El Duque&#39;s no sure thing
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Forget about The Curse. And for the moment, forget about the first two games in the American League Championship Series. They&#39;re history now and have little if no impact on what comes next.
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Valencia coach Claudio Ranieriâs job prospects are looking increasingly bleak after a goalless draw at home to Real Zaragoza. Ranieri was given a vote of confidence after last Sundayâs defeat by Getafe
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Barcelona coach Frank Rijkaard maintain&#39;s his team is still no certainty of lifting the Spanish league, despite its emphatic victory over Real Madrid.
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It&#39;s hard to decide whether this fixture is a quaint anachronism, a free-flowing tribute to the game&#39;s glorious, money-free past or naked commercial opportunism.
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HE&#39;S the man seem-ingly no-one in Liverpool knows anything about - and who&#39;ll now have to wait a little longer before attempting to endear himself to a curious Anfield crowd.
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Alex Ferguson gave a prediction yesterday. It was a typically audacious, not to say defiantly arrogant. It was also almost a definition of self-belief - as in, you have to believe, because surely no-one else will.
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The US men&#39;s national soccer team, holding a slim lead atop the CONCACAF region&#39;s Group 1, faces a tricky test today as it meets an El Salvador team battling to stay alive.
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They have now been transferred to Madrid, El Mundo added, but did not say what charges they would face. Police and court officials could.
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MEXICO CITY, Sept. 1 -- For weeks, one question dominated political talk in Mexico: Would he or wouldn't he?
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Curt Schilling&#39;s status is uncertain. His usefulness is unclear. His dream of delivering a World Series championship to the Boston Red Sox may now be unrealistic.
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There are two letters Oscar De La Hoya has never been able to decipher, and he cannot use dyslexia as an excuse. X&#39;s and O&#39;s look the same whether they&#39;re on their sides, upside down or backwards.
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Another game, another postseason classic. It will be news if the Red Sox and Yankees ever play a yawner. Last night certainly does not qualify.
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John Olerud isn&#39;t sure whether he&#39;ll be wearing a Yankees uniform come Opening Day 2005, but the first baseman isn&#39;t ruling out that option.
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Recent games between Real Madrid and Valencia have gone a long way to determining the fate of the Spanish league title. But perhaps not this season.
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There is an air of uncertainty surrounding Maryland, which thus far has provided no evidence that it's capable of defeating an elite opponent on the road.
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RAFAEL BENITEZ cannot afford to feel too down-hearted this morning. Not with spirits to raise before Sunday&#39;s daunting encounter with champions Arsenal.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. -- No matter how hard anyone tries to predict what will happen at baseball&#39;s annual winter meetings (hereafter referred to as the &quot;Big Crap Shoot,&quot; or BCS), no one can know, with any degree of certainty, what really will go down.