Saturday 02 December 2017
SPORTS PREVIEW
Saturday 02 December 2017
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FOOTBALL
Saturday Dec 2
Premier League – Chelsea v Newcastle, 12:30pm, then six games at 3pm, including Brighton v Liverpool, Sky Sports Premier League ROI, and, at 5:30pm, Arsenal v Manchester United, BT Sport 1
Scottish Premiership – five games, all at 3pm, including Celtic v Motherwell
FA Cup Second Round – Notts County v Oxford City, 12:30pm, BT Sport 1, then eight ties at 3pm, including Bradford City v Plymouth Argyle, eir Sport 1
Championship – nine games, all at 3pm except for Bristol City v Middlebrough, 5:30pm, Sky Sports Football
League One – Bristol Rovers v Rotherham, 3pm, and Southend United v Oldham Athletic, 3pm
EFL Trophy, Second Round – Portsmouth v Northampton Town, 12:30pm, and Walsall v Bury, 12:30pm
National League – seven games, all at 3pm
National League North – ten games, all at 3pm
National League South – ten games, all at 3pm
Scottish Championship – five games, all at 3pm
Scottish League One – five games, all at 3pm
Scottish League Two – five games, all at 3pm
La Liga – Barcelona v Celta Vigo, midday, Sky Sports Football – Atletico Madrid v Real Sociedad, 3:15pm – Sevilla v Deportivo la Coruna, 5:30pm, Sky Sports Mix – Athletic Bilbao v Real Madrid, 7:45pm, Sky Sports Main Event/Football
Bundesliga – six games, all at 2:30pm, including Bayern Munich v Hannover 96, except for FC Schalke v Cologne, 5:30pm, BT Sport 3
Serie A –Torino v Atalanta, 7:45pm, BT Sport 3
Ligue 1 – Strasbourg v PSG, 4pm then five games at 7pm
Dutch Eredivisie – ADO Den Haag v FC Groningen, 5:30pm – FC Twente v Ajax, 5:30pm – Feyenoord v Vitesse, 7:45pm – Willem II v Heracles Almelo, 7:45pm
Portuguese Primera Liga – three games, with kick-off times of 4pm, 6:15pm and 8:30pm
Belgian First Division – one match at 5pm, two at 7pm and one at 7:30pm
A-League – Western Sydney Wanderers FC v Brisbane Roar FC, 6:35am, BT Sport 2 – Newcastle Jets v Melbourne City FC, 8:50am, BT Sport 2 and Wellington Phoenix v Melbourne Victory, 3:30am – i.e. late Saturday night/early Sunday morning
Argentine Primera Division – two games at 8pm, one at 10:15pm, and one at 12:30am – i.e. late Saturday night/early Sunday morning
Northern Ireland Premiership – six games, all at 3pm
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HORSERACING
The Saturday line-up is:
Newcastle, 11:55am – A seven-race card, including the £110,000 Unibet Grade 1 Fighting Fifth Hurdle (2:10pm) and the £70,000 Listed Rehearsal Chase (3:20pm); the card also includes the Weatherbys Racing Bank “The French Furze” Novices’ Hurdle (1:05pm); the reigning champion hurdler Buveur d’Air will be a short price to win the ‘Fighting Fifth’, although Irving has won it twice in the last three years; jockeys in action on the card include Barry Geraghty, Harry Skelton, Tom Scudamore, Danny Cook, Sean Bowen and Derek Fox; field-sizes are 6-12-6-6-5-12 and 8
Doncaster, 12:05pm – A seven-race card; there are £14,000 handicap hurdles at 1:15pm and 2:20pm and the feature, the £20,000 Betfred Supports Jack Berry House Chase (a novices’ limited handicap) at 1:45pm (3 runners); jockeys riding on the card include Leighton Aspell, Tom O’Brien, Henry Brooke, Johnny Burke and Leighton Aspell; Connor King takes a ride over hurdles for trainer Brian Ellison – General Mahler (2:20pm); the penultimate race on the card is a conditional jockeys’ handicap chase; the finale is a bumper
Newbury, 12:10pm – A seven-race card, including the Listed Ladbrokes Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle (12:10pm), the Grade 2 Ladbrokes John Francome Novices’ Chase (12:45pm), the Listed Ladbrokes Intermediate Hurdle (2:25pm) and the £250,000 Grade 3 Ladbrokes Trophy Chase (3pm), the race formerly known as the Hennessy Gold Cup; the card carries £485,000 in prize-money; Ireland is represented by A Genie In Abottle (Noel Meade/Sean Flanagan), Pleasant Company (Willie Mullins/David Mullins) and recent Munster National winner Total Recall (Willie Mullins/Paul Townend)
Fairyhouse, 12:15pm – A seven-race card, where the feature races are the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Mares Handicap Steeplechase (12:50pm, €32,500) and the Grade B EasyFix Handicap Steeplechase (1:25pm, €50,000); it is day one of the track’s two-day Winter Festival meeting that carries over €600,000 in prize-money; the Sunday card contains three Grade 1 races and a €100,000 two-mile handicap hurdle
Bangor, 12:25pm – A seven-race card that contains two £10,000 contests – a novices chase (12:25pm) and a staying handicap chase (1:35pm); field-sizes on the card are 4-5-8-8-12-8 (a mares’ handicap hurdle for conditional jockeys) and 10 (a bumper); jockeys in action include Daryl Jacob, Will Kennedy, James Bowen, Gavin Sheehan, David Bass, Ian Popham, Stan Sheppard and Charlie Deutsch
Wolverhampton, 5:45pm – An eight-race card to close out the racing day in Britain and Ireland; field-sizes are 11-11-10-12-13-12-9 and 13; the feature is the £19,000 Betway Handicap at 8:45pm and an £11,500 handicap at 7:45pm; there are three 2yo races and five handicaps on the card; jockeys in action include Joe Fanning, Rob Havlin, Cam Hardie, David Probert, PJ McDonald, Richard Kingscote, Liam Keniry, Adam Kirby, , Fran Berry, Ted Durcan, Phillip Makin, Shane Kelly, Dougie Costello and Tom Marquand, to name a few
They also race in Mauritius (10:10am), Kolkata in India (10:30am) later in the shops it is Hipo Chile (5:15pm) in Chile and Philadelphia (5:25pm) in the USA
The Turf TV USA line-up is: Aqueduct, 4:30pm, Tampa Bay Downs, 5:24pm, Turf Paradise, 7:40pm, Los Alamitos Racecourse, 8:30pm, and Golden Gate Fields, 8:45pm
The South African meetings are Kenilworth (10:25am) and Turffontein (1pm), a card that features the Supabets Secretariat Stakes (Listed Race) at 4pm
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GREYHOUNDS
The Saturday line-up is as follows:
10:03am – TRALEE
10:06am – TOWCESTER
10:31am – ROMFORD
10:38am – CRAYFORD
2:24pm – NEWCASTLE
3:08pm – POOLE
6:28pm – CENTRAL PARK
6:33pm – MONMORE
6:39pm – SUNDERLAND
The next live meeting on Sky Sports – Sky Sports Arena HD from 7pm – will be the Coral Essex Vase meeting at Romford on Wednesday December 06th
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AMERICAN FOOTBALL
Week 13
Sunday December 3 – ten games at 6pm, Cleveland Browns @ Los Angeles Chargers at 9:05pm, two at 9:25pm and Philadelphia Eagles @ Seattle Seahawks, 1:30am, Sky Sports Main Event, i.e. late Sunday night/early Monday morning
Monday December 4 – Pittsburgh Steelers @ Cincinnati Bengals, 1:30am, Sky Sports Main Event – i.e. late Monday night/early Tuesday morning
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
A live game will take place from 5pm, BT Sport ESPN
A live game will take place from 9pm, BT Sport ESPN
Boise State Broncos v Fresno State Bulldogs, 00:45am, BT Sport 3, i.e. late Sunday night/early Monday morning
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BASKETBALL
There are eight NBA matches scheduled for today, with start times ranging from 6pm to 3am – i.e. late Saturday night/early Sunday morning
Live:
No games scheduled to be live in the UK/Ire
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
No live games scheduled
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BOXING/UFC
Check out this website – http://boxingschedule.boxingsociety.com/
Anthony Yigit v Joe Hughes, bout for the European Super-Lightweight title, from the Leicester Arena, 10pm, Channel 5
UFC
UFC 218 Prelims – 1am, BT Sport 2
UFC 218 Main Event – Max Holloway v Jose Aldo, UFC Featherweight title bout, 3am, BT Sport 2, – late Saturday night/early Sunday morning
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CRICKET
Saturday Dec 2
TEST Series (Day 2) – Australia v England, 3:30am, BT Sport 1 from 3am
TEST Series (Day 2) – India v Sri Lanka, 3:50am, Sky Sports Main Event, 4am, Sky Sports Mix/Cricket from 6am
TEST Series 2017 – New Zealand v West Indies, 10pm, Sky Sports Main Event/Cricket
Sheffield Shield – Victoria v Western Australia, 11:30pm – Tasmania v New South Wales, 11:30pm
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CYCLING
Revolution Series – Coverage of the second round of the Champions League, Emirates Arena, Glasgow, Scotland, 5pm, Eurosport 2
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DARTS
Coming up on the PDC calendar:
The 2017/2018 William Hill World Darts Championship takes place from Alexandra Palace (Ally Pally) in London from Thursday December 14 to Monday January 01, follow all of the action on Sky Sports Darts
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GAA
Upcoming fixtures – see www.hoganstand.com
Saturday 2 December
All-Ireland club IHC quarter-final
Kilburn Gaels (Britain) v Kanturk (Cork), Ruislip, 1:30pm
Leinster club IHC final
Ballyragget (Kilkenny) v Glenealy (Wicklow), Nowlan Park, 2pm
Sunday 3 December
Leinster club SHC final
Cuala (Dublin) v Kilcormac-Killoughey (Offaly), O’Moore Park, 2pm
Galway SHC final
Gort v Liam Mellows, Pearse Stadium, 2pm
Waterford SFC final
The Nire v Stradbally, Fraher Field, TBC
Munster club JFC final
Dromid Pearses (Kerry) v Knocknagree (Cork), Mallow, 3.15pm
Munster club JHC final
Ardmore (Waterford) v Ballybacon-Grange (Tipperary), Mallow, 1.30pm
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GOLF
USPGA Tour – Hero World Challenge, Albany, New Providence – Thurs 30th Nov – Sunday 03rdDecember, day three, 5pm, Sky Sports The Open
PGA European Tour – AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open, Heritage Golf Course, Domaine de Bel Ombre– Thurs 30th Nov – Sunday 03rd December, day three, 8:30am, Sky Sports The Open
PGA European Tour – Australian PGA Championship, RACV Royal Pines Resort, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia – Thurs 30th Nov – Sunday 03rd December, day three,
USLPGA Tour – the next tournament will take place in 2018
USPGA Champions Tour – the next tournament will take place in 2018
Seniors Tour, Europe – the next tournament is the MCB Tour Championship, Mauritius, Dec 8-10
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ICE HOCKEY
There are 12 NHL matches taking place today, with start times ranging from 6pm to 3am – late Saturday night/early Sunday morning
Live:
Boston Bruins @ Philadelphia Flyers, 6pm, eir Sport 2
St Louis Blues @ Minnesota Wild, 11pm, eir Sport 2
Edmonton Oilers @ Calgary Flames, 3am, eir Sport 2, – late Saturday night/early Sunday morning
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RUGBY LEAGUE
Saturday 2 December
Rugby League World Cup final – Australia v England, 9am, BBC One/eir Sport 2
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RUGBY UNION
Next games:
Saturday 2 December
Aviva Premiership – Exeter v Bath, 2pm, BT Sport 2 – Gloucester v London Irish, 3pm – Wasps v Leicester Tigers, 4:30pm, BT Sport 2
Pro14 – Zebre v Connacht, 1:15pm, TG4 – Benneton Rugby v Leinster, 3:30pm, TG4 – Munster v Ospreys, 5:30pm, Sky Sports Action – Cheetahs v Scarlets, 5:35pm,
Top 14 – La Rochelle v Montpellier, 1:45pm, Sky Sports Arena – Brive v Oyonnax, 5pm – Pau v Bordeaux-Begles, 5pm – Toulouse v Castres, 5pm – Toulon v Lyon, 7:45pm, Sky Sports Arena
International – Wales v South Africa, 2:30pm. BBC One
Championship – Doncaster v Bristol, 2:30pm – Hartpury College RFC v Ealing Trailfinders, 2:30pm
HSBC Sevens World Series – The Dubai Sevens, day two, 4:50am, 6am, 9:30am, 11:30am and 1:50pm, Sky Sports Action, – late Thursday night/early Friday morning and 11:50am, Sky Sports Mix
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SNOOKER
Next up:
The Betway UK Championships, York, November 28 to December 10, day five, 1:15pm, BBC One – 2pm, BBC Two – 1pm and 6:45pm, Eurosport 1
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TENNIS
Upcoming tournaments:
ATP, Qatar Open, Doha, Jan 1-7
ATP, Maharashtra Open, Pune, India, Jan 1-7
ATP & WTA, Brisbane International, Australia, Jan 1-7
WTA, Shenzhen Open, Jan 1-7
WTA, ASB Classic, Auckland, New Zealand, Jan 1-7
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Other Sport –
Hockey – Argentina v Belgium, 6:30am, BT Sport ESPN – Netherlands v Spain, 8:30am, BT Sport ESPN – Germany v Australia, 11:45am, BT Sport ESPN – India v England, 2pm, BT Sport ESPN
Posted: 2nd December 2017