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Real Madrid handed Barcelona its first defeat of La Liga season with a 2-0 victory Sunday in the Spanish clasico. Real captain Raul scored on a header off a ball served into the box by Sergio Ramos after only three minutes. Dutch striker Ruud Van Nistelrooy hit the second goal in the 51st minute, poking […]

RANK/TEAM (RECORD) PREVIOUS RANK (Last week's results) 1. SMU (13-0-3) 1 10/18 South Carolina 1-1, OT, 10/21 at Memphis 3-0, 10/25 at UAB, 10/28 at Marshall. 2. Duke (12-2-1) 4 10/17 Alabama A&M 4-1, 10/20 North Carolina 1-0, 10/24 North Florida, 10/27 at Clemson. 3. Wake Forest (14-2-1) 5 10/18 UNC Greensboro 3-0, 10/21 N.C. […]

Oct. 21 in East Rutherford, N.J. New York 0 D.C. United 1. Goal: Gomez (Moreno) 77. New York — Conway, Wynne, Dunivant, Mendes (Wolyniec, 82), Parke, Kovalenko (Graham, 96+), Guevara, Stammler, Schopp (Henderson, 88), Djorkaeff, Altidore. D.C. United — Perkins, Namoff, Boswell, Erpen, Adu (Prideaux, 78), Carroll, Gomez, Gros, Olsen (Carroll, 96+), Eskandarian (Simms, 85), […]

RANK/TEAM (RECORD) PREVIOUS RANK (Weekend Results) 1. Notre Dame (17-0-1) 1 10/20 at Villanova 4-2, 10/22 at Georgetown 1-0, 10/24 at Cincinnati. 2. North Carolina (17-1-0) 2 10/19 at N.C. State 4-1, 10/27 Wake Forest 3. Florida State (12-2-2) 3 10/19 at Wake Forest 3-2, 10/22 at Duke 1-3, 10/24 Jacksonville, 10/27 Clemson. 4. UCLA […]

RANK/TEAM (RECORD) PREVIOUS RANK (Last week's results) 1. SMU (13-0-3) 1 10/18 South Carolina 1-1, OT, 10/21 at Memphis, 10/25 at UAB, 10/28 at Marshall. 2. Duke (12-2-1) 4 10/17 Alabama A&M 4-1, 10/20 North Carolina 1-0, 10/24 North Florida, 10/27 at Clemson. 3. Wake Forest (13-2-1) 5 10/18 UNC Greensboro 3-0, 10/21 UNC Greesnboro, […]

Andrae Clarke's goal in the 85th minute gave Buffalo a 1-0 victory over No. 24 Northern Illinois and snap the Huskies' eight-game unbeaten streak. Clarke's goal broke NIU keeper Joe Zimka's seven-game uninterrupted shutout record tallying 754 minutes of play.

Visiting Connecticut upset No. 5 West Virginia, 1-0, Friday night, in women's Big East action. The loss snaps the MountaineersÆ 15-game unbeaten streak at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium. Connecticut, which last week tied No. 1 Notre Dame, 0-0, broke the tie in the second half in the 61st minute when Brittany Tegeler received a ball […]

Senior forward Adam Cristman registered the first hat trick since 2000 by a Cavalier to lead No. 4 Virginia to a 3-1 win over No. 19 Virginia Tech in front of a record crowd of 2,711 fans at the Hokie Soccer Stadium Friday night. Virginia, which remains in second place in the ACC behind Duke, […]

An own goal gave No. 2 Duke a 1-0 win over No. 9 North Carolina and remain in first place in the ACC with a 5-1-1 record. The struggling Tar Heels are winless in five games and have been shut out in three straight games for the first time since 1982, the last time they […]

Eastern Conference regular-season champion D.C. United beat the New York Red Bulls, 1-0, on Christian Gomez's 77th-minute goal in the first leg of their Eastern Conference semifinal series on Saturday afternoon before a sparce crowd at Giants Stadium. New York's best chance came in the first minute of stoppage time when Jeff Parke's header from […]

Junior Maurice Edu has scored three goals for Maryland this season. All three came on headers. All three came on balls served by Graham Zusi. And all three gave the Terrapins 1-0 wins. The latest was a 1-0 victory over Hartwick at Ludwig Field to snap a two-game losing streak for the defending national champions. […]

The Santa Clara-Portland game lived up its billing as the Broncos edged UP, 3-2, in a back-and-forth game that featured several brilliant goals. Michelle Enyeart gave the Pilots a 1-0 lead in the 12th minute after being fed by All-American defender Stephanie Lopez, who made a sensational run past six Santa Clara defenders. Marian Dalmy […]

(All times ET unless noted. Consult your regular television listings guides for availability in your area. Schedules are subject to change.) FRIDAY, Oct. 20 FOX SOCCER CHANNEL Men's College PENN STATE-INDIANA (live), 8 pm. FOX SPORTS EN ESPANOL Mexico UAG-ATLANTE (live), 9:30 pm. GOL TV Germany BOR. DORTMUND-BOCHUM (live), 2:25 pm. SATURDAY, Oct. 21 HDNET […]

With Senior Days being held last weekend and this weekend, that means the regular season is soon coming to an end. The first men's conference tournament games take place next Wednesday in the Big East. Going into the weekend, here's how the races shape up in the nine conferences that had two or more teams […]

With American Brad Friedel in goal, Blackburn defeated Polish club Wisla Krakow, 2-1, on the road Thursday night in their UEFA Cup group opener. Friedel was helpless on the Wisla goal that took a deflection off a Blackburn defender. Blackburn recovered to win on second-half goals by Robbie Savage and David Bentley. American Michael Bradley […]

Real Madrid will be out of wipe away the memory of last season's humiliating defeat at Bernabeu Stadium when it hosts Barcelona Sunday in soccer's most passionate regional clasico (TV: Gol TV, live, 3 pm ET). When Barcelona played Real Madrid last season at Madrid's Bernabeu Stadium, Barca star Ronaldinho exited to a standing ovation […]

By Ridge Mahoney Senior Editor, Soccer America A left back scored eight goals, a right back notched five, a midfielder whoÆd scored just three goals in six seasons tripled that total in 2006. The coach who built D.C. United goes against his former team, two of his former assistants are in the playoffs as well. […]

Chelsea beat defending champion Barcelona, 1-0, in their much-anticipated Champions League showdown Wednesday on an outstanding individual effort by Ivory Coast star Didier Drogba. Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho was in no mood to be boastful, despite the win against the club that the Blues have faced in two emotionally charges series the last two years. […]

It was supposed to be a duel between No. 5 West Virginia's Jarrod Smith (14 goals) and No. 7 Notre Dame's Joseph Lapira (19 goals), but Englishmen Dan Stratford and Andy Wright were the heroes Wednesday night for the Mountaineers in the much-anticipated Big East showdown. To the delight of a sellout crowd of 2,153 […]

Santa Clara-Portland is one of the biggest rivalries in women's soccer. No. 5 Portland and No. 7 Santa Clara have either won or shared all 14 WCC titles and have claimed three of the last five NCAA championships. Santa Clara took the 2001 title and Portland followed in 2002 by beating the Broncos for its […]

Last year, as a junior, Kelli Yeamans missed UTEP's unbelievable victory at heavily favored Texas in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The Miners' sweeper had gone down with an ACL tear of her left knee six weeks earlier. This year, Yeamans tore the ACL in her right knee. It came in a game […]

Goalscoring during the MLS 2006 regular season matched its lowest average in history. The 2006 average of 2.62 was just a whit higher than the league's most anemic season ever – in 2004, when games averaged 2.61 goals. MLS averaged more than three goals per game in six of its first seven seasons but hasn't […]

U.S. womenÆs national team coach Greg Ryan named 20 players who will compete in the Peace Queen Cup Oct. 28-Nov. 4 in South Korea. The eight-team tournament will be the last test for the Americans before November's Gold Cup that will serve as qualifying for the 2007 Women's World Cup in China. Ryan called up […]

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Oct. 18 Group A Wer. Bremen 2 (Naldo 45, Diego 73) Lev. Sofia 0. Chelsea 1 (Drogba 47) Barcelona 0. Group B Inter Milan 2 (Cruz 1, 9) Spartak Moscow 1 (Pavlyuchenko 54). Sp. Lisbon 0 Bay. Munich 1 (Schweinsteiger 19). Group C Bordeaux 0 Liverpool 1 (Crouch 58). Galatasaray 1 (Ilic […]

Anson Dorrance is regularly starting six freshmen, the most since the early days of the North Carolina program, but that hasn't stopped the No. 2 Tar Heels from running off 16 straight wins. UNC was hit hurt by graduation, losing three national team players Lindsay Tarpley, Lori Chalupny and Kacey White, but Dorrance's freshmen pushed […]