Tuesday 01st August 2017
SPORTS PREVIEW
Tuesday 01st August 2017
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FOOTBALL
Tuesday Aug 01
Champions League Qualifier (2nd leg, Agg, 0 v 0) – Sheriff Tiraspol v Qarabag FK, 6pm
Friendly Matches – Borussia Dortmund v Atalanta, 6:30pm – Burton Albion v Leicester City, 7:45pm – Altona ’93 v West Ham, 5:30pm, eir Sport 2
Audi Cup – Atletico Madrid v Napoli, 4:45pm, ITV4 – Bayern Munich v Liverpool, 7:30pm, ITV4
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HORSERACING
The Tuesday line-up is:
Great Yarmouth, 1:40pm – An eight-race card, with field-sizes of 11-8-9-8-11-10-10 & 6. Top jockeys in action include Silvestre De Sousa, Dougie Costello, Martin Dwyer, John Egan, Simon Pearce, Kieren Shoemark and Richard Kingscote, the card includes a £11,500 6f Handicap (5pm)
Goodwood, 1:50pm – the card includes the £200,000 Group 2 Qatar Vintage Stakes (2:25pm, for 2yos; Aidan O’Brien runs Seahenge), the £300,000 Qatar Lennox Stakes (3pm, 3yo+, 7f; Aidan O’Brien runs Spirit Of Valor and Cougar Mountain), and the £523,000 Group 1 Qatar Goodwood Cup Stakes (3:35pm, Ascot Gold Cup winner Big Orange heads the betting; Aidan O’Brien runs US Army Ranger – in a first-time hood – and Willie Mullins runs Wicklow Brave)
Beverley, 2:00pm – eight races, with field-sizes of 9-9-9-9-7-14-9 and 9; the final race is for lady amateur riders; top jockeys in action on the card include Paul Hanagan, Paul Mulrennan, Ben Curtis, Shane Gray, Phillip Makin, Tony Hamilton, James Sullivan, Rachel Richardson and Jane Elliott; the most-valuable race is the £10,000 Wilford Watts Memorial Handicap (4:20pm)
Galway (5:20pm) – A seven-race mixed-card on day two of the fabulous seven-day Galway Festival, with the feature race being the €120,000 COLM QUINN BMW Mile Handicap (7:40pm); the card consists of a novice hurdle, a beginners’ chase, a fillies’ maiden (7f), a maiden for 3yo+, and three flat handicaps; €227,000 in prize-money is up for grabs on today’s card; there are three UK runners in the feature race: Stuart Williams’ Examiner, James Givens’ Sands Chorus and Brian Ellison’s Dream Walker (who won and finished third at last year’s festival here); other UK runners are David Evans’ Essenaitch (8:10pm) and Athassel (8:40pm); Conquest, a full-sister to the brilliant Minding, runs in the fillies’ maiden (6:25pm) for Aidan O’Brien
Worcester, 5:05pm – A seven-race card, with field-sizes of 5-7-12-12-10-6 & 11. World Hurdle (2015) winner at the Cheltenham Festival, Cole Harden, runs in the opening Beginners’ Chase. Top jockeys in action include Richard Johnson, Sam Twiston-Davies, Tom Scudamore, Harry Skelton, Wayne Hutchinson, David Noonan and Sean Bowen; there’s an £11,000 handicap chase at 5:40pm
Perth, 5:50pm – A seven-race card; plenty of Irish challengers (11 in total) make the journey over, with runners from the Co. Dublin yard of Patrick Griffin, the Co. Meath yard of Gordon Elliott, the Co. Antrim yard of Stuart Crawford, the Co. Kildare yard of Madeleine Tylicki and the Co. Meath yard of Gavin Cromwell. Top jockeys in action include Brian Hughes, Will Kennedy, Jamie Codd, Henry Brooke, David Bass and Conor O’Farrell; there’s a £14,000 feature – the Perth Audi Handicap Chase (7:30pm)
They also race in India at Mysore, (10:40am); later in shops it is Philadelphia Park, 5:55pm, in the USA
At Deauville in France, where the August Festival continues, the feature race is the Listed Prix de Tourgeville (1:50pm, 3yo colts and geldings, one mile, turf)
The Turf TV USA line-up is: Finger Lakes, 6:10pm, Fairmount Park, 7pm, Louisiana Downs, 9:15pm, Fort Erie, 9:20pm and Presque Isle Downs, 10:25pm
The South African meeting is Kenilworth (12:15am)
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GREYHOUNDS
The Tuesday line-up is as follows:
11:03am – NOTTINGHAM
11:11am – PERRY BARR
2:08pm – CRAYFORD
2:18pm – SUNDERLAND
6:28pm – NEWCASTLE
6:38pm – SHEFFIELD
6:58pm – TRALEE
The next live meeting on Sky Sports is the Coral Sussex Cup meeting at Hove on August 3
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AUSSIE RULES
Round 20 of the season
Friday 04 August
Geelong Cats v Sydney Swans, 10:50am
Saturday 05 August
GWS Giants v Melbourne, 4:45am – Essendon v Carlton, 5:10am – Brisbane Lions v Western Bulldogs, 7:35am – Fremantle v Gold Coast Suns, 8:40am – North Melbourne v Collingwood, 10:25am
Sunday 06 August
St Kilda v West Coast Eagles, 4:10am – Richmond v Hawthorn, 5:20am – Adelaide Crows v Port Adelaide, 7:10am
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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 12:05am on Wednesday to 3:10am on Wednesday, i.e. – all early Wednesday morning
Live:
Cleveland Indians @ Boston Red Sox, 12:10am, BT Sport ESPN – i.e. late Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning
Tampa Bay Rays @ Houston Astros, 1am, BT Sport 3 – i.e. late Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning
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BASKETBALL
No key games scheduled
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BOXING/UFC
Check out this website – http://boxingschedule.boxingsociety.com/
Big fights coming up:
Sunday August 20, 2017 – Terence Crawford v Julius Indongo, WBC, WBA, WBO, IBF Super-Lightweight, from Pinnacle Bank Arena, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2am, Sky Sports Arena, i.e. late Sat night/early Sun morning
Saturday August 26, 2017 – Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor, billed as “The Money Fight” is an upcoming professional boxing super-fight between undefeated eleven-time five-division professional boxing world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. and the current UFC Lightweight Champion Conor McGregor. It will take place at the T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada
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CRICKET
Tuesday August 01
Tour Match 2017 – Essex v West Indies, 11am
Under 19 Youth TEST Series 2017 – England U-19 v India U-19, 11am
NATWEST T20 Blast 2017 – Northamptonshire Steelbacks v Birmingham Bears, 6:30pm, Sky Sports Cricket (ch404)/Sky Sports Main Event and Hampshire v Kent Spitfires, 7pm
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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 of Poland – Stage four of the UCI event featuring a 238km route starting in Zawiercie finishing in Zabrze, 5:00pm, Eurosport 2
Tour of Utah – Stage two features a 152km journey from Brigham City to Snowbasin Resort, 7pm, Eurosport 2
Tour Cycliste International de la Guadeloupe – July 28 to Aug 06
From the track calendar:
British Cycling National Junior Track Championships, Newport, Wales, July 31 to Aug 04
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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
The next F1 race is the Belgium Grand Prix, Spa-Francorchamps, Aug 25-27
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
Saturday 5 August
All-Ireland SFC quarter-finals
Tyrone v Armagh, 4pm, Croke Park – Sky
Dublin v Monaghan, 6pm, Croke Park – Sky
All-Ireland JFC final
Kerry v Meath, Portlaoise, 3pm
Sunday 6 August
All-Ireland SHC semi-final
Galway v Tipperary, Croke Park, 4pm – RTE/Sky
Monday August 07
All-Ireland SFC quarter-final replay
Mayo v Roscommon, 2pm, Croke Park – RTE2
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GOLF
PGA European Tour – The WGC–Bridgestone Invitational, Firestone CC, Akron, Ohio, USA, Aug 03-06
USPGA Tour – as above
LPGA Tour – the Ricoh Women’s British Open, Fife, Scotland, Aug 03-06
On the (Seniors Tour), the Scottish Senior Open, The Reanaissance Club, North Berwick, Scotland, Aug 04-06
On the (Champions Tour), the 3M Championship, TPC Twin Cities, Blaine, MN, Aug 04-06
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ICE HOCKEY
No keys games scheduled; the new NHL season begins on Wednesday, October 4
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RUGBY LEAGUE:
Thursday 03 August
NRL – Penrith Panthers v Canterbury Bulldogs, 10:50am
Friday 04 August
NRL – New Zealand Warriors v Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, 9am – Parramatta Eels v Brisbane Broncos, 10:50am
RUGBY UNION
Friday 04 August
Currie Cup – Sharks v Griquas, 6pm
Saturday 05 August
Currie Cup – Western Province v Pumas, 2pm – Blue Bulls v Golden Lions, 4:15pm
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SNOOKER
Next:
Indian Open Qualifiers – Preston, August 01-02
European Masters Qualifiers – Preston, August 03-04
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TENNIS
Upcoming tournaments:
ATP Generali Open, Kitzbuhel, Austria, Mon July 31 – Sun Aug 06 – Day Three
ATP Abierto Mexicano 250 Los Cabo, Los Cobos, Mexico, Mon July 31 – Sun Aug 06 – Day two
WTA Tour Bank Of The West Classic, Stanford, Connecticut, USA, Mon July 31 – Sun Aug 06, Day two of the ladies only event from 6pm, BT Sport 1
Citi Open, Washington, DC, USA, Mon July 31 – Sun Aug 06, Day two 6:45pm, BT Sport 2, and 9pm Sky Sports Action
Posted: 31st July 2017