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Real Salt Lake Give Beckham Haters Fodder, Win MLS Cup 2009
The 2009 MLS Cup final came down to penalties yesterday and LA Galaxy's David Beckham gave his detractors little reason to think about shutting up as his side lost to Real Salt Lake, 1-1 a e t and 4-5 in the shootout.Beckham, purportedly ailing with ...
Beckham Contra Blanco: Green Light For MLS Blockbuster
Major League Soccer's highest hopes for a red carpet finale took one step closer to becoming a reality this past weekend.Landon Donovan converted a penalty kick in the 73d minute Sunday (Nov. 8) to send his LA Galaxy into the MLS Cup "semi-"finals ve...
MLS Playoffs Minus 90 (min): And Then There Were 12
If you like playoffs and you like parity amongst league teams then the 2009 version of MLS is right up your alley.After 31 weeks of play and only 90 minutes from regulation, only three teams have been mathematically eliminated from this year's playof...
Long Internet-wide Nightmare Ends
The long internet nightmare is over as I've returned to blog once again.The news is bad on the west coast as David Beckham has returned to the LA Galaxy and seems bent--so to speak--on getting into fisticuffs with his MLS fans.So far, the Big Bender ...
Donovan & Beckham Make Nice-Nice
David Beckham, fresh from posing for (still more) expensive undie ads, appeared on network television in NYC today (NBC Today Show) to report on his return to MLS' LA Galaxy and the open arms of wife Victoria and linemate Landon Donovan.Donovan had e...
Landon Donovan Not Happy With Erstwhile Becks
Landon Donovan seems like he's about start griping in earnest about Galaxy teammate David Beckham.Beckham has been "on-loan" from LA Galaxy to AC Milan for the entirety of this first half of the MLS regular season and hasn't really produced much sinc...
Beckham . . . Beckham . . . Boredom
Yesterday's edition of the LA Times (May 30, 2009) carried a q&a with Galaxy/Milan uber-star, David Beckham.Beckham, reporting his own age at 34 years as he talked with reporter Graham Jones, indicated that he is "excited" to be coming back to LA...
ChivasUSA: 33 1/3% MLS Champions
With one third of the 2009 MLS season in the books, ChivasUSA is well out in front on points and number of victories.Accompanying the 7 victories posted by Chivas de Guadalajara's primos Norte Americano has been the delivery on the promise held out b...
MLS: Expansion Teams Rule, Champs Drool
So far this season, MLS has been dominated by expansion teams: Chivas (2005) and Seattle (2009) in the West, and Toronto (2007) in the East.Last year's champs, Columbus Crew, have yet to post a victory over the first six games. While Houston Dynamo,...
Beckham gets comfy in Italy
On Sunday night (Jan. 25) David Beckham "of the LA Galaxy"--I don't like the look of those air-quotes--scored his first goal in Serie A during his third match on loan to Milan, helping his club to a 4-1 victory over Bologna.Beckham is supposed to ret...
Beckham goes AC, Italian style
David Beckham--you remember him, right?--is switching to AC, at least temporarily.The Bendy One is leaving LA for Milan, on loan for the first three months of 2009.The reason he says is--are you sitting down?--he needs to play the longer European sea...
