Champs Play Catch-up as Title Hopes Dim
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Setting their sights on the ultimate European club prize may be an honorable quest but not when at the expense of the Bundesliga title they already hold.
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The menâs soccer team at the University of Massachusetts is two victories away from a national championship, sixteen years after it was supposed to be dismantled.
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Brian Lara hopes his improving West Indies can raise their game again on the way to the semi-finals of the ICC Champions Trophy. Lara is not about to get carried away with yesterday&#39;s predictable landslide
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North champion Andover is gone, having moved up to challenge the heavyweights of Division 1. That opens the door for other contenders, starting with Lynnfield , which lost to Andover, 7-1, in the sectional final.
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Momentum does not appear to play a big role in determining a World Series champion. For every example of a team that seemed to feed off its recent success, there is a counterexample.
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OâNeill in denial over red cards as Rangers close the gap in title race. THERE was a first Old Firm Premierleague win in almost two years for Rangers at Ibrox yesterday; a 2-0 victory that ended a run of
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TRADING victories like heavyweight boxers swapping mighty punches, Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester United are locked in a championship race in which every lost point will be seized upon as a sign of frailty.
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The Revolution have overcome long odds to reach the Major League Soccer playoffs the last two seasons. But, after their 3-2 loss to the MetroStars Saturday night, their chances of continuing that trend seem to be fading.
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The Braves may still have a hard time making the playoffs, despite their most remarkable comeback of the season yesterday. So they went ahead and celebrated as though this one was for a championship.
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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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Nobody attaches much importance to the title of &quot;fall champion&quot; in the Bundesliga, but it does have statistical value. The team in the lead halfway through the season more often than
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Defeat can leave a bitter taste -- especially when it comes in the last game of the season. After losing last season's Foster-Hinman championship game, 33-18, to Brunswick, on the heels of a perfect ISL season, Middlesex was left to ponder that sour taste over the course of a long offseason.
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ONCE more, victory proved a bridge too far for Norwich City, but a successful fightback after a dismal start will have given Nigel Worthington the belief that his team are moving closer to an overdue first win.
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Goals from Djibril Cisse and Milan Baros secured a 2-0 victory over last year&#39;s beaten finalists Monaco in a Group A game. Monaco looked a shadow of the side that made it all the way to the rinal last May, but
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NORTON -- Defeating a team is one thing, reminding an opponent how the team got to be 5-0 is something few teams accomplish.
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It was supposed to be the end of one-sided matches in the Champions Trophy. The final round of group games in the &#39;mini World Cup&#39; was when the big guns faced each other in a shoot-out for a semi-final berth.
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HAVEN, Wis. -- Surely, they had their chances. Most definitely, they had experience. But for Phil Mickelson and Ernie Els , the season's fourth major championship rekindled so many past heartaches.