Stuart Condie

LONDON -- Real Madrid and Barcelona are football's biggest moneymakers for the third straight year and look set to out-earn their rivals for the foreseeable future.

The annual review of football finance by Deloitte shows Madrid topping the list for the seventh straight year with revenue of 479.5 million ($636.5 million) to the year ending June 30, an increase of 9 percent on the previous 12 months.

English champion Manchester United was again in third place with (euro) 367 million ($487.2 million), the highest of four English clubs in the top 10 earners. Bayern Munich was fourth with (euro) 321.4 million ($426.6 million), with Arsenal, Chelsea, AC Milan, Inter Milan, Liverpool and Schalke next.

LONDON -- A few miles from the worst violence to hit the city in 25 years, beach volleyball players dived headlong in the sand, the most summery of Olympic sports on display less than a year before the London Games.

The matches were played under the shadow of the London Eye big wheel, and not far from Buckingham Palace and No. 10 Downing Street. Yet no historic backdrop could block the images of rioting and looting that have swept the city the past three days and left a mark on British sports.

LONDON -- Unfaithful soccer stars and crooked cricketers will soon be safe from the most prying of Britain's muckraking tabloids.

The News of the World goes on sale for the last time Sunday, shut down by its proprietor after 168 years. The Murdoch-owned News International is trying to limit the fallout of allegations that reporters illegally tapped cell phones and bribed police.

Among those who will not be mourning the loss of Britain's best-selling Sunday newspaper will be the many sports figures targeted by sting operations.

LONDON -- David Beckham could complete his loan move to Tottenham from the Los Angeles Galaxy over the weekend.

"He could be here on Sunday possibly, if what I'm being told on the grapevine is right," Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp said Friday. "The clubs are talking and there is a good chance it will happen."

Redknapp, who said last week that he hoped to sign the former England captain on a two-month loan from the Galaxy, said Beckham is likely to attend the north London club's FA Cup match against Charlton on Sunday.

LONDON -- British Prime Minister David Cameron has joined criticism of a BBC investigation into FIFA because it could potentially harm England's bid to host the 2018 World Cup.

LONDON -- Plymouth Argyle's first goal of the season stands a good chance of being its most artistic. A local newspaper printed a cartoon of it because Plymouth's opponents had banned photographers from its stadium.