Sunday 27 August 2017
SPORTS PREVIEW
Sunday 27 August 2017
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NUMBERS – 2 Daily Millions draws per day
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FOOTBALL
Sunday Aug 27
Premier League – Chelsea v Everton, 1:30pm – West Brom v Stoke City, 1:30pm, Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Premier League ROI – Liverpool v Arsenal, 4pm, Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Premier League ROI – Tottenham Hotspur v Burnley, 4pm
Scottish Premiership – Dundee v Hibernian, 12:30pm, Sky Sports Football – Ross County v Rangers, 3pm, BT Sport 1
FAI Cup (Last 16) – All at 2pm, Bangor Celtic v Longford Town –Bluebell Utd v Cabinteely –Cork City v Athlone Town –Drogheda Utd v Cobh Wanderers –Limerick v Finn Harps –Shelbourne v Shamrock Rovers – St Patricks Ath v Galway Utd
Ligue 1 – Guingamp v Strasbourg, 2pm –Angers v Lille, 4pm, eir Sport 1 and BT Sport ESPN – Monaco v Marseille, 8pm, BT Sport 2
La Liga – Eibar v Athletic Bilbao, 5:15pm, Sky Sports Football –Espanyol v Leganes, 5:15pm, Sky Sports Red Button –Getafe v Sevilla, 7:15pm, Sky Sports Football – Real Madrid v Valencia, 9:15pm, Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Football
Serie A – seven games, Torino v Sassuolo, 5pm, BT Sport 3, and then six games at 7:45pm, including Napoli v Atalanta, eir Sport 1 and BT Sport 3, and AC Milan v Cagliari, 7:45pm, BT Sport 1
Bundesliga – RB Leipzig v SC Freiburg, 2:30pm – Hannover 96 v Schalke, 5pm, BT Sport 1
Dutch Eredivisie – Feyenoord v Willem ll, 11:30am, Sky Sports Red Button –VVV-Venlo v Ajax, 1:30pm, Sky Sports Red Button –Groningen v FC Utrecht, 3:45pm – PSV Eindhoven v Roda JC Kerk, 3:45pm, Sky Sports Mix
Portuguese Primeira Liga – Boavista v Desportivo Aves, 4pm –Sporting Lisbon v Estoril, 6pm – Braga v FC Porto, 8:15pm
Belgian Jupiler League – Club Brugge v Standard Liege, 1:30pm, eir Sport 2 –AA Gent v Anderlecht, 5pm – KV Oostende v Antwerp, 7pm, eir Sport 2
MLS – Montreal Impact v Toronto FC, 9:30pm, Sky Sports Mix, and LA Galaxy v San Jose Earthquakes, TBA, but early on Sun morning, and Seattle Sounders v Portland Timbers, 2:30am, Sky Sports Football – i.e. late Sun night/early Mon morning
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HORSERACING
The Sunday line-up is :
The Curragh , 1:30pm – An eight-race card that includes the Group 3 Flames of Tara Irish EBF Stakesrun over 1m for the 2yo fillies (2pm), theGroup 3 Snow Fairy Fillies Stakes for 3yo+ (3:45pm), the Group 3 Round Tower Stakes for the 2yo fillies and colts run over 6f (2:35pm) and the €100,000 Tote Irish Cambridgeshire (4:20pm)
Beverley , 1:55pm – An eight-race flat card, which includes a £10,000 Class 3 Nursery over 5f (3:05pm). The card begins with a Class 5 Claiming Stakes over 7f and end with a Class 6 Handicap over 1m 2f. Jockeys on the card include Paul Mulrennan, Paul Hanagan, Graham Lee, Franny Norton, Tom Eaves, Daniel Tudhope, Dougie Costello and Graham Lee
Goodwood , 2:10pm – A seven-race flat card, including the Group 3 Weatherbys Racing Bank Supreme Stakes run over 7f (4:30pm) – Jim Crowley will be on Dutch Connection for Charlie Hills in the feature and the horse may find this easier after some very tough assignments recently. There is also a Class 2 Handicap for the 3 year olds over 1m 2f (3:20pm). Jockeys on the card include Jim Crowley, Silvestre de Sousa, Pat Dobbs, Oisin Murphy, Fran Berry and Josephine Gordon. The 3:55pm race is an amateur riders contest
Yarmouth , 2:20pm – A seven-race card that consists of six handicaps (the opening race being a handicap for apprentice riders) and a 2yo Plus10 Bonus race. The feature is a £23,000 1m2f23y handicap (4:05pm) and there are£15,000 handicaps at 4:40pm and 5:15pm. Jockeys riding on the card include Pat Cosgrave, Stevie Donohoe, Luke Morris, David Probert, Dane O’Neill, Richard Kingscote, Martin Harley, Liam Keniry, Robert Winston, Jamie Spencer, Ted Durcan and John Egan
They also race in India at Hyderabad (10:15am) and Pune (10:30am), in Germany at Baden-Baden (12:30pm – see below) and inDeauville (1:05pm) in France, where the features are the Group 3 Prix de Meautry Barriere (2:45pm, 3yo+, 6f), in which Roger Varian runs Lahore (Olivier Peslier), the Group 3 Prix Quincey Barriere (3:25pm, 3yo+, one mile) and the Group 2 Lucien Barriere Grand Prix de Deauville (4:05pm, 3yo+, 1m4f110y), in which Charlie Appleby runs Frontiersman (James Doyle)
Later in the shops it is Woodbine (6pm) in Canada and Maronas (7:05pm) in Uruguay
At Baden-Baden in Germany, there is the 147th Group 2 Sport-Welt Goldene Peitsche (3yo+, 6f) at 2:55pm
The Turf TV USA line-up is: Monmouth Park, 5:50pm, Saratoga, 6pm, and Gulfstream, 6:15pm
The South African meeting is Scottsville (11:30am)
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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
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AUSSIE RULES
Round 23 of the season ct’d
Sunday 27 August
Essendon v Fremantle , 4:10am – West Coast Eagles v Adelaide Crows, 5:40am, BT Sport ESPN – Richmond v St Kilda, 6:20am, BT Sport 2
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BASEBALL
The 2017 Major League Season continues; it runs to October 1st
There are 16 games taking place today, with start times ranging from 6:05pm on Sunday to 1:08am on Monday – i.e. late Sunday evening/early Monday morning
Live :
New York Mets @ Washington Nationals , 1am, BT Sport ESPN – i.e. late Sun night/early Mon morning
Little League World Series – 8pm, BT Sport ESPN
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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 fight coming up:
Saturday September 9, 2017 – Gennady Golovkin vs Canelo Alvarez, much anticipated Middleweight title fight from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas – Kazakhstan’s Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs) will defend his middleweight titles against Alvarez, the biggest boxing star in Mexico. Alvarez, whose only loss was at the hands of Floyd Mayweather Jr, is coming off a lopsided win over Julio Cesar Chavez Jr last month in Las Vegas.
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CRICKET
Saturday August 26
TEST Series 2017 – England v West Indies, 11am, day three of five, live on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Cricket from 10am
TEST Series 2017 – Bangladesh v Australia, 5am, day one of five
One Day International Series 2017 – Sri Lanka v India, 10am
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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 nine, a 174km route from Orihuela to Cumbre del Sol, 2pm, Eurosport 1
Tour de l’Avenir , Stage nine (the final stage of what is called the Under-23s Tour de France), 107.4km from Bourg-St-Maurice to Albiez-Montrond, 11:15am, Eurosport 1
Baltic Chain Tour , Aug 23-27
National Road Championships – Brazil , Aug 24-27
Commonwealth Cycling Classic (Virginia) , Aug 24-27
From the track calendar:
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; the final day, 10am, eir Sport 1
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
Live action:
The big race is live on Channel 4 at 12:35pm, Sky Sports Mix at 12:30pm, and eir Sport 1 at 12:55pm, with the race being due off at 1pm
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 – RTE2 and Sky Sports Arena HD
All-Ireland MFC semi-final
Dublin v Derry , Croke Park, 2pm – live on TG4
All-Ireland U17FC final
Tyrone v Roscommon , Croke Park, 12noon, live on TG4
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GOLF
PGA Tour – The Northern Trust, Glen Oaks Club, Old Westbury, NY, Thurs Aug 24 to Sun Aug 27 – Coverage of the final day is live from 7pm on Sky Sports Main Event and 5pm, Sky Sports The Open
European Tour – Made In Denmark, Himmerland Golf & Spa Resort, Farsa, Denmark, Thurs Aug 24 to Sun Aug 27 – Coverage of the final day is live on Sky Sports The Open, 11:30am
LPGA Tour – Canadian Pacific Women’s Open, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Thursday Aug 24 to Sunday August 27; the final day
On the (Seniors Tour), The Willow Senior Golf Classic, Hanbury Manor Marriott Hotel & CC, Ware, Hertfordshire, England, August 25-27; final day
On the (Champions Tour), Boeing Classic, The Club at Snoqualmie Ridge, Snoqualmie, Washington; final day
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HOCKEY
Men’s EuroHockey matches, including the final, are scheduled for today:
Classification 5-8 – Spain v Poland, 8am, and Ireland v Austria, 10am, both on BT Sport 3
Bronze final – TBC v TBC, 12:30pm, BT Sport 3
Final – – TBC v TBC, 3pm, BT Sport 3
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ICE HOCKEY
The new NHL season begins on Wednesday, October 4
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RUGBY LEAGUE :
Sunday 27 August
NRL – New Zealand Warriors v Manly Sea Eagles, 5am, eir Sport 2 – Penrith Panthers v St George-Illawarra Dragons, 7am, eir Sport 2
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RUGBY UNION
Sunday 27 August
Mitre 10 Cup – Manawatu v Tasman, 3:35am – Canterbury v Otago, 5:35am
Top 14 – Toulon v Pau, 4pm, Sky Sports Action
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SNOOKER
Next:
The Paul Hunter Classic concludes today). The tournament is named in honour and memory of the late Paul Hunter, a huge talent in the snooker world whose life was tragically cut short by cancer. It takes place in Fürth in Germany
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TENNIS
Next up – The US Open, Aug 20 to Sept 10
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OTHER SPORT
Universiade in Taiwan – diving, 8am, Eurosport 1
Porsche Supercup – Belgian Grand Prix, 10:15am, Eurosport 2
Formula Renault Eurocup – round 8, from France, 9:15am, BT Sport 1
MotoGP, Silverstone – (all on BT Sport 2): Warm-ups, 9:45am – Moto3, 11:30am – Moto2, 1:30pm – MotoGP, 3:15pm
Blancpain GT Sprint Series – 12:45pm, BT Sport ESPN
Triathlon World Series – 1:45pm, BBC2
British Touring Cars – 10:45am, ITV4
Heisman Trophy Preview Show – 6pm, BT Sport ESPN – a programme discussing the frontrunners to be awarded the accolade of the most outstanding player in college football
Posted: 27th August 2017