BERLIN -- Schalke captain Benedikt Hoewedes equalized to give his side a 1-1 draw against Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga on Saturday, denying Xabi Alonso a win on his debut for the German champions. World Cup winner Hoewedes bundled the ball over the line in the 62nd minute as Alonsos desperate attempt to clear came back off the Schalke defenders left arm. Referee Marco Fritz felt the contact was unintentional and the goal was given despite Bayern protests. "It wouldnt have been a goal if his arm wasnt there," said goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, who conceded for the first time against his former club since switching sides in 2011. Robert Lewandowski opened the scoring in the 10th after carving open the Schalke defence with Sebastian Rode. Ralf Faehrmann had already made crucial saves from Thomas Mueller and Lewandowski before the Polish striker scored. The 32-year-old Alonso, who joined from Real Madrid the day before, impressed as Bayern dominated early on but Schalke gradually improved and finished the game strongly. "We didnt control ball possession after the first 25 minutes and that was the problem," Bayern coach Pep Guardiola said. "You have to have ball possession." A botched clearance from Neuer went unpunished before the break, as Kaan Ayhan was unable to direct his shot on target with the keeper stranded. Jerome Boateng kept Schalkes attack in check after interval, before the former Hertha Berlin defender had to go off with an injury on the hour. Both sides attacked in a frenetic finale but neither could claim the win. "Youre annoyed when youre leading 1-0 and you dont finish the job," Mueller said. Earlier, Bayer Leverkusen twice came from behind to defeat Hertha Berlin 4-2 Saturday and maintain its winning start, while newly promoted Paderborn claimed its first ever win in the Bundesliga. Leverkusen went behind in the 24th when Tin Jedvaj deflected Julian Schiebers cross into his own goal. The 18-year-old Jedvaj made up for his mistake by equalizing in the 50th, only for Schieber to put Hertha ahead again in the 60th with his third goal in two games. Leverkusen defender Emir Spahic equalized two minutes later with a header from Hakan Calhanoglus free kick and Julian Brandt scored on a rebound in the 74th when Karim Bellarabis effort came back off the crossbar. Bellarabi, who scored the leagues fastest goal in nine seconds against Borussia Dortmund last week, sealed the result with a fine volley from Calhanoglus cross in the 86th. It was Leverkusens seventh straight win across all competitions and the fifth under new coach Roger Schmidt. "It was a very difficult game for us, but very worthwhile because it was really put to us as a team," Schmidt said. "Hertha were very well organized and we did them the favour of not playing to our strengths for a long time." Paderborn won 3-0 at Hamburger SV with goals from Elias Kachunga, Mario Vrancic and Moritz Stoppelkamp. "Were unbelievably happy and proud that the lads put on such a performance," Paderborn coach Andre Breitenreiter said. Hamburg fans, with last seasons relegation fight fresh in the memory, reacted with jeers and whistles after the game. "Our performance overall was shocking, a bitter result," Hamburg coach Mirko Slomka said. "Weve severely disappointed our fans, although we wanted to show a new side. Now we have to pick up the team." Wolfsburg drew with Eintracht Frankfurt 2-2, Werder Bremen drew 1-1 with Hoffenheim and Cologne won 2-0 at Stuttgart. In Wolfsburg, Naldo put the home side ahead with a free kick in the 15th, before Takashi Inui equalized for Eintracht with one of his own eight minutes later, albeit with a deflection. Maximilian Arnold thought hed won it for Wolfsburg in the 79th, only for Frankfurt substitute Vaclav Kadlec to equalize with four minutes remaining. Wolfsburg midfielder Junior Malanda missed a great chance to win it in extra time, somehow hitting the goalkeeper with the goal at his mercy. "People sitting at home on the sofa are thinking that theyd have put it in and theyre probably right," Wolfsburg general manager Klaus Allofs said. Bremen started badly and a brilliant first touch from Hoffenheim midfielder Roberto Firmino allowed the Brazilian an easy finish in the 19th. The home side improved after the break and deservedly equalized in the 59th when Alejandro Galvez took the ball on his chest and fired a volley to the left corner. Goals from Yuya Osako in the 22nd and Anthony Ujah 11 minutes later were enough for Cologne to claim its first win on its return to the Bundesliga after two seasons in the second division. Dortmund got the second round of games underway Friday with a 3-2 win at Augsburg. Kyle Connor Jets Jersey . This week, they discuss the NCAAs revenue sharing, Don Zimmer, soccer language and Super Bowl 50. 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It is the Monday after the day before, a day that forever changed the life of the young Canadian. That day Villeneuve, fittingly driving the number 27 that become so synonymous with his father Gilles at Ferrari, comes from two laps down to win the 1995 Indianapolis 500. He had spent the day smiling and posing for hundreds of photographs that are beamed all across the world. By the end of the year he has a multi-year contract in his pocket at the best team in Formula One, Williams-Renault. Within two years Villeneuve is World Champion and is a star everywhere he goes. Meanwhile, the Indianapolis 500 continues on without him. As Villeneuve departed for Europe, IndyCar split in two and has never fully recovered from the bitter divorce. The Indy 500s list of drivers in the late 90s lacked real star power and it lost a grip on being the biggest race in the world. Slowly the giant teams like Penske, Ganassi and Andretti returned and with them came world class, elite drivers. For some ten years now, the Indy 500 is back to what it once was, testing some of the greatest single-seater drivers the world has to offer. It is the second Sunday in May and Jacques Villeneuve, now 43, drives back inside the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Dressed in a yellow race suit with Dollar General written all over it he looks nothing like what many would expect a former F1 World Champion to look. He doesnt have the amount of hair he once had but he is back at Indy as a driver, the first time in 19 years. He stops to sign autographs and pose for photographs as he makes that famous walk, paved by greatness, that the likes of A.J. Foyt, Jim Clark, Rick Mears and other stars have taken, alongside Gasoline Alley to the pit lane. The diehard fans stare and flock towards him but he is far from the main attraction at the Speedway. Villeneuve, not a regular on the IndyCar circuit, does remarkably well with attention but here he is just another driver, one that doesnt travel in packs with fellow drivers. He is a man from past glories back to recreate new memories of his own. "I hardly know anyone to be honest. I know (Takuma) Sato, but I never raced against him and I have never raced against anyone who is a regular in this series. That is weird because I dont know what to expect, I dont know how they race. Which one is clean? Dirty? Crazy? So its definitely a bit strange, yes." The answer is typical Jacques. He talks of not knowing anyone but immediately he means as drivers, not as men. Our conversation immediately turns to scenarios that can take place on the track. Villeneuve doesnt talk in clichés and for someone who has done as much media as he has in his life, he remains a refreshingly deep-thinker who can take you on the same journey as his mind. We talk about this upcoming Sunday and the Indy 500, and the point when he will be travelling in excess of 230 miles per hour with cars all around him. His eyes squint as he dictates word-for-word his precise thoughts as he gets set to compete in what he describes as the biggest race in the world. "The complexity of this race now is running in traffic. The cars have two hundred horsepower less than 19 years ago and much more grip and to be able to stay super close to the cars, while everyone is running flat out, the key is to stay close to someone else, (ready for) when he has to lift, back out a little bit because of the traffic in front of him, then you steal his momentum. "Thats really tough, ass you get in the turbulent air behind someone, your whole car is shaking and thats when the car starts sliding and you can lose the front end or the rear end a little bit and, at that point, do you have the guts to keep your foot down or not and is your car working in that situation?" This is a world he has little control in, a frightening thought for even the greatest of race drivers.dddddddddddd Villeneuve, who will start, fittingly, in the 27th spot for Sundays race, continues: "I will be surrounded by guys who respect the danger and others who think its a video game and, at those speeds, its risky and thats what I still dont know, who to trust and who not to trust out there. With more grip and less horsepower, the cars are very forgiving. I have got sideways a few times already this month and if I did that 19 years ago I would have been in the wall. "I think they give a false sense of security for some of the drivers and thats why you see kids coming in and, within three laps, they are flat out because I dont think they respect how dangerous it is. Once you get caught out, then you start respecting it and at Indianapolis there are two kinds of drivers, the ones who have hit the wall and the ones who havent hit the wall." It is clear Villeneuve is almost as concerned about those who havent hit the wall than hitting the wall himself. "This is not a track where you want to make a mistake. The speeds we go is exciting, it is unparalleled. It is a long race and my approach (in the past) was to mind your own business and it will come to you. You have to know when to take a risk and when not to. Normally in the first half, the idiots will crash themselves out so if you can stay clean to 100 laps then that can be useful!" There arent too many drivers in IndyCar who will refer to some of the colleagues as idiots but this is what comes with the honest, direct Villeneuve who survived the world of Formula One without turning into a robot, something very few have done in recent years. He admits he still watches Formula One but not the same way he once did: "I dont like or understand the reason behind the new rules but we have had some amazing races this year. Why? Only because the teammates have been allowed to fight. When you had Prost and Senna (at McLaren in the late 80s) they would lap the field but everyone was happy so we have a bit of that now with Lewis (Hamilton) and Nico (Rosberg). "The rules themselves, though, are not F1. The sport should be out of this world, not reality. You should look at it and say thats crazy how do these guys manage to drive these kinds of cars at those speeds. In the original turbo engine era they would do qualifying and then throw the engine in the garbage. Thats F1. It should be so extreme that when you are at home, and you are not a racer, you know thats another world. Now you are at home and think I could do that. There is nothing special about it anymore." The man who won 11 Grand Prix races has never been one to focus too much on the past but it is clear he knows those eras were far superior to modern day F1. He smiles when asked about the 1997 season but moves off from it as quickly as it comes up. "It was fun but I dont dwell on the past, I never have and thats why I want my kids to see me drive. I dont want to be for my kids, the guy that used to race that they can see in books." Those books tell a remarkable tale of one of the finest Canadians to ever compete in any sport. On Sunday at the Greatest Spectacle in Racing another chapter is to be written. ' ' '