Sport Saturday USA: NCAABasketball play heats up today with: ButlerBulldogs at Georgetown Hoyas. Butler won both meetings last season. TheBulldogs have started the season strong thanks to the play of forward KelanMartin. The Hoyas count on big guards Rodney Pryor and L.J. Peak for theirscoring. TCU at West Virginia. WV was 3-0 against the Horned Frogs last season. Clemson will visit Notre Dame in ACC play.
Meanwhile, in Big 10 action, Michigan State Spartains faces Penn StateNittany Lions at The Palestra in Philadelphia. The Lions are 0-7 in the seriesunder Patrick Chambers. The Maryland Terrapinswill visit the Michigan Wolverines in Big Ten action. Zak Irvin's 22 points ledthe Wolverines past visiting Maryland 70-67 last season, with the Terps takingthe rematch, 86-82. The Fighting Illini of Illinois will visit Bloomington, totake on the Indiana Hoosiers at home. Illinisenior combo of Malcolm Hill and Tracy Abrams takes on Indiana juniors JamesBlackmon and Josh Newkirk. The Hoosiers beat the Illini convincingly in bothmeetings last season. PGA Tour Golf: The SBS Tournament of Champions featuresthird-round play in Kapalua, Hawaii. The field for this event is limited towinners of PGA tournaments during the 2016 season, so the competition should befierce. The purse is $6 million. The NFL Playoffs begin this weekend, leadingto the February 8th Super Bowl. Thefirst contest features the Oakland Raiders at the Houston Texans. Oakland (12-4) meets Houston (9-7) in an AFC wild-card game. TheRaiders won the Week 11 meeting in Mexico City, 27-20, on a fourth-quartercomeback. In the NFC wild-card game, TheDetroit Lions (9-7) visit the Seattle Seahawks (10-5-1). Quarterback MatthewStafford and the Lions are on a three-game losing streak as they bid for thefranchise's first playoff win in 25 years and second since capturing the 1957 NationalFootball Conference title. InMexico, La Liga MX begins their 2017 season today of Fútbol Mexicano: Tigres will take on the Santos, Guadalajarameeting UNAM In Spain: On Saturday afternoon, LaLiga will return to action at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium for the first matchof 2017, as struggling Granada visits Real Madrid, who lead the standings. The hosts defeated Sevilla 3-0 on Wednesdaynight. Zidane's strategy was to startthe game with none of the starters, and the tactic seems to have worked. Eibar also meets Atletico de Madrid thisafternoon. In Germany, in the Bundesliga: SCFreiburg meets Bayern Munich this evening. As Serie A play resumes in Italy, Naples takes on Sampdoria and Empolitakes on Palermo. In international cricket: Australia won decisively over Pakistan in their 3rd Test in Sydney, with Josh Hazlewoodstriking convincingly as the 5th day began, returning to claim thefinal wicket just before the tea break. Australia has dominated Pakistan at home since 1999, now claiming 12straight victories. In this third test,Australia won by 220 runs, 538/8d& 241/2d with Pakistan scoring 315& 244 (80.2 ov) -- Posted By Rex to Speed o Rex at 1/07/2017 05:08:00 AM -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "omnisport" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/omnisport. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
