Sport Sunday | | | Pietro Boselli | France: Itseems as if the world pro cyclists get no break anymore. From the End of the Vuelta a Espana and theWorlds to the Tour down Under, there are only a couple of months. Today, pro cycling in France comes alive for2017 with the annual Paris-Nice stage race. Contested in 8 stages, from todaythrough next Sunday, it really does represent a challenge to redevelop wellrested legs. Today, Stage 1 of the Paris-Nice features a 148.5 km leg throughBois-d'Arcy. Germany: Bundesliga Soccer: BayernMunich is at the head of the standings by seven points, having won yesterday atCologne. Spain internationals Javi Martinez and Juan Bernat gave Bayern acomfortable two-goal lead before substitute Franck Ribery netted a third on 90minutes. This week they travel toArsenal in Champions League competition. In Bundesliga play today, EintrachtFrankfurt will battle Freiburg. France: France. Some Frenchmen, at least a few, have nointerest in Paris-Nice. For the rest ofus, in French League Soccer action today, Lorient takes on Marseille, Toulousemeets Lille, and AS Monaco contests Nantes. | | | Justin Thomas | Mexico: Final-round play in the $9.75 millionWGC-Mexico Championship takes place today in Mexico City. Adam Scott defeated Bubba Watson by one shotlast year in Miami when this tourney was the WGC-Cadillac Championship. WithJustin Thomas leading today, major winners like Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroyand Phi Mickelson will be breathing down JT's neck in the final groupings. USANCAA Basketball action features, today, a plethora of conference championshipsand final games before tournament action. The Purdue Boilermakers take on the Northwestern Wildcats in Chicagotoday in a Big Ten finale, on the eve of the Big Ten Tournament. Coach ChrisCollins' Wildcats have put up a school-record 21 wins as they chase theirfirst-ever NCAA tourney berth. In their previous meeting this year, Conference-champPurdue rode Caleb Swanigan's 24 points to an 80-59 win. | | | | Japheth Cato | The USA Indoor Track Championships are taking place through tomorrow in Albuquerque, New Mexico. On Saturday, Noah Lyles, a teenager from Alexandria, Virginia, ran the 300 meters faster than anyone else ever has: 31.87 seconds, a new World record. Lyles, with his younger brother Josephus, also a sprinter, turned pro last year rather than enter the college ranks. Japheth Cato has been trying to win the men’s indoor heptathlon at a major competition for several years. Saturday, he succeeded. Sunday's action will see finals in men's competitions, including the 2 mile racewalk, pole vault, high jump, shot put, 300 metre, 2 mile, 1 mile, weight throw, and the Master Men's mile. | | | The 2017 World Baseball Classic play beginstomorrow in Seoul, South Korea. Thetournament includes international MLB stars, playing for their home countries,as well as hot prospects from many countries, hoping to show their stuff toscouts, and some MLB free agents. Thedebut game in Seoul features hometown heroes Korea facing off againstIsrael. Two-time champion Japan playsthe next day against Cuba at the Tokyo Dome. The United States begins play onMarch 10 in Miami against Colombia. The first round is a round-robin format,with the top two teams at each site advancing to the second round, which willbe played at the Tokyo Dome and San Diego's Petco Park from March 12-16. The winners and runners-up then advance tothe finals in Los Angeles at Dodger Stadium from March 20-22. Other teams playing include Netherlands,Chinese Taipei, Australia, China, Italy, Canada, defending champions DominicanRepublic and Porto Rico. -- Posted By Rex to Speed o Rex at 3/05/2017 04:40:00 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.
