Munich  - Italy striker Luca Toni scored in stopp

Los Angeles  - Rodney Rogers, who starred in college and played in the NBA for 12 seasons, is paralyzed from the shoulders down as a result of an all-terrain vehicle accident, the News & Observer of Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, reported Thursday.

Dave Odom, who coached Rogers for four years at Wake Forest University, told the newspaper that his former All-America forward is paralyzed from the shoulders down.

"Say a prayer for Rodney and his family," Odom told the newspaper.

Wellington  - A year after David Beckham drew the biggest crowd ever to watch a football match in New Zealand, his star power attraction appears to be fading, according to news reports Friday.

Organizers of an exhibition match between Beckham's LA Galaxy side and Oceania All Stars XI on Saturday in Auckland were advertising two tickets for the price of one to try to fill the 32,000-seat Mount Smart Stadium.

Only 14,000 tickets had been sold by Thursday night, the New Zealand Herald reported.

Wellington  - A year after David Beckham drew the biggest crowd ever to watch a football match in New Zealand his star attraction appears to be fading, according to news reports on Friday.

Organizers of an exhibition match between Beckham's LA Galaxy side and an Oceania All Stars XI in Auckland on Saturday were advertising two tickets for the price of one to try to fill the 32,000-seat Mount Smart Stadium.

Only 14,000 tickets had been sold by Thursday night, the New Zealand Herald reported.

Hamburg  - Bundesliga teams Wolfsburg and SV Hamburg chalked up wins to progress from the group stage of the UEFA Cup with a game to spare on Thursday.

England's Aston Villa also progressed despite a home defeat, while Portugal's Sporting Braga and Spain's Valencia also booked their places in the Round of 32.

Wolfsburg joined already qualified Group E rivals AC Milan into the last 32 with a 3-2 victory over visiting Portsmouth, leaving the Premier League side crashing out without a win from three matches.

Madrid  - Spanish football has always taken pride in avoiding the kind of match-fixing scandals that have so afflicted Italy and other countries.

No major players have ever been banned, let alone jailed, and no clubs have ever been relegated for fixing results.

There have occasionally been rumours and whispers of attempted bribery, but practically nothing has ever reached the public domain.

Until now, that is.

This week La Liga has been shaken up by two separate allegations of match-fixing.