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| City unbeatable at home |
| MANCHESTER City's target for the season was to make history, and now they stand on the brink of a feat last achieved four decades ago. |
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| A reversal of fortunes |
| If Andre Villas-Boas had remained at Chelsea, goalkeeper Petr Cech would have been sold at the end of the season, while striker Fernando Torres would have been kept. |
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| Villa captain Petrov down with leukaemia |
| The 32-year-old Bulgaria midfielder has not trained since playing against Arsenal last Saturday. The condition was diagnosed after the player developed a fever following the Premier League match. |
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| Aguero jinxed even before Black Cats tie |
| Manchester City will be without star striker Sergio Aguero for the Premier League clash against Sunderland with a 'stupid' injury, club manager Roberto Mancini confirmed yesterday. |
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| Anthony leads injury-hit NY to win again |
| Amare Stoudemire was already a Knicks star when Carmelo Anthony came to the team last year. A season later, while Anthony was sidelined with injury, Jeremy Lin became a national sensation. |
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| 'Vettel, stop being such a crybaby' |
| India's Narain Karthikeyan has told Sebastian Vettel not to act like a 'crybaby' after the Formula One champion called him a 'cucumber' for causing a collision at last weekend's Malaysian Grand Prix. |
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| Bartoli ends Azarenka's winning run |
| Victoria Azarenka's 26-match winning streak came to an end on Wednesday when the world No. 1 was stunned 3-6, 3-6 by Marion Bartoli in the quarter-finals of the ATP/WTA Miami hard-court event. |
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| Fergie blasts Vieira II |
| Alex Ferguson has rebutted claims that Manchester United were favoured by referees by insisting that a club's lucky breaks even themselves out over the course of a season. |
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| Italian job half complete |
| In holding the European champions to a goalless draw in Wednesday's first leg of their quarter-final at the San Siro, AC Milan became the first team in 30 Champions League encounters - since Rubin Kazan in November 2009 - to stop Lionel Messi and company from scoring in the tournament. |
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| Mind games have no impact on title race |
| e may have been widely accused of having fallen for Alex Ferguson's 'mind games' while in charge of Liverpool, but Rafael Benitez believes that the psychological warfare characterising the Premier League title race will have no bearing on who are crowned champions. |
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| Rotation policy works |
| Five weeks ago, a mutinous Chelsea without Frank Lampard, Michael Essien and Ashley Cole in the starting line-up fell 1-3 at Napoli, spelling the end of Andre Villas-Boas' regime. |
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| Apoel's dream run 'over' |
| Real Madrid gave Apoel Nicosia a reality check in the biggest match of the unheralded Cypriot football club's history on Tuesday in the Champions League. |
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| Resistance broken |
| Sentiment gave way to cold reality as Tottenham Hotspur finally extinguished the resistance of Bolton Wanderers on Tuesday to set up an FA Cup semi-final with London rivals Chelsea. |
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| Kobe's jumpers save L.A. after Bynum meltdown |
| Two days after getting benched late in a home loss to Memphis, Kobe Bryant made a pair of jumpers in the final 64 seconds to lead the Los Angeles Lakers past the Golden State Warriors 104-101 in a National Basketball Association game on Tuesday. |
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| Milan may opt to 'have a go' at Barcelona |
| Lionel Messi is on the brink of yet another record as title holders Barcelona visit AC Milan in the Champions League today with the odds stacked against the injury-hit Serie A team. |
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| Living on a prayer |
| If reports of Roberto Mancini making an appearance at a religious pilgrimage site in Bosnia-Herzegovina on Monday are true, chances are the Manchester City manager was praying for a miracle. |
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| Tevez set to start against Sunderland |
| Carlos Tevez is set to make his first Premier League start in six months on Saturday, as Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini seeks to renew his team's Premier League title challenge. |
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| Augusta the real test for Woods |
| Now that Tiger Woods has ended his 30-month victory drought on the United States PGA Tour, the question turns to whether the former world No. 1 golfer can win again where it really counts - in a Major, starting with the Masters. |
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| Federer flounders |
| World No. 3 Roger Federer was feeling the pace of his busy start to the year after suffering a shock 6-7 (4-7), 6-1, 4-6 third-round loss to Andy Roddick in the Sony Ericsson Open on Monday, ending his 16-match winning streak, which included titles in Rotterdam, Dubai and Indian Wells. |
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| Coyle wary of emotional Spurs replay |
| Bolton will return to White Hart Lane today for the first time since Fabrice Muamba collapsed on that pitch, with several players dealing with flashbacks of their teammate's near-death experience. |
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| Why Bolton will avoid drop |
| An entire city has rallied behind the group of footballers, who themselves are playing for a greater cause.
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