SUNDAY 21st MAY 2017
SPORTS PREVIEW
SUNDAY 21st MAY 2017
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FOOTBALL
Premier League – ten games, all at 3pm on the last day of the season – there will be a game covered live on Sky Sports 1 – Liverpool v Middlesbrough – and on Sky Sports 2 – Watford v Manchester City
FA Trophy final – Macclesfield Town v York City, 4:15pm, BT Sport 1
FA Vase final – Cleethorpes Town v South Shields, 12:15pm, BT Sport 1
Scottish Premiership – Celtic v Hearts, 12:30pm, Sky Sports 2 – if Celtic avoid defeat, they will have gone through the league season undefeated
Serie A – seven games, all at 2pm, including Juventus v Crotone, 2pm, BT Sport ESPN, except for Lazio v Inter Milan, 7:45pm, live on eir Sport 1 and BT Sport 1
La Liga – Atletico Madrid v Athletic Bilbao, 3:45pm – Celta Vigo v Real Sociedad, 3:45pm – Sevilla v Osasuna, 3:45pm – Valencia v Villarreal, 3:45pm – Barcelona v Eibar, 7pm, Sky Sports Mix – Malaga v Real Madrid, 7pm, Sky Sports 3
Belgian First Division – three games, all at 1:30pm
Portuguese Primeira Liga – nine games, all at 4pm
Bundesliga 2 – there will be a game shown live on BT Sport 3 at 2:30pm
MLS – New England Revolution v Columbus Crew, 7:30pm – Minnesota United FC v Los Angeles Galaxy, 10pm, Sky Sports 2 – Orlando City SC v New York City FC, midnight, Sky Sports 2
Chinese Super League – Changchun Yatai v Tianjin Teda, 8:30am – Henan Jianye v Guizhou Hengfeng Zhiche’, 12:35pm
FIFA Under-20 World Cup – Italy v Uruguay, midday, Eurosport 2 – the tournament runs from Sat 20 May to Sun 11 June 2017
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HORSERACING
The Sunday line-up is:
Market Rasen, 1:50pm – A seven-race card, with field sizes of 7-8-5-15-5-5 & 6. The feature is the £30,000 Handicap Chase (4pm), top jockeys in action include Noel Fehily, Harry Skelton, Nico de Boinville, Will Kennedy, Aidan Coleman and Adrian Heskin to name just a few.
Limerick, 1:55pm – A seven-race NH card that features the €25,000 Irish Stallion Frams EBF Mares ‘Chase (4:05pm). Field sizes are 18-16-15-11-7-16 & 7, top jockeys in action include Bryan Cooper, Davy Russell, Denis O’Regan, Danny Mullins, David Mullins, Sean Flanagan, Mark Walsh, Rachael Blackmore and Phillip Enright.
Ripon, 2pm – A seven-race card, with field sizes of 7-10-9-10-11-9 & 8. The feature is the £23,000 Ripon, Yorkshire’s Garden Racecourse Handicap (3:40pm), top jockeys in action include William Buick, Silvestre De Sousa, Paul Hanagan, Joe Fanning, Danny Tudhope, Franny Norton and Andrea Atzeni.
Naas, 2:05pm – A seven-race card including the €47,500 Listed Owenstown Stud Stakes (2:40pm), the €65,000 Listed Coolmore War Command Rochestown Stakes (3:15pm), the €65,000 Listed Coolmore Stud Irish EBF Fillies’ Sprint Stakes (3:45pm) and the €65,000 Group 3 EMS Copiers Lacken Stakes (4:15pm), in which one of last season’s top 2yos, Caravaggio, is set to make his seasonal return
Stratford, 2:10pm – A seven-race card, with field sizes of 7-6-8-10-13-7 & 13. Top jockeys in action include Brian Hughes, Richard Johnson, Gavin Sheehan, Sam Twiston-Davies, Tom Scudamore, Richie McLernon, Sean Bowen, Paddy Brennan, Brendan Powell and Ian Popham.
They also race in India at Bangalore, 10:30am, in France at Auteuil, (12:50pm), where there is the Grade 1 Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris (3:10pm) and the Grade 1 Prix Ferdinand Dufaure (4:35pm) and in Germany at Cologne, 1pm; later in shops it is Maronas, 5:50pm, in the Uruguay and Woodbine, 6pm, in the USA
The Turf TV USA line-up is: Monmouth Park, 5:50pm, Gulfstream, 6:15pm, Belmont Park, 6:30pm, Santa Anita, 9pm and Golden Gate Fields, 9:15pm
The South African meeting is Kenilworth (11:20am)
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GREYHOUNDS
The Sunday line-up is as follows:
11:03am – BELLE VUE
11:11am – HOVE
2:06pm – PERRY BARR
2:12pm – KINSLEY
3:18pm – MULLINGAR
6:04pm – POOLE
6:11pm – CENTRAL PARK
The next meeting live on Sky Sports is the English Greyhound Derby Third Round meeting at Towcester on June 17th
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AUSSIE RULES
Round 9 of the season
Sunday 21 May
Essendon v West Coast Eagles, 4:10am, live on BT Sport 3 – Melbourne v North Melbourne, 4:15am – Fremantle v Carlton, 7:40am, live on BT Sport 3
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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 6:10pm on Sunday to 1:10am on Monday morning – i.e. late Sunday night/early Monday morning
Live games:
Los Angeles Angels @ New York Mets, 6pm, BT Sport 3
Texas Rangers @ Detroit Tigers, 1am, BT Sport ESPN – i.e. late Sun night/early Mon morning
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BASKETBALL
In the NBA:
Eastern Conference Finals – Boston Celtics @ Cleveland Indians, 1:30am, live on BT Sport 1 – i.e. late Sunday night/early Monday morning
Live games:
As above
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BOXING/UFC
Check out this website – http://boxingschedule.boxingsociety.com/
This week’s fights include:
On Saturday May 27, Kell Brook will fight Errol Spence Jnr for the IBF welterweight title, which will take place at Sheffield United’s football ground, Bramall Lane
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CRICKET
Sunday May 21
County Championship Division 1 – four games, all at 11am, day three of four
County Championship Division 2 – three games, all at 11am, day three of four
Tri-Series In Ireland – Ireland v New Zealand, 10:45am, live on eir Sport 1
IPL Final – Mumbai Indians v Rising Pune Supergiant, 2:30pm, live on Sky Sports 4
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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
Giro d’Italia – coverage of stage 15, a 199km journey from Valdengo to Bergamo, midday, Eurosport 1
From the track calendar:
TBC
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DARTS
Next up:
Players Championship 12 (Milton Keynes) – Sun May 21
Dubai Duty Free Darts Masters, May 24-25
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FORMULA ONE
The next race in the 2017 Formula One season is the Monaco Grand Prix, May 25-28
Followed by the Canada Grand Prix, June 9-11
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GAA
Sunday 21 May
Connacht SFC quarter-final
Mayo v Sligo, MacHale Park, 2pm – LIVE ON RTE 2
Leinster SFC first round
Louth v Wicklow, Parnell Park, 3pm
Laois v Longford, O’Moore Park, 3pm
Carlow v Wexford, Netwatch Cullen Park, 3pm
Ulster SFC quarter-final
Donegal v Antrim, Ballybofey, 4pm
Munster SHC quarter-final
Tipperary v Cork, Semple Stadium, 4pm – LIVE ON RTE 2
Nicky Rackard Cup semi-final
Monaghan v Derry, Inniskeen, 1pm
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GOLF
PGA European Tour – It is the final day of the Rocco Forte Open – 10am, Sky Sports 4
USPGA Tour – It is the final day of the AT&T Byron Nelson – 7:30pm, Sky Sports 4
LPGA Tour – It is the final day of the Kingsmill Championship – live on Sky Sports 4 at 11pm
On the Seniors Tour (Champions Tour) – It is the final day of the Regions Tradition
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)
Western Conference Finals
Game 4 – Today’s game is Ottawa Senators @ Pittsburgh Penguins, 8pm, eir Sport 2 –the best-of-seven series was tied 1-1 after Game 2
ICE HOCKEY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
This tournament concludes today – 16 teams, two host cities > Cologne and Paris
Live:
No games listed as live in Ire/UK
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RUGBY LEAGUE:
Super League (Magic Weekend, from St James’s Park, Newcastle) – Catalans Dragons v Huddersfield Giants, 1pm, Sky Sports Mix – Leigh Centurions v Salford Red Devils, 3:15pm, Sky Sports Mix – Castleford Tigers v Leeds Rhinos, 5:30pm, Sky Sports 2
NRL – Newcastle Knights v Penrith Panthers, 5am, eir Sport 2 – Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs v Sydney Roosters, 7am, eir Sport 2 – South Sydney Rabbitohs v Melbourne Storm, 9:30am, eir Sport 2
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RUGBY UNION
Super Rugby – Waratahs v Melbourne Rebels, 7:05am, Sky Sports 2
HSBC Sevens World Series – The London Sevens, 9:20am, 2:30pm and 5:30pm on Sky Sports 5 (it takes place at Twickenham)
****NB The British and Irish Lions Tour to New Zealand begins on Saturday June 3rd
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SNOOKER
TBC
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TENNIS
Upcoming tournaments:
ATP Internazionali BNL d’Italia, Rome, Italy, the final, 1pm, Sky Sports 3
WTA Internazionali BNL d’Italia, Rome, Italy, the final, midday, BT Sport 3
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OTHER SPORT
MotoGP France (all on BT Sport 2) – warm-ups, 7:30am; Moto3, 9:30am; Moto2, 11:15am; MotoGP, 12:45pm – the Grand Prix of France
WRC Rally: Portugal – midday, BT Sport ESPN
IndyCar – day two of qualifying ahead of the legendary Indianapolis 500, live on BT Sport ESPN at 9pm
British Touring Car Championship – 11:15m, ITV4
Motocross World Championship – 4pm, Eurosport 2
Posted: 21st May 2017