Today the 2018 Six Nations Rugby Championship kicks off inEurope. This is the 19th series of theSix Nations Championship, the annual European rugby union championship. Thetournament is sponsored by The Royal Bank of Scotland, however this editionwill have title sponsorship from its owned subsidiary NatWest, meaning thetournament will be known as the NatWest 6 Nations.
It will be contested between now and March 17th by defending champions England who are joinedby France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. Including the competition'sprevious iterations as the Home Nations Championship and Five NationsChampionship, it will be the 124th edition of the tournament. Like in the 2017 tournament, the tournamentwill continue to use the bonus point system common to most other professionalrugby union tournaments. To ensure that a team winning all of its fivematches (a Grand Slam) will also win the Championship, three bonus points will beawarded for this achievement. Today Wales hosts Scotland at the Principality Stadium, andFrance hosts Ireland at the Stade de France. Tomorrow, Italy hosts England at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome. Today, the annual Millrose Games are being contested at TheArmory, Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York. The Millrose Games is an annual indoorathletics meet held each February in New York City, and they have been held atthe Armory since 2012. Previously, theywere run at Madison Square Garden from 1914 to 2011. The first Millrose Games were held in 1908and were organized by employees of the Wanamaker's Department Store. The premier event remains the Wanamaker Mile,although many records have been set in all track events through the ages. Althougha few of the events were held on Thursday, the rest, dozens, will be heldtoday. New Zealand’s Nick Willis, two-time Olympic medalist in the1500 meters, has raced the Wanamaker Mile five times, and although he has madethe podium five times, this 34 year old has never won the race. This may be his last shot. “I have put a huge focus of my training tomake this happen,” he said in a written statement. Other contenders will be BenBlankenship and Robby Andrews, already known to readers of this space. European Tour Golf continues this weekend in Malaysia. The MaybankChampionship holds its third-round play Saturdayfrom Saujana Golf and Country Club in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Paraguay'sFabrizio Zanotti won last year. This is the third year for this event and thesecond on this par-72 course of 7,186 yards. Currently American Berry Henson is on top of the leader board, tied withKhalin H Joshi of India. Meanwhile,Stateside, the PGA continues with the third round play of the Phoenix Open fromTPC Scottsdale in Arizona. In European Soccer, in the Bundesliga, Mainz contends with Bayern Munich, while in the Premier League,Arsenal takes on Everton at the Emirates Stadium. -- Posted By Rex to SR at 2/03/2018 01:19:00 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.
