CYCLING
After completing his collection of Grand Tour stage wins yesterday, Sam Bennett is back on the road today.
The eleventh stage of the Tour de France takes the peloton on a 167 kilometre trek to Poitiers (pr: Pwot-ee-yay).
It's the same town where Bennett's fellow Carrick-on-Suir native Sean Kelly won his first Tour stage in 1978.
Bennett holds a 24-point lead over Peter Sagan in the race for the green jersey.
Primoz Roglic wears the overall leader's yellow jersey.
RUGBY
Owen Farrell will be missing for Saracens when they face Leinster in the Heineken Champions Cup quarter finals.
The out-half has been banned for five matches for a dangerous tackle on Wasps' Charlie Atkinson.
Farrell will be back in action by the time England resume their Six Nations campaign
SOCCER
Shane Duffy feels he's made the right move in joining Celtic.
The Republic of Ireland defender has signed on loan from Brighton.
Duffy says he needs game time.
Jack Grealish says he was emotional in making his England debut last night.
The former Republic of Ireland under-21 international was sprung from the bench in a scoreless draw away to Denmark.
Elsewhere, Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 100th and 101st international goals as Portugal beat Sweden 2-nil.
Ronaldo became the first European player to score an international century.
The Republic of Ireland under-21's received a timely boost to their European Championship qualification hopes.
Italy were beaten 3-nil away to Sweden last night.
Jim Crawford's side lead Italy by three-points with the sides meeting next month.
TENNIS
The US Open semi-final line-up will be completed later.
Serena Williams goes up against the unseeded Tsvetana Pironkova.
The Bulgarian hadn't played a professional match in over three-years prior to last week.
Meanwhile, last year's beaten finalist Viktoria Azarenka plays Elise Mertens.
Men's third seed Daniil Medvedev faces fellow Russian Andrey Rublev.
And second seed Dominic Thiem locks horns with Alex De Minaur.
RACING
There's an eight-race card at Punchestown this afternoon with the first off at 1.15.
An eight-race programme at Cork is underway at 4.
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