The University of Southern California won the NCAA Women’s College Cup on Sunday in College Station, beating top-ranked UCLA, 2-1, and then Florida State, 2-0, in the final. It was the first Final Four appearance ever by the Women of Troy.
This weekend it’s the NCAA men‘s turn, in North Carolina. The semifinals are Friday: Wake Forest vs. Virginia Tech at 4pm, Ohio State vs. Massachusetts at 6:30pm, with the final at 2pm Sunday – all live on ESPN2 and ESPNU.
Liverpool and Celtic became the fourth and fifth British teams to qualify for the European Champions League final 16, as group play ended this week; the Glasgow Rangers failed to make it six for six by losing at home to Lyon. See the list of all the qualifiers below.
The Club World Cup this week (Boca Juniors-AC Milan(?) final, on Sunday in Yokohama), and then the UEFA Cup group stage final games next Wednesday-Thursday, pretty much finish out the 2007 schedule.
UEFA Champions League
Group Stage Results
(Knockout rounds begin Feb. 19)
The Final 16:
Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester Utd. (England),
Inter Milan, Roma, AC Milan (Italy),
Real Madrid, Barcelona, Sevilla (Spain),
Schalke 04 (Germany), FC Porto (Portugal), Lyon (France), Olympiacos (Greece), Celtic (Scotland), Fenerbahce (Turkey)
Dropped to UEFA Cup: Marseille, Rosenborg, Werder Bremen, Benfica, Sporting Lisbon, Rangers, PSV Eindhoven, Slavia Prague
Eliminated: Besiktas, Valencia, Lazio, Shakhtar Donetsk, VfB Stuttgart, Dynamo Kiev, CSKA Moscow, Steaua Bucharest
This article appears in December 7 • 2007.