MONTREAL - This week marks the 134th anniversary of the historic McGill-Harvard rugby-football confrontation. The two-game series, played at Cambridge, Mass., May 14 and 15, 1874, were the first games of North American-style football.

So you've seen Emmitt Smith do on the dance floor exactly what he did on the football field. His cha-cha brought him the same result as his years on the gridiron — cha-ching.

Juventus are circling for Napoli sports director Pierpaolo Marino. Marino is coming off contract next year and his work at Napoli has not gone unnoticed by bigger clubs.

On Monday, four soccer players from the Netherlands joined the rest of their country in celebrating a 3-0 win over Italy in the Euro Cup 2008 — one of the biggest tournaments in the world.

Manchester United is the world's most valuable football club for the fourth consecutive year, with a value of $US1.8 billion ($NZ2.3 billion), topping Spain's Real Madrid, according to Forbes magazine.