| | | Aussie Football Training Days | | | | Essendon | In Australia, thefirst big weekend of the new Football season is going off in grand style. The season started with the inaugural matchon Thursday night, but Saturday was the big day, and action continues today. Theopening round of the AFL season was eventful to say the least, and fans wereenthused, despite being upset that the AFL official website could not handlethe traffic and crashed, also in grand style. After an hour of the start of the games, thewebsite was back up and running, but live scoring updates were anything but... Nonetheless, Saturday's games could not havebeen better for a return of the action. Melbournepulled off their first win against St Kilda in over 10 years, Port Adelaideshocked the Swans at the Sydney Cricket Grounds, Essendon came back after theirsaga of controversy and Brisbane narrowly fended-off a fighting Suns pack in afinal second thriller. Remaining forhungry AFL fans are Sunday's three matches. In the UnitedStates, in NCAA Basketball Action, yesterday and today see the selection of theFinal Four candidates, to be contested next weekend. The Zags won convincingly over Xavieryesterday, meaning Gonzaga will continue their recent tradition of final four appearances. Oregon put an end to Kansas' hopes yesterdayas well, and advance to the finals. Today UNC and Kentucky meet as well as Florida and South Carolina, todetermine the other two teams in the Final Four. India measured up wellin day one of their fourth test in Australia's Tour of India. In day two action, they are currentlytrailing... In other InternationalCricket action, the South Africa tour of New Zealand continues with their 3rdTest at Hamilton. The 3rd test startedyesterday and continues until March 29th. Bangladesh continues their tour of Sri Lanka, Bangladesh winning their1st ODI yesterday at Dambulla, by 90 runs. Today, in the Pakistan tour of West Indies, these national teams meet intheir 1st T20I contest at Bridgetown. -- Posted By Rex to Speed o Rex at 3/26/2017 04:04:00 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.
