SUNDAY 2nd JULY 2017
SPORTS PREVIEW
SUNDAY 2nd JULY 2017
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NUMBERS – 2 Daily Millions draws per day –
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FOOTBALL
Sunday July 2
Confederations Cup Third Place play-off – Portugal v Mexico, 1pm
Confederations Cup final – Germany v Chile, 7pm, RTE2/ITV4/UTV
Airtricity League Premier Division – Sligo v Shamrock Rovers, Sun, 6pm
Chinese Super League – two games: one at 8:30am and one at 12:35pm –Tianjin Quanjian v Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao FC – whicjh is live on Sky Sports 5
MLS – Philadelphia Union v New England Revolution, 10pm, Sky Sports 1
Brazilian Serie A – seven games: one at 3pm, four at 8pm, two at 11pm; a live game is Flamengo v Sao Paulo, 8pm, BT Sport 1
Norwegian Eliteserien – six games: five at 5pm, one at 7pm
UEFA Euro Under-19s Championship – Georgia v Portugal, 4:45pm, Eurosport 1, Group A
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HORSERACING
The Sunday line-up is :
Curragh , 1:45pm – day three of three at the track on Irish Derby weekend; today’s card features the €225,000 Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes run over 1m2f for fillies (3yo+, 4:20pm). Other races on the card include the €120,000 Group 2 Comer Group International Curragh Cup (Group 2, 1m6f, 3yo+, 4:50pm), the €65,000 Group 3 Grangecon Stud Stakes (6f, 2yo fillies, 3:45pm), the €65,000 Finlay Volvo International Stakes (Group 3, 3yo+, 1m2f, 3:15pm), and the €100,000 Tote Rockingham Handicap (5f, 3yo+, 2:45pm)
Uttoxeter , 2pm – with the feature being the £75,000 Marston’s Pedigree Summer Cup (Listed Chase) at 3:30pm; there is also a £20,000 handicap chase at 4:35pm; field-sizes on the card are 12-13-9-20-6-9 and 11; jockeys in action include Richard Johnson, Paddy Brennan, Aidan Coleman, Harry Skelton, Tom O’Brien, Noel Fehily, Nico de Boinville and Sam Twiston-Davies
Windsor , 2:10pm – featuring a £20,000 handicap at 3:40pm and a £19,000 handicap at 4:15pm; field-sizes on the card are 5-6-12-10-14-5 and 10; jockeys in action include James Doyle, Silvestre de Sousa, Fran Berry, Stevie Donohoe, Luke Morris, Sean Levey, Martin Dwyer, Josephine Gordon, Graham Lee and Pat Cosgrave
Cartmel , 2:20pm – with a £20,000 feature at 4:25pm; the card closes with an amateur riders’ handicap hurdle (5:35pm); runners from Ireland on the card are Aaron Stronge’s Sinor (2:20pm, Noel McParlan), Stuart Crawford’s Don Franco (3:20pm, Andrew Lynch), and Noel Kelly’s Mighty Whitey (in first-time headgear, 5:35pm, Noel McParlan); field-sizes are 13-4-9-6-6-10 and 11; other jockeys in action include Brian Hughes, Henry Brooke, Tom Scudamore, Will Kennedy and Adrian Heskin
They also race in India at Bangalore (10:30am), in Germany at Hamburg (11am) and in France atSaint-Cloud (1:05pm); later in shops it is Woodbine, 5pm, in Canada and Maronas, 6:30pm, in Uruguay
The Turf TV USA/Canada line-up is: Woodbine, 5pm, Gulfstream, 6:15pm, Belmont Park, 6:30pm, and Santa Anita, 9pm
The South African meeting is Turffontein (11:55am)
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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 theWilliam Hill UK Festival on July 19 at Sunderland
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AUSSIE RULES
Round 15 of the season, next games:
Sunday 2 July
Essendon v Brisbane Lions ,4:10am – Hawthorn v Collingwood,6:20am– Fremantle v St Kildea, 5:40am, BT Sport ESPN
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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 6:07pm on Sunday to 1:08am on Monday morning – i.e. late Sun night/early Mon morning
Live games:
There is a game scheduled to be live at 7pm on BT Sport ESPN
Washington Nationals @ St Louis Cardinals , 1am, BT Sport ESPN – i.e. late Sun night/early Sun morning
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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 fights coming up
Manny Pacquaio v Jeff Horn “Battle of Brisbane” for the WBO Welterweight Championship scheduled for early Sunday morning 2nd July
On the undercard Irishman Michael Conlan has his third pro fight (World Championship gold and Olympic bronze medallist as amateur) in the Super Bantamweight division. He will face Australian Jarret Owen
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CRICKET
ICC Women’s World Cup – Australia v New Zealand, 10:30am – England v Sri Lanka, 10:30am, Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports Mix – India v Pakistan, 10:30am, Sky Sports 2 – South Africa v West Indies, 10:30am
One-Day International Series – West Indies v India, 2:00pm, Sky Sports 3
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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
The blue riband event of cycling, the Tour de France, runs from July 1st to July 23rd; stage two, a flat 203.5km journey from Dusseldorf, Germany, to Liege, Belgium
Live coverage:
10:55am, TG4 – 11am, ITV4 – 11am, Eurosport 1
From the track calendar:
TBC
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DARTS
Next up:
European Darts Open – Leverkusen, Germany, June 30 to July 2; reigning champion: Michael van Gerwen
Then the Shanghai Darts Masters, Pullman Hotel, Shanghai, July 6-7; reigning champion: Michael van Gerwen
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FORMULA ONE
The next F1 race is the Austria Grand Prix, July 07-09
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GAA
Upcoming fixtures, as per www.hoganstand.com
Sunday 2 July
Munster SFC final
Kerry v Cork , Killarney, 2pm – RTE2
Leinster SHC final
Wexford v Galway , Croke Park, 4pm – RTE2
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GOLF
European Tour – The Open de France, final day from Le Golf National, France, 12:30pm Sky Sports 4
USPGA Tour – The Quicken Loans National, TPC Potomac, Maryland, USA, final three, 6pm, Sky Sports 4
LPGA Tour – The KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, final daye of the major from Olympia Fields CC, Illinois, USA, 8pm Sky Sports Mix
US Senior Open Championship , from the Salem Country Club, final day, (11:30pm, Sky Sports 4, though not listed as live)
On the European Seniors Tour, the next tournament is Swiss Seniors Open, July 7-9, Golf Club Bad Ragaz, Bad Ragaz, Switzerland
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HOCKEY
The Women’s World Hockey League semi-finals take place from June 21 to July 2 and are taking place in Brussels, Belgium
Today:
Seventh-place play-off, 10:15am, BT Sport 3
Fifth-place play-off, 12:30pm, BT Sport 3
Third-place play-off, 2:45pm, BT Sport 3
The final, 5pm, BT Sport 3
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ICE HOCKEY
No key games scheduled today
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RUGBY LEAGUE :
Next up:
Super League – Salford Red Devils v Huddersfield Giants, 3pm, and Widnes Vikings v Wigan Warriors, 3pm
NRL – Newcastle Knights v Wests Tigers, 5am, and eir Sport 2, and South Sydney Rabbitohs v Penrith Panthers, 7am, eir Sport 2
Championship – six games, all at 3pm
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RUGBY UNION
Rugby European Sevens – from Clermont-Ferrand in France (knock-out rounds), eir Sport 1 at 8:55am and 12:15pm, with the final at 3:05pm on the same channel
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SNOOKER
Next:
The World Cup, which is taking place in China – July 3-9
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TENNIS
Upcoming tournaments:
The WTA Antalya Cup, Antalya, Turkey – final day
Then it is:
Wimbledon – July 3 to July 16 – the latest Grand Slam event and the only one played on grass
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OTHER SPORT
Athletics – World Championship Team Trials, BBC2, 1pm
Goodwood Festival of Speed – 3pm, Sky Sports 5
Netball Super Club – an international event, 4am, Sky Sports Mix, and then at 4am early on Sunday morning on the same channel
MCE Superbikes – 12:30pm, Eurosport 2
WRC – Rally Poland – 6am and 8am, BT Sport 1 and 11am, BT Sport ESPN
Rowing – Henley Royal Regatta, 11am, BT Sport 1
MotoGP of Germany – all on BT Sport 2 – warm-ups, 7:30am – Moto3, 9:30am – Moto2, 11:15am – MotoGP, 12:45pm
Euroformula Championship – 12:30pm, BT Sport ESPN
International GT Open Championship – 1pm, BT Sport ESPN
Posted: 2nd July 2017