Persitara Jakarta Utara mengalami enam kekalahan beruntun setelah ditekuk Persib Bandung 0-2 di stadion si Jalak Harupat Soreang, Jawa Barat, Selasa (24/11/2009). Laskar si Pitung mulai kehabisan akal untuk bangkit dari keterpurukan.

Isu rasisme kembali mencuat di kancah Serie A. Bomber Inter Milan Mario Balotelli yang jadi korban, langsung mendapat pembelaan dari rekannya di Nerazzurri Samuel Eto'o.

Fiorentina mulai curi-curi pandang kepada gelandang Real Madrid Fernando Gago. Tim besutan pelatih Cesare Prandelli itu tertarik mendatangkannya ke Artemio Franchi pada tengah musim nanti.

Persib Bandung kembali membuktikan ketangguhannya di pentas Liga Super Indonesia. Menjamu Persitara Jakarta Utara, anak-anak asuh Jaya Hartono sukses membukukan keunggulan 2-0, Selasa (24/11/2009).

Satu lagi cerita mencengangkan dibalik perseteruan sengit Barcelona kontra Inter Milan di babak penyisihan grup F Liga Champions. Kali ini terkait fakta perjalanan karir bomber Nerazzurri Mario Balotelli.

Tergusur dari tim inti Real Madrid, gelandang Fernando Gago kini berharap segera bisa 'cabut' dari Santiago Bernabeu. Dia kabaranya tengah harap-harap cemas menanti kepastian peminjaman dari klub lamanya Boca Juniors.

Striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic sangat mengenal katakter dari pelatih Barcelona Josep Guardiola dan arsitek Inter Milan Jose Mourinho. Pemain asal Swedia ini mengatakan perbedaan besar dimiliki keduanya.

Klub bertabur bintang, Real Madrid akan memenuhi undangan Barcelona pada lanjutan La Liga. Kabarnya, hasil dari pertandingan tersebut akan menentukan nasib pelatih Los Galaticos Manuel Pellegrini.

Damien Traille was given the starting job at full back on Tuesday when the French XV to play New Zealand in Marseille on Saturday night was named.

Rory McIlroy said Tuesday he still had his sights set on topping the European money list despite opting to take out a full US PGA card next season.

Wales have recalled experienced scrum-half Dwayne Peel to their starting line-up for Saturday's clash with Australia at the Millennium Stadium.

It would normally be unthinkable -- but it is just possible that holders Barcelona will become the first winners since the 1993 introduction of the Champions League format not to survive the group stages.

Australian budget airline Jetstar apologised on Tuesday after making a Paralympic champion check in his wheelchair before catching a flight, prompting him to drag himself through the airport.

Rob Bironas booted a 53-yard field goal with less than a minute to play as the Tennessee Titans beat the Houston Texans 20-17 Monday for their fourth straight National Football League victory.

Cleveland coach Eric Mangini sparked the ire of Detroit coach Jim Schwartz when he suggested Lions players faked injuries Sunday as a delaying tactic in their 38-37 NFL win over the Browns.

Rafael Nadal said he needed to rediscover his composure when facing crucial points and admitted he was short of confidence in his bid to claim the season-ending World Tour Finals crown.

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.