Wednesday 13 September 2017
SPORTS PREVIEW
Wednesday 13 September 2017
————————————————————–
NUMBERS – 2 Daily Millions draws per day – Irish Lucky Numbers
————————————————————–
FOOTBALL
Wednesday Sept 13
Australian FFA Cup (1/4-final) – Sydney FC v Melbourne City, 10:30am, BT Sport 1 (a rematch of last year’s final which City won 1-0)
Champions League, Group Stage, Matchday 1 – eight games, all at 7:45pm, as follows: FC Porto v Besiktas – Feyenoord v Manchester City, eir Sport 1/BT Sport ESPN – Liverpool v Sevilla, RTE2/BT Sport 2 – Maribor v Spartak Moscow – RB Leipzig v Monaco – Real Madrid v Apoel Nicosia – Shakhtar Donetsk v Napoli – Spurs v Borussia Dortmund, BT Sport 3
Championship – Fulham v Hull City, 7:45pm
National League (North) – Darlington v FC United of Manchester, 7:45pm
MLS – Atlanta United FC v New England Revolution, Midnight – Vancouver Whitecaps v Minnesota United FC,3am- i.e both late Wednesday night/early Thursday morning
Thursday Sept 14
Europa League, Group Stage, Match day 1 – 12 games getting underway at 6:00pm including Atalanta v Everton – 12 games getting underway at 8:05pm including Arsenal v Cologne
————————————————————–
HORSERACING
The Wednesday line-up is:
Uttoxeter, 2pm – Six race National Hunt card with field sizes of 9-5-14-6-8-14. The card begins with a Maiden Hurdle over 2m 4f and ends with a Handicap Hurdle over 2m. There are two chase races on the card at 2:30pm and 4pm.
Listowel, 2:05pm – Day four of the seven-day Harvest Festival, a mixed card where the flat feature is the €50,000 Edmund and Josie Whelan Memorial Listowel Stakes (Listed, 3:05pm, 9f) and the jumping feature is the big race of the week, the €175,000 Guinness Kerry National Handicap ‘Chase (Grade A, 4:05pm)
Carlisle, 2:10pm – An eight-race flat card which begins with a Class 5 Nursery over 5f and ends with Div 2 of the Class 6 handicap over 1m 6f. The feature on the card is the Class 3 Andersons Handicap over 7f for 3yo+.
Doncaster, 2:20pm – the start of the four-day St Leger meeting, Leger Legends Day, a race for ex-professional jockeys; it is due off at 3:50pm; also on the card is the £40,000 Listed Pepsi Max Scarborough Stakes
Kempton, 5:45pm – An eight-race flat card which begins with a 6f Claiming Stakes and ends with a Class 5 Handicap over 1m 4f (9:25pm). Jockeys on the card include Stevie Donohoe, Tom Marquand, Josephine Gordon, Harry Bentley and Fran Berry
They also race in Kolkata (10:30am) and in Valparaiso in Chile (6:30pm)
There is a listed stakes over 1m 4f in Saint Cloud, France at 4:40pm
The Turf TV USA line-up is: Delaware Park, 6:15pm, Thistledown, 6:40pm, and Louisiana Downs, 9:15pm
The South African meeting is Kenilworth 11:25am
————————————————————–
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 – Yarmouth
6:39pm – Doncaster
The St Leger meeting from Doncaster live tonight from 7pm, Sky Sports Action
The Irish Greyhound Derby continues at Shelbourne on Saturday 17 September with the semi-finals
————————————————————–
AMERICAN FOOTBALL
Week 2 games
Thursday 14 September
Houston Texans @ Cincinnati Bengals, 1:25am – i.e. late Thursday night/early Friday morning
Sunday 17 September
There are eight games at 6pm, two at 9:05pm, three at 9:25pm and one at 1:30am – i.e. late Sunday night/early Monday morning – which is Green Bay Packers @ Atlanta Falcons
Monday 18 September
Detroit Lions @ New York Giants, 1:30am – i.e. late Monday night/early Tuesday morning
————————————————————–
BASEBALL
The 2017 Major League Season continues; it runs to October 1st
There are 15 games taking place today, with start times ranging from 5:10pm to 3:07am – i.e. late Weds night/early Thurs morning
Live:
Live coverage of a MLB game, midnight, BT Sport ESPN
Los Angeles Dodgers @ San Francisco Giants, 3am, BT Sport ESPN, i.e. late Weds night/early Thurs morning
————————————————————–
BASKETBALL
No key games scheduled
—————————————————————
BOXING/UFC
Check out this website – http://boxingschedule.boxingsociety.com/
Big fight coming up:
Saturday September 16, 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.
Saturday September 16, 2017 – Billy Joe Saunders vs Willie Monroe Jr, Billy Joe Saunders makes the second defence of his WBO middleweight title against 30 year old New Yorker Willie Monroe Jr. The fight takes place in the Copper Box Arena in London just hours before the Gennady Golovkin v Canelo Alvarez fight in Las Vegas
————————————————————–
CRICKET
Wednesday September 13
Twenty20 – Pakistan v World XI, 4pm
ODI 2017 – Ireland v West Indies, 10:15am, eir Sport 1
County Championship Division 1 – Middlesex v Hampshire – Somerset v Lancashire – Surrey v Yorkshire – Warwickshire v Essex, Sky Sports Main Event/Cricket – All 10:30am (day two of 4)
County Championship Division 2 – Glamorgan v Northamptonshire – Gloucestershire v Kent – Sussex v Derbyshire – Worcestershire v Leicestershire – All 10:30am (day two of 4)
———————-–—————————————
CYCLING
Check out this website – http://www.uci.ch/road/calendar/
Some of the next main events…
From the UCI road calendar
Wallonie Grand Prix – Coverage of the annual one-day race staged in Belgium, 2pm, Eurosport 1
Tour of Denmark, Denmark, 12th – 16th September
From the track calendar:
Ukraine National Championship Elite, Lviv, Ukraine, 12th – 17th September
————————————————————–
DARTS
Next up:
Unibet Champions League of Darts, Sept 16-17
————————————————————-
FORMULA ONE
The next F1 Grand Prix will be the Singapore Grand Prix, Marina Bay, Sept 15-17
—————————————————————
GAA
Upcoming fixtures, as per www.hoganstand.com
Next games:
Saturday 16 September
Derry SHC Final – Banagher v Slaughneil, TBC
Donegal SHC Final – St Eunan’s v Setanta, MacCumhaill Park, 3pm
Sunday 17 September
All Ireland SFC Final – Dublin v Mayo, 3:30pm, RTE/Sky
All Ireland MFC Final – Derry v Kerry, 1:15pm, TG4
———————————————-
GOLF
PGA Tour – BMW Championship, Conway Farms Golf Club, Lake Forest, Illinois – Thursday 14thSeptember – Sunday 17th September
European Tour – KLM Open, The Dutch, Gelderland, Netherlands – Thursday 14th September – Sunday 17th September
LPGA Tour – The Evian Championship, Evian-les-Bains, France – Thursday 14th September – Sunday 17th September
On the (Champions Tour) – Pacific Link Bear Mountain Championship, Bear Mountain Resort, Victoria, BC, Canada – Friday 15th September – Sunday 17th September
————————————————————-
ICE HOCKEY
The new NHL season begins on Wednesday, October 4
—————————————————————–
RUGBY LEAGUE:
Thursday 14 September
Betfred Super League – Hull FC v Wakefield Trinity, 8pm, Sky Sports Arena
——————————————————————
RUGBY UNION
Wednesday 13 September
Mitre 10 Cup – Canterbury v Counties Manukau, 8:35am, Sky Sports Action
————————————————————-
SNOOKER
The Indian Open runs from September 12-16
The Yushan World Open (from Yushan, China) runs from September 18-24
————————————————————–
TENNIS
WTA – Japan Women’s Open – Day four of the competition from Tokyo, 3am i.e early Thursday morning, BT Sport 1
Davis Cup Semi Finals – Played across multiple locations from Friday 15th September to Sunday 17thSeptember
————————————————————–
OTHER SPORT
Netball – New Zealand v England, 8:30am, Sky Sports Mix/Main Event
Posted: 13th September 2017