Kemenangan 3-1 atas Osasuna pada laga lanjutan La Liga, Senin (23/11/2009), disambut gembira pelatih Valencia Unai Emery. Emery mengaku puas dengan penampilan ciamik anak buahnya.

Ciro Ferrara mengaku lega meski Juventus hanya mampu mencetak satu gol untuk merebut kemenangan pada laga lanjutan Serie A melawan Udinese yang bergulir di Stadio Olimpico, Turin, dini hari tadi.

Intern Bayern Munich mulai kacau. Hasil buruk dalam beberapa pekan terakhir menjadi pemicu utama. Berbagai cara sudah dilakukan, namun tidak mampu mengembalikan kejayaan klub berjuluk FC Hollywood tersebut.

Pertandingan Timnas Prancis melawan Republik Irlandia pada play-off Piala Dunia 2010 menyisakan berbagai spekulasi. Apalagi kalau bukan handball striker Les Blues Thierry Henry saat menyodorkan umpan kepada bek William Gallas.

Gelandang AC Milan Gennaro Gattuso merupakan salah seorang pemain yang terancam meninggalkan San Siro. Klaim sementara, dia merasa tidak kerasan setelah jarang diberikan kepercayan bermain.

Juventus hanya memberikan kesempatan sekira enam jam kepada AC Milan bertengger sebagai runner-up. The Old Lady kembali mengunci urutan kedua setelah mengalahkan Udinese 1-0 pada lanjutan Serie A.

Striker Thierry Henry terlihat handball saat menyodorkan umpan, beberapa saat menjelang terjadinya gol ketika Timnas Prancis bermain 1-1 melawan Republik Irlandia pada play-off Piala Dunia.

Juara bertahan La Liga Barcelona tergeser dari puncak klasemen sementara setelah mereka hanya bisa bermain imbang 1-1 di markas Athletic Bilbao, padahal di pertandingan sebelumnya Real Madrid sebagai pesaing terdekat sukses menggulung lawannya Racing Santader, Minggu (22/11/2009).

Indianapolis eked out yet another narrow win on Sunday while New Orleans rolled past Tampa Bay as the Colts and Saints remained unbeaten in the National Football League.

World number one Roger Federer is looking forward to the chance for revenge over home favourite Andy Murray in the ATP World Tour Finals in London on Tuesday.

World number one Roger Federer dug deep to begin his ATP World Tour Finals campaign with a hard-fought 4-6, 7-5, 6-1 victory over Spain's Fernando Verdasco on Sunday.

Jermain Defoe scored five goals as Tottenham Hotspur thrashed Wigan Athletic 9-1 at White Hart Lane here on Sunday, a record victory for the hosts in the top-flight.

Jamaican superstar Usain Bolt and Jamaican-born United States 400 metres runner Sanya Richards were named athletes of the year here on Sunday.

AC Milan edged Cagliari in a 4-3 thriller and Juventus laboured to a 1-0 home win over Udinese on Sunday as both Italian giants kept leaders Inter Milan within their sights.

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir hit a couple of pot-holes this weekend on the road to their home-country Olympics in February, but they were still the class of the ice dance field at Skate Canada.

AC Milan moved up to second in Serie A following a sensational 4-3 victory against game Cagliari at the San Siro on Sunday.

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.

This year's list of the best small- and midsize companies throughout the Asia Pacific region is chock-full of survival stories and lessons for entrepreneurs. Unprecedented dislocations in the global economy disrupted supply chains over the past 12 months, froze lines of credit, depleted consumer coffers and sent business spending into hibernation. The 64 companies returning from last year are a testament to fearless management; 136 new entrants have seized opportunities arising from the economic uncertainty.