Wednesday 02 August 2017
SPORTS PREVIEW
Wednesday 02 August 2017
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FOOTBALL
Champions League Qualifiers (2nd legs) – Apoel Nicosia v Viitorul Constanta, 6pm (Agg, 0-1) – BATE Borisov v Slavia Prague, 6pm, (0-1) – CSKA Moscow v AEK Athens, 6pm, (Agg, 2-0) – Istanbul Buyuksehir v Club Brugge, 6:45pm, (Agg, 3-3) – FC Copenhagen v Vardar, 7pm, (Agg, 0-1) – BSC Young Boys Bern v Dynamo Kiev, 7:15pm, (Agg, 1-3) – FC Viktoria Plzen v FC Steaua Bucuresti, 7:15pm, (Agg, 2-2) – FH Hafnarfjadar v Maribor, 7:30pm, (Agg, 0-1) – Ludogorets v Hapoel Beer-Sheva, 7:30pm, (Agg, 0-2) – Ajax v Nice, 7:45pm, (Agg, 1-1) – Legia Warsaw v Astana, 7:45pm, (Agg, 1-3) – Olympiakos FC v Partizan Belgrade, 7:45pm, (Agg, 3-1) – Rijeka v Red Bull Salzburg, 7:45pm, (Agg, 1-1) – Rosenborg v Celtic, 7:45pm, (Agg, 0-0), which is live eir Sport 2
Europa League Qualifier (2nd leg, Agg, 0-0) – AEL v FK Austria Wien, 5pm
Friendly Match (played in the Aviva Stadium) – Man Utd v Sampdoria, 7:45pm, MUTV, plus, from Soldier Field, Chicago, USA, MLS All Stars v Real Madrid, 2am, Sky Sports Football – i.e. late Wednesday night/early Thursday morning
Audi Cup – 3rd place play-off, 4:45pm, ITV4 – The final, 7:30pm, ITV4
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HORSERACING
The Wednesday line-up is:
Goodwood,1:50pm – the card includes the Group 3 Bombay Sapphire Molecomb Stakes (for 2yo), and the £1million Group 1 Qatar Sussex Stakes (3:35pm), where the mouth-watering clash between Ribchester and Churchill is set to take place; along with Churchill (Ryan Moore), Ireland’s Aidan O’Brien also runs Lancaster Bomber (Donnacha O’Brien) in the big race; Aidan also runs Battle Of Jericho (3pm, Ryan Moore) and Cenotaph (5:50pm, Ryan Moore) on the card; the card contains £1.275m in prize-money; field-sizes are 18-14-13-9-20-16 and 20; America’s Wesley Ward runs Royal Ascot runner-up Happy Like A Fool in the ‘Molecomb’
Redcar, 2:00pm – an eight-race card that closes with a race for amateur riders; field-sizes are 15-16-7-11-8-15-15 and 17; the feature is a £10,000 mile handicap at 4:20pm; jockeys in action on the card include Jamie Spencer, Paul Hanagan, Phillip Makin, David Allan, Paul Mulrennan, Connor Beasley, Ben Curtis, Shane Gray, Royston Ffrench, Andrew Mullen, James Sullivan and Cam Hardie
Perth, 2:15pm – seven races, including a conditional jockeys’ handicap hurdle at 4:£5pm, with field-sizes of 5-7-6-8-10-15 and 9; the most-valuable races on the card are the £14,000 Gleneagles Handicap Chase (4pm) and the £12,000 Crieff Golf Club Ferntower Handicap Hurdle (3:25pm); runners from Ireland on the card (nine of them) are Stuart Crawford’s Yes Tom (2:50pm, Richard Johnson), Prunella Dobbs’ Carried (2:50pm, Conor O’Farrell), Gordon Elliott’s Russian Regent (4pm, Tom Scudamore) and Mountain King (4pm, Richard Johnson), Madeleine Tylicki’s Jack The Hat (4:35pm, Mitchell Bastyan), Ronan McNally’s See Double You (5:10pm, Tom Scudamore), Gordon Elliott’s Swingbridge (5:10pm, Richard Johnson), Gavin Cromwell’s Vino’s Choice (5:40pm, Tom Scudamore) and Gordon Elliott’s Rubbing Shoulders (5:40pm, Richard Johnson)
Galway (3:15pm) – An eight-race mixed-card on ‘Plate Day’, including the Tote Irish EBF Mares Handicap Hurdle (3:50pm, €35,000), the TheTote.Com Handicap Hurdle (4:25pm, €20,000), the Grade A TheTote.com Galway Plate (5:35pm, €250,000) and the Win Big With Tote Handicap (6:15pm, €30,000); field-sizes are 12-17-20 (plus 3 reserves)-17-22 (plus 3 reserves)-8-10 and 20 (plus 3 reserves); Willie Mullins has five runners (plus one of the reserves) in the ‘Plate’, including top-weight Ballycasey; he last won the race in 2011 with Blazing Tempo; Gordon Elliott has two runners (plus one reserve), which include last year’s winner Lord Scoundrel, who will race in a first-time tongue-tie today; also in a tongue-tie for the first time is Gordon’s A Toi Phil, who will be ridden by Bryan Cooper and is one of four Gigginstown House Stud runners in the race; so is the 2014 winner Road To Riches, who will race in first-time blinkers today
Sandown, 5:40pm – six races, starting with a handicap for apprentices, with field-sizes of 12-7-10-6-6 and 6; the most-valuable race is the £13,000 Visit racinguk.com Handicap (7:25pm); jockeys riding on the card include Frankie Dettori (one ride, 6:55pm, Westerland for John Gosden), Silvestre de Sousa, Pat Dobbs, Tom Queally, Kieran Shoemark, Adam Beschizza, Adam Kirby, Timmy Murphy, Dougie Costello, Fergus Sweeney, Sean Levey, Oisin Murphy, Fran Berry, Andrea Atzeni (one ride, 7:55pm) and Jim Crowley (one ride, 8:25pm)
Leicester, 5:55pm – six races, with field-sizes of 9-8-9-14-10 and 13; the most-valuable race is the £10,000 Joules Celebration Fillies’ Handicap (7:05pm); jockeys riding on the card include Martin Lane, Louis Steward, Stevie Donohoe, David Probert, Dane O’Neill, Shane Kelly, Ted Durcan, Ben Curtis, Franny Norton, Hector Crouch (who rode a 4-timer at Lingfield on Saturday), Tom Marquand, Robert Winston, David Nolan, Pat Cosgrave and Eddy Greatrex
They also race in India at Kolkata (10:30am); later in shops it is Valparaiso, 7:15pm, in Chile
The Turf TV USA line-up is: Saratoga, 6pm, Finger Lakes, 6:10pm, *Delaware Park, 6:15pm, and Louisiana Downs, 9:15pm
The South African meeting is Turffontein (11:55am)
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GREYHOUNDS
The Wednesday line-up is as follows:
11:03am – PERRY BARR
11:11am – NEWCASTLE
2:08pm – HOVE
2:18pm – BELLE VUE
6:28pm – SWINDON
6:33pm – SUNDERLAND
6:39pm – DONCASTER
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 6:05pm on Wednesday to 3:15am on Thursday, i.e. – Wednesday evening/early Thursday morning
Live:
Detroit Tigers @ New York Yankees, 6:05pm, BT Sport ESPN
Cleveland Indians @ Boston Red Sox, 12:10am, BT Sport ESPN – i.e. late Wednesday night/early Thursday 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
Wednesday August 02
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 – Leicestershire Foxes v Notts Outlaws, 6:30pm Sky Sports Main Event/ Sky Sports Cricket (ch404)
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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 five of the UCI event featuring a 130km route starting in Olimp finishing in Nagawczyn, 2:30pm, Eurosport 2
Tour of Utah – Stage three features a 9km individual time trial from Bog Cottonwood Canyon to Brighton, 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 – There is a ‘Live On The Range’ programme today on Sky Sports The Open at 7pm as part of the build-up to the tournament
USPGA Tour – as above
LPGA Tour – the Ricoh Women’s British Open, Fife, Scotland, Aug 03-06 – There is a ‘Live On The Range’ programme today on Sky Sports Mix, Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports The Open at 4pm as part of the build-up to the tournament
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 Four
ATP Abierto Mexicano 250 Los Cabo, Los Cobos, Mexico, Mon July 31 – Sun Aug 06 – Day Three
WTA Tour Bank Of The West Classic, Stanford, Connecticut, USA, Mon July 31 – Sun Aug 06, Day Three of the ladies only event from 7pm BT Sport 1 and 3am, BT Sport 1 – i.e. late Wednesday night/early Thursday morning
Citi Open, Washington, DC, USA, Mon July 31 – Sun Aug 06, Day Three 9:00pm Sky Sports Action, 9pm, BT Sport 1, 7pm, 6:45pm, BT Sport 2 and Sky Sports Main Event, 9:45pm
Posted: 2nd August 2017
