Sunday 3 September 2017
SPORTS PREVIEW
Sunday 3 September 2017
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FOOTBALL
Sunday Sep 3
FIFA World Cup European Qualifying – Belarus v Sweden, 5pm – Estonia v Cyprus, 5pm – Faroe Islands v Andorra, 5pm – Netherlands v Bulgaria, 5pm, Sky Sports Football – France v Luxembourg, 7:45pm – Gibraltar v Bosnia and Herzogovina, 7:45pm – Greece v Belgium, 7:45pm, Sky Sports Football – Hungary v Portugal, 7:45pm – Latvia v Switzerland, 7:45pm
League One – Blackburn Rovers v Fleetwood Town, 12:15pm – Portsmouth v Rotherham United, 2:30pm, Sky Sports Football
Scottish Challenge Cup – The New Saints FC v Livingston, 2:45pm
Airtricity League Premier Division – Derry City v Drogheda Utd, 2:30pm
International Match – Canada v Jamaica, midnight
HORSERACING
The Sunday line-up is:
Brighton, 2:00pm – A seven-race card that consists of five handicaps (one of them for apprentice riders) and two 2yo races (one of them carrying the Plus 10 Bonus); field-sizes are 7-6-10-9-5-9 and 5; the feature is the £10,250 British Stallions Studs EBF Fillies’ Handicap at 3:30pm; jockeys in action include Silvestre de Sousa, Tom Marquand, David Probert, Luke Morris, Adam Kirby, Fran Berry, Stevie Donohoe, Pat Dobbs and Shane Kelly
Worcester, 2:15pm – A seven-race card that consists of a handicap chase, a novices’ chase, a bumper (which is staged as race three), three handicap hurdles and a Conditional Jockeys’ Maiden Hurdle; field-sizes of 9-57-9-9-12 and 5; there’s a £10,000 handicap hurdle at 4:!5pm; jockeys in action include Richard Johnson, Jamie Moore, Noel Fehily, Aidan Coleman, Richie McLernon, Brian Hughes, Nick Scholfield, Sean Bowen, Daryl Jacob, Tom O’Brien and Harry Skelton
They also race in Mauritius (9:30am), in India at Pune (10am) and Hyderabad (10:15am), in France at Chantilly (2:40pm), where the key races are a Group 3 race for 2yos (turf, 5f, 3:10pm), in which Charlie Appleby runs Sound And Silence (James Doyle) and Tom Dascombe runs Formidable Kitt (Mickael Barzalona), a Group 3 race for 3yo+ (turf, 7f, 4:25pm), in which Charlie Hills runs last year’s winner of the race, Jallota (Jamie Spencer), a Group 3 race for 2yo colts and geldings (turf, 8f, 5:40pm), in which Charlie Appleby runs Stage Magic (James Doyle) and Robyn Brisland runs Zyzzyva (Mickael Barzalona), a Group 3 race for 2yo fillies (turf, 8f, 6:10pm), in which Charlie Appleby runs Expressiy (Mickael Barzalona) and Wild Illusion (James Doyle) and a Listed race for 3yo fillies (turf, 1m2.5f, 6:40pm), in which Richard Fahey runs Melesina (Tony Piccone)
In Germany at Baden-Baden (first race, 12:30pm and the meeting is on the shop service), there is a Group 3 race for 2yos (turf, 7f, 2:05pm), in which Mark Johnston runs Starlight Mystery (Martin Lane) and the Group 1 Longines Grosser Preis von Baden (3yo+, turf, 1m4f) at 3:20pm, in which Saeed bin Suroor runs Prize Money (Martin Lane) and Best Solution (William Carson)
Later in the shops, it is Philadelphia (5:55pm) in the USA and Monterrico (7:30pm) in Peru
The Turf TV USA line-up is: Saratoga, 5:30pm, Gulfstream, 5:45pm, and Monmouth Park, 5:50pm
The South African meeting is Scottsville (11:05am)
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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
Next live Sky card will be the Betfred Steel City Cup meeting from Sheffield, Tuesday September 5, 7pm, Sky Sports Action
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AMERICAN FOOTBALL
The new NFL season will begin on Thursday September 7th with the reigning Super Bowl champions New England Patriots playing at home to Kansas City Chiefs
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BASEBALL
The 2017 Major League Season continues; it runs to October 1st
There are 15 games taking place today, with start times ranging from 6:10pm on Sunday to 12:30am on Monday – i.e. late Sunday night/early Monday morning
Live:
Cleveland Indians @ Detroit Tigers, 6:10pm, BT Sport 1
St Louis Cardinals @ San Francisco Giants, 9pm, BT Sport 2
Boston Red Sox @ New York Yankees, 12:30am, BT Sport ESPN – i.e. i.e. late Sunday night/early Monday morning
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BASKETBALL
No key games scheduled
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BOXING/UFC
Check out this website – http://boxingschedule.boxingsociety.com/
Amateur World Championships – BBC2, 1pm
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
Sunday September 3
ODI Series 2017 – Sri Lanka v India, 10am
Tour Match 2017 – Leicestershire v West Indies, 11am (day 2 of 4)
CPL T20 Cricket – Barbados Tridents v St Kitts and Nevis Patriots, 10:30pm, BT Sport 1
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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 15, a 129.4km journey from Alcala la Real to Sierra Nevada, 12:45pm, Eurosport 2
Tour of Britain – Stage one, a 188km route from Edinburgh to Kelso, 10:15am, ITV4
From the track calendar:
Elite Pan American Track Cycling Championships – Trinidad and Tobago, Aug 30 to Sept 03
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DARTS
Next up:
ET9 – Dutch Dart Masters – Sept 01-03, Maastricht, Netherlands
Unibet Champions League of Darts, Sept 16-17
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FORMULA ONE
Italian Grand Prix at Monza, September 1-3
Live action:
Race action 1pm eir Sport 1 and Sky Sports Main Event
The next F1 Grand Prix will be the Singapore Grand Prix, Marina Bay, Sept 15-17
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GAA
Upcoming fixtures, as per www.hoganstand.com
Sunday 3 September
All-Ireland SHC final
Galway v Waterford, Croke Park, 3.30pm – RTE2 and Sky Sports Main Event AND Sky Sports Arena HD
All-Ireland MHC final
Cork v Galway, Croke Park, 1.15pm – TG4
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GOLF
PGA Tour – Dell Technologies Championship, TPC Boston, Norton, MA, Fri Sept 01 to Mon Sept 04 – day 3 of 4 – live on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports The Open at 6pm
European Tour – D&D REAL Czech Masters, Albatross Golf Resort, Prague, Czech Rep, Coverage of day four: 12pm on Sky Sports The Open
LPGA Tour – Cambia Portland Classic Presented By JTBC, Portland, OR, Aug 31 to Sept 03 – day 4 of 4
On the (Seniors Tour) – Travis Perkins Masters, Woburn GC, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom, England, Fri Sept 01 to Sun Sept 03 – day 3 of 3
On the (Champions Tour), Shaw Charity Classic, Canyon Meadows G&CC, Calgary, AB, Canada, Fri Sept 01 to Sun Sept 03 – day 3 of 3
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ICE HOCKEY
The new NHL season begins on Wednesday, October 4
Champions Hockey League – Cardiff Devils v HC Davos, 6pm eir Sport 2
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RUGBY LEAGUE:
Sunday 3 September
Super League Qualifiers – Featherstone Rovers v Hull KR, 3pm – Halifax RLFC v Catalans Dragons, 3pm – Leigh Centurions v Widnes Vikings, 3pm
Championship Shield – four games, all at 3pm
Kingstone Press League 1 – three games, all at 3pm
NRL – Newcastle v Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, 5am, eir Sport 2 – St George-Illawarra Dragons v Canterbury Bulldogs, 7am, eir Sport 2 – Wests Tigers v New Zealand Warriors, 9:30am
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RUGBY UNION
Sunday 3 September
Mitre 10 Cup – Waikato v Tasman, 3:35am – North Harbour v Auckland, 5:35am
Aviva Premiership – Leicester Tigers v Bath, 3pm, BT Sport 1
Top 14 – Clermont Auvergne v Toulon, 3:50pm
The Championship – Rotherham Titans v Nottingham, 2pm – Bristol v Hartpury College, 3pm, Sky Sports Action
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SNOOKER
The Six Red World Championship in Thailand runs from Sept 4-9
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TENNIS
The latest Grand Slam tournament, the US Open, runs from Monday August 28 to Sunday September 10
Live coverage of day seven:
Eurosport 1 – 3:30pm, 6pm, 9pm, midnight and 2am – i.e. Saturday night/early Sunday morning
Eurosport 2 – 6pm
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OTHER SPORT
Quad Series Netball – New Zealand v Australia, 5am, Sky Sports Mix and Sky Sports Arena HD
Formula 2 Championship – Italian Grand Prix, 9:10am eir Sport 1
Nascar – Bojangles Southern 500, 10:30pm eir Sport 2
Champions Hockey League – Cardiff Devils v HC Davos, 6pm, eir Sport 2
Porsche Supercup – The Italian Grand Prix, 10:30am, Eurosport 2
Euroformula Open Championship – midday, BT Sport 2
International GT Open Championship – 1pm, Eurosport 2
Formula V8 3.5 – 3:30pm, BT Sport 2
College Football – West Virginia Mountaineers @ Virginia Tech Hokies, 12:30am, BT Sport 2 – i.e. late Sunday night/early Monday morning
Canadian Football League – Winnipeg Blue Bombers @ Saskatchewan Roughriders, 9pm, BT Sport ESPN
FIA World Endurance Champs – 6:30pm, BT Sport 3
Verizon IndyCar World Series – 6pm, BT Sport ESPN
Posted: 2nd September 2017