While,technically, opening day of the 2017 MLB Baseball Season is tomorrow, the firstgame of the season will be tonight. TheWorld Champions Chicago Cubs will visit the St. Louis Cardinals' beautifulBusch Stadium for the start of the 2017 season. Bitter rivals, the two Midwestern teams always put on a good show. St. Louis always kicks off their season ingrand style, with the arrival into the stadium of the team of Clydesdale horses,pulling the Anheuser Busch Beer Wagon, as the organ plays "Here Comes theKing." The strong team as the season begins includelast year's World Series contenders, Champions Chicago Cubs and ClevelandIndians, the Los Angeles Dodgers and theBoston Red Sox. Pre season greats oftendo not persevere through the season, theusually competitive St Louis Cardinals missed the play-offs last year, andtheir line up seems a bit disheveled for such a well-run franchise. But bounce-back years for starters MichaelWacha and Adam Wainwright, and a Cy Young-worthy effort by new star CarlosMartinez will have them back in the NL post-season. So, as the season starts tonight with arenewed Cardinals-Cubs rivalry, we can all look forward to the surprises of theboys of Summer... Cycling heats uptoday with the 2017 Tour of Flanders, one-daycycling classic, the 101st edition of the race. The Tour of Flanders is the second monument race of the 2017 cyclingseason and the high point of Flemish Cycling Week. Antwerp, in far northernBelgium, will stage the start of the event for the first time, after 19 startsin Bruges. The stage winds south tofinish at Oudenaarde. Notable climbsinclude the Muur van Geraardsbergen. Eighteen categorized climbs are programmed, ofwhich 12 are cobbled. In addition to the climbs, five sectors of flat cobbledroads are included. This year 25 teamstake part in the race, 18 UCI World Teams who were both invited and obliged,and seven wildcard entries. Today's totalpeloton consists of 200 riders. Over thenext few weeks, the great one day classics of April will take place, includingParis-Roubaix. | In Australia, Aussie Rules Football: The Western Bulldogs beat the Sydney Swans by 23 points in the rematch of the 2016 Grand Final to start the weekend. The Swans got the jump on the Bulldogs, leading by 23 points at the 18-minute mark of the first term, but the defending Champions showed their mettle by rebounding and eventually getting on top in a brilliant win. Sydney is now 0-2 after two rounds, while the Bulldogs are 2-0. Today's action pits the Geelong Cats against North Melbourne, Melbourne against Carlton, and Port Adelaide against Fremantle. | | | | | | | | | | | The ICC Intercontinental Cup is a crickettournament organized by the International Cricket Council, so that AssociateMembers of the ICC might have a chance to play First Class Cricket matchesagainst teams of similar skill in a competitive environment. The Cup serves as a part of a cricketdevelopment program. The winners of each cup are able to play test matchesagainst the lowest of the highest level until the next ICC Cup competition. Today's competition features the United ArabEmirates playing Papau New Guinea at AbuDhabi. In other international actiontoday, Pakistan continues their tour of the West Indies with their 4thTwenty20I at Port of Spain. Since AssociationFootball fans think that soccer is the ONLY game, and beautiful, we could not end this update without a bit ofsoccer news. As an update from yesterday'snotice, Bastian Schweinsteiger scored inhis Major League Soccer debut for the Chicago Fire, as the burners and the MontrealImpact traded late goals in a 2-2 draw on Saturday. Less than two weeks after leaving ManchesterUnited and moving to Chicago, Schweinsteiger played all 90 minutes and scoredthe opening goal with a header following a corner kick in the 17th minute. In Greek SuperLeague action today, 5 contests will take place, Panionios vs. Atromitos,Kerkyra vs. Iraklis, Panetolikos vs. Asteras Tripoli, PAOK Salonika vs. LarissaFC, and AEK Athens vs. Panathinaikos. Inthis last contest, in their last five meetings, Athens has won twice,Panathinaikos once, and they have drawn twice. -- Posted By Rex to Speed o Rex at 4/02/2017 03:50:00 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.
