In California: The Amgen Tour of California starts onSunday, featuring seven stages in it's twelfth year of competition. This year, for the first time, the race hasachieved the WorldTour designation on the UCI calendar, and the race is readyto roll out of Sacramento on May 14. Along the way, the race will visit iconicsouthern California beach towns, spend a day or two in the mountains and thenstorm into downtown Pasadena on May 20 for the finish and ensuing celebrations. Stage five will see the climb to Mt. Baldy,and annual feature, it seems, of the race. 12 teams will compete this year, including Bora-Hansgrohe. Their rider, Peter Sagan, has been called the"King of California," as he loves this race, and the Californianslove this free wheeling champion Slovak. Meanwhile back in the south, the Girod'Italia continues today in southern Italy, with tomorrow being a restday. In Rome: Rome's ForoItalico will host the Rome International BNL of Tennis this week, with FinalQualifying rounds taking place today. Italian veteran Fabio Fognini will facecountryman Matteo Berrattini in one of the five men’s singles matchestaking place on the opening day of the main draw at the Internazionali BNLd’Italia. The winner of this match will face defending champion and world No. 1Andy Murray in the second round. Theall-Italian clash is not the only all-country affair on Sunday as Germany’sFlorian Mayer and Philipp Kohlschreiber play each other on Next Gen Arena. CenterCourt action begins at noon on Sunday, a meeting between Spaniard FernandoVerdasco and American Donald Young, both lefthanders. Verdasco has won on thethree previous occasions in which the two have met. In Florida, in the USA,the Players Golf Championship wraps up today, at The Players Stadium Course isTPC Sawgrass, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. as of Saturday, Louis Oosthuizen and Kyle Stanley were in the lead, bothat 9 under par. The overall purse in theevent is 10.5 million dollars. NBA Conference finals will begin tomorrow, at least that isfor one conference, the other finals teams have not yet been set. The Golden State Warriors play at home vs.the San Antonio Spurs in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals on Sundayafternoon. The Eastern Conference Finalsteams are not yet set. The ClevelandCavaliers, who are in the finals, eventually will play the winner of Game 7 ofthe Boston Celtics-Washington Wizards playoff match, which will finally decide who advances on Monday evening. TheWizards were able to win Friday night's game to keep their hopes alive, tyingthe record 3-3. In Serie A Soccer action, in Italy, Roma meets Juventus Sundayevening, and both sides are seeking a win with ulterior motives. Second-placed AS Roma host leaders Juventusin Serie A this evening but rather than thinking about trying to catch therunaway leaders they will be looking over their shoulders at their rivalsNapoli, over whom they have one point. Afirst or second place finish means an automatic Champions League berth. Juventus need only a point to wrap up theirsixth successive title. Third place meansno automatic bid, but instead a spot inthe final playoff round. Italian teamhave not done well in these playoffs. Juventus Coach Miassimiliano Allegri wants theChampions League question settled, so they can prepare for this years finalagainst Real Madrid, and Wednesday's Coppa Italia final. Roma has been winning lately, but has become disrupted bycontroversy. 40 year-old Francesco Tottihas been a key player for Roma since his teen age years, but the administrationlast week announced that he would stop playing at the end of the season andmove to a boardroom role. Roma CoachLuciano Spalletti has been imbroigled in this intrigue. He has severely limited Totti's play thisseason to celebrity appearances, off or on the field, and been rather nasty indoing it, perhaps engineering the announcement of the much beloved Tottiretirement. Totti, with characteristicgood humor, has joked about being able to play for the indefinite future,before saying he might talk about things. Totti is forecast, by all reliable sources, to be around Roma muchlonger than Luciano Spalletti and his brutta figura... -- Posted By Rex to SR at 5/14/2017 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.
