Tuesday 22 August 2017
SPORTS PREVIEW
Tuesday 22 August 2017;
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FOOTBALL
Tuesday Aug 22
Carabao Cup – There are 20 games taking place, all at 7:45pm, except for Crystal Palace v Ipswich Town, 7:30pm, Bolton v Sheffield Weds, 8pm, and Reading v Millwall, 8pm – live game: Sheffield United v Leicester, 7:45pm, Sky Sports Football and Sky Sports Main Event
Champions League Play-Offs (2nd Legs) – Astana v Celtic, 4:30pm eir Sport 2/BT Sport 2 (Agg, 0 v 5) – Maribor v Hapoel Beer-Sheva, 7:45pm (Agg, 1 v 2) – Nice v Napoli, 7:45pm TV3/BT Sport 2(Agg, 0 v 2) – Rijeka v Olympiakos, 7:45pm (Agg, 1 v 2) – Sevilla v Istanbul Buyuksehir, 7:45pm BT Sport 3 (Agg, 2 v 1)
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HORSERACING
The Tuesday line-up is:
Brighton, 2:00pm – A seven-race flat card with field sizes of 5-5-7-8-5-10-7. The card begins with a 5f Class 5 Handicap and ends with a 1m Class 6 Handicap for apprentice jockeys. Jockeys riding on the card include Hector Crouch, Fergus Sweeney, Hollie Doyle, Joe Fanning, Liam Keniry, Pat Dobbs, Pat Cosgrave, Callum Shepherd and Charlie Bishop
Kempton, 2:15pm – A seven-race flat card on the Polytrack with field sizes of 12-6-12-14-11-5-11. The feature race is a £12,000 Class 3 Handicap over 7f (4:15pm). In this race three-year-old Sir Titan, for Marcus Tregoning, has won two of his three races this year and Harry Dunlop runs Finelcity who won his last three races last year – two of them over course and distance. The horse is three from four at the course and will be having his first run for 307 days. Jockeys riding on the card include Luke Morris, David Probert, Adam Kirby, Franny Norton, Richard Kingscote, John Egan, Jim Crowley, Dougie Costello, Andrew Mullen, Fran Berry, Andrea Atzeni, Martin Harley, Sean Levey, Tom Marquand, Kieran Shoemark and Franny Norton
Yarmouth, 4:40pm – A seven-race flat card which begins with a Class 5 Fillies’ Novice Stakes over 1m and ends with a Class 6 Handicap over 5f. Jockeys riding on the card include Silvestre de Sousa, Ryan Moore (one ride), James Doyle, Ted Durcan, Martin Lane, Robert Winston, Connor Beasley, Josephine Gordon, Martin Harley, Tom Queally and Stevie Donohoe. Ryan Moore’s ride is the Hugo Palmer newcomer, Momentarily, in the opening race (4:40pm). The filly holds group 1 entries and market confidence would be interesting.
Sligo, 5:20pm – A seven-race National Hunt card (six hurdle race and a bumper) which begins with a 2m Mares Maiden Hurdle and ends with a 2m 2f flat race. The feature on the card is the €15,000 3m Irish Stallion Farms EBF Handicap Hurdle (7:50pm), in which Enda Bolger’s Market’s Field is looking to follow up his from course-and-distance success last time. Jockeys riding on the card include Ruby Walsh, Andrew Lynch, Sean Flanagan, JJ Slevin, Davy Russell, Paul Townend, David Mullins, Johnny Burke and Paddy Kennedy
Newton Abbot, 5:30pm – A six-race National Hunt card with field sizes of 6-10-8-7-9-11. The feature is a Class 3 Handicap Hurdle over 2m (6.30pm, £10,000); the card consists of three hurdle races and three chases; the second race is a handicap chase for conditional jockeys; jockeys riding on the card include Richard Johnson, Sam Twiston-Davies, Tom O’Brien, Paddy Brennan, Harry Skelton, Nico de Boinville, Aidan Coleman, Tom Scudamore and Noel Fehily
They also race and in Germany at Hoppegarten, (3:30pm)
They also race in France at Deauville (11:40pm) as the August Festival continues, although the meeting is not on the shop service
The Turf TV USA line-up is: Finger Lakes, 6:10pm, Fairmount Park, 7pm, Louisiana Downs, 9:15pm, and Fort Erie, 9:20pm
The South African meeting is Vaal (11:55am)
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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 is the William Hill Peterborough Derby meeting from Peterborough on Weds August 23
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AUSSIE RULES
Round 23 of the season
Friday 25 August
Hawthorn v Western Bulldogs, 10:50am
Saturday 26 August
Collingwood v Melbourne, 4:45am – Brisbane Lions v North Melbourne, 5:10am – Sydney Swans v Carlton, 7:35am – Port Adelaide v Gold Coast Suns, 10:10am – Geelong Cats v GWS Giants, 10:25am
Sunday 27 August
Essendon v Fremantle, 4:10am – West Coast Eagles v Adelaide Crows, 5:40am – Richmond v St Kilda, 6:20am
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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 9:05pm on Tuesday to 3:15am on Wednesday – i.e. late Tuesday evening/early Wednesday morning
Live:
Texas Rangers @ Los Angeles Angels, 3am, BT Sport ESPN – i.e. late Tues night/early Weds morning
Little League World Series – 4pm, 8pm, and 12:30am and 3am – i.e. late Tues night/early Weds morning – all on BT Sport ESPN
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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:
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 22
Natwest T20 Blast – Derbyshire Falcons v Hampshire, 6:30pm, Sky Sports Cricket
Caribbean Premier League – Guyana Amazon Warriors v St Lucia Stars, 11pm, BT Sport 2
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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 four a 198.2km route from Escaldes to Tarragona, 2:00pm, Eurosport 1
Sea Games – Kuala Lumpur, 2017, Aug 2-24
Tour du Poitou Charentes, Charente, Charente Maritime, deuz sevres, Vienne, Aug 22-25
Criterium de Montreux, Aug 25
Baltic Chain Tour, Aug 23-27
National Road Championships – Brazil, Aug 24-27
Commonwealth Cycling Classic (Virginia), Aug 24-27
From the track calendar:
GP Prostejov – memorial of Otmar Malecek, Aug 24-25
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
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 26 August
All-Ireland SFC semi-final replayKerry v Mayo, Croke Park, 3pm – RTE/SkyAll-Ireland Ladies SFC semi-finalDublin v Kerry, Semple Stadium, 6.30pm – TG4All-Ireland Ladies IFC semi-finalMeath v Tipperary, Semple Stadium, 4.45pm – TG4
Sunday 27 August
All-Ireland SFC semi-finalDublin v Tyrone, Croke Park, 4pm – RTE/SkyAll-Ireland MFC semi-finalDublin v Derry, Croke Park, 2pm – TG4
All-Ireland U17FC final
Tyrone v Roscommon, Croke Park, 12noon
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GOLF
PGA Tour – The Northern Trust, Glen Oaks Club, Old Westbury, NY, Thurs Aug 24 to Sun Aug 27
European Tour – Made In Denmark, Himmerland Golf & Spa Resort, Farsa, Denmark, Thurs Aug 24 to Sun Aug 27
LPGA Tour – Canadian Pacific Women’s Open, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Thursday Aug 24 to Sunday August 27
On the (Seniors Tour), The Willow Senior Golf Classic, Hanbury Manor Marriott Hotel & CC, Ware, Hertfordshire, England, August 25-27
On the (Champions Tour), Boeing Classic, The Club at Snoqualmie Ridge, Snoqualmie, Washington
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HOCKEY
Women’s EuroHockey Championships
England v Scotland, Pool B 11:30am, BT Sport 3 – Ireland v Germany, Pool B, 1:45pm BT Sport 3 – Spain v Belguim, Pool A, 4:00pm BT Sport 3
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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 24 August
NRL – Brisbane Broncos v Parramatta Eels, 10:50am
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RUGBY UNION
Tuesday 22 August
Women’s Rugby World Cup
Ireland v Australia, 2:00 RTE 2/eir Sport 1 – New Zealand v USA, 5:00pm ITV 4/eir Sport 1 – England v France, 7:45pm ITV 4/eir Sport 1 – and coverage of the second semi-final for the ninth-placed play-off is live on eir Sport 2 at 2:30pm
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SNOOKER
Next:
Evergrande China Championship – Guangzhou, China, August 16-22, day seven, 7am and 12:30pm, Eurosport 2 – the final – Shaun Murphy v Luca Brecel
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TENNIS
Upcoming tournaments:
ATP Winston-Salem Open, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA, Mon Aug 21 to Sun Aug 27
WTA Connecticut Open presented by United Technologies, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, Mon Aug 21 to Sun Aug 27 – Day three 5pm and midnight, BT Sport 1
WTA Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA, Mon Aug 21 to Sun Aug 27
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OTHER SPORT
Diving: Universiade – Coverage of the 3m synchronised final, 9am Eurosport 1
Gymnastics: Universiade – Coverage of men’s all-round final, 7am Eurosport 1
Posted: 22nd August 2017