LONDON - Barcelona coach Josep Guardiola has refused to be called as the main brain behind the success of Barcelona embrace this season's Champions League trophy. The 40-year coach actually throws a compliment to the foster children and the entire crew of the team which he said had worked hard all season.
Barcelona has just made history on the European stage by embracing Champions League trophy for the fourth time. Blaugrana success this time also can not be separated from the figure of its star player Lionel Messi.
For the second time, Barcelona again carve deep wounds in Manchester United's squad. After defeating the giant English in Rome, two years ago, El Barca back to repeat again this season. However, this time even more special, the article, the success made the beat United 3-1 Barca courtier at Wembley Stadium that in fact could be called the headquarters of United.

Kim Clijsters smiled sheepishly Friday while recounting the unusual way she managed to hurt her right ankle and a toe recently, nearly forcing her to skip the French Open yet again.

Of all the ways for an athlete to get injured, the champion at the past two Grand Slam tournaments sent herself to the sideline while cutting a rug at her cousin's wedding.

It seems so often we forget the most obvious choice. Kim Clijsters walked into the French Open as the reigning No. 2 in the world and yet the idea of her as a top contender to the French Open 2011 title was merely a passing thought.

RON RIPPEY’S PICKS

Why are there eight colts and one gelding entered among the field of 14 in the Preakness Stakes today who did not race in the Kentucky Derby? That’s simple.

Nine sharp trainers and stables realize that after the slowest run Derby since 1947, it’s a wide-open race. Indeed, this year’s crop of Triple Crown candidates is the weakest bunch in memory.

That fact offers great opportunities for the betting and rooting public. In the past 25 years, only three have won the second leg of the Triple Crown who did not compete in the Derby. The chances of a non-Derby participant winning the Preakness are greater this year.

Looks like it’s the doomsday season, again! Signs and newspaper ads across the U.S. and in other places around the world have been warning that the judgement day is coming, but the question remains whether it is on May 21, 2011 or December 21, 2012.

May 21, 2011 Doomsday

Harold Camping, the head of a Christian broadcast group called Family Radio, has been predicting for years that the day would take place on May 21, 2011, although he had claimed earlier that the world would end in September 1994. But when it passed without cataclysmic results, he said he miscalculated and that the end, saying instead that it would take place this Saturday.