The Sport Thread

[thebigdog2020]

If anyone is watching the World Snooker Championship SF between Stuart Bingham & Mark Selby on BBC Two. Hazel Irvine has mentioned at the start of tonight's coverage that World Number 1 Judd Trump has just begun his snooker commentary debut with Alan McManus.

He was on this afternoon doing the studio analysis alongside Steve Davis. Good to see some of the current players getting involved as well, Jack Lisowski has been commentating and providing punditry all week as well and freshens up the BBC coverage.

[Brekkie]

It's long been the case in snooker that a handful of players will join the television team once they're knocked out. I think Ronnie O'Sullivan works for Eurosport.

[RhysJR]

Manchester United v. Liverpool this afternoon delayed due to fan protests inside and outside the stadium. Sky Sports live coverage are unusually on-site today.

https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1388871601475792902

[bkman1990]

It was great to see a full crowd come back for the World Snooker Championship Final at the Crucible tonight. The final session of the World Snooker Championship final also had it's own titles & end credits tonight instead of the usual BBC Sport titles at the beginning of it's coverage. The BBC Sport logo was seen at the end of tonight's credits.

[Robertclark125]

No surprise that the IPL cricket has been suspended, due to the covid 19 situation in India. Sky sports cricket showing repeats of old matches instead.

[thebigdog2020]

Speaking of Snooker, Colin Murray has quit Eurosport Snooker coverage, will stay with Discovery for EFL on Quest and continue with his BBC Radio 5 Live late night show & fighting talk. Colin only hosted the Triple Crown tournaments which are also shown on the BBC and Andy Goldstein hosted the English, Scottish, Welsh & Northern Ireland Open which are simulcast on Quest so I would expect him to take over unless he wants to prioritise his talksport work and they add another presenter.

https://twitter.com/ColinMurray/status/1...3089090563

On the tournament and a rare positive message for BBC Sport it seems but I thought their coverage was very enjoyable and great to add new voices such as Judd Trump, Joe Perry and Jack Lisowski. I think the standouts are still Stephen Hendry & Alan McManus for commentary and punditry. Also while it was great to see Hazel Irvine back, Radzi Chinyanganya and Seema Jaswal are improving all the time so well done to BBC Sport as I often find their snooker coverage is unfairly slated the last few years and it seems the final got the highest ratings for many a year with a 4 million peak.

https://twitter.com/HurtLewis/status/138...2751105024

[valley]

Behind the scenes of CBS' Champions League final coverage from Pinewood:

https://twitter.com/KiCK512TV/status/138...0150220801

[Brekkie]

No surprise that the IPL cricket has been suspended, due to the covid 19 situation in India. Sky sports cricket showing repeats of old matches instead.

They're showing live county cricket in it's place later in the week.

[thebigdog2020]

With the news of the Lions squad being released today, talkSPORT have announced exclusive radio rights to the tour for the 3rd series in a row. Coverage will be presented by Craig Doyle, Hannah Wilkes and Tim Cocker with commentary by Andrew McKenna and co-commentary/analysis by Tommy Bowe, Bryan Habana, Ben Kay and Sir Ian McGeechan.

On another note regarding the Lions still no confirmation of the rumours from earlier this year that Channel 4 would have highlights of the tour.

See more at:
https://talksport.com/sport/rugby-union/...ommentary/

[RhysJR]

With the news of the Lions squad being released today, talkSPORT have announced exclusive radio rights to the tour for the 3rd series in a row. Coverage will be presented by Craig Doyle, Hannah Wilkes and Tim Cocker with commentary by Andrew McKenna and co-commentary/analysis by Tommy Bowe, Bryan Habana, Ben Kay and Sir Ian McGeechan.

On another note regarding the Lions still no confirmation of the rumours from earlier this year that Channel 4 would have highlights of the tour.

See more at:
https://talksport.com/sport/rugby-union/...ommentary/

Bryan Habana and Sir Ian McGeechan confirmed as also appearing on Sky Sports' coverage during their show live now.

[Rdd]

A rare chance to see the rugby union version of the current Sky Sports graphics. Not sure if it’s the first time they’ve appeared.

[thebigdog2020]

Rights News
MotoGP is returning to free-to-air television in the UK this season for the first time since 2013 this time on ITV4. ITV4 have picked up the rights to 2 live race days who on top of the highlights from the series, the first live races will be the French MotoGP next Sunday with coverage of Moto3, Moto2 and MotoGP and the other races expected to be covered is the British MotoGP round in August.

See more at:
https://motorsportbroadcasting.com/2021/...with-itv4/

[thebigdog2020]

In a first for Women's Rugby League, BBC Sport will show the Women's Rugby League Challenge Cup Final on BBC Two for the first time on Saturday 5 June. It will be part of a triple header with the 2 Men's Challenge Cup Semi Finals which will be held that afternoon/evening and will also be shown on BBC TV.

See more at:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/57027316

[Brekkie]

C4 are set to broadcast the Lions warm up game against Japan at Murrayfield, as well as highlights of the three tests against South Africa, according to the Daily Mail.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyu...nel-4.html

[TIGHazard]

No scorebar on Wolves v Brighton?

EDIT: nevermind appeared 4:30 into the match