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Column: Only 1 athlete of the year in 2012, Messi
'Tis the season for making merry and for choosing our top sports men and women of the year, two distinctly separate annual rituals that in fact ...
Messi breaks 40-year record with 86th goal of 2012
Lionel Messi broke German great Gerd Mueller's 40-year-old record for most goals in a year by scoring for the 86th time in 2012 on Sunday.
Messi, Ronaldo, Wambach up for FIFA awards
Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Andres Iniesta are the finalists for FIFA's world player of the year award. They were picked from a list of 23 ...
Inter and Milito head AP Global Soccer 10 poll
Inter Milan moved to the top of the AP Global 10 soccer rankings by The Associated Press on Tuesday, replacing Barcelona after ending Juventus' ...
Global Soccer 10 List
The Associated Press' inaugural AP Global Soccer 10 for the week ending Oct. 20. Voting is by an 18-member panel of international soccer writers: ...
Messi leads inaugural AP soccer poll
The Associated Press has released its inaugural AP Global Soccer 10 rankings, with Lionel Messi voted the best soccer player in the world and his ...
Column: Ronaldo should edge Messi for Ballon d'Or
This time a year ago, the race between Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo for the world player of 2011 award wasn't a race at all, with the Argentine ...
La Liga, Serie A vanish for many US viewers
Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo's league matches will disappear from the television sets of many American soccer fans, starting this weekend.
Column: Boring? Winning is everything for Spain
Miraculously, even out here amid the belching smokestacks and coal mines on the furthermost eastern fringes of Europe, someone had the foresight to ...
Spain tops Portugal in shootout to make Euro final
Still not pretty to watch, still just as effective. Spain again failed to dazzle at the European Championship yet still advanced to its third straight ...
EURO 2012 LIVE: Spain beats Portugal on pens
Spain beat Portugal 4-2 in a penalty shootout on Wednesday to reach the final of Euro 2012. The match ended 0-0 after extra-time. The Spanish will now ...
Column: A mournful lament for a fabulous Euro 2012
With Germans wowing like Brazilians, the attack-minded Italians shedding their defensive skins and the Spanish hogging the ball to suffocate opponents ...
Spain beats France 2-0 to reach semifinals
Even if Spain failed to live up to expectations, Xabi Alonso exceeded them. The defending champions, who are trying to win a third straight major ...
EURO 2012 LIVE: Spain vs. France
It's Spain versus France for a place in the European Championship semifinals on Saturday — the most anticipated match of the tournament so far.
Portugal in semis; tops Czechs 1-0 on Ronaldo goal
After his powerful header lifted Portugal into the semifinals of the European Championship, Cristiano Ronaldo looked ahead at the possibilities, not ...
EURO 2012 LIVE: Czech Rep. 0 Portugal 1
In the first quarterfinal at Euro 2012, Portugal beat the Czech Republic 1-0 on Thursday. Here is a running account of the action. All times are local ...
Germany advances after 2-1 win over Denmark
Germany advanced to the European Championship quarterfinals without playing brilliantly. They didn't have to. After grinding out its third straight ...
EURO 2012 LIVE: Germany-Denmark; Portugal-Dutch
Germany beat Denmark 2-1 and a Ronaldo-inspired Portugal beat the Netherlands by the same score in the final Group B matches at the European ...