Akhir pekan ini, Chelsea akan menjamu rival sekota Arsenal pada lanjutan Premier League. Kendati The Blues saat ini unggul delapan poin atas skuad besutan Arsene Wenger, gelandang Nigeria John Obi Mikel menegaskan pentingnya kemenangan di Stamford Bridge, 29 November mendatang.

Jarang diturunkan sebagai starter di Manchester United menjadi alasan kepergian Carlos Tevez, selain masalah status kontrak. Ironisnya, nasib bomber Argentina di Manchester City tidak akan jauh berbeda. Benarkah?

Kapten Timnas Prancis Thierry Henry terus mengungkapkan penyesalannya atas pelanggaran yang dia lakukan pada play-off Piala Dunia 2010 melawan Republik Irlandia, tengah pekan lalu.

Menurunnya produktivitas gol Manchester United dalam beberapa pekan terakhir menjadi beban pikiran Sir Alex Ferguson. Pelatih 67 tahun mengaku cukup frustrasi dengan jumlah gol yang disarangkan Wayne Rooney dkk ke gawang lawan.

Persiapan Persijap menjelang lawatan ke Bandung dan Palembang masih menyisakan masalah. Dari dua kali uji coba, lini depan yang dihuni duet Pablo Frances dan Noor Hadi kembali kesulitan mengoyak gawang lawan.

Pelatih Tottenham Hotspur Harry Redknapp tidak heran dengan aksi brilian yang ditunjukan Jermaine Defoe pada laga melawan Wigan Athletic. Redknapp sudah mengetahui bakat hebat pemain itu sejak usia 14 tahun.

Pelatih kepala Jaya Hartono harus kembali memutar otak untuk menghadapi lawannya Persitara pada laga kandang kedua, Selasa (24/11/2009) di stadion Si Jalak Harupat. Absennya tiga pemain inti kembali jadi persoalan sulit di kubu Maung Bandung.

Jelang laga klasik antara Real Madrid dan Barcelona akhir pekan ini, kedua kubu terus melancarkan perang urat syaraf. Kali ini, playmaker Brasil Ricardo Kaka yang angkat bicara. Lantas, apa katanya?

Arsene Wenger has played down the significance of his side's first defeat in 14 matches and challenged his players to prove him right in Tuesday's Champions League clash with Standard Liege.

Wigan's shell-shocked players on Monday offered to refund supporters who travelled to London to watch their side being thrashed 9-1 by Tottenham.

A new Spanish team, Ayre Challenge, said on Monday it will take part in the next three editions of the Volvo Race around the world, the world's most gruelling offshore yacht race.

The German Football Federation (DFB) and the German Football League (DFL) announced on Monday the creation of a task force here to probe a betting scandal which has rocked European football.

Jiyai Shin and Lorena Ochoa took their battle for LPGA Player of the Year honors down to the wire on Monday in the rain-disrupted LPGA Championship.

The German Football Federation (DFB) and the German Football League (DFL) announced the creation of a task force here Monday to investigate a betting scandal which has rocked European football.

Italian cyclist Gabriele Bosisio pleaded his innocence at a hearing with the Italian Olympic Committee's Anti-doping prosecutor on Monday.

Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp believes Jermain Defoe has made an unanswerable case for inclusion in England's World Cup squad by becoming only the third player to score five times in a Premier League match.

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.