Real Madrid had two players and coach Jose Mourinho sent off as they were held to a 1-1 draw at Villarreal, offering hope to Barcelona in the race for the Spanish title.
Branislav Ivanovic scored a superb extra-time goal to put Chelsea through to the quarterfinals of the European Champions League, while Real Madrid also progressed Wednesday.
Football star David Beckham talks about his Olympic aspirations and the chemistry with his high profile teammates.
"Arsenal beat Milan 3-0, so we have to believe we can turn it around," says Roberto di Matteo, who'll be running things for Chelsea for the rest of the season. His team actually has a less onerous task than Arsenal, on paper, with a 2-0 win enough to see them through and the mood in camp decidedly different since Andre Villas-Boas was given the boot.
AC Milan are now four points clear at the top of the Italian Serie A table, after goals from Antonio Nocerino and Zlatan Ibrahimovic gave them a 2-0 home win over Lecce on Sunday.
Inter Milan's ended their seven-match winless streak in Serie A with a 2-0 win away to Chievo on Friday.
Clyde Best talks about his time as a pioneer black player in England for CNN's documentary on racism in football.
French international Franck Ribery scored both goals for Bayern Munich in their 2-0 win over Schalke, on Sunday, but the Bavarian giants remain four points behind Bundesliga leaders Borussia Dortmund, who defeated Hanover 3-1.
Ezequiel Lavezzi scored twice and strike partner Edinson Cavani also found the net as Napoli recovered from going a goal behind to beat Chelsea 3-1 in the first leg of their Champions League last 16 tie.
Under-fire Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas has again confirmed he has the full backing of the club's owners -- although he admitted his tenure would be easier if they publicly supported him rather than doing it in private.
Goals from Miguel Britos and Edinson Cavani helped Napoli record their first win in Italy's Serie A since January 8 as the club made ground on the top six on Monday.
A stunning second-half fightback saw 10-man Lazio score three goals to claim a dramatic 3-2 victory over Cesena and climb to third place in Italy's Serie A.
Barcelona survived a late onslaught from rivals Real Madrid to win their Spanish Cup quarterfinal tie 4-3 on aggregate and knock the holders out on Wednesday.
Italian journalist Tancredi Palmeri explains the collapse of Carlos Tevez's expected move from Manchester City to Milan.
Manchester City have gone three points clear at the top of the English Premier League after Edin Dzeko's first-half header proved enough to give them a 1-0 win at bottom club Wigan.
Manchester United and their city rivals Manchester City both made embarrassing exits from the European Champions League on Wednesday.
Unbeaten Juventus returned to the top of Italy's Serie A with a 1-0 win at third-placed Lazio on Saturday.
Twelve Champions League thoughts from Round 5 of the Group Stage:
Napoli stunned Manchester City 2-1 Tuesday to leave the English Premier League leaders struggling to qualify from Group A of the European Champions League.
Lazio went top of Italy's Serie A on Saturday despite drawing 0-0 at fifth-placed Napoli, as champions AC Milan also dropped points.
Manchester City may have announced losses of more than $300 million for last season, but the English club's massive investment in players is paying off on the pitch.
A first-half hat-trick by Lionel Messi helped Barcelona to a 5-0 win over Mallorca at the Nou Camp on Saturday.
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.
Manchester United opened their Champions League campaign with a hard-fought draw against Portugal's Benfica in Group C, whilst their city rivals also earned a point as they made their debut in the competition.
Inter Milan did all they could to keep the pressure up on Serie A leaders AC Milan as they beat lowly Cesena 2-1. But they left it very late.
Napoli's hopes of winning a first Italian Serie A title since 1990 suffered a huge blow on Sunday as European hopefuls Udinese came away from the Stadio San Paolo with a 2-1 victory that ended in controversy.
AC Milan maintained their three-point lead in Serie A after a vital 2-1 win at Fiorentina Sunday night.
What makes a great season? If it's the quality of soccer played, then this has been a dismal year for Serie A, something shown up by the performances of Italian clubs in European competition. Internazionale limps on in the Champions League, somehow in the last eight despite a back line about as well-drilled as a class of 5-year-olds on their first school trip. However, AC Milan and Roma went out in the last 16 and Italian interest in the Europa League ended when Napoli lost to Villarreal in the last 32. Juventus and Palermo didn't even make it out of the groups.
Manchester City thrashed Sunderland 5-0 to keep alive their slim English Premier League title hopes and to cement their position in the top four Champions League places.
Inter Milan capitalized on AC Milan's slip-up to move within two points of their city rivals after a controversial 1-0 win at home to lowly Lecce on Sunday.
When you're heading to what's been called one of the happiest places in the world, it's a good idea to pack many pairs of long black socks.
Inter Milan are once again five points behind rivals AC Milan at the top of the Italian Serie A table after crushing Genoa 5-2 at the San Siro on Sunday.
AC Milan moved five points clear in Italy's Serie A after a 3-0 win at home to title rivals Napoli on Monday.
Villarreal came from behind to beat Napoli 2-1 and reach the last 16 of the Europa League on Thursday.
Before they used to say "You were the champions? Sure, when football didn't even exist, but today they're looking at us in a different light," Edinson Cavani said in an interview in El Pais this month about the impact of Uruguay's World Cup campaign, which saw the country reach fourth place after decades of absence from center stage.
Napoli missed a great chance to cut the gap on Italian league leaders AC Milan after crashing 2-0 at Chievo Verona as favored teams struggled to impress in Wednesday's games.
Inter Milan's faultless record under new coach Leonardo came to an abrupt halt on Sunday as the reigning Serie A champions lost 3-1 to Udinese.
Spanish Cup holders Sevilla cruised into the semifinals with a 3-0 victory over La Liga rivals Villarreal on Tuesday.
AC Milan's Italian league lead was trimmed to four points after Sunday's 4-4 draw with Udinese, as Napoli took advantage with a 3-0 trouncing of Juventus to climb up to second.
Lazio and Napoli have closed the gap on Serie A leaders AC Milan to just three points after victories on Sunday.
AC Milan have increased their Iead at the top of Italian Serie A to six points after a comfortable 3-0 victory at Bologna.
Napoli maintained the pressure on Serie A pacesetters AC Milan and Lazio with a 1-0 away win against Genoa on Saturday night.
Inter Milan manager Rafael Benitez was delighted after the Italian champions ended a morale-boosting week with a 5-2 victory at home to Parma on Sunday which halted a run of four Serie A games without a win.
AC Milan reclaimed second place in Italy's Serie A with a tempestuous 2-1 victory at Napoli on Monday night which saw the home side reduced to 10 men for half the game before a near-brawl erupted late in the match.
Lazio are the new leaders in Serie A after beating Brescia 1-0 on Sunday with champions Inter Milan held to a goalless draw at home to Juventus in the late match.
Inter Milan stayed on course for the treble after beating Lazio 2-0 on Sunday to open up a two-point gap over Roma in the Serie A title race.
Cristiano Ronaldo and Gonzalo Higuain each scored twice as Real Madrid beat city rivals Getafe 4-2 on Thursday to move back above Barcelona at the top of the Spanish Primera Liga table.
AC Milan missed the chance to leapfrog city rivals Inter at the summit of Serie A after being held to a 1-1 draw by Napoli in the San Siro on Sunday.
Barcelona suffered their first league defeat of the season as they went down 2-1 at Atletico Madrid on Sunday night.
Mathieu Flamini scored the winner nine minutes from time as a second-string AC Milan side beat third division Novara 2-1 at the San Siro on Wednesday to reach the Coppa Italia quarterfinals.
Struggling Serie A side Atalanta have appointed Bortolo Mutti as their new coach.
Second-placed Juventus gave Italian leaders Inter Milan the chance to move seven points clear after suffering a 3-2 home defeat by Napoli on Saturday, with striker Amauri sent off late to rub salt in the Turin giants' wounds.
Champions Barcelona bounced back from a dismal week to return to the top of the Spanish league with a 6-1 crushing of Real Zaragoza on Sunday night.
Former Italy coach Roberto Donadoni has paid the price for Napoli's poor start to the season, being sacked by the Serie A club on Tuesday after just seven months in charge.
Inter Milan's new strikers Samuel Eto'o and Diego Milito were on target again as they beat Napoli 3-1 in the San Siro on Wednesday to go top of Serie A.
Inter Milan's lead at the top of Italy's Serie A table was trimmed to seven points on Sunday, after they were beaten 1-0 at Napoli.
It's that time. So why not make a list of things I hope to see in 2009?
Napoli are up to third place in Serie A after a comfortable 3-0 victory at home to Lecce on Saturday.
Italian champions Inter Milan stretched their lead in Serie A after a 2-1 win over fellow title contenders Napoli combined with a 3-1 defeat for city rivals AC Milan at Palermo in Sunday's late game.
AC Milan maintained their Serie A title challenge with a narrow 1-0 win over bottom club Chievo Verona 1-0 on Sunday.
New Argentina coach Diego Maradona has left Boca Juniors striker Juan Roman Riquelme out of his first squad, for the friendly against Scotland in Glasgow on November 19.
AC Milan went top of Serie A for the first time this season after a late own-goal by Argentine forward German Denis gave them a 1-0 victory over 10-man Napoli at the San Siro on Sunday.
As a volunteer activist and lobbyist in South Dakota in the early 1990s, William Napoli went door-to-door to collect signatures to establish term limits for elected officials.
CNN's Chris Lawrence looks at some controversial state ballot initiatives that voters will be considering this election.
He is hailed as a god in his native Argentina, has been a vital part of the country's culture since the mid-70s and is largely considered to be one of the greatest footballers of all time.
Jose Mourinho's reign at Inter Milan suffered another setback on Wednesday night as the defending Italian champions were held 0-0 away to Fiorentina.
Inter Milan drew blank in a goalless draw with 10-man Genoa in Serie A on Sunday as Udinese went top of the table on goal difference with a brilliant 3-1 home win over AS Roma.
Inter Milan clinched a third successive Italian Serie A title in the final match of the season on Sunday, as Zlatan Ibrahimovic came off the bench to net both goals in a 2-0 win at Parma that condemned the home side to relegation.
Is the balance in Italian football shifting south? After a week in which Roma collected three wins, including a stunning victory at Real Madrid in the Champions League, the signs are that the capital's principal club could be in the ascendancy.
Inter Milan celebrated the Italian club's centenary by moving nine points clear at the top of Serie A with a 2-0 victory at home to Reggina on Saturday.
Serie A leaders Inter Milan gave their title chasers a glimmer of hope as they slid to a surprise 1-0 defeat at Napoli on Sunday night.
Udinese remained in fifth place in Italy's Serie A after suffering a 3-1 defeat away to Napoli on Saturday, with both teams having a player sent off.
Juventus and Napoli fans were banned Monday from attending their respective Serie A games this weekend due to concerns by authorities about possible violence.
Juventus suffered a shock 3-1 defeat at Napoli on Saturday to bring an end to their superb start to the Serie A season.
Roma, a goal down in two minutes, went ahead three times before having to settle for a point in a 4-4 draw at home to Napoli in front of a half-empty Stadio Olimpico.
Inter Milan extended their lead in Italy's Serie A to four points after beating Napoli 2-1 on Saturday night.
Italian second division leaders Juventus put their promotion bid back on track with a slender 1-0 home win over Treviso on Tuesday.
Spectators will be allowed into San Siro stadium for Sunday's Serie A match between AC Milan and Livorno after emergency works brought it into line with security regulations.
Police moved in Wednesday to remove people from the beach at Branscombe, Devon, which has seen chaotic looting of goods from a grounded cargo ship.
Police in southwest England are struggling to stop looters from taking away goods that washed ashore from a cargo vessel stranded off the coast in a recent storm.
Scores of people have descended on a British beach to salvage wine and motorcycles washed up from a stricken cargo ship amid a race to prevent an environmental disaster as 200 tons of oil leaked from the vessel.
Parma progressed to the quarterfinals of the Italian Cup when they beat Napoli 3-1 to complete a 3-2 win on aggregate on Thursday.
Juventus midfielder Pavel Nedved has been handed a five-match ban following his sending-off in a Serie B game against Genoa.
Juventus' eight-match winning run in Serie B ended on Monday with a 1-1 draw at Napoli.
AS Roma set up an Italian Cup quarterfinal against Juventus when they beat third division Napoli 2-1 on Wednesday to complete a 5-1 aggregate win.
Napoli's hopes of causing an Italian Cup shock were effectively ended when Roma eased to a 3-0 win in the first leg of their last 16 tie.
Former Italian champions Napoli have been expelled from Serie B because of their financial woes and will find out next month if they can continue in football.
Debt-ridden former Italian champions Napoli have been declared bankrupt, news agency ANSA reported on Monday.
Nicolo Napoli, the Italian coach of Universitatea Craiova, has been fired after just two months in the job.
© 2011 Cable News Network. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
|