A Cristiano Ronaldo header set Real Madrid on their way to a 4-0 win at home to 10-man Racing Santander on Saturday that stretched their advantage over second-placed Barcelona to 13 points at the top of La Liga. Ronaldo’s sixth-minute goal from a clever Kaka assist was his 28th of the season in the league, [...]
Real Madrid moved 13 points clear at the top of La Liga with a 4-0 win over Racing Santander at the Bernabeu Stadium on Saturday. Karim Benzema scored twice as Madrid notched up their 18th win in 19 matches since the end of September. The hosts went ahead in the sixth minute as Cristiano Ronaldo [...]
Barcelona’s bid for a fourth straight La Liga title is foundering due to their erratic away form but Tuesday’s 3-1 Champions League victory at Bayer Leverkusen suggests they are unlikely to suffer the same problem in Europe. Winning a lucrative third continental crown in four years is the obvious priority for the Catalan club, especially [...]
Superstar Lionel Messi admitted he was relieved to leave here with the 3-1 win over Bayer Leverkusen which puts Barcelona on the verge of the Champions League quarter-finals after the Round of 16, first-leg clash. Holders Barcelona took a giant step towards the last eight on Tuesday with a convincing win following a slow start [...]
Carlos Tevez will resume his Manchester City career despite accusing Roberto Mancini of treating him “like a dog” in the incident that sparked their rift. Tevez is to return to Manchester from Argentina, where he has been without City’s permission since 7 November. The Argentine has not played since boss Mancini accused him of refusing [...]
India’s cancer-stricken World Cup hero Yuvraj Singh has vowed to return ‘stronger than ever’ to competitive cricket, saying he was responding well to treatment in the United States. The ace all-rounder, named man of the tournament after India’s World Cup win in April last year, is currently undergoing chemotherapy for a rare condition, mediastinal seminoma, [...]
Pakistan’s cricket team put its numerous problems behind them through consistent performances as they wiped out the world’s best team England 3-0 with captain Misbah-ul Haq aiming to move on to further heights. Bedevilled by the spot-fixing scandal of 2010, which ended in lengthy bans and ultimately jail terms for three of its key players—Salman [...]
Novak Djokovic won the top individual honor at the 2012 Laureus Sports Awards on Monday, and Barcelona captured the team prize. The top-ranked Djokovic won sportsman of the year at the ceremony in London, one week after the Serbian triumphed at the Australian Open to become the fifth man in the Open era to win [...]
Say what you like about the umpire decision review system (and many do), it certainly moves the game on these days. Wickets tumbled here, 16 of them, and the lbw count rose ever higher like a stock exchange bull market: a further nine on Friday to go with the 26 already accumulated to the umpires’ [...]
Defending champion Novak Djokovic battled past Rafael Nadal in an epic, five-set Australian Open final which clocked in at 5hr 53min—the longest title match in grand slam history—early Monday. Djokovic fought back from losing the first set to take a 2-1 lead, but he was then taken to a gripping fifth set by resurgent Nadal [...]