SPORTS PREVIEW
FRIDAY 28 APRIL 2017
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FOOTBALL
Championship – Cardiff v Newcastle, 7:45pm, Sky Sports 1
Scottish Premiership – Ross County v Inverness Caledonian Thistle, 7:45pm, BT Sport 2
League Of Ireland Premier Division – Bohemians v Finn Harps, 7:45pm – Cork City v Bray Wanderers, 7:45pm – Derry City v St Patrick’s Athletic, 7:45pm – Drogheda United v Sligo Rovers, 7:45pm – Galway United FC v Dundalk, 7:45pm – Shamrock Rovers v Limerick FC, 8pm
League Of Ireland First Division – Waterford FC v UCD, 7:45pm – Shelbourne v Cobh Ramblers, 7:45pm – Wexford FC v Cabinteely FC, 8pm
Women’s Super League – Liverpool v Reading, 7pm
Ligue 1 – Angers v Lyon, 7:45pm, BT Sport Extra and eir Sport 1
La Liga – Villareal v Sporting Gijon, 7:45pm, Sky Sports 5
Bundesliga – Bayer Leverkusen v Schalke, 7:30pm, BT Sport ESPN
Serie A – Atalanta v Juventus, 7:45pm, BT Sport 3
Portuguese Primeira Liga – Vitoria Setubal v Vitoria Guimaraes, 8:30pm
Chinese Super League – Guangzhou R&F v Guizhou Zhicheng, 12:35pm
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HORSERACING
The Friday line-up is:
Doncaster, 1:40pm – eight races; field-sizes: 11-12-12-12-13-13-15 and 6; the most-valuable race is worth £12,000, a 6f handicap at 3:55pm; jockeys riding on the card include Luke Morris, Ted Durcan, Josephine Gordon, Jimmy Fortune, Sean Levey, Silvestre de Sousa, Paul Mulrennan, Phillip Makin, Dane O’Neill, Tom Marquand, Tom Eaves, Martin Harley, Joe Fanning, Tony Hamilton, David Allan, Ben Curtis and Robert Winston
Sandown, 1:50pm – where it is bet365 Classic Trial day (2:55pm, with John Gosden providing the favourite in Monarchs Glen, one of three sons of Frankel in the five-runner line-up); the card also contains the Group 3 Gordon Richards Stakes (2:20pm, in which Aidan O’Brien runs Deauville) and the Group 2 bet365 Mile (3:35pm, in which Aidan O’Brien runs Cougar Mountain); the card contains £295,000 in prize-money
Perth, 2pm – where the feature race is the £20,000 Highland National (4:15pm, in which Paul Stafford runs Castletown Bridge in the race); run over a distance of 3m6f, it is the longest race to be run during the season at Perth; other Irish runners on the card are Stuart Crawford’s Verona Opera (2pm) and Gleno (5:25pm), Patrick Griffin’s Aminabad (3:10pm), RA Curran’s Ballygrooby Bertie (3:45pm), S Wilson’s Hurricane Ivan (3:45pm) and Ian Ferguson’s Tambow (5:25pm) – On what will be his final day as a jockey, Brian Harding will ride Anywaythewindblows for his Nicky Richards in the finale, the bumper (5:25pm)
PUNCHESTOWN (3:40pm) – day four of the Festival, the card including the €250,000 Grade 1 BETDAQ Punchestown Champion Hurdle (5:30pm), the €100,000 Grade 1 Tattersalls Ireland Champion Novice Hurdle (6:05pm) the €100,000 EMS Copiers Novice Handicap ‘Chase (Grade A)(4:20pm) and the €75,000 Hanlon Concrete EBF Glencarraig Lady Mares Handicap ‘Chase (Grade B)(4:55pm) – live in shops, on At The Races and on RTE1 (from 4pm) and RTE2 (from 5:55pm)
Huntingdon, 4:40pm – field-sizes are 10-3-10-3-9-10 and 6; jockeys in action on the card include Richard Johnson, Sam Twiston-Davies, Harry Skelton, Paddy Brennan, Noel Fehily, Jamie Moore and Josh Moore
Chepstow, 4:45pm – field-sizes are 7-8-6-9-15-7-6 and 7; there is a £10,000 handicap chase at 5:55pm and a novices’ hunters’ chase at 7pm; jockeys riding on the card include Sean Bowen, Harry Cobden, Tom O’Brien, Tom Scudamore, Mikey Hamill, Daryl Jacob, David Bass and Wayne Hutchinson
They also race at Club Hipico in Chile (6:30pm)
The Turf TV USA line-up is: Tampa Bay Downs, 5:50pm, Keeneland, 6:05pm, Belmont Park, 6:30pm, Golden Gate Fields, 8:45pm, and Santa Anita, 9pm
The South African meetings are Fairview (11:10am) and Greyview (4:10pm)
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GREYHOUNDS
The Friday line-up is as follows:
10:31am – KINSLEY
10:38am – SWINDON
2:08pm – HOVE
2:18pm – MONMORE
6:28pm – NOTTINGHAM
6:33pm – CRAYFORD
6:38pm – SHEFFIELD
The next meeting live on Sky Sports is the Coral Regency Final meeting at Hove on Wednesday May 3rd
Then it will be the Betfred Gymcrack meeting at Kinsley on Tuesday May 16
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AMERICAN FOOTBALL
The NFL Draft (day 2) is live on Sky Sports 2 at midnight on Friday
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AUSSIE RULES
Round 6 of the season
Friday 28 April (Round 6)
GWS Giants v Western Bulldogs, 10:50am, BT Sport ESPN
Saturday 29 April (Round 6)
Hawthorn v St Kilda, 4:45am, live on BT Sport 2 – Carlton v Sydney Swans, 5:10am – Brisbane Lions v Port Adelaide, 7:35am – North Melbourne v Gold Coast Suns, 10:25am – West Coast Eagles v Fremantle, 9:10am
Sunday 30 April (Round 6)
Essendon v Melbourne, 4:10am – Geelong Cats v Collingwood, 6:20am – Adelaide Crows v Richmond, 7:10am
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BASEBALL
The 2017 Major League Season continues; it runs to October 1st
There are 15 MLB games today, with start times ranging from 12:05am to 3:15am on Saturday morning – i.e. late Friday night/early Saturday morning
Live games:
Los Angeles Angels @ Texas Rangers, 1:05am, BT Sport ESPN – i.e. late Friday night/early Saturday morning
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BASKETBALL
The NBA play-offs continue tonight with three games, with start times TBD
Live games:
There is a game listed to be live on BT Sport 1 at 1am on Friday, – i.e. late Friday night/early Saturday morning
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BOXING/UFC
Check out this website – http://boxingschedule.boxingsociety.com/
Upcoming fights include:
On Saturday April 29, Wembley Stadium, London, UK, (Sky Box Office) –
Anthony Joshua v Vladimir Klitschko, IBF & WBA Heavyweight Titles
Scott Quigg v Viorel Simion, WBA International Featherweight Title
Luke Campbell v Darleys Perez
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CRICKET
IPL – Kolkata Knight Riders v Delhi Daredevils, 11:30am, Sky Sports 3, and Kings XI Punjab v Sunrisers Hyderabad, 3:30pm, Sky Sports 2
Royal London One-Day Cup matches – (all 11am) – Somerset v Surrey – Lancashire v Leicestershire
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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
Tour de Romandie – April 25-30, Switzerland, Stage three, featuring a 187km journey that starts and finishes in Payerne, Switzerland, 3pm, Europort 2
Tour de Yorkshire – April 28-30, Britain, live on ITV4 at 12:30pm and Eurosport 2 at 4:30pm – 173km from Bridlington to Scarborough – with the Women’s Race on April 29
5eme Tour des Portes du Pays d’Othe – April 29-30, France
Vuelta Asturias Julio Alvarez Mendo – April 29 to May 1, Spain
La Coupe du President de la Ville de Grudziadz – 30 April to 3 May, Poland
From the track calendar:
TBC
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DARTS
The Premier League darts moves into Week 14 on Thursday May 4th , from the Sheffield Arena, with the line-up (live on Sky Sports ** from 7pm) being:
Peter Wright v Adrian Lewis
Raymond van Barneveld v Dave Chisnall
James Wade v Gary Anderson
Michael van Gerwen v Phil Taylor
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FORMULA ONE
The next race of the 2017 Formula One season is the Russian Grand Prix, in Sochi, which is set to take place on Sunday April 30
Practice 1: Fri 8:55am, Channel 4 and eir Sport 1, with Practice 2 at 12:55pm on the same channels
After this it is the Spain Grand Prix, at the Circuit de Catalunya, May 12-14
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GAA
Next games:
Saturday 29 April
All-Ireland U21FC final
Galway v Dublin, Tullamore, 5pm
Christy Ring Cup round 2A
Antrim v Down, TBC, TBC
Kildare v Wicklow, TBC, TBC
Christy Ring Cup round 2B
Carlow v Mayo, TBC, TBC
Roscommon v London, TBC, TBC
Nicky Rackard Cup round 2A
Derry v Longford, TBC, TBC
Tyrone v Donegal, TBC, TBC
Nicky Rackard Cup round 2B
Armagh v Louth, TBC, TBC
Lory Meagher Cup round 2
Leitrim v Cavan, Pairc Sean Mac Diarmada, 2pm
Warwickshire v Sligo, Páirc na hEireann, TBC
Lancashire v Fermanagh, Old Bedians, Manchester, TBC
Sunday 30 April
Leinster SHC round 2
Westmeath v Kerry, TEG Cusack Park, 3pm
Meath v Laois, Pairc Tailteann, 3pm
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GOLF
PGA European Tour – Volvo China Open, April 27-30, day two, 7:30am, Sky Sports 4, with day three live on Sky Sports 4 from 5:30am
USPGA Tour – Zurich Classic Of New Orleans, April 27-30, day two, 8:30pm, Sky Sports 4
LPGA Tour – The Volunteers of America Texas Shootout Presented by JTBC, at Irving, TX, April 27-30; the defending champion is Jenny Shin; day two takes place today
On the Seniors Tour (Champions Tour), the next tournament is the Insperity Invitational, Texas, USA, May 5-7
On the European Seniors Tour, the next tournament is the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship, Trump National, Washington DC, USA, May 25-28
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ICE HOCKEY (NHL)
The Stanley Cup play-off games continue in the NHL today with two games, as follows:
Nashville Predators @ St Louis Blues, 1am – i.e. late Fri night/early Sat morning – live on eir Sport 2
Edmonton Oilers @ Anaheim Ducks, 3:30am – i.e. late Fri night/early Sat morning – live on eir Sport 2
Live games:
As above
ICE HOCKEY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
This tournament runs from May 5-21 – 16 teams, two host cities > Cologne and Paris
Live today – Britain v Netherlands, 7:30pm, eir Sport 2
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RUGBY LEAGUE
Super League – Hull FC v Warrington Wolves, 8pm, Sky Sports 2and St Helens v Leigh Centurions, 8pm
NRL – South Sydney Rabbitohs v Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, 9am, eir Sport 2, and North Queensland Cowboys v Parramatta Eels, 10:50am, eir Sport 2
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RUGBY UNION
Friday 28 April
Aviva Premiership – Harlequin v Wasps, 7:45pm, BT Sport 1, and Newcastle v Worcester, 8pm
Guinness Pro12 – Cardiff Blues v Zebre, 7:05pm, Edinburgh v NG Dragons, 7:35pm, and Leinster v Glasgow, 7:35pm, live on TG4
Super Rugby – Highlanders v Stormers, 8:35am, Sky Sports 2
There is a live game from the Championship – Ealing Trailfinders v Yorkshire Carnegie, 7:45pm, Sky Sports 3
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SNOOKER
April 15th to May 1st – Betfred World Championship, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield – the biggest tournament in snooker continues today, with live coverage today as follows:
BBC2, 10am, 1pm and 7pm
Eurosport 1, 10am, 2:30pm and 6:30pm
Eurosport 2, No live snooker scheduled on this channel today
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TENNIS
Upcoming tournaments:
ATP – Barcelona Open – April 24-30 – live on Sky Sports Mix, 11:30am
ATP – Hungarian Open – April 24-30
WTA – Istanbul Cup – April 24-30 – BT Sport 3, semi-finals, 10:30am and 3pm
WTA – Porsche Tennis Grand Prix – April 24-30 – quarter-finals, BT Sport 2, 1pm
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OTHER SPORT
UEFA Futsal Cup, semi-final – Ugra v Sporting Lisbon, 1pm, Eurosport 1
FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup – Japan v Poland, Group D match, from Nassau, Eurosport 2 at 8:15pm, and Portugal v Panama, 10pm, Group C, Eurosport 2
Posted: 28th April 2017