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All Eyes on Mourinho in Champions League Final

Never mind the fact that Saturday's Champions League final pits the current champions of Italy and Germany vying for their third major trophy of the season. Never mind, either, that the match between Inter Milan and Bayern Munich at the Bernabeu in Madrid serves as a perfect preview of next month's World Cup. The...

Mourinho, Inter KO Chelsea

Jose Mourinho vs. Chelsea, need we say any more? The Portuguese manager going up against his ex-club at Stamford Bridge would ooze with intrigue even if it were a lowly youth team reserve match. Tuesday the stakes were just a wee bit higher when Mourinho brought his Inter Milan club into West London carrying a 2-1...

Mourinho Goes Home Again in Champions League

Two weeks ago soccer fans across the planet were hypothesizing all sorts of crazy conspiracy theories for the 2010 World Cup draw. As it turned out, unless you live on Portugal, you don't have much beef with Sepp Blatter and the rest of his FIFA cronies. (Draw host Charlize Theron gets an understandable pass.) That said,...

Real Madrid Avoids English Clubs in Champions League Draw

Let's face it, the European method of pulling names out from the proverbial hat to determine the pairings for its knockout competitions is, well, a foreign concept. About the only Stateside comparison is the selection committee drawing up the NCAA Tournament brackets every March. To whit, Thursday in Monaco, UEFA staged...

Manchester United and Their Fans Both Take a Beating

Two things you don't have to happen when you make a road trip to watch your favorite team play: One, your team loses. And two, you get billy-clubbed in the head repeatedly by Italian cops in riot gear. Many Manchester United fans experienced both of those unpleasant sensations today. United lost 2-1 to Roma, and...