Speed Skating, Basketball and Rugby. Could there be a better day? In the Netherlands, the short track speedskating world championships are holding their final day of skating today in Rotterdam. Competition continues with continues with 1000m, 3000m andfinals of the 5000m and 3000m relays. Canadian Samuel Girard ofFerland-et-Boilleau, Quebec, stands third overall with 29 points after a silvermedal in the 1,500 metres and fourth in the 500 metres. Sjinkie Knegt of theNetherlands leads with 39 points while Sin da Woon of South Korea is second at34. In the men's 1,500 metre, Sin daWoon from South Korea earned the victory in 2:16.919 nudging Girard in secondplace in 2:16.982. Seo Yi Ra of South Korea was third in 2:17.051. CharlesHamelin of Sainte-Julie, Quebec, and Charle Cournoyer of Boucherville, Quebec,were third and fourth in the B final for 11th and 12th position. | | | Derek Schell | A special type of craziness is set to infest the USAon Sunday afternoon. Breakouts havealready been seen in many cities. Crowdsscream and yell like fools because they have entered the bracketologyphase. Certainly, boy, what else? NCAA March Madness begins. Today. Many conference tournaments wrapped up yesterday, and so their winnershave already been entered in the brackets. Others will be determined today. The NCAA tournament Selection Show isone of the most hotly-anticipated off-the-field events on the sports calendar. They have vowed, this year, to announce thechosen ones within a few minutes of the show's opening, and not drag it out asthey have been known to do. The luck 68teams, their rabid supporters, and the entire basketball fandom will beenthralled for the next three weeks by brackets, squeaky shoes, and swishinghoops. Office pools will assaultAmerican workers as they eagerly report for work on Monday morning. Actual tournament play begins with the opt ingames on Tuesday. | | | Jesse Hogan | Round Robin play continues in the World BaseballClassic. In exciting action yesterday,Italy, who stunned Mexico on Friday, almost stunned Venezuela, but was finallyput down in the 10th inning. Chicago Cubsgreat Anthony Rizzo is playing again this year for Italy's team. Today, in continuing Round Robin play, Italy meets Puerto Rico, Canada takes on theUnited States, Venezuela meets Mexico and Japan takes on the Netherlands. In Cricket, Afghanistan's tour of India continues in their 3rd Twenty20contest, against Ireland this afternoon at Greater Noida, in NorthernIndia. Afghanistan, led by Rashid Khan,leads the series 2-0, and indeed has ten straight wins in T20 competition, arecord. Greater Noida, with its recentlyconstructed Cricket Ground, actually serves as the home stadium of the Afghanteam, unable to find a stable home in their war torn country. | | | Danny Care | In England, in Six Nations Rugby,England powered to its second straight Six Nations title by unexpectedly thrashingScotland 61-21 at Twickenham on Saturday. The Georgies recorded their highest points total against their oldestinternational rival. England heads toDublin next weekend looking to win their 19 in a row since October 2015,breaking the world record streak at rugby’s highest level achieved by the AllBlacks over 2015-16. In the overallstandings, England has an unassailable eight-point lead over second-placeIreland after four rounds. INNHL hockey action, the New York Rangers travel to the Detroit Red Wings in a clash of these Original Six rivals at theJoe Louis Arena. The Rangers have won both previous meetings with the Red Wingsthis season, but hope springs eternal, as they say. -- Posted By Rex to Speed o Rex at 3/12/2017 01:17:00 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.
