFORD
6:59pm – YOUGHAL
The next live meeting is the William Hill Peterborough Derby meeting from Peterborough on Weds August 23
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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 9 games taking place today, with start times ranging from 10:10pm on Monday to 3:15am on Tuesday – i.e. Late Monday evening and early Tuesday morning
Live:
Minnesota Twins @ Chicago White Sox, 10:10pm BT Sport 3
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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
Monday August 21
Caribbean Premier League – St Kitts and Nevis Patriots v Jamaica Tallawahs, 11:30pm 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 three a 158.5km route from Prades Conflent Canigo to Andorra la Vella, 12:00pm, 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
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
Spain v Austria, Pool A, 11:30am BT Sport 3 – Ireland v Poland, Pool B, 1:45pm BT Sport 3 – England v Germany, Pool B, 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
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SNOOKER
Next:
Evergrande China Championship – Guangzhou, China, August 16-22, day six, 7am and 12:30pm, Eurosport 1
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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 – 5pm and Midnight BT Sport 1
WTA Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA, Mon Aug 21 to Sun Aug 27
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OTHER SPORT
Diving: Universiade – Mens 1m Final 7:45am Eurosport 1, women’s 10m synchronised final from Taipei, 9:15am Eurosport 1
Speedway – Swindon Robins v King’s Lynn Stars, 7:30pm BT Sport 2
Posted: 21st August 2017