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Mike Tyson is taken with a new kind of sparring these days. The former heavyweight champion admits he is a big fan of the 'Real Housewives' franchise on the Bravo network. Tyson says he likes the Beverly Hills series because he enjoys watching people who "spend a lot of money" but says his favorites are the New Jersey wives.
Tyson says he likes Bravo Senior Vice President Andy Cohen, who hosts a talk show on the network, 'Watch What Happens Live,' which often features the

MADRID - Cristiano Ronaldo scored a second half hat-trick to make it 27 league goals for the season as Real Madrid crushed hapless Malaga 7-0 at the Santiago Bernabeu on Thursday to close the gap on league leaders Barcelona to seven points. Barcelona won 1-0 at Valencia on Wednesday to put the pressure on Real who had drawn 0-0 at Deportivo La Coruna in their last match, but Jose Mourinho's side responded by maintaining their 100 percent home record with their biggest win of the

COMMENT - This past week saw the completion of the first leg stage of the Champions League knockout phase. Real Madrid and Manchester United were on the road visiting Lyon and Marseille respectively while Bayern Munich travelled to face Inter Milan and Chelsea visited Denmark to face FC Copenhagen.
Manchester United had the easiest run of the lot, as Marseille lacked any real threat going forward. With the absence of the energetic Valbuena, who is capable of all sorts of

COLOMBO - Some almost comical fielding not to mention hilarious batting mix-ups could not disguise the very serious threat Pakistan are starting to pose at the World Cup after silencing a Sri Lankan crowd on Saturday.
In their skipper Shahid Afridi, the Pakistan attack has a potent weapon which proved just as deadly to Sri Lanka's classy batting line-up as it did to the less gifted Kenyans.
This time the leg spinner grabbed four valuable wickets (4-34) to stop Sri Lanka in

PARIS - Jose Mourinho's dreams of landing the Champions League for the third time as a coach remained firmly alive on Tuesday after Real Madrid secured a 1-1 draw away at French bogey team Lyon in their Last 16 first leg clash.
One of Mourinho's former teams Chelsea - a rarity in that he couldn't guide them to Champions League title success unlike at Porto and last year Inter Milan - got a crucial 2-0 away win against FC Copenhagen with former Real Madrid striker Nicolas Anelka

MADRID - Real Madrid, one of the world's richest football clubs, have announced they have reached an agreement with Saudi Arabia's Prince Salman Foundation to build a sports academy in the Middle Eastern country.
The deal will officially be signed in Madrid on Monday, the Spanish club said in a statement published on their website late on Friday. "The Real Madrid Foundation and the Prince Salman Foundation will join forces on Monday 7 February in order to build a new

MADRID - Real Madrid's title hopes were left hanging by a thread after Jose Mourinho's side suffered a shock 1-0 defeat at relegation-threatened Osasuna on Sunday to fall seven points behind leaders Barcelona.
It was Mourinho's second league defeat in charge as Madrid-born striker Javier Camunas scored the decisive goal on 62 minutes to seal an historic win for Osasuna and deal Real's title aspirations a hammer blow. In other matches, third-placed Villarreal closed to within six

MADRID - Misfit striker Karim Benzema reminded Jose Mourinho of his talents on Sunday, scoring the 60th-minute goal in Real Madrid's 1-0 win over Real Mallorca which cut Barcelona's lead back to four points. Mourinho said Benzema, a 35-million euro signing from Lyon, needed to step up his game and the 23-year-old responded as Real made it a perfect 10 home wins.
Barcelona had piled on the pressure with a 3-0 home win over Racing Santander on Saturday to go seven points clear and

MADRID - Cristiano Ronaldo called for reinforcements to Real Madrid's front line on Tuesday to help the club's desperate struggle to wrestle the Spanish league title from bitter rivals Barcelona. "We need someone for six months," said Portuguese star Ronaldo, as Real's Argentine striker Gonzalo Higuain had a hernia operation in the United States on Saturday and is unlikely to feature for at least 4 months.
"There has been talk of some great players such as Ruud (van Nistelrooy)

MADRID - Real Madrid fought back from a goal down to defeat city rivals Atletico 3-1 in the first leg of the Spanish Cup quarter-finals on Thursday. Atletico were ahead after just seven minutes at the Santiago Bernabeu when Uruguayan striker Diego Forlan was on target following a bright burst from Sergio Aguero which was ended by goalkeeper Iker Casillas's clumsy challenge. But Sergio Ramos powered in a header from an Angel Di Maria corner in the 14th minute to bring the home side

MUNICH - Real Madrid have approached Germany star Miroslav Klose and are interested in luring the veteran Bayern Munich striker to Spain to replace injured Gonzalo Higuain, his agent said Thursday.
According to Spanish paper AS, Klose is top of Real coach Jose Mourinho's wish-list to replace Argentina star Higuain, who has undergone a knee operation and looks set to be out for the rest of the season. Klose's agent Alexander Schuett told Bild: "There have been some inquiries from

ISLAMABAD - US troops would not launch an offensive in North Waziristan Agency (NWA), US Vice President Joseph Biden assured Pakistan on Wednesday, Online reported.
During a meeting with Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Kiyani, Biden said the US troops would not "impose a war on Pakistan in the name of expanding counterterrorism efforts beyond Afghanistan", adding that Washington wanted Islamabad to launch a full-fledge military offensive in North Waziristan without any further

MADRID - Real Madrid, cushioned by an 8-0 first leg lead, secured their place in the Spanish Cup quarter-finals on Thursday despite a 2-0 defeat in the return match at Levante.
Levante's two second-half goals by Xisco Nadal and Sergio Gonzalez were not enough to overturn Real's huge advantage secured over the Valencia-based side last month and the Spanish giants pushed through 8-2 on aggregate. Last season's runners-up Atletico Madrid, who took a 1-0 lead to Espanyol, made it

MADRID - Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 18th and 19th league goals of the season as Real Madrid started 2011 with a tense 3-2 win at derby rivals Getafe on Monday to close to within two points of champions Barcelona at the league summit. Portuguese star Ronaldo smashed home an 11th-minute penalty to open the scoring before Angel di Maria set up German international Mesut Ozil for a second on 19 minutes.
Ronaldo grabbed his second on 57 minutes after Getafe had got a foothold in

MADRID - Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho said on Sunday that he will have to re-construct his team in the absence of injured Argentine striker Gonzalo Higuain.
Higuain is out of action with a slipped disc in his back and Mourinho compared his absence to that of Brazilian playmaker Kaka, who has been out since the start of the season with a knee problem. "We were missing (Kaka) for six months and we built a team," Mourinho said at a press conference prior to Monday's trip to

Leann Rimes will ring in the New Year as a bride-to-be her actor boyfriend Eddie Cibrian proposed to her over Christmas.
The couple has been at the centre of marriage speculation after posting a joke proposal picture, taken at a Halloween party in October. But Rimes went public in November to dismiss the engagement rumours.
Now the country singer has confirmed that she has agreed to become the second Mrs Cibrian.
The singer was snapped wearing her engagement ring as

MADRID: Real Madrid remain top of the Primera Liga after Gonzalo Higuain scored the only goal of a hard fought battle filled with tension against Sporting Gijon on Sunday.
With Barcelona provisionally overtaking them on the top of the table on Saturday after a 3-1 win over Villarreal the onus was on Real Madrid to respond against Sporting.
And the atmosphere had already been stoked up after Sporting coach Manolo Preciado reacted angrily to quotes from his Real counterpart