Rugby Native Plays
Our home nations all play this week-end for a place in
the semi finals of the Rugby World Cup. The Red Dragon, The Thistle and The
Clover join South Africa, New Zealand, France, Argentina and Australia in the
quarter finals. No guessing for whom I support. Saturday at 4pm I will be glued
to the TV. check out times and venue of all the matches on the BBC Sports web
site.
Tennis on the Bounce
The latest, Murray beat Berdych 6-1, 6-3 in the Shanghai
Open quarter finals and Djokovic beat Tomic, 7-6 6-1.
Nadal played a blinder beating Wawrinka 6-2, 6-1. and
Tsonga beat Anderson 6-7, 7-5, 6-4 his
place and plays Tsonga in the semi finals. It is so good to see Nadal playing
his top game again.
In the ladies Hong Kong Open the last 8 have reached
their quarter finals.
Great Brit’s Heather Watson went out to Stosur (seeded
5). With no ranking herself Watson has done really well to reach the quarter
finals and go out to a player ranked at no. 5. The other matches are later today.
Cricket on the Wicket
Pakistan has 523 runs, England have 250. Looks like an
exciting match. Cricket evolved in England back in 1598 at the time of
Elizabeth 1st, lofty beginnings indeed. Here is the England team a
little later on a tour of the USA in 1859.
Michael Conlan of Belfast has become the Bantamweight
World Amateur Champion and is now heading for Rio. Super-heavyweight Jo Joyce is heading in the
same direction. Taking medal positions in European boxing and at the
Commonwealth Games he says boxing comes first behind his other passion,
art. He has a degree in fine art from
Middlesex University.
Here
he is brush in hand
Snooker the Bazooka
Ronnie the Rocket O’Sullivan has decided not to take part
and defend his title in the Champion of Champions match play next November. No
reason has been given.
Rory McCloud, ranked 61 in world snooker took the Ruhr
Open at Mulheim in Germany beating Tian Pengfei, ranked 70, 4-2.
The Haining Open starts on Monday 19th.
£70,000 total prize money, with £13,500 to the winner. It is closely followed
in Danqing, China on 25th October 2015 by the International
Championship. This brings £657,000 in prize money, £125,000 to the winner.
F1 Round the Bend
Rosberg needs to quit his whining. Red Bull need an engine
to remain in F1 next year and McLaren say reserve F1 driver Kevin Magnussen
will go at the end of the season. Magnussen has other possibilities but has to
wait till the end of the season to find out who will sign him up. (All
according to Autosport).
Lewis visited the set of ‘The Martian’ and released a
picture of it. I watched the movie during this last week - great movie. Very
entertaining film. Lewis also, according to the Daily Express, got on stage to
sing at an after party night club gig. Rock
on Lewis.
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