GLOBAL SPORTS AGENDA
Week Preview
After Sei-Young KIM (KOR) won her first Major at the LPGA PGA Championship, the ladies tour rests while PGA plays in Las Vegas again, right after Martin Laird (SCO) took his first title after seven years last week.
Major League Baseball sees the Los Ángeles Dodgers square off against Atlanta braves (Braves lead 1-0) and Tampa Bay against Astros (Tampa leads 2-0) as next week’s World Series teams will be determined in the best of seven League “Championship” Series.
Chess has a big tournament at Norway Chess, where the news is that Magnus Carlsen (NOR) lost a classical game for the first time in over two years, against Jan-Krzysztof Duda (POL), although the Polish has almost no chance of winning the . The tournament is currently led by Alireza Firouzja (IRN) over Carlsen.
Darts has three PDC Tournaments right after Gerwyn Price (WAL) took the World Grand Prix over Dirk van Duijvenbode (NED) and that way he is now the Grand Slam, World Grand Prix and World Series of Darts Champion, although Peter Wright (SCO) remains World Champion.
The Superbike World Championship will see two Brits battling it out for the World Title and two Dutchmen fighting it out for the Supersport 300 title, while the Supersport title has been long clinched by Andrea Locatelli (ITA). This follows a week of crazy motorcycling action that saw Danilo Petrucci (ITA) become the 7th Moto GP race winner this year, by defeating Álex Márquez (ESP) at the French Moto GP.
Australia has a big week with the Preliminary finals of the Aussie Rules Football tournament, the Supercars Bathurst 1000, and Horse Racing’s Caulfield Cup. This after their national cricket team matched the ODI women’s record of consecutive wins, 21, which had only been done by Australia previously.
In Boxing, Vasyl Lomachenko and Teófimo López fight in what might be the fight of the year.
American Football:
NFL Regular Season
Association Football:
FIFA International Match Days
Athletics:
World Athletics Half Marathon Championships
Aussie Rules Football:
AFL Preliminary finals (Semis)
Auto sport:
Carrera Panamericana (México)
Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (Circuit Zolder, BEL x2)
FIA European Truck Racing Championship (Hungaroring, HUN x4)
FIA World Rallycross Championship (Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, ESP)
FIA World Touring Car Cup (Hungaroring, HUN x3)
IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Motul Petit Le Mans (Road Atlanta, USA)
International GT Open (Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, BEL)
Lucas Oil Off-Road Racing Series (Glen Helen Raceway, California x2)
NASCAR Cup (Kansas)
NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series (Kansas)
NHRA (Texas)
Stock Car Brasil (Vello Città, BRA x2)
Supercars Championship Bathurst 1000 (Bathurst, AUS)
Super Formula (SUGO, JAP)
USAC Silver Crown (Illinois State Fairgrounds, USA)
World of Outlaws Sprint Cars (Lakeside Speedway; Lake Ozark Speedway, USA)
Badminton:
HSBC BWF World Tour Super 750 DANISA Denmark Open I 2020
Baseball
Major League Baseball League Championship Games (MLB Semis)
Nippon League Regular Season
KBO Regular Season
Billiards:
World Snooker Tour English Open
Boxing:
World Boxing Federation, Women’s International Boxing Association, interim World Boxing Council World Female Middle Title – Ema Kozin (SLO) vs Chris Namús (URU)
vacant World Boxing Council Youth Female Welter Title, vacant World Boxing Federation, Women’s International Boxing Association World Female Welter Title – Jessica Schadko (GER) vs Katelynn Phelan (IRL)
vacant World Boxing Organisation World Female Middle Title – Savannah Marshall (ENG) vs Hannah Rankin (SCO)
World Boxing Association Super World Light Title, International Boxing Federation World Boxing Organisation World Light Title – Vasyl Lomachenko (UKR) vs Teófimo López (HON/USA)
Canoe/Kayak:
ICF World Cup, Tacen (SLO)
Chess:
Norway Chess
Darts:
PDC Unibet Premier League Play-Offs
PDC European Darts Grand Prix (ET3)
PDC Women’s Series
eSports:
Arena of Valor (Garena Challenger Series Summer 2020, RoV Pro League 2020 Winter, Arena of Glory Winter 2020)
SMITE Pro League/2020 Season/Phase 2
Global StarCraft II League Season 3
Quake Pro League Season 2: Stage 1
World Cyber Games 2020 Connected Group Stage
League of Legends World Championship Quarterfinals
DreamHack Open Fall 2020
Golf:
PGA Tour Las Vegas
Harness Racing:
Le Grand Prix de l’UET
Horse Racing:
Caulfield Cup (Australia)
E. P. Taylor Stakes, Northern Dancer Turf Stakes (Canada)
Qipco British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes, Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, Qipco British Champions Sprint Stakes, Qipco Champion Stakes (England)
Kincsem Dij (Hungary)
Shuka Sho (Japan)
Livamol Classic (New Zealand)
Motorcycling:
FIM Borilli EnduroGP World Championship (Zschopau, GER)
FIM E-XBike World Cup (Boves-Cuneo, ITA)
FIM Flat Track World Championship (Diedenbergen, GER)
FIM Motocross World Championship (Lommel, BEL)
FIM MotoGP, Moto2, Moto3 World Championship (Ciudad del Motor de Aragón, ESP)
FIM Superbike, Supersport, Supersport 300 World Championship (Estoril, POR)
Mountain Bike:
UCI Mountain Bike World Cup Slovenia
Para Powerlifting:
Online World Cup 5
Para Swimming:
Berlin 2020 World Para Swimming World Series
Road Cycling:
UCI World Tour Tour of Flanders
UCI Women’s World Tour Tour of Flanders
Simracing:
BMW SIM M2 CS Racing Cup
eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series
F1 Esports Virtual Grand Prix Series (x3)
The Race IndyPRO Championship (x2)
