Wednesday 9th August 2017
SPORTS PREVIEW
Wednesday 9th August 2017
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FOOTBALL
Wednesday Aug 9
Carabao EFL Cup – Colchester v Aston Villa, 7:45pm, Sky Sports Main Event/Football – Crewe v Bolton, 7:45pm – Leeds United v Port Vale, 7:45pm – Oldham v Burton Albion, 7:45pm – Sheffield United v Walsall, 7:45pm
Betfred Cup – Dundee v Dundee Utd, 7:30pm, BT Sport 1
National League North – Darlington v Gainsborough Trinity, 7:45pm
Portuguese Primeira Liga – FC Porto v Estoril Praia, 7pm, and Benfica v Sporting Braga, 9pm
Russian Premier League – FC Ural v Zenit St Petersburg, 3:30pm – Spartak Moscow v FC Arsenal Tula, 5:30pm – FC Rostov v Dinamo Moscow, 6pm – FC Tosno v CSKA Moscow, 6pm – Rubin Kazan v Lokomotiv Moscow, 6pm
Swiss Super League – Lausanne v Lugano, 7pm – St Gallen v Luzern, 7pm – Young Boys v Thun, 7pm
Chinese Super League – one game at 9am and four at 12:35pm
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HORSERACING
The Wednesday line-up is:
Brighton, 1:50pm – An eight-race card – seven handicaps plus a 2yo race – for the first of three days of racing at the popular seaside venue; field sizes are 7-9-14-16-6-14-12 and 12; the most-valuable race is the £20,000 Hobgoblin Brighton Mile Challenge Trophy Handicap at 3:20pm; jockeys riding on the card include Adam Kirby, John Egan, Silvestre de Sousa, Shane Kelly, Jim Crowley, Harry Bentley, Martin Dwyer, Tom Marquand, Robert Winston, Hector Crouch, Adam Beschizza and George Wood
Bath, 2pm – A seven-race card – six of them handicaps (with one of them being for apprentice riders) and a 2yo race, with field sizes of 12-8-11-9-10-12 and 14; the most-valuable race is the £14,000 One PM Finance Kelston Cup Handicap (3:30pm); jockeys riding on the card include Dane O’Neill, Fran Berry, Josephine Gordon, Fergus Sweeney, Sam Hitchcott, Dougie Costello, Joe Fanning, Liam Keniry and Timmy Murphy
Pontefract, 2:10pm – An eight-race card, with field sizes of 6-11-14-6-15-10-12 and 13; the card starts with a race for ‘gentlemen amateur riders’; the most-valuable race is the Tiesplanet.com – Ladies Love Guys in Ties Handicap at 3:40pm; jockeys riding on the card include Danny Tudhope, PJ McDonald, Paul Hanagan, Phillip Makin, Paul Mulrennan, Shane Gray, Richard Kingscote, Franny Norton, Graham Lee, Connor Beasley, Tom Eaves, James Sullivan, Andrew Mullen, Tom Queally, Tony Hamilton and Jack Garritty
Yarmouth, 5:15pm – A seven-race card, with field sizes of 7-11-6-8-12-10-8. The card begins with a 7f Class 4 Novice Stakes and ends with a Class 5 Handicap over 6f. Both Will Buick and Frankie Dettori have only one ride on the card – both in the opening race where Will is on Bartholomeu Dias for Charlie Hills and Frankie rides the John Gosden debutant Il Primo Sole
Sligo, 5:25pm – a six-race National Hunt card (6 chases on what is Farmers Day at the track), with a €20,000 feature (a handicap chase) at 6:25pm; field-sizes are 9-10-7-8-8 and 16 (plus one reserve); jockeys riding on the card include Davy Russell, Barry Geraghty, Andrew Lynch, Bryan Cooper, Jody McGarvey, Danny Mullins, Sean Flanagan, Paul Townend, Johnny Burke and Jonathan Moore
Kempton, 6:05pm – A seven-race card on the all-weather, with field sizes of 14-13-14-5-13-11-8. Top jockeys on the card include champion jockey Jim Crowley, Kieran Shoemark, Josephine Gordon, Pat Dobbs, James Doyle, David Probert, Adam Kirby and Oisin Murphy. Runaway leader in the flat jockey championship Silvestre de Sousa makes the journey for the last two races riding Arab Moon in the penultimate race and High Command for Roger Varian in the last. John Gosden introduces a nicely-bred in the 7:05pm race (for 2yos) in what could prove to be an informative contest
They also race in India at Kolkata (10:30am); later in shops it is Valaparaiso, 7:30pm, 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 Greyville (11:45am)
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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 is the William Hill Peterborough Derby meeting from Peterborough on Weds August 23
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ATHLETICS
The World Athletic Championships run from Friday August 04 to Sunday August 13, from Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, England.
Some of the world’s top athletes will be competing at the stadium where the 2012 Olympics took place, among them Mo Farah and Usain Bolt.
The London Championships will be the 16th in the event’s 34-year history with the first IAAF World Championships having taken place in Helsinki in 1983.
Live action:
BBC Two from 6pm
6:30pm, Eurosport 1
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AUSSIE RULES
Round 21 of season:
Friday 11 August
Western Bulldogs v GWS Giants, 10:50am
Saturday 12 August
Sydney Swans v Fremantle, 4:45am – Geelong Cats v Richmond, 5:10am – Brisbane Lions v Gold Coast Suns, 7:35am – West Coast Eagles v Carlton, 8:40am – Essendon v Adelaide Crows, 10:25am
Sunday 13 August
Melbourne v St Kilda, 3:10am – Hawthorn v North Melbourne, 6:20am – Port Adelaide v Collingwood, 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 5:10pm to 2:40am on Thursday, i.e. – late Wednesday night/early Thursday morning
Live:
Colorado Rockies @ Cleveland Indians, 5pm, BT Sport ESPN
Chicago Cubs @ San Francisco Giants, 8:30pm, BT Sport ESPN
Boston Red Sox @ Tampa Bay Rays midnight, 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:
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 9
Tour Match – Kent v West Indies, 11am
County Championship Division 1 – Middlesex v Warwickshire, 11am – Yorkshire v Essex, 11am – Hampshire v Lancashire, 11am – Somerset v Surrey, 11am – day 4 (final day) of each game
County Championship Division 2 – Derbyshire v Nottinghamshire, 11am – Leicestershire v Durham, 11am – Northamptonshire v Gloucestershire, 11am – Worcestershire v Sussex, 11am – day 4 (final day) of each game
Under-19 Youth ODI Series 2017 – England U-19 v India U-19, 11am, live coverage from 1:55pm, Sky Sports Mix/Cricket and 2pm, Sky Sports Main Event
CPL T20 Cricket – Trinbago Knight Riders v Jamaica Tallawahs, 00:30am, 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
7-13 Aug – BinckBank Tour, Netherlands/Belgium – Stage three ,featuring a 186km journey from Blankenberge to Ardooie, 1:30pm, Eurosport 1
08-12 Aug – Tour de l’Ain, France
10-13 August – Arctic Race of Norway, Norway
10-13 August – Colorado Classic, USA
10-13 August – Czech Cycling Tour, Czech Republic
This week:
From the track calendar:
09-14 August – National Elite Track Cycling Championships, Couva, Trinidad and Tobago
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DARTS
Next up….
Auckland Darts Masters – Friday Aug 11 to Sunday Aug 13, live 8am, eir Sport 1 and full highlights on ITV4 from 7pm
Unibet Champions League of Darts, Sept 16-17
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EQUESTRIANISM
The Dublin Horse Show runs from August 9-13
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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
Wednesday 9 August
All-Ireland U17FC semi-final
Meath v Tyrone, Kingspan Breffni, 7.30pm
Saturday 12 August
Senior Ladies Football Championship quarter-final
Dublin v Waterford, 4:45pm, TG4, and Kerry v Armagh, 6:30pm, TG4
All-Ireland U21HC B quarter-finals
Wicklow v Roscommon, Aughrim, 2pm
Kildare v Armagh, Newbridge, 2pm
Meath v Mayo, Trim, 3.45pm
Kerry v Donegal, Dr Hyde Park, 3.45pm
All-Ireland U17FC semi-final
Kerry v Roscommon, Cusack Park, Ennis, 2pm
Sunday 13 August
All-Ireland SHC semi-final
Cork v Waterford, Croke Park, 3.30pm – RTE/Sky
All-Ireland MHC semi-final
Cork v Dublin, Croke Park, 1.30pm – TG4
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GOLF
PGA European and USPGA Tour – The US PGA Championship, Quail Hollow Club, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, Thurs Aug 10 to Sun Aug 13, (the fourth and final major of the season)
LPGA Tour – The Solheim Cup, West Des Moines, Iowa, USA, Fri Aug 18 to Sun Aug 20, (a biennial tournament contested by teams representing Europe and USA)
On the (Seniors Tour), The Willow Senior Golf Classic, Hanbury Manor Marriott Hotel & CC, Ware, Hertfordshire, England, August 25-27
On the (Champions Tour), The DICK’S Sporting Goods Open, En-Joie GC, Endicott, New York, Fri Aug 18 to Sun Aug 20
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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:
Next up:
Thursday 10 August
Super League – Wakefield Trinity v Leeds Rhinos, 8pm
NRL – South Sydney Rabbitohs v Canterbury Bulldogs , 10:50am
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RUGBY UNION
Next up:
Today:
Women’s Rugby World Cup – New Zealand v Wales, 2:35pm, eir Sport 2 – England v Spain, 1:50pm, eir Sport 1 – USA v Italy, 4:20pm, eir Sport 1 – Ireland v Australia, 6:30pm, RTE2/eir Sport 1
Saturday
Currie Cup – Free State Cheetahs v Griquas, 2pm, Sky Sports Action – Western Province v Blue Bulls, 4:15pm – Golden Lions v Sharks, 6:30pm, Sky Sports Arena
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SNOOKER
Next:
World Open Qualifiers – Preston, August 06-09
Evergrande China Championship – Guangzhou, China, August 16-22
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TENNIS
Upcoming tournaments:
ATP Coupe Rogers, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Mon Aug 7 to Sun Aug 13 – coverage of day three from the Uniprix Stadium, 5:30pm, Sky Sports Action and 5:30pm and 11pm, Sky Sports Main Event
WTA Rogers Cup (Presented by National Bank), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Mon Aug 7 to Sun Aug 13 – day three, 4pm, BT Sport 1
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Posted: 8th August 2017
