Cristiano Ronaldo scored two penalties as Real Madrid beat ten-man Athletic Bilbao 4-1 to maintain their five-point lead over arch rivals Barcelona at the top of the Spanish league.
Holders Real Madrid progressed to the quarterfinals of the Spanish Cup after Tuesday's 1-0 win at Malaga sealed a 4-2 aggregate victory.
Spanish league leaders Real Madrid came from two goals down to score a dramatic 3-2 home win over Malaga in Tuesday's Copa del Rey round of 16 first-leg tie.
Cristiano Ronaldo helped Real Madrid move three points clear in Spain ahead of the winter break with his fifth hat-trick this season in Saturday's 6-2 win at Sevilla, as both teams had a player sent off.
Udinese have gone top of Itay's Serie A after a 2-1 home win over Chievo, with champions Milan missing out on top spot after being held 2-2 at Bologna.
Tottenham moved up to third in the English Premier League as Emmanuel Adebayor helped welcome manager Harry Redknapp back to the dugout with both goals in Monday's 2-0 win against Aston Villa.
Valencia moved above local rivals Levante to claim third place in Spain's La Liga after a 2-0 away victory in Saturday's derby clash.
Every now and again soccer players talk like soccer fans. It doesn't happen very often -- years in the game see to that, familiarity too -- but sometimes their eyes widen and enthusiasm flows; sometimes, they too look at another player and can't help smiling. There are moments in which even those inside the game offer the simplest of descriptions: "wow, what a player he is."
New Inter Milan coach Claudio Ranieri suffered his first defeat on Saturday as Joel Obi was sent off in an ill-tempered 3-0 home reverse against new Serie A leaders Napoli.
Two of Malaga's big-name pre-season signings engineered the Spanish club's first win of the new La Liga season on Monday.
Real Madrid began their Spanish Primera Liga campaign in style on Sunday, as Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat-trick in a 6-0 demolition of Real Zaragoza.
Players in the top two tiers of the Spanish league have announced they are to go on strike for the first two weekends of the season.
It's the final of the Champions league in the Rosaleda and Málaga are playing. A man dashes into the stadium, looking for somewhere to sit but the place is absolutely jam-packed. Suddenly, he sees a solitary empty seat out of the corner of his eye. As he approaches, the woman next it says: "you can sit here if you want." The man is grateful, but confused. After all, how did the seat come to be empty? "It's OK," the woman says, "it was my husband's."
Spanish La Liga side Malaga have continued their recruitment drive with the purchases of French midfielder Jeremy Toulalan from Lyon and experienced Dutch central defender Joris Mathijsen from Hamburg.
Military checkpoints line the long and winding road from the airport in Cali, Colombia, to the coastal city of Buenaventura.
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Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice to break the record for goals in a La Liga season as Real Madrid routed Almeria 8-1 in the Bernabeu Saturday night.
Cristiano Ronaldo scored his second hat-trick in successive matches to help Real Madrid thrash city neighbors Getafe 4-0 on Tuesday and keep alive their slim hopes of winning the Spanish Primera Liga title.
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A 25-year-old Spanish man has been ordered by a judge to leave home and look for a job after he took his parents to court for stopping his allowance money.
Getafe became the third Spanish football club to pass into foreign ownership on Thursday after signing a deal with Dubai's Royal Emirates Group.
Real Madrid could be without star striker Cristiano Ronaldo for the next three weeks due to the Portugal captain's hamstring injury.
French international Karim Benzema scored twice for Real Madrid as Jose Mourinho's side defeated Racing Santander 3-1 in the Spanish Primera Liga on Sunday.
Cristiano Ronaldo grabbed a hat-trick as Real Madrid crushed Malaga 7-0 to close the gap on Spanish league leaders Barcelona.
AC Milan moved five points clear in Italy's Serie A after a 3-0 win at home to title rivals Napoli on Monday.
La Liga leaders Barcelona returned to winning ways with a 3-0 home victory over Racing Santander on Saturday, extending their advantage over second-placed rivals Real Madrid to seven points.
A late equalizer from Esteban Granero spared Real Madrid's blushes on Sunday night as they struggled to a 1-1 draw with bottom-placed Almeria at the Estadio del Mediterraneo.
David Villa continued his remarkable scoring run against Deportivo La Coruna as Spanish champions Barcelona won 4-0 on Saturday night to move five points clear in La Liga.
Barcelona battled into the quarterfinals of the Copa Del Rey on Wednesday night as veteran French defender Eric Abidal scored his first goal for the Spanish champions in a 1-1 draw at Athletic Bilbao.
Karim Benzema and Cristiano Ronaldo both scored hat-tricks as Real Madrid thrashed Levante 8-0 in the first leg of their Spanish Copa del Rey last-16 tie on Wednesday.
Real Madrid kept up the pressure on La Liga rivals Barcelona on Sunday with a 1-0 win over Sevilla at the Bernabeu.
Espanyol continued their 100 percent home record on Sunday, beating Hercules 3-0 to move up to fourth in the table, one point ahead of Valencia.
"F------ anxiety!" Cristiano Ronaldo was walking through the mixed zone at l'Abbé Deschamps stadium in Auxerre, France, on Sept. 28 when he uttered those words in Spanish. On one side of the barrier, the media were gathered, packed in, waiting. On the other, Ronaldo walked straight past, refusing to stop, refusing to talk. As he went by, slipping behind the board splashed with sponsors' names, he did spit out two words by way of justification, vindication or retaliation.
One of Real Madrid's top officials has distanced the Spanish club from reports that it will launch a big-money January raid on Manchester United's prize asset Wayne Rooney.
Palermo secured their first win of the Serie A season with a shock 3-1 defeat of Juventus in the Stadio Olimpico in Turin.
Italian striker Giuseppe Rossi helped himself to a double as Villarreal secured their first Spanish Primera Liga win of the season with a 4-0 thumping of Espanyol on Sunday.
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Lionel Messi scored his 33rd and 34th goals of the season as Barcelona crushed Valladolid 4-0 to retain their Spanish Primera Liga title by three points from Real Madrid, who were held 1-1 at Malaga on Sunday.
Barcelona left it late before struggling to a 2-1 victory at home to Malaga on Saturday night that restored the defending Spanish champions to the top of the table.
Goal machine Cristiano Ronaldo scored two first half goals in quick succession to power Real Madrid to a 2-0 win over Malaga in the Bernabeu, but also earned his second red card of the season.
Lionel Messi grabbed a brilliant hat-trick as Barcelona routed Tenerife 5-0 on Sunday to maintain their two-point advantage at the top in the Spain's La Liga over arch rivals Real Madrid.
Sevilla squandered a golden opportunity to take a rare glimpse of the summit in the Spanish league after being held 2-2 at home by 10-man strugglers Malaga on Saturday night.
Real Madrid and Barcelona maintained their perfect starts to the Spanish season with comfortable fifth round victories on Saturday.
Champions League hopefuls Sevilla suffered a disastrous start to the Spanish season as striker Fredi Kanoute was sent off in the 2-0 defeat at Valencia on Sunday.
Samuel Eto'o missed a penalty as Barcelona's title celebrations fell flat on Sunday when they slipped to a 2-1 defeat at Real Mallorca 24 hours after becoming Spanish champions.
Three goals from captain Raul Gonzalez helped Real Madrid come from behind to complete a 4-2 home win over Sevilla on Sunday, closing the gap with arch-rivals Barcelona to four points at the top of the Premira Liga.
Barcelona continued their free-scoring form with a 6-0 thrashing of Malaga which maintains their six-point lead at the top over Real Madrid.
Valencia's Champions League ambitions suffered a huge setback when they crashed to a shock 3-1 defeat against strugglers Real Mallorca on Sunday.
Second half goals by Lionel Messi and substitute Seydou Keita saw Barcelona go three points clear in the Spanish Primera Liga after their ninth successive victory.
Barcelona stretched their winning run to 12 matches in all competitions with a 4-1 thumping of Malaga in the Spanish Primera on Saturday.
David Villa sent Valencia to the top of the Spanish Primera Liga by scoring both goals in a 2-0 win at Malaga.
Jose Maria "Guti" Gutierrez scored the 5,000th Spanish league goal in Real Madrid's history to help the defending champions beat newly-promoted Numancia 4-3 on Sunday for their first win of the season.
Spanair, the airline involved in a crash this week that killed 154 people in Madrid, had another technical problem Sunday
A Spanair MD-82 jet made an unscheduled landing at an airport in southern Spain Sunday, just five days after another MD-82 operated by the airline crashed at Madrid's airport killing 154 people, Spain's airport authority said.
While protests mount against Spain's archetypal sport, aficionados have begun exporting the game -- even to China
Spain's Carlos Sainz won the second stage of the Dakar Rally on Sunday, ahead of Mitsubishi's Nani Roma and defending champion Luc Alphand.
Third division Rayo Vallecano dumped holders Espanyol out of the King's Cup in the fourth round on Wednesday, progressing 2-1 on aggregate.
All 189 riders in the 2006 Tour of Spain, which starts this Saturday in the southern coastal city of Malaga, have passed health checks without any problems.
The removal of two young British Asians from a holiday flight last week because fellow passengers were suspicious of them has been condemned by British parliamentarians.
In 2005, 30 million bags were either temporarily or permanently misplaced in transit.
Valencia prevented Barcelona from wrapping up the Primera Liga title for a second week in a row when they claimed a comfortable 3-0 win over struggling Alaves.
Barcelona were denied the chance of wrapping up the Spanish title when a stunning hat-trick from David Villa gave Valencia a 3-0 win at Athletic Bilbao.
Barcelona's steady progress towards the Primera Liga title faltered as they were held to a goalless draw at basement side Malaga.
Real Sociedad sacked coach Jose Maria Amorrortu because of the side's poor run of form, the Primera Liga club said on Monday.
Barcelona moved 12 points clear in the Primera Liga as Lionel Messi scored twice in a 3-0 win at Real Mallorca on Sunday - their 14th straight league win.
An 18-year-old suspected Spanish hacker who allegedly breached the top-secret computer security of a U.S. Navy base in San Diego has been arrested, according to the Spanish Civil Guard.
Former world rally champion Carlos Sainz recorded his second successive stage victory on the second day of the Dakar Rally in Alcoutim, Portugal on Sunday.
Ten players were sent off in Sunday's Spanish Primera Liga games, bringing the weekend tally of dismissals to 12.
Midfield men David Lopez and Inaki Munoz scored the goals which sent Osasuna back to the top of the Primera Liga as they maintained their 100 percent home record by defeating Espanyol 2-0.
Cameroon international Pierre Webo scored in the third minute of stoppage time to give Osasuna a 3-2 win over Athletic Bilbao, which sent them top of the Spanish league.
Former Barcelona and Spain striker Dani wants to leave Espanyol, saying he is unhappy after just one season at the Primera Liga club.
Barcelona are within touching distance of their first league title in six years after a storming 2-0 victory over last season's champions Valencia at the Mestalla on Sunday.
Ludovic Giuly scored twice as Barcelona closed to within three wins of a first Primera Liga title since 1999 with a 4-0 away victory over Malaga on Sunday.
Fiorentina have signed Bulgarian striker Valeri Bojinov from Italian Serie A rivals Lecce for a reported fee of 13 million euros ($16.95m).
Ronaldo scored twice as Real Madrid continued their perfect record under new coach Wanderley Luxemburgo by winning 3-0 away to neighbors Atletico and edging to second place in the Spanish table.
Brazilian midfielder Fredson Camara scored twice with headers to help Espanyol to a 4-1 victory over Osasuna and lift them into fourth place in the Spanish league.
Defending champions Valencia extended their unbeaten run to six games as they beat nine-man Espanyol 3-0 to go second behind Barcelona in Spain.
A stunning last-gasp strike from Argentine midfielder Santiago Solari gave Real Madrid a 2-1 extra-time victory over Tenerife on another night of upsets in the King's Cup.
The pressure increased on Valencia coach Claudio Ranieri after the reigning Spanish Primera Liga champions went down 1-0 at lowly Getafe on Sunday.
Real Zaragoza maintained their excellent start to the season with a 4-3 home win over Albacete.
Santiago Perez, of the Phonak team, won the 167km 14th stage of the Tour of Spain cycling race from Malaga to here on Saturday and dedicated it to his fiancee who died two years ago.
Title hopefuls Deportivo Coruna needed a late Walter Pandiani header to claim a 1-1 draw with 10-man Espanyol on the opening day of the Spanish league.
Malaga coach Juande Ramos has announced he is leaving the Spanish side because of their lack of ambition.
Spanish police have arrested three more suspects in connection with the deadly Madrid train bombings last month, according to a National Court spokeswoman.
Ronaldo was on target but also picked up a booking as Real Madrid maintained their two-point lead at the top of the Primera Liga with a 2-1 home win over Malaga.
Brazilian striker Ricardo Oliveira grabbed a hat-trick as Valencia made a spectacular return to winning form with a crushing 6-1 victory away at Malaga.
Teenage midfielder Andres Iniesta netted an early goal Wednesday as Barcelona beat Second Division Levante 3-1 and reached the Copa del Rey quarterfinals on a 3-2 aggregate score.
Real Sociedad ended a dramatic slump in form by coming from behind to win 2-1 at Malaga on Sunday for their first victory in 10 Primera Liga outings.
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