Rooney thirsty for goals as United return to Europe - Khaleej Times

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney says he is thirsty for goals in the Premier League season starting on August 15, as the United squad prepare in Germany for the pre-season Audi Cup. The Reds’ striker is relishing being even
Source: www.khaleejtimes.com

Anelka: United weaker without Ron - espnstar.com
Nicolas Anelka is hopeful Chelsea will have get closer to Manchester United this season now that Cristiano Ronaldo is gone. The Blues have had to play second fiddle to United in recent seasons, with Sir Alex Ferguson's men winning three successive
Source: www.espnstar.com

Asia remains Manchester United's promised land - Daily Telegraph
Priceless: Manchester United's estimated 20 million fans in the Far eEast is why the club is handed so many lucrative sponsorphip deals Photo: REUTERS United were unable to test the water in Indonesia during the club's four-game Far East tour. The
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk


The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong -- but that's the way to bet it. Author: Damon Runyon

The best six doctors anywhere And no one

The best six doctors anywhere
And no one can deny it
Are sunshine, water, rest, and air
Exercise and diet.
These six will gladly you attend
If only you are willing
Your mind they'll ease
Your will they'll mend
And charge you not a shilling.

- Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields, What the River Knows, 1990

"Luck never gives; it only lends." - Proverb

Gill - Ferguson's free to spend - Ananova

David Gill has pledged that none of the £80million received from Real Madrid for Cristiano Ronaldo will go towards tackling Manchester United's spiralling debt. As interest continues to mount on loans taken out by the Glazer family to purchase the
Source: www.ananova.com

United’s £60m war chest - The Times
MANCHESTER United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has been told he can spend up to £60- million on new players. Ferguson has been relatively quiet in the transfer market since the end of the last season, despite losing Cristiano Ronaldo and Carlos Tevez
Source: www.thetimes.co.za

Manchester United can’t wage war with Man City - Belfast Telegraph
If it sounded like the admission of a battle lost, then David Gill's acknowledgement yesterday that Manchester United would not be competing with the salaries on offer at Manchester City was not meant to be one. United's chief executive avoided the
Source: www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Carlos Tévez to miss final match of Manchester City tour to South - Times Online
Carlos Tévez had to give up a meeting with Nelson Mandela yesterday in favour of a scan on his troublesome heel, which will keep him out of the final match of Manchester City’s South African sojourn. The Argentina forward, signed for £25.5
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Fergie can splash cash: United chiefs - Gulf Times
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has been told he can spend up to 60mn pounds on new players. Ferguson has been relatively quiet in the transfer market since the end of the last season despite losing Cristiano Ronaldo and Carlos Tevez. The
Source: www.gulf-times.com

Football: United aim to maintain winning pre-season form - star.com.my
SEOUL: Manchester United will aim to make it three wins out of three on their Asian tour when they play FC Seoul today, in a visit designed to capitalise on the club’s popularity in South Korea. The English champions are in South Korea for the
Source: www.thestar.com.my

We don't need to spend it like City, says United chief Gill - Daily Mail
Some 80,000 South Koreans will watch Manchester United tonight in Seoul's World Cup Stadium. Many millions more in Asia will watch the game on TV, their latest flat screens paid for on United credit cards. At times, it is very easy to believe the
Source: www.dailymail.co.uk


This quote crossed my desk this week from a reader. Those of you with the same passion and affliction for betting motor sports as I might enjoy it. "Race fans, I had inferred from my one trip to the Brickyard 400, fell into one of two categories: tattooed, shirtless, sewer-mouthed drunks, and their husbands." - Steve Ruchin, Sports Illustrated

Joy and Temperance and Repose Slam the door

Joy and Temperance and Repose
Slam the door on the doctor's nose.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish." - Ovid

Sven Goran Eriksson lined up for Notts County job - Daily Telegraph

Telegraph Sport understands that the club’s new owners from the Middle East, the Munto Finance consortium, have put together proposals that would facilitate the Swede's unlikely return to management in the lower reaches of English football
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

New owner wants no more politics at Southampton FC - This is Southampton
SAINTS’ new regime insist they are taking the politics out of the club. The new era under Markus Liebherr invited guests from various different boards of the past along to St Mary’s for the Ajax friendly and entertained them FREE of charge in the
Source: www.dailyecho.co.uk

Watford boss Malky Mackay not expecting 'immediate impact' from - Watford Observer
Malky Mackay says he does not expect new signing Jure Travner to make an immediate impact at Watford despite being "delighted" with his debut performance. The Slovenian signed from NK Celje on Saturday morning and played well in his 45 minutes
Source: www.watfordobserver.co.uk

WSN.com Launches Upgraded Football Livescore Service for 2009-2010 - PR Inside
World Sports Network has released an upgraded football livescore : service at WSN.com. The improved service covers almost 5000 matches a month and features the fastest scoring updates of any online livescore provider. As added conveniences, users can
Source: www.pr-inside.com

Showtime, Orbit futures secure after merger â€" analyst - ArabianBusiness.com
TV DEAL: Showtime and Orbit announced merger plans earlier this month. Pay TV companies Showtime and Orbit “possibly” faced financial ruin had they not merged earlier this month , a media industry figure claimed on Tuesday. Gabriel Chahine
Source: www.arabianbusiness.com

Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson speaks out on Carlos Tevez - Daily Mail
Each year during Manchester United’ s pre-season tour, Sir Alex Ferguson takes time out to talk about the issues of the day and his team’s hopes and ambitions. This year United are on a four-match tour of Malaysia, South Korea and China, and
Source: www.dailymail.co.uk



Nine gamblers could not feed a single rooster. - Yugoslav proverb

Just Don`t Employ Stupid People, ESPN - Football365.com

Ray Stubbs has left the BBC to present ESPN's Premier League coverage. It doesn't bode well for ESPN's new Premier League channel. The man they should have gone to is obviously James Richardson. He's intelligent without being aloof, he's witty
Source: www.football365.com

Derby in the race to prove its World Cup potential - This is Derbyshire
FOOTBALL fans from just under 200 nations across the globe will be glued to television screens every day for four weeks during the 2018 World Cup. The tournament has always captured global imagination, and now leaders in Derby are hoping some of that
Source: www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk

Galaxy fans give unfriendly welcome to Becks - Newstrack India
Los Angeles, July 20 (ANI): English football star David Beckham was involved in an ugly confrontation with fans during his home return game here, as the friendly match between LA Galaxy and AC Milan ended in a 2-2 draw. Beckham attempted to jump over
Source: www.newstrackindia.com


"A gambler with a system must be, to a greater or lesser extent, insane." - George Augustus Sala (1828-95) English writer and journalist

Man City billion dollar spending to break all sporting records - Tribal Football

Manchester City are set to break ALL SPORTING spending records with their outlay this year. The Sunday Times says City's Middle Eastern owners are ready to spend more than a billion dollars (£610m) on transfer fees and wage commitments in their
Source: www.tribalfootball.com

Carlos Tevez can win the bragging rights for the league's greatest - The Guardian
Even before Noel Gallagher undermined the Mark Hughes summer of sweet talk by observing that John Terry is a Cockney cry baby, it was being unkindly suggested that with Newcastle in the Championship Manchester City would assume the mantle of the
Source: www.guardian.co.uk


"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." - President Thomas Jefferson

Nathaniel Hawthorne A bodily disease, which we look

Nathaniel Hawthorne
A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past

"Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something." - Wilson Mizner

Doc Childre, Freeze-Frame A harmonious relationship with one

Doc Childre, Freeze-Frame
A harmonious relationship with one you love can enhance your work, health and entire well-being.

"It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees." - Mario Puzo, Inside Las Vegas

To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's

To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness.
- Henri Frederic Amiel

"Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry." - George Ade

Soccer: World-class DeMerit turns heads - Green Bay Press-Gazette

It was the second half of a 2009 Confederations Cup semifinal last month and the U.S. men's soccer team held an improbable lead over No. 1-ranked Spain. The Red Fury continued a steady barrage of blistering shots, desperate to find the back of the
Source: www.greenbaypressgazette.com

Fairhope's Nathan Haywood named Press-Register boys soccer player of - Birmingham News
The life of a defender isn't a glamorous one. There aren't many chances to hear the crowd cheer following a goal or to get a high-five after dishing the perfect assist. Instead, it's all about the dirty work. Whether it's cutting off an opposing
Source: www.al.com

Homeless reconnect to society, jobs, shelter via soccer team - Detroit Free Press
At the moment, there is no ball movement. More accurately, there is no passing because one player is hogging the ball. This is not going over well with his teammates, some of whom are getting angry as they realize they have become spectators in this
Source: www.freep.com

Smith provides women’s soccer a healthy kick - Boston Globe
Borrowing on his college coaching experience, Boston Breakers president and general manager Joe Cummings recruited Kelly Smith over dinner in London. Before the two-time finalist for FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year would commit to the
Source: www.boston.com

Stuart Holden's fire keeps U.S. Soccer alive in tie with Haiti - New York Daily News
Stuart Holden's goal spared the U.S. a disheartening loss. FOXBOROUGH - With one good, swift kick of his right foot, Stuart Holden spared the United States from a major upset and an embarrassing defeat. Holden fired home a 28-yard shot a minute into
Source: www.nydailynews.com

Soccer voyagers - Billings Gazette
Members of the Magic City European Soccer Tour, which will compete in tournaments in Sweden and Denmark over the next two weeks: Tour coordinators - Don Trentham, Ally Stroup, Shelley Prosinski, Michelle Smith. U17 girls team - Coach: Don Trentham
Source: billingsgazette.com


"Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck." - Orson Welles

The longer I live the less confidence I

The longer I live the less confidence I have in drugs and the greater is my confidence in the regulation and administration of diet and regimen.
- John Redman Coxe, 1800

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. - Ambrose Bierce

Brazil president seeks assurances over swine flu - Cleveland Plain Dealer

(AP) â€" PARIS - Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva wants health ministers in Brazil and Argentina to work together so that both clubs in the Copa Libertadores final are reassured over swine flu fears. Brazil's Cruzeiro wanted the first leg
Source: www.cleveland.com

UPDATE: Arrested Salinas police officer was Alisal High boys soccer - Thecalifornian.com
The Monterey County Sheriff's Office has confirmed that Salinas police Officer Jesus Manuel Sanchez was arrested Monday night. Sanchez, 34, was arrested by the Salinas Police Department about 8 p.m on suspicion of assault with the intent to commit
Source: thecalifornian.com

Michael Bradley suspended for 3 matches - Syracuse Post-Standard
(AP) â€" ZURICH, Switzerland - United States midfielder Michael Bradley has been suspended for three international matches by FIFA following a confrontation at last month's Confederations Cup. FIFA's decision Tuesday said the suspension included the
Source: www.syracuse.com

Discovery Channel visits Allen Creek Soccer Complex - Access North GA
GAINESVILLE - Gainesville’s Allen Creek Soccer Field was the filming site recently for a Discovery Channel feature on a new technology designed to protect young athletes from heat stress according to Keith Sutton, spokesman for Hothead Technologies
Source: www.accessnorthga.com


"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

If I'd known I was going to live

If I'd known I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
- Leon Eldred

"The majority of casino players leave to much to chance when playing in a casino. To put it bluntly, they don't have a clue as to how to play." - Henry Tamburin, gambling author

Owen is the right man - Statesman

The idea that Sir Alex Ferguson's investment in Michael Owen (in photo) is the desperate throw of a football man looking into the skull's head of a bleak and hopeless future is absurd. Owen was available at a knock-down price. No doubt he is not what
Source: www.thestatesman.net

Wimbledon calling - FOXSports.com
It's been about a month since the end of the football season, and the strain is beginning to show at talkSPORT. Mike Parry was trying to convince us on Monday that the nation would be happier to celebrate a win against Germany, by England's U21
Source: msn.foxsports.com


"Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a lifetime, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her." - Mark Twain

No ifs or Butts for Pete about Asia - ESPN Soccernet

His stay at Upton Park lasted less than three seasons but Peter Butler can lay claim to being part of a unique slice of West Ham United history. As well as playing in the Hammers' first Premier League campaign, he started at the club on the same day
Source: soccernet.espn.go.com

VORSPRUNG DURCH TENNIS - FOXSports.com
GERMANS have long been held in higher esteem on the strawberry fields of SW19 than in Basil Fawlty's hotel or among English football's pond life. And as Tommy Haas shocked No.4 seed Novak Djokovic to set up a chance of revenge against Roger Federer
Source: msn.foxsports.com

Tax authorities provided information to football money laundering - The Guardian
HM Revenue and Customs has confirmed that it provided the information on two cases of tax evasion by English football clubs which were included in yesterday's Financial Action Task Force Report on money laundering in football . HMRC maintains an
Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Scottish Football Museum curator Richard McBrearty will add this year - Glasgow Evening Times
IT has settled more arguments than the referee's dreaded wee red card - yes, it's the Evening Times' Wee Red Book. The tome of football knowledge is a fan's bible, crammed with every fact you could ever want or need to know about the beautiful game
Source: www.eveningtimes.co.uk

HUGHES HAS HIGH HOPES - Football365.com
Mark Hughes believes Manchester City are ready to deal with the growing expectation surrounding the club. The Blues chief spent his first year in charge at Eastlands trying to dampen down the hype that built up around the takeover of the Abu Dhabi
Source: www.football365.com



"I believe in luck. How else can you explain the success of those you dislike?" - Jean Cocteau

No breathing game for Pies v Dons

CHANNEL 7 will not sight the Collingwood-Essendon blockbuster living into Melbourne, unchanging if tomorrow night's clash is a bargain-out. true 10,000 public tickets and 1500 AFL Reserve tickets remained last night after a surge in sales that week.

Ireland down eight places in FIFA rankings (13:28)
Extract not getable.


"Gambling is the future on the internet. You can only look at so many dirty pictures." - Simon Noble, an Austrian-based internet bookmaker