[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola compared him with MichaelJordan. Stuttgart coach Christian Gross compared him with Diego Maradona. LionelMessi‘s legend grows by the day. Three days after his phenomenal hat trick in Barcelona’s 3-0 win over Valencia, Messi put on another show with two golazos and an assist in Barca’s 5-1 win overStuttgart […]
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SA POLL: Who will win the 2010 UEFA Champions League?
The field is down eight teams in the UEFA Champions League: four former champions and four teams seeking their first title. Who do think will win?
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Terry's car strikes security official
More trouble for John Terry: The English star accidentally struck a Chelsea security official with his car while trying to exit Stamford Bridge Tuesday nightafter the Blues’ 1-0 loss to Inter Milan in the Champions League. The 35-year-old Steve Rowley suffered a badly bruised leg. Terry’s car was going slowly and tryingto avoid a melee of […]
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CSKA Moscow stuns Sevilla
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] First, Real Madrid. Now, Sevilla. Only Barcelona of Spain’s three entrants in the knockout phase of the UEFA Champions League remainsalive and it isn’t assured of beating VfB Stuttgart (TV: Fox Soccer Channel, Wednesday, 3 pm ET). Goalie Andres Palop was the goat for Sevilla, allowingJapanese Keisuke Honda‘s long free kick to […]
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Mourinho: 'The enemy won'
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] There will be no putting down Jose Mourinho, at least not for a while. “The Special One”returned to Stamford Bridge, where he lost only one game in more than three years as Chelsea manager, and led Inter Milan to a 1-0 win that knocked the Blues out of the UEFA Champions League. […]
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UEFA Champions League on the air …
[TV GUIDE] All four midweek UEFA Champions League games — the second legs of round-of-16 series — will again be available live on television. Coverageincludes the Chelsea-Inter Milan game, Inter coach Jose Mourinho‘s first game back at Stamford Bridge, live on Fox Sports Net and Fox Sports en Espanol onTuesday (kickoff: 3:30 pm ET). For […]
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$350 million for what?
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Make that six years in a row Real Madrid has exited the Champions League in the round of 16. Lyon added to Real’s misery, holding theSpanish club to a 1-1 tie in Madrid and going through to the quarterfinals, 2-1, on aggregate. The result is huge for Lyon, France’s richest club with […]
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Rooney challenged to match Ronaldo
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Even with a bad knee, Wayne Rooney was once again too much for AC Milan. The England strikerscored once in each half to give him four goals in two games against Milan — and 30 on the season — and lead Manchester United to a 4-0 win on Tuesday at Old Trafford […]
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Fiorentina haunted by bad call
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Fiorentina’s 20-year-old Montenegrin Stevan Jovetic scored two goals 10 minutes apart in thesecond half but Dutchmen Mark van Bommel and Arjen Robben both scored from distance to give Bayern Munich the two awaygoals it needed to go through to the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League despite its 3-2 loss in Florence. […]
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Wee men lead Arsenal past Porto
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Arsenal might once again finish the season without a trophy, but on nights like Tuesday at the Emirates Stadium the Gunners are sure funto watch. Arsenal got a hat trick from Dane Nicklas Bendtner, a brilliant individual goal by young Frenchman Samir Nasriand a goal by Emmanuel Eboue (set up by Andrey […]