So much sports today. With old seasons wrapping up, new seasons starting, and some seasons continuing. This weekend the English Premier League of Association Football begins its new season, having wrapped up the old, it seems, just a few weeks ago. In Today's action Crystal Palace plays Southampton at Selhurst. The Saints have won their league fixture at the Crystal Palace in each of the last three campaigns, including going 2-0 last season. Fulham also hosts Arsenal at Craven Cottage today. The Gunners are heavy favorites. They have not lost against Fulham in many years. Mikel Arteta played in Arsenal's most recent league defeat against the Cottagers, a 2-1 away loss on Jan. 2, 2012. Later today Liverpool hosts Leeds United at Anfield. The Reds secured their 19th top flight title in 2019-2020, but previously had finished second in each of the previous four campaigns. Today's Canadian Premier League Soccer features the "Island Games." No, these will not be on some tropical isles. Instead, Pacific FC will meet up with Forge FC at the UPEI Alumni Canada Games Place in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Anne of Green Gables will NOT be in attendance. In the United States, NCAA Division One College Football has a reduced but still full lineup today. Kansas State begins its season by hosting Arkansas State. The Red Wolves lost their opener 37-24 to Memphis. Chris Klieman guided the Wildcats to an 8-5 record, capped by a loss to Navy in the Liberty Bowl, in his first season as coach in 2019. Meanwhile, the Iowa State Cyclones will play Louisiana State. Junior quarterback Brock Purdy leads the Cyclones in their open against the Ragin' Cajuns. Purdy threw for 3,982 yards and 27 touchdowns in 2019 to help Iowa State record its third consecutive winning season, a feat last accomplished from 1976-78. No. 1 Clemson begins its quest for a third straight title-game berth when it visits Wake Forest. The Tigers had plans for a second consecutive championship, but last week Clemson fell 42-25 to Louisiana State in New Orleans, leaving their season's "success" all the more uncertain. Wake Forest ended the last campaign at 8-5. Meanwhile, the Big 10 Conference, seems to be a bit of a division 1 isolate in cancelling their Autumn seasons this year. Conference members have also lost out big on the revenue generated by College Football. Leading to a big budget crunch, they are now eliminating so many men's sports it makes the head spin. Radical feminists at Iowa, in the conference and at NCAA headquarters no doubt are dancing in their alleys. No more men's tennis, no more men's swimming and diving, even some women's sports have been eliminated. So much has been lain waste throughout the entire Big 10. Today the Tour de France continues, with Stage 14 or 22. This is a flat stage from Clermont-Ferrand to Lyon, a medium distance of 197 kilometers. So far, the COVID protocols seems to be working, as set forth by the governing authority. The only one in trouble with Coronavirus so far has been race director Chrisitan Prudhomme, who either got the sickness from the President of France, or gave it to him, as the two rode together in the lead car last Saturday. Godspeed, riders. In Canada and the United States of America, the National Hockey League Stanley Cup playoffs continue for last Winter's season. The Dallas Stars and the Las Vegas Golden Knights play Game 4 of their Western Conference final. Dallas so far leads the series 2-1. Alexander Radulov scored 31 seconds into overtime to deliver the Stars a 3-2 victory in Game 4. Anton Khudobin of Dallas made 38 saves in the win. So many other sports, some of which we will cover tomorrow in this same space. Until then. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/omnisport/158814898.1437566.1599925655651%40mail.yahoo.com.
