SportSunday
Lots offootball today from around the world: Association Football, the Total Africa Cup of Nations Gabon 2017, andAmerican Football: the NFL playoffs. A few other sports also make today'smix. InGabon: Opening day yesterday in the TotalAfrica Cup of Nations, Gabon 2017, was what non fans call a typical day in Soccer,both games ended in a 1-1 tie. Thisafternoon features two matches, from Group B, Algeria vs. Zimbabwe first,followed by Tunisia vs. Senegal. Bothmatches will be played at the Stade deFrancevillle, Franceville, Gabon. In the USA: TheDivisional Round of the NFL Playoffs continues today with two games: First, the Green Bay Packers will visit the DallasCowboys in an NFC Divisional game. With AaronRodgers throwing 4 TD passes last Sunday to dismantle the New York Giants, thePackers earned a matchup with the Cowboys, the NFC's top seed. Dallas won anOctober meeting at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, 30-16. Play continues with the matchup of the Pittsburgh Steelers at the KansasCity Chiefs in an AFC Divisional game. Andy Reid'sChiefs bid for their first home playoff win in 23 years. | | | Fabian Gomez | Alsoin the USA: PGA Tour Golf features final-round play in the Sony Open in Hawaii at the WaialaeCountry Club in Honolulu. Argentina'sFabian Gomez captured this event last year after a two-hole playoff with BrandtSnedeker. InSouth Africa: Golf. Final-roundplay in the South African Open at Glendower GC in Gauteng. South Africa's BrandonStone was last year's winner at 14-under-par. | | | | | | | Scotland's Craig Wallace | | | | Gerhard Erasmus | | | | Vivian Kingma | In Abu Dhabi: Yesterday the Desert T20 Challenge began at SheikhZayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi, with Hong Kong vs. Scotland, Scotland winning by 24runs, and Afghanistan vs. Ireland, Afghanistan winning by 5 wickets. Today action continues in Abu Dhabi, with more Group A action, first Oman vs. theNetherlands, and then United Arab Emirates vs. Namibia. Action continues in Abu Dhabi until Tuesday,and then moves to the Dubai International CricketStadium for the rest of the competition. There is a great story on the young studs towatch in Cricket here: http://www.espncricinfo.com/desert-t20-challenge/content/story/1077387.html Spain: In La Liga play, Sevilla FC v Real Madrid. Sevilla can make a move to gatecrash theLaLiga title race on Sunday but to do so they must end Real Madrid'srecord-breaking unbeaten run. Sevillelost to Real Madrid in an exciting Copa del Rey clash earlier this week. Madrid have not lost since April 2016 - a runof 40 matches. Coach Zinedine Zidaneadmitted his side had been given a thorough test in the Copa clash, and expectsmore of the same on Sunday``Our plan is to keep the ball, but Sevilla will makelife hard for us.'' In England: Premier League Soccer: Manchester United vs. Liverpool. As the season is progressing, Manchester United seems to have the advantage. Overall, however, Liverpool seems to be the better team,with better players in key positions. ManU's Mou is the better coach,of course, fighting on four fronts. His team looks balanced and hungrywith everyone looking to impress. In the end, Man Useems the favorite to take this one. In Australia: Australian Open: First-round Play gets underway in the year's firstGrand Slam, from Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne. (Monday in Australia, Sunday inthe Western Hemisphere) -- Posted By Rex to Speed o Rex at 1/15/2017 06:51:00 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.
