Real Madrid akan melakoni laga penting melawan Barcelona akhir pekan ini. Namun, striker El Real Gonzalo Higuain meminta rekan-rekannya untuk mengesampingkan sejenak duel El Clasico, dan memfokuskan diri pada pertandingan kontra FC Zurich di babak penyisihan Grup C Liga Champions, dini hari tadi.

Chelsea akan melakoni laga ketat saat menghadapi tuan rumah FC Porto pada matchday 5 penyisihan Grup D Liga Champions, dini hari nanti. Namun, pelatih The Blues Carlo Ancelotti meminta anak asuhnya untuk tampil tanpa rasa takut, demi mengamankan posisi puncak klasemen.

Liverpool tengah berduka setelah gagal lolos ke babak 16 besar Liga Champions. Namun, pelatih Rafael Benitez meyakini timnnya bakal kembali musim depan. Caranya, dengan mengakhiri musim ini di posisi empat besar, pentas Premier League. Mampukah?

Meski tanpa diperkuat dua pemain bintangnya, Barcelona mampu menghempaskan Inter Milan 2-0 pada babak penyisihan Grup F Liga Champions di Camp Nou.

Fiorentina meraih tiket babak 16 besar Liga Champions untuk pertama kalinya. Prestasi ini menjadi sejarah penting, meski kelak komposisi pemainnya sudah berubah.

Banyak kalangan merasa terkejut dengan kenyataan Liverpool gagal melaju ke babak 16 besar Liga Champions. Namun tidak demikian dengan pelatih Arsenal Arsene Wenger.

Kiper Sebastien Frey berhasil membantu Fiorentina lolos ke babak 16 besar Liga Champions usai menggilas Olympique Lyon 1-0 di Stadion Artemio Franchi,

Pedro Rodriguez mengaku bangga bisa menymbang satu gol yang mengantar timnya menundukkan Inter Milan 2-0, dini hari tadi. Secara keseluruhan, winger muda Blaugrana ini menilai timnya tampil luar biasa.

Russian champions Rubin Kazan failed to really turn the pressure on Champions League holders Barcelona on Tuesday as they were held 0-0 by Dynamo Kiev in their Group F match.

Britain's David Haye will not have his World Boxing Association heavyweight crown diminished by the sanctioning of an interim title fight, Haye promoter Oscar de la Hoya said.

Librado Andrade, whose last-round flurry last year nearly took Lucian Bute's super middleweight title, enters Saturday's rematch confident he will claim the International Boxing Federation crown.

Former Renault chief Flavio Briatore's appeal against a lifetime ban for ordering Nelson Piquet junior to crash at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix began in the High Court in Paris on Tuesday.

France coach Raymond Domenech insisted Tuesday he would never consider quitting his post despite his unpopularity with the French public which has deepened since last week's World Cup play-off furore.

AC Milan coach Leonardo insisted on Tuesday that his team has been buoyed by a recent unbeaten run of nine games ahead of Wednesday's Champions League clash against Marseille.

Sochi residents deplored on Tuesday the manner in which their houses had been seized and destroyed under government orders as the Black Sea resort prepares for hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Paul Hart became the first English Premier League manager to lose his job this season after he was "relieved of his duties" by basement club Portsmouth on Tuesday.

During the 1970s, the Rev. Ed Vischer was a prominent high school basketball coach in Long Island, N.Y., leading powerhouse Lutheran High to a string of state and national rankings.

Lesa France Kennedy stuck with the family business. Now she's the most powerful woman in sports.

Tiger Woods has been making history on and off the course since he joined the PGA Tour in 1996. First up was a record $40 million contract from Nike. The following year he won the Masters by a record 12 strokes, becoming the youngest winner ever and first black player to take the title. His career has been packed full of accomplishments, including major titles (14), annual money titles (9) and Player of the Year awards (9).

China's Fujian Province seems an unlikely place to spawn success in the fresh vegetable business. It's mountainous and craggy, and barely even rates a mention in a recent book on Chinese agriculture. Sun Shaofeng personally isn't the most likely of entrepreneurs, either, having started out as a government bureaucrat. Yet Sun has built China Green of Xiamen into one of the country's best-performing food producers. Total revenue has been increasing by 20% a year, though business this year has been hit by the global recession. Sales in the 12 months to April, the latest figures available, increased by 22% from a year earlier to $227 million.

Yoshinori Shirono has a dependable route to profit: the vanity of women. "Japanese women will save on clothes, food or the cash they give to their husband or father, but they will spend on cosmetics until the end," says Shirono, the dermatologist who started the medically based "cosmeceutical" brand Dr. Ci:Labo in Tokyo ten years ago.

The qualifying stages for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa are drawing to a close. Eleven national teams have already punched their tickets to the tournament next year, including the host country, and dozens more are still scrambling for the remaining 21 spots.

In the late 18th century, British poet William Blake lamented the "dark satanic mills" and squalid urban centers spawned by the industrial revolution. One might expect the recently released American Community Survey to show that, more than 200 years later, large cities are just as filthy as they've always been.

The comeback may be the most thrilling event in sports. One team or player is left for dead, done, kaput, down too many points or games to come back. We are rational beings. We like to believe what we see, that when a game looks over, it is indeed over.