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  • Real Madrid Now 8 Points Behind Barcelona in Spanish La Liga

    Four matches into the season, and Real Madrid are 8 points behind the league leaders, Barcelona. In Spain, that means they’re pretty much not allowed to lose anymore points in this title race, already losing two matches, something that took them an entire season last year to accumulate.

  • Manchester United – Celebration of Old (Giggs & Scholes) and New (Buttner & Powell)

    A day of celebrating milestones and debut goals at Old Trafford, as Manchester United romped to a 4-0 win over Wigan, scoring everything in the second half. Paul Scholes scored the opener on his 700th appearance for Manchester United; Ryan Giggs played in his 600th Premier League match; Alexander played and scored on his debut.

  • English Premier League – Match Week 4 Predictions

    English Premier League – Match Week 4 Predictions

    Match week 4 of the 2012-2013 English Premier League season will kick off on Saturday with Norwich hosting West Ham in the opening fixture, while the champions Manchester City travel to Stoke, Manchester United hope to have it easy against Wigan at home, Chelsea face QPR in a London derby and a John Terry – Anton Ferdinand face off and Liverpool hope to get their first win in Sunderland.

  • FC Barcelona – The Cost of Building the Current Squad

    FC Barcelona – The Cost of Building the Current Squad

    While most people view Barcelona as a club that mostly uses home grown talent (which is true, to an extent), the current crop of purchased players, beginning with Eric Abidal in 2007, the only pre-Guardiola player outside player still with the squad, cost €211.5 million to assemble, including David Villa (the most expensive signing in the history of the club), Cesc Fabregas and Dani Alves.

  • Transfer Rumors 2012 – Manchester United After Alvaro Vadillo, the New Cristiano Ronaldo

    It’s never enough to buy just one or two wonder kids, and Manchester United aren’t shy of packing their youth stables with talented players. Next on the shortlist? Alvaro Vadillo, the 18 year old Spanish winger who plays for Real Betis, already labeled as the new Cristiano Ronaldo, who made a move to Old Trafford at around the same age nine years ago.

  • Real Madrid – New Champions League Kit Looks Like an Old Liverpool One

    It looks like Adidas haven’t been really working hard on giving Real Madrid a new and original look for their new alternate Champions League kit. In fact, especially with Xabi Alonso modelling the new outfit, it looks like something Liverpool, another Adidas club and Alonso’s former team, wore a few years back.

  • UConn Basketball – Life After Jim Calhoun

    We know who’s going to replace Jim Calhoun as the UConn Huskies head coach – Kevin Ollie, who played under Calhoun for four seasons (1991-1995) before going on to play in the NBA for over a decade as a backup point guard. But after 26 years of mostly successful times, it’s hard seeing anyone making the quick transition, continuing a legacy of excellence.

  • Financial Fair Play – What About Chelsea, Manchester City & PSG

    In the list of clubs published by UEFA, we didn’t see the names of any of the continent’s big spenders, specifically not PSG, Chelsea and Manchester City, who stand out among the rest of Europe’s big clubs because of their inability (at the moment) to generate sufficient funds without the help of their owners dipping into their own pockets.

  • FC Barcelona – Dealing With the Andres Iniesta Injury

    The next couple of weeks have Barcelona travelling to Getafe (this weekend), playing Spartak Moscow in the Champions League and at home against Granada. There have been tougher schedules, so the Andres Iniesta could have come at worse times, but the man who’ll fill his place, Cesc Fabregas, is the one some are worried about.

  • Real Madrid – Cristiano Ronaldo About Winning, Not Contracts

    One year it’s about winning and not scoring, this season it’s about achievements and not contracts. Cristiano Ronaldo returns to Real Madrid after the international break, putting the unhappy remarks and sadness behind him, focused on the matches against Sevilla and Manchester City, while addressing the fans, calming them down.