MEN’S FOOTBALL: League of Ireland table-toppers Shelbourne are at basement-dwellers Drogheda tomorrow evening while second-placed Derry put their six-match unbeaten run on the line at Sligo Rovers.
Derry are two points behind Shelbourne and have played a game more.
In tonight’s other fixtures Waterford host St Patrick’s Athletic, reigning champions Shamrock Rovers play Dundalk and Galway United are up against Bohemians.
BOXING: Warrington’s Rhiannon Dixon is scheduled to make the first defence of her WBO lightweight title against fellow Briton Terri Harper on the undercard of Jack Catterall’s bout with former World Champion Regis Prograis in Manchester on August 24.
Dixon, a qualified pharmacist, is unbeaten in 10 fights while Harper, the WBA light-middleweight champion, has a professional record of 14 wins, two draws and two losses.
MEN’S RUGBY UNION: Exeter and Leicester have both been drawn in the same Champions League qualifying group as this year’s winners Toulouse.
They will also face Ulster, Bordeaux Begles and Challenge Cup holders the Durban Sharks.
Three-time runners-up Leinster were pulled out of the hat alongside Clermont Auvergne, Bath, Bristol, Italy’s Treviso and La Rochelle, who beat them in the previous two finals.
MEN’S RUGBY LEAGUE: Two misfiring teams clash in the National Rugby League (NRL) tomorrow when second-bottom Parramatta Eels take on the South Sydney Rabbitohs.
The Eels will still be without injured winger Maika Sivo while the Rabbitohs are missing centre Campbell Graham and hooker Siliva Havili.
NRL leaders Melbourne are not in action until Saturday when they will welcome back Ryan Papenhuyzen for their trip to the Wests.