Sports
Reuters sports schedule at 0001 GMT on Tuesday: SOCCER Champions League playoff round second leg ties ZURICH - Napoli take a 2-0 lead to Nice while Sevilla, Celtic, Olympiakos and Hapoel Beer-Sheva also defend first leg leads in night's Champions League playoff second leg ties which earn the winners a place in the lucrative group stage.
Updated : Aug 22, 2017, 05:26 AM IST
Reuters sports schedule at 0001 GMT on Tuesday:
SOCCER
Champions League playoff round second leg ties
ZURICH - Napoli take a 2-0 lead to Nice while Sevilla, Celtic, Olympiakos and Hapoel Beer-Sheva also defend first leg leads in night's Champions League playoff second leg ties which earn the winners a place in the lucrative group stage. (SOCCER-CHAMPIONS/, expect by 2000 GMT/4 PM ET, by Brian Homewood, 400 words)
Chinese Super League
Chinese giants battle in Asian Champions League quarter-finals
HONG KONG - Guangzhou Evergrande take on Shanghai SIPG in the first leg of their all-Chinese Super League quarter-final clash in the Asian Champions League. (SOCCER-ASIA/, expect by 1700 GMT/1 PM ET, 500 words)
RUGBY
Rugby Championship
New Zealand v Australia, Dunedin (26)
All Blacks, Wallabies prepare for Dunedin clash
WELLINGTON - The All Blacks and Wallabies continue their preparations for their second Rugby Championship clash in Dunedin with the world champions looking to seal the Bledisloe Cup with a game to spare. (RUGBY-UNION-CHAMPIONSHIP-NZL-AUS/, expect by 0700 GMT/3 AM ET, 400 words)
Gloom hangs heavy over Australian rugby as Western Force verdict looms
MELBOURNE - Amid an all-pervading gloom engulfing Australian rugby, Western Force's hopes of remaining in the Super Rugby competition will be put to the test at a court appeal in Sydney on Wednesday (RUGBY-UNION-AUSTRALIA/FORCE, expect by 0800 GMT / 4 AM ET, 600 words)
CYCLING
Vuelta d'Espana
Chris Froome will be eager to strengthen his bid to win the Vuelta a Espana for the first time as the riders head for the fourth stage, where the peloton goes on a flat 198.2-kilometre route from Escaldes-Engordany in Andorra to the Spanish town of Tarragona. (CYCLING-VUELTA/ (TV), expect from 2000 GMT/4 PM ET, 400 words)
BASEBALL
Red Sox and Indians in clash of respective division leaders
Venezuela left-hander Eduardo Rodriguez (4-3) is scheduled to start for Boston as the American League East-leading Red Sox visit the AL Central-leading Cleveland Indians, who are slated to start right-hander Mike Clevinger (6-5) in one of nine games on the Major League Baseball schedule. (BASEBALL-MLB-HIGHLIGHTS/, expect by 0600 GMT/2 AM ET, by The Sports Xchange, 700 words)
NORTH AMERICAN SPORTS
Roundups of off-field developments in the major North American professional sports leagues. (expect by 0000 GMT/8 PM ET, by The Sports Xchange, 500 words) (Asia desk editor: Ian Ransom)
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