Coach Markus Babbel has left Hertha Berlin with "immediate effect," the Bundesliga side said Sunday.
Borussia Monchengladbach's title hopes suffered a big blow on Saturday with a shock 1-0 defeat at bottom club Augsburg that stopped Lucien Favre's team moving top of the German Bundesliga.
Borussia Dortmund bounced back from Champions League disappointment to go top of the German league for the first time this season with a 2-0 win over Schalke on Saturday.
Bayern Munich have moved five points clear at the top of the German Bundesliga table after a hard-fought 2-1 victory at bottom club Augsburg on Sunday.
One third into the new season, it's a good time to look at who's who, who dunnit and who didn't. Here's this fall's list of Bundesliga movers and shakers.
English Premier League high-fliers Tottenham failed to offer some cheer to absent manager Harry Redknapp as they suffered their first Europa League defeat of the season, losing 1-0 to Rubin Kazan in Group A.
Kevin-Prince Boateng scored the fastest Serie A hat-trick in 10 years and Mario Yepes grabbed a late winner as AC Milan came back from 3-0 down for a sensational 4-3 victory at Lecce Sunday.
As if things weren't bad enough at the moment, Jürgen Klopp will have to face his nemesis at the Coface-Arena on Saturday afternoon: Stephan Mai. "Stephan who," you ask? Mai is not a player nor a manager but a TV reporter working for a regional channel in the Southwest of Germany. According to the local "WAZ" newspaper, Mai has attended 50 games that have featured Klopp either as a player or a manager (with Mainz and Dortmund) since 1993 -- and Klopp has not won a single one of them. The 43-year-old manager is apparently all too aware of this curious jinx. When his Borussia conceded a late equalizer to draw 1-1 at Kaiserslautern in February, Klopp angrily refused to give Mai an interview after the match, calling him a "Seuchenvogel" (literal translation: a pestilence bird), a harbinger of bad luck.
The Bundesliga's 49th season kicks off on Friday night, when defending champion Borussia Dortmund hosts a completely re-engineered Hamburger SV. Last season's intoxicating randomness proved how difficult it is to predict Europe's most open league but here's a moderately educated guess as to how the 18 teams might finish -- subject to some last-minute wheeling and dealing, naturally.
CNN's Pedro Pinto reports on the nightmare season that FC Bayern Munich of the Bundesliga are having.
Hannover 96 is not doing its president Martin Kind any favors at the moment: it's just too successful. For years, the millionaire owner of a hearing aid manufacturing company has argued that the Bundesliga should change its regulations to allow investors to buy majority shares in clubs, in line with the liberal approach taken by the (English) Premier League. "How can small clubs ever hope to grow otherwise?" complains the 66-year-old Kind. Kind has threatened to sue against investment restrictions in the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.
Schalke's Felix Magath sits down with CNN to discuss the upcoming season and expectations for the team.
In hindsight, Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung should have probably chosen a different headline. "Hannover 96: Not afraid of Robben and Ribery," the local newspaper wrote before Saturday's game at the Allianz Arena. It should have been afraid, though, very afraid.
Thousands of fans, many weeping, packed a Hannover, Germany, stadium Sunday to pay their last respects to Robert Enke, captain of the Hannover 96 soccer club, who died last week in what police believe was a suicide.
World Sport's Mark McKay talks to German football analyst Raphael Honigstein about the death of footballer Robert Enke.
Team Limey comes crashing into Jonah Freedman's beloved Power Rankings control room this week, as our lovable Power Ranker is on vacation down under. No doubt he's checking up on the Perth Glory's and Queensland Roar's chances of breaking into a future top 10.
I arrived at Hall One at the massive CeBIT trade fair on Wednesday night in in search of the mysterious new wireless device known only as Origami.
For long-distance business travelers, conquering jet lag is a priority as they need to maximize their performance on the road.
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has said he will not take part in the next German coalition government, expected to be led by conservative Angela Merkel as chancellor.
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