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Real Madrid, AC Milan and Bayern Munich clinched their places in the next round of the Champions League on Tuesday.The trio, European champions a total 20 times between them, advanced alongside CSKA Moscow after their final group matches.Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice to help record nine-time European champion Madrid win 3-1 at Marseille and take Group …

The Deadline has passed! There are a total of over 700 submissions for OpenLab 2009. Thank you all for submitting your and other people’s blog posts. I at least opened every one of them, and already read many of them and the overall quality looks very high. SciCurious is ready (here is her post), judges …

South Africa has beefed up security around Cape Town for the World Cup draw to be held on Friday to prevent any incident and reassure fans about visiting one of the world’s most crime-plagued nations. With an average of 50 people killed every day, fears about crime have dogged South Africa since it was named …

LONDON, Dec 27, 2009 (AFP) – Wayne Rooney went from hero to villain and back to hero again as Premier League champions Manchester United won 3-1 away to Hull City on Sunday. Victory left second-placed United just two points behind leaders Chelsea, who could only manage a goalless draw against Birmingham on Saturday, with England …

With plenty of money at his disposal, Manchester City’s new managerRoberto Mancini now needs time to turn the perennial Premier Leagueunderachievers into title contenders. Mancini takes over from Mark Hughes, who was fired Saturdaydespite City being sixth in the Premier League standings, thetarget owner Sheikh Mansour had set before the season. Eighteen months earlier, Sven-Goran …

Sir Alex Ferguson insists he has cash to spend in the January transfer window – but he does not expect to find any bargains.With Manchester United in the middle of a defensive injury crisis, Sol Campbell’s name has been put forward as a potential solution.The mere fact a 35-year-old, whose enjoyed his best days at …

With the first decade of the new Millennium drawing  to aclose, it’s time to name names and honor the player, manager,team and match of the decade. Before I get to that though, I’d just like to add myperspective to what has been a challenging ten years. Obviously we’ve moved forward as a people but, from …

When the influx first looked like coming, foreign ownership ofclubs was rallied against as the beginning of the end for Englishfootball — with dire warnings that fans would lose theconnection with their local club as the sport became more aboutmaking money than providing entertainment. The same was said of foreign players, of course, when theysuddenly …

The scene was not unlike 12 Angry Men (or, in this case, 3 Shlubby Men, 1 Exasperated Woman, And A Dude On Speaker Phone From Arkansas): Armed with lists of their favorite movies of the decade, the five core A.V. Club film writers spent days sequestered in a stuffy, un-air-conditioned room—okay, it was actually just …

The Black List 2009: Manager Score CardThe Black List 2009: Agency Score Card 2ND UPDATE: I’m the first to post the entire roster after EW premiered the Top 10 (here as they wrote it, plus I added in some production details) because of a pre-arrangement. That’s right, it’s time for Universal film executive Franklin Leonard’s THE …