Saturday Sport
While you were sleeping... In India, Australia and India met in day one of thesecond test in International Cricket, being held at the Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore,March 4-8. As of this writing, India had21/1 after 10.2 overs. Australia had yet to score. At their 5th ODI at Eden Park in Auckland, the current scorewas New Zealand 149 (41.1/50 ov) to South Africa 14/1 (6/50 ov) at dinnerbreak, with 44.0 overs remaining. South Africa requires another 136 runs with 9wickets if they want to pull out the win. Later today, Ireland continuestheir visit to the United Arab Emirates, with their 2nd ODI at the ICC GlobalCricket Academy, Dubai. In Italy: Roma's confidence haswobbled during this season, which has been good for them, with some notable andembarrassing results, notably their 2-0 shellackingby Lazio in Wednesday's Coppa Italia Derby. Rumors abound of players to be transferred, likely Strootman in 2018, aswell as further controversy regarding their new stadium. This afternoon they take on Naples. Roma is currently second in the overallstandings, Naples third, number one Iuventus, who have a comfortable lead atopthe standings. Roma Goalkeeper WojciechSzczesny says Roma and Napoli will both be dealing with anger issues whensecond meets third in Serie A on Saturday. ``I think it will be a veryinteresting game because it's between two teams that are angry,'' he recentlytold Sky Sports Italia. ``Napoli havelost their last two games and we lost the derby, so both teams will have amassive desire to go and get the result....Of course it's never a good thing tolose a derby. It's a disappointing result but the good thing is we have a biggame straight away." Napoli are thedivision's top scorers with 60 goals in 26 matches but their number of wins remainsat 16. In England, in Premier League action, an inconsistent Arsenal travel toLiverpool this afternoon. Their meetingon the opening day of the season at the Emirates Stadium was a thrillingencounter which Klopp's side edged 4-3, but the manager admits his mood haschanged significantly since, with just two wins in 12 matches in allcompetitions since the turn of the year. He recently said "It doesn't feel that free-flowing any more. Wehave this lack of consistency, we cannot ignore it... But I am 100 per centoptimistic again when I think about the Arsenal game - but I cannot say I am inexactly the same mood as the start of the season." The Gunners have once again struggled againsttheir main rivals this season and are now in a fight to maintain their recordof always finishing in the Premier League's top four in all of Wenger's fullseasons at the helm. Arsenal weresurprisingly beaten at home by Watford before slipping to a 3-1 loss at Chelseaand a 5-1 thrashing in their Champions League tie away to Bayern Munich. Arsenal Coach said "We responded atSutton (a 2-0 FA Cup win), that was quite a tricky game and we want to respondagain tomorrow." In the USA, in NCAA Basketball action, some conferences have begun their tournamentaction, while some will contest, today, their last day of regular seasonaction. Villanova travel to Georgetowntoday, Villanova's Josh Hart scored 25 points and the Wildcats fought off afurious second-half comeback by the Georgetown Hoyas in a 75-64 win on February7th at their last meeting. In PGA Golf, Third-round play takes place today in theWGC-Mexico Championship at Club De Golf Chapultepec in Mexico City. This eventwas formerly called the WGC-Cadillac Championship and was played at TrumpNational Doral's Blue Monster course in Miami, but has moved this year toMexico.... Politics anyone? The USA Arena Pro Swim Series competition inIndianapolis. The arena Pro Swim Seriesreturns to the IU Natatorium, March 2 - 4 on the campus of IUPUI. In Gymnastics, watch for live coverage of the 2017 AT&T AMERICANCUP GYMNASTICS COMPETITION from the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. Gymnastsfrom 10 countries are expected to compete in the event, which is part of theInternational Gymnastics Federation's all-around World Cup series. -- Posted By Rex to Speed o Rex at 3/04/2017 12:32:00 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.
