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MADRID, Spain - Real Madrid won its record 31st Spanish league title Sunday by getting late goals from Arjen Robben and substitute Gonzalo Higuain in a 2-1 win over Osasuna. Walter Payton Authentic Jersey . Higuain volleyed home a shot from the right in the 89th minute, two minutes after Robben headed in a cross from Fernando Gago from the left to equalize. Francisco Punal scored from the penalty spot in the 83rd minute to put the hosts in the lead after Madrid was reduced to 10 in the 46th minute following Fabio Cannavaros ejection. The defending champions now has 78 points - 10 more than second-place Villarreal - and cant be caught with three games remaining. Punal took the penalty after Madrid defender Gabriel Heinze handled inside the area as he leapt to challenge a cross. Punal caught goalkeeper Iker Casillas going the wrong way with his shot into the bottom left of goal. Madrid threatened early but Javier Saviola was unable to poke Robbens short pass into the net with defender Miguel Flano appearing to handle the deflected ball. Oasuna had several free kicks from outside Madrids area but couldnt create a decent scoring chance. Cannavarro was sent off barely 20 seconds into the second half after picking up a second yellow card. Madrid needed to win the match to earn its title because Villarreal defeated Getafe 2-0 earlier Sunday. Nihat Kahveci scored both goals. Getafe was in control at Villarreal until the 37th minute, when Giuseppe Rossi found Nihat with a pass across the goal for an easy score. Robert Pires found the Turkey striker alone again on the right side in the 44th minute and he shot high to beat goalkeeper Roberto Abbondanzieri. Thierry Henry and Bojan Krkic scored two goals each as third-ranked FC Barcelona snapped a five-game winless streak with a 6-0 rout of Valencia. Lionel Messi scored the first goal at the Camp Nou with a penalty in the sixth and Xavi Hernandez made it 2-0 two minutes later. Henry worked a delayed give-and-go with Samuel Etoo in the 14th minute before the Frenchman slid for a left-footed shot inside the far post. Henry, whos curler from the left side was denied by Hildebrand in the 54th minute, scored from the same spot four minutes later. Hildebrand denied Messi in the 70th minute but couldnt stop Krkic in the 73rd minute after the teenage striker was perfectly played through by Deco. Substitute Eidur Gudjohnsen found Krkic in the 79th minute for the 10th goal of his rookie season. Barcelona lost to Manchester United in the Champions League semifinals last week to endure a second straight season without a trophy. The 2005-06 league champions have 64 points while Valencia stayed in the thick of the relegation race with 42. Also Sunday, it was: Sevilla 2 Valladolid 0; Racing Santander 3 Murcia 2; Athletic Bilbao 1 Mallorca 2; Almeria 1 Real Betis 1; and Levante 1 Espanyol 1. Racing rallied from a two-goal deficit to stay two points behind fourth-place Atletico Madrid, which beat Recreativo Huelva 3-0 Saturday. Pedro Munitis scored two goals - including the winner in the 56th minute - and Jorge Lopez got the other as Racing relegated Murcia to the second division. Daniel Aquino and Ivan Alonso scored for Murcia. Sevilla also kept pace in the chase for fourth and the final Champions League qualifying place thanks to Renatos two goals. Sevilla plays Racing on Wednesday. Daniel Guiza scored both of Mallorcas goals to became the leagues leading scorer with 24. Athletic got its goal from Fernando Llorentes header in the ninth. Zaragoza moved out of the relegation zone Saturday with a 1-0 win over Deportivo La Coruna. Zaragoza has 41 points, one better than Recreativo and Osasuna. Robbie Gould Womens Jersey . -- The Toronto Blue Jays have acquired right-hander Ryota Igarashi from the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday for a player to be named and cash. Lance Briggs Jersey . -- Chicago Fire coach Frank Klopas knew that Sporting Kansas City would be pushing the issue on a sweltering night at Livestrong Sporting Park, and his team was ready to capitalize when the right opportunity presented itself. http://www.chicagobearsgears.com/brandon-marshall-jersey/ . Brandon Crawford hit a grand slam and drove in five runs, Lincecum threw seven sharp innings and the NL West-leading San Francisco Giants beat the Philadelphia Phillies 7-2 on Friday night. Brandon Marshall Blue Jersey . The Suns parted ways with longtime point guard Steve Nash last month and lost out on a bid for Eric Gordon when New Orleans matched their $58 million, four-year offer to the dynamic scorer. Chris Conte Jersey . -- The Minnesota Vikings are willing to wait until game time to determine whether running back Adrian Peterson plays in the season opener against Jacksonville.Andrew Ranger held off J.R. Fitzpatrick and Scott Steckly in a green-white-checker finish to pick up his first NASCAR Canadian Tire Series win of the season taking the ICAR Lucas Oil Grand Prix presented by Budweiser on Sunday at Circuit ICAR. Ranger, a two-time series champion out of Roxton Pond, Que., took the lead in his No. 27 Dodge/GC Motorsports Dodge from D.J. Kennington on Lap 7 and remained out front the rest of the way to pick up his 17th career win in the series. It was his 12th on a road course with seven of those coming in his home province of Quebec. Ranger has three wins each at Montreals Circuit Gilles Villeneuve and Circuit de Trois-Rivieres in Quebec while this is his first triumph at the Mirabel track. It wasnt a prototypical win for Ranger, though. In his previous 11 road-course wins, the 25-year-old had an average starting position of second. However, after weather forced the cancellation of qualifying on Saturday, the field was lined up per the series rule book which gave Ranger a start from the 16th position. "This was a great win. We have a new team this year and to get the first win of the season is special," said Ranger. Battling Fitzpatrick for the win is nothing new for Ranger, but he was able to handle all of the challenges throughout the race. "My car was really good and my times were consistent, but it took a couple of laps to get going on the restarts," said Ranger, who is the series all-time leader in wins with 17. "(Fitzpatrick) always races hard and I knew he would make some runs on that last restart. He did, but I was able to hang on." Fitzzpatrick, who trailed Ranger to the line by . Brandon Marshall Authentic Jersey. 507 seconds, followed his season-opening win two weeks ago with a runner-up finish after battling back from an early spin. "I made a couple of mistakes early on that created some issues for a couple of other guys and for that Im sorry," said the 24-year-old Fitzpatrick. "Once I settled down we were able to work our way back up from 15th or something." Steckly rebounded from an early penalty for rough driving to finish third after getting the start from the pole position. He clearly disagreed with the penalty call, but was diplomatic afterward. "We started first and finished third," said the defending series champion. "It was a good day for the Canadian Tire car." Last seasons Rookie of the Year Louis-Philippe Dumoulin finished fourth for his second straight top-five finish while Kennington followed in fifth. Alex Labbe finished an impressive sixth in his series debut trailed by Jean-Francois Dumoulin in seventh. Jeff Lapcevich, Ron Beauchamp Jr. and rookie Martin Roy completed the top 10. The race was slowed due to caution four times for 10 laps and the lead change between Ranger and Kennington was the only one in the 31-lap race. In the point standings, Fitzpatrick was able to retain his place at the top, but has just a one-point advantage over Ranger. Both Kennington and Steckly sit seven points back. The NASCAR Canadian Tire Series takes on an oval track for the first time in 2012 in its next outing on Saturday, June 16 on the Speedway at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park in Bowmanville, Ont. ' ' '
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