| | | | | Saturday Sport: In Australia, this is the last weekend of theAustralian Open of Tennis, which has proven itself, once again, to be one ofthe most exciting Grand Slam contests year to year. Sometimes stormy Sisters Serena and VenusWilliams will play each other in the Australian Open finals today. No wire rackets. Ever. Nadalmuscled his way into tomorrow's men's finals with wins while you weresleeping. Winter Sports continue their big competitions today. In Ostrava, Czech Republic, the EuropeanFigure Skating Championships are being held today with the Free Dance Competition. FISWorld Cup Skiing men's downhill contestswill be broadcast from Garmisch, Germany. In the United States: the Extreme Sports Winter X Games 20 are beingheld this week at Apsen, Colorado. Day 2of the action included freestyle skiing (men's Superpipe) and snowboarding(men's Big Air). Day 3 of the action-sports festival will include freestyleskiing (men's slopestyle) and snowmobiling (freestyle). Golf never seems to be out of season. Third-round play in the Farmers InsuranceOpen at Torrey Pines Golf Course in La Jolla, Cal. First contested in 1952 asthe San Diego Open, this tournament was known as the Buick Invitational from1992 until 2009. In Qatar: Third-roundplay in the Qatar Masters in Doha will be held. This is part of the European Golf Tour. In the United States: In NCAA Basketball, the Notre Dame FightingIrish travel to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. Irish juniors Bonzie Colson and Martinas Gebenmuscle inside with Tech big man Ben Lammers in ACC play in Atlanta. Last year in South Bend, the Irish lost byeight. DePaul leaves Chicago to travelto Creighton. The Blue Demons got 32 points from guard Eli Cain in their lastgame, a loss to Butler. 7th ranked Creighton dropped their first game withoutMo Watson last Saturday to Marquette 102-94, the first time since a 2OT 2008game against Peoria's Bradley University when an opponent has gotten 100 pointson them. Marquette went on to beat topranked Villanova on Tuesday, yet remains unranked. In Track and Field: U.S. New Balance Indoor Games in Boston.Entrants include Olympic gold medalists Matthew Centrowitz, Jenn Suhr andEkaterini Stefanídi. In horse racing, the inaugural $12 million PegasusWorld Cup at Gulfstream Park takes place in Hallandale, Florida. Impressivesteeds Arrogate and California Chrome, 1-2 in the 2016 Breeders' Cup Classic,head the expected field in what becomes the world's richest race, surpassingthe Dubai World Cup. In French La Ligue play today, Lyon meets Lille, Angers meets Metz , AS NancyLorraine meets Bordeaux, Bastia meets Caen, Lorient meets Dijon FCO, and Stade Rennes meets Nantes. Paris Saint-Germain's ultras havethreatened to boycott Sunday's massive Ligue 1 game against AS Monaco becauseof ongoing problems with access to the Parc des Princes. Many of thesesuperfans are either banned altogether (sacre bleu) or given only restrictedaccess to certain parts of the stadium. -- Posted By Rex to Speed o Rex at 1/28/2017 03:44:00 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.
