Cedera kambuhan membuat performa Mohamed Sissoko terus merosot. Namun, gelandang Juventus itu tidak menyerah dan berjuang keras untuk sembuh.

Jose Antonio Reyes punya trik khusus demi memenangkan hati fans Los Colchoneros. Yakni, melumat Real Madrid.

Arsene Wenger punya andil besar pada perjalanan karier Emmanuel Adebayor. Striker Manchester City itu sangat berterima kasih.

Guti gagal masuk formasi starting XI pada derby Real Madrid vs Atletico petang ini. Manuel Pellegrini memutuskan menempatkannya di bangku cadangan. Mengapa?

Lini bertahan rupanya hangat jadi sorotan. Bukan hanya Sir Alex Ferguson yang mencermati barisan bek Setan Merah, Arsene Wenger malah yakin barisan belakangnya bakal menjadi lini bertahan paling rapi di antara tim berkelas Premier League.

Barcelona melemah? Demikian penilaian sejumlah pihak setelah Los Azulgrana menimbang hasil seri dengan Osasuna dan Rubin Kazan, pekan lalu. Menanggapi hal ini, pelatih tim Pep Guardiola hanya tertawa.

Tampil fantastis bersama AC Milan, Alexandre Pato pun mengusung ambisi tinggi. Bomber 20 tahun berhasrat menyandingkan Scudetto serta trofi Liga Champions untuk Il Diavolo.

Pernyataan Xabi Alonso baru-baru ini bisa jadi akan menyulut kemarahan Liverpudlian. Gelandang anyar Real Madrid serta mantan bintang Liverpool menyayangkan keengganan Fernando Torres hijrah ke Spanyol.

South Africa assistant coach Dick Muir admitted he had never seen such a poor performance from a Springbok front five as the world champions went down to a shock defeat to Leicester.

Australia coach Robbie Deans will be under particular pressure to deliver a victory when the Wallabies face an injury-hit England at Twickenham on Saturday in the first leg of their grand slam tour.

An in-form Didier Drogba is capable of ruffling the feathers of even the most confident defences.

British challenger David Haye insists he will be the first fighter to knock out WBA heavyweight champion Nikolai Valuev here on Saturday.

LeBron James scored a game-high 33 points and nine assists to power the Cleveland Cavaliers to their sixth-consecutive victory over the New York Knicks with a 100-91 win.

Italy will head into the Fed Cup final against the United States here this weekend as the overwhelming favourites with both Williams sisters missing from the visitors' line-up.

New Zealand will bid to extend a winning streak of 20 games spread over 56 years when they take on Wales at the Millennium Stadium here on Saturday.

Champions Inter Milan host AS Roma at the San Siro at the weekend while AC Milan travel to the capital to take on Lazio as the Serie A title race reaches a key stage.

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.