Big-spending Real Madrid crash out of the Champions League at the last 16 stage for the sixth successive season after being held to a 1-1 home draw by French side Lyon on Wednesday.

Jean-Michel Aulas estime que ce mercredi 10 mars peut représenter un nouveau départ pour l’OL après la qualification acquise grâce au nul ramené de Santiago Bernabeu. Des propos repris par le site de Lyon.

FOOTBALL - Lyon est entré mercredi dans l'histoire du football français en éliminant le prestigieux club espagnol et ses innombrables stars (1-1 ce soir, 2-1 sur l'ensemble des deux matches). Les Gones sont en quarts de finale. » Revivez le match en images (avec sport24.com)

FOOTBALL - Lyon est entré mercredi dans l'histoire du football français en éliminant le prestigieux club espagnol et ses innombrables stars (1-1 ce soir, 2-1 sur l'ensemble des deux matches). Les Gones sont en quarts de finale. » Revivez le match en images (avec sport24.com)

FOOTBALL - Lyon est entré mercredi dans l'histoire du football français en éliminant le prestigieux club espagnol et ses innombrables stars (1-1 ce soir, 2-1 sur l'ensemble des deux matches). Les Gones sont en quarts de finale. » Revivez le match en images (avec sport24.com)

FOOTBALL - Lyon est entré mercredi dans l'histoire du football français en éliminant le prestigieux club espagnol et ses innombrables stars (1-1 ce soir, 2-1 sur l'ensemble des deux matches). Les Gones sont en quarts de finale. » Revivez le match en images (avec sport24.com)

FOOTBALL - Lyon est entré mercredi dans l'histoire du football français en éliminant le prestigieux club espagnol et ses innombrables stars (1-1 ce soir, 2-1 sur l'ensemble des deux matches). Les Gones sont en quarts de finale. » Revivez le match en images (avec sport24.com)

Infernal une bonne partie de la première période et auteur d’un but, Cristiano Ronaldo aura disparu par la suite, entraînant d’une certaine façon la chute du Real Madrid face à Lyon.

Benoît Trémoulinas livre son analyse sur la défaite de Bordeaux contre Auxerre ce mercredi sur le site des Girondins, lui qui a marqué son premier but en Ligue 1.

Retrouvez les plus belles images de la rencontre des 8es de finale retour de Ligue des Champions entre le Real Madrid et l'Olympique Lyonnais...

Jean Fernandez a fait par de sa satisfaction après la victoire d’Auxerre à Bordeaux ce mercredi (1-2). L’entraîneur bourguignon estime toutefois que l’AJA n’est pas dans la course au titre. Des propos repris par le site des Girondins.

Wayne Rooney (above) scores twice as Manchester United crush AC Milan 4-0 on Wednesday to reach the quarterfinals of the Champions League and ruin David Beckham's return to Old Trafford.

Burnley a été tenu en échec par Stoke ce mercredi dans le cadre d’un match en retard de la 21e journée de la Premier League.

FOOTBALL/LIGUE DES CHAMPIONS L’Olympique Lyonnais a créé l’exploit en allant chercher sa qualification pour les quarts chez le Real Madrid. Mené 1-0 dès la 6e mn, l’OL a égalisé à la 75e mn par Miralem Pjanic et ramène le nul 1-1 de Bernabeu. C’est la première fois de son histoire que le club rhodanien sort un favori en Ligue des Champions. Miralem Pjanic a marqué le but qui change tout pour l'OL Reuters

Lyon est qualifié pour les quarts de finale de la Ligue des Champions après avoir ramené un match nul de la pelouse du Real Madrid ce mercredi.

FOOTBALL - L'OL tient son exploit...

Manchester United a écrasé le Milan AC ce mercredi dans le cadre des huitièmes de finale retour de la Ligue des Champions.

Brett Favre is one of the all-time greats. Still, he throws one untimely interception, and that's all people talk about. Just image if he threw 7 and a half million! That's the number EA highlighted during its EA Sports Opener last night in an extraordinary example of the game data the company collects from its players.

According to EA, Favre -- under our control -- has thrown 7,564,282 picks and counting. That's Hall of Shame material for sure. Each game of Madden played generates a single line of code, and that code gets sent to EA to the tune of over 173 million data instances every day. The company is mining all of this data in an attempt to make its Madden and NCAA Football games better every time you play them, but short of John Madden himself showing up at your door to explain what you're doing wrong, look for Favre to keep adding to the INT column.

Gallery: EA Sports Opener

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Brett Favre is one of the all-time greats. Still, he throws one untimely interception, and that's all people talk about. Just image if he threw 7 and a half million! That's the number EA highlighted during its EA Sports Opener last night in an extraordinary example of the game data the company collects from its players.

According to EA, Favre -- under our control -- has thrown 7,564,282 picks and counting. That's Hall of Shame material for sure. Each game of Madden played generates a single line of code, and that code gets sent to EA to the tune of over 173 million data instances every day. The company is mining all of this data in an attempt to make its Madden and NCAA Football games better every time you play them, but short of John Madden himself showing up at your door to explain what you're doing wrong, look for Favre to keep adding to the INT column.

Gallery: EA Sports Opener

EA Sports mines your football data, and makes example out of Favre originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Remember a couple weeks back when we told you about Chrysler's improbable legal battle against little Lake Mary High School in Florida? Chrysler's legal team put the smack down on the school for using the Ram logo as its school insignia, and the law jockeys in Auburn Hills, MI were giving the school until June 15 to remove all instances of the logo at a considerable cost to the school district and neighborhood taxpayers.

It appears cooler heads have prevailed at Chrysler, as Allpar is reporting that the school and automaker have made an agreement that allows the school to keep the admittedly perfect-for-a-football-helmet logo, at least until wear and tear requires their replacement. The reported agreement stipulates that the school must declare its partnership with Chrysler on signs stating "Lake Mary: Proud Partner of Chrysler." We think Chrysler should also sponsor the prom and provide a 300C stretch limousine for every senior. C'mon, think of the good will!

When we originally told you about the legal tussle between Lake Mary HS and Chrysler, we were more than a little critical of Team Pentastar for its legal action against the small school in a town of 15,000. It wasn't because Chrysler didn't have every legal right to protect its trademarks, but rather making a school district pay lots of money to remove a logo when it wasn't really damaging is just bad PR for a company that can ill afford any more bad PR. Compromise can be a very good thing, and it's nice to see that the folks at Chrysler see that. Good people of Lake Mary, Florida: feel free to continue purchasing vehicles from the Chrysler group.

[Source: Allpar]

Update: Texas high school gets to keep using Ram logo originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jean-Alain Boumsong a été contraint de déclarer forfait pour la deuxième mi-temps du match de Lyon à Madrid en raison d’une blessure au mollet droit.

This evening needed every square inch of football heritage to conceal the drabness of the fixture. A capable team overwhelmed inept visitors. David Beckham eventually took the field as a substitute against his old club and was the perfect guest. The veteran won cheers for a shot that did no harm as the attempt was tipped over the bar. Wayne Rooney, who reached 30 goals in the campaign with two strikes, had confirmed Manchester United's passage to the Champions League quarter‑finals as soon as he notched the opener. The entertainment continued to the 88th minute, when Darren Fletcher headed the last goal.

The fuss about Beckham's return to Old Trafford overlooked the fact that he could hardly be the key to the visitors' hopes. His mediocre outing in the first leg indicated strongly that the inevitable decline of a veteran is getting steeper. On this occasion he was the final name on the team sheet with his shirt number, 32, seeing him listed as the last of the substitutes.

Leonardo, the Milan coach, might have been more absorbed by the people he was forced to omit. Neither the youngster Pato nor the seasoned Alessandro Nesta was fit enough to take part. It seemed likely the reduction in the strength of the Milan line-up would make the decline of the Serie A club look even more steep than it already is. That relatively early opener from Rooney was no surprise.

It had been much more of a novelty on the eve of the game to hear Sir Alex Ferguson regretting the late goal by the Milan substitute Clarence Seedorf at San Siro. That had done no more than trim the margin of United's win to 3‑2. There was a time when any sort of victory in that arena would have made the visiting manager euphoric. Even now, Ferguson could not actually have been downcast at such an outcome.

At the very least, Milan had to score twice at Old Trafford. The task of keeping a clean sheet, however, had always looked an impossibility. There could have been some tension to the night when a free-kick from the right glanced off Nani and went straight to Ronaldinho after eight minutes, but the Brazilian's header went wide with the goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar almost motionless.

Rooney is rather more practised at that art and his opener was the seventh consecutive goal he had nodded home. The striker took his 29th goal of the campaign by getting in front of the centre-half Daniele Bonera to glance the ball past a helpless Christian Abbiati. The visitors had come with an attacking intent, but they also brought to Manchester the same basic vulnerability that had afflicted them in Milan.

Even if they had been rigorous, Rooney might still have been their undoing. The series of headers is something of a quirk, yet that string of goals highlights the movement essential to a striker who is not all that tall. By and large, there is no marker to out-jump because Rooney has left him trailing. The opener hurt Milan, but there was also collateral damage to the fixture itself.

No one could pretend that a grand drama was unfolding. Milan did have pride even if they understood that the number of goals required here had risen to three following the Rooney breakthrough. Even so, the passivity of United then would have displeased Ferguson. The manager had blamed the second Milan goal at San Siro on his men's disinclination to attack at that stage of the match.

Leonardo's side did not get much encouragement although they were often in possession. Before half-time, excitement was restricted in their efforts to counter Rooney's goal, although Van der Sar fumbled an Andrea Pirlo attempt. This fixture appeared so tame that United were simply required to maintain their professionalism.

The visitors had to seek a lot more than that. They introduced Seedorf for the second half, but the removal of Bonera proved more relevant because the middle of their defence was disturbed. The midfielder Massimo Ambrosini had been reassigned to that post but the back four were left helpless when possession was surrendered cheaply.

Nani, from the left, crossed expertly with his right foot in the 46th minute and Rooney shot past Abbiati for his 30th goal of the campaign. A finish with boot rather than brow was the sole element of surprise. Uncertainty involved nothing more than the ultimate margin of victory. Whatever else Milan lack, they retain enough self-respect to go mounting attacks and Klaas-Jan Huntelaar might well have done better than to head high from Ignazio Abate's delivery.

By then, United, with the match won, were too composed to be careless. With 59 minutes gone, Paul Scholes slid through a pass that Park Ji-sung converted for the third goal. When Beckham was introduced there was nothing to distract the crowd from lauding him. "Fergie, Fergie sign him up," chanted the fans. The intention was kind, but it must have hurt a veteran who knew he was being patronised.

At least he was not alone. This had been a chastening night for Milan.

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Les Reds devront se passer des services de l’international israélien Yossi Benayoun jeudi lors de leur déplacement sur le terrain du LOSC.

Football/Sondage La Ligue 1 désigne Samuel Eto’o pour l’élection du Ballon d’Or africain qui aura lieu ce 11 mars, à Accra, au Ghana. Soixante-dix internationaux africains évoluant en France ont été sondés. Trente-sept ont voté pour le Camerounais (53%) contre vingt-neuf pour l’Ivoirien Didier Drogba (41%). Le Ghanéen Michael Essien a recueilli trois votes (4%). Le Camerounais Samuel Eto'o. Reuters

Marc Planus s’est blessé au genou ce mercredi lors de la défaite de Bordeaux face à Auxerre.

Le Real Madrid mène au score à la mi-temps du match qui l’oppose à Lyon ce mercredi en huitièmes de finale retour de la Ligue des Champions.

FOOTBALL - Menés au score pendant près d'une heure, les Auxerrois repartent de Bordeaux avec une victoire précieuse (1-2). Les Girondins, toujours leaders, restent sous la menace de leurs poursuivants.

FOOTBALL - Menés au score pendant près d'une heure, les Auxerrois repartent de Bordeaux avec une victoire précieuse (1-2). Les Girondins, toujours leaders, restent sous la menace de leurs poursuivants.

FOOTBALL - Menés au score pendant près d'une heure, les Auxerrois repartent de Bordeaux avec une victoire précieuse (1-2). Les Girondins, toujours leaders, restent sous la menace de leurs poursuivants.