Top teams maintain pace
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Damien Duff scored to lead Chelsea to a 1-0 victory over Aston Villa yesterday in English soccer&#39;s Premier League. With the win, Chelsea remained in top spot, five points ahead of the competition as three teams chasing Chelsea also won.
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Teams keep score in different ways. The Chicago Bears will not always beat you. But they will always beat you up.
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With the top teams in each of the three divisions squaring off, it was a pretty good night to be a second-place team.
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Inter Milan, Chelsea and AC Milan stayed perfect on Wednesday as the Champions League group stage reached the halfway mark.
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Based on their track record, the Revolution should be preparing for a strong MLS playoff run. The team has made a habit of sprinting to the regular-season finish line since the 2002 season, compiling records of 5-0-1, 5-0-1, 3-3-0, and 2-2-2 in the final six games of the last four seasons .
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Nothing changed at the top of Serie A as all top teams won their games to keep the distance between one another unaltered. Juventus came back from behind against Lazio to win thanks to another goal by Ibrahimovic
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Arsenal has retained its two-point lead at the top of the English Premier League on a day when, of the 16 teams in action, only Liverpool and Newcastle United scored more than once.
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Teams often try to establish the running game early in hopes of wearing down the opposition and eating up the clock. Boston English accomplished both in the first half yesterday, rushing for 129 yards and chewing up 14:54.
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THERE can&#39;t be many times when the only unbeaten team in the division goes into a match with the leaders with 15 points to make up.
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The finish line is months away. The division lead would not vanish in a night. Steve Nash did not have to do what he did Thursday.
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It is early in the season for a decisive match, yet Inter Milan-Juventus on Sunday is shaping up as exactly that. Serie A leader Juventus stands 15 points ahead of Inter, but both teams see the meeting as key to their season.
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INTER MILAN continued their stunning start to the season and top Champions League Group G with a perfect record. A scintilating second-half, with goals from Dejan Stankovic, Christian Vieri Andy Van der Meyde
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By Douglas A. Kaid, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Jan. 31--LAKEWOOD RANCH -- Sometimes the other team is simply better. It's a tough thing to admit for competitors who spend all season trying to convince themselves they can't be beaten if they play their best.
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The St. Louis Cardinals can still manufacture runs, just as the franchise's heralded teams of the 1980s did. Only now, the scores come so fast, so frequent, they appear to be rolling off an assembly line.
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One thing to remember about the playoffs is that it isn&#39;t always the best team that wins, but the team that plays the best in October.
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It was a case of as you were at the top of the English Premier League with all top four clubs recording victories on Sunday.
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Holy Cross won last week's game against Harvard with 19 seconds to play. Yesterday's game against Patriot League foe Georgetown was over long before that.