MLS players salaries for the 2008 season made available by the MLS Players Union reveal that Los Angeles' David Beckham ($6.5 million guaranteed), Chicago's Cuauhtémoc Blanco ($2.67 million) and D.C. United's Marcelo Gallardo ($1.87 million) are the league's top earners.
LOS ANGELES -- Ah, preseason. A chance to play "name that camp invitee," watch grown men stretch their groins together and start the David Beckham watch again.
MLS players salaries for the 2008 season made available by the MLS Players Union reveal that Los Angeles' David Beckham ($6.5 million guaranteed), Chicago's Cuauhtémoc Blanco ($2.67 million) and D.C. United's Marcelo Gallardo ($1.87 million) are the league's top earners.
LOS ANGELES -- Ah, preseason. A chance to play "name that camp invitee," watch grown men stretch their groins together and start the David Beckham watch again.
Twelve months is a long time in soccer. In 2006, Italy demonstrated the international game's ability to triumph in adversity. A year later, the club game fought back and reasserted itself over national-team concerns.
Question: When is a fiasco not a fiasco? Well, the answer has to be, "when it's David Beckham." His much-ballyhooed, incredibly hyped arrival in the U.S. to play for the Los Angeles Galaxy managed to take in, simultaneously, both ends of Kipling's equation: both triumph and disaster.
Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 3. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays, click here.
The night was quite chilly (by Southern California standards, at least). But that didn't stop more than 5,500 fans from coming out to support David Beckham's L.A. Galaxy and a slew of soccer-loving celebs like Superman Returns's Brandon Routh and Without a Trace's Anthony LaPaglia for their charity match Sunday.
As if getting a new home weren't enough, the family featured on this Sunday's episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition also got something extra – a meeting with their favorite soccer player, David Beckham.
David Beckham's first season with the Los Angeles Galaxy ended quietly on Sunday night, with his team falling short of the playoffs and its megawatt superstar failing to take a single shot on goal in his five games played.
The most talked-about gimpy ankle in L.A. seems to be improving, as David Beckham has revealed on his blog that he hopes to suit up for the Galaxy's game against Red Bull New York on Thursday night.
CARSON, Calif. -- It was an inaugural SuperLiga final that had just about everything. A surreal last-second bicycle-kick equalizer. A goalkeeper (to say nothing of the re-injured David Beckham) fighting back post-game tears. A money penalty-taker failing to convert the trophy-winning spot kick. And, not least, a press conference carpeted by F-bombs from (who else?) a mild-mannered Canadian.
The smallest dinosaur could reach speeds of nearly 40 miles per hour and even the lumbering Tyrannosaurus rex would have been able to outrun most modern-day sportsmen, according to research published on Wednesday.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Five things we learned from the electric 5-4 victory by the New York Red Bulls against the Los Angeles Galaxy here on Saturday:
In her first blog update since becoming a resident of Los Angeles less than a month ago, Victoria Beckham has already started to talk like a Valley Girl.
After a frustrating start to his American career because of a nagging ankle injury, sexy soccer star David Beckham has finally made his league debut - and flashed a bare chest to cheering fans.
Despite playing for only about 13 minutes in his first game for the Los Angeles Galaxy soccer team on Saturday, David Beckham helped draw a record 1.5 million viewers to the TV broadcast.
Forget Les Deux and Teddy's: Hollywood's hottest celeb hangout Saturday night was the Home Depot Center in nearby Carson, Calif., as Katie Holmes, Eva Longoria, Mary-Kate Olsen and others showed up to watch David Beckham's American soccer debut with the Los Angeles Galaxy.
CARSON, Calif. -- Phil Anschutz, the reclusive billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Galaxy, hasn't given an interview in more than 30 years. But when I asked his top lieutenant, Tim Leiweke, last month if Anschutz had said anything to him lately about his soon-to-arrive superstar, David Beckham, the three-word response came instantly:
Cuauht�moc Blanco is not David Beckham. Blanco is not posing shirtless with his almost-nude wife next to him. The Chicago-bound standout is not an A-list star whose fame transcends soccer, nor will his looks grab the attention of teenage girls and soccer moms. But he too is coming to America.
If you were going to see your first game at Old Trafford, the fabled Manchester United home known as the Theater of Dreams, you couldn't do much better than the night of April 23, 2003, when Man United met Real Madrid in a Champions League showdown for the ages.
David Beckham's highly anticipated American soccer debut for the Los Angeles Galaxy may not happen Saturday as scheduled, the Los Angeles Times reports.
CARSON, Calif. -- As David Beckham took a seat in one of the luxury suites at Home Depot Center, moments after walking off the confetti-littered field, a wide smile came over his face when he was asked about the auspicious day he chose to be introduced as the newest member of the Los Angeles Galaxy.
CARSON, Calif. -- As he begins his New World Adventure in U.S. soccer, David Beckham can't help but smile when the childhood memories of his first American sojourn come tumbling back into his consciousness. But here's an unexpected twist: Beckham's initial taste of the U.S. had a distinctly Mexican-American flavor.
The most telling comment about David Beckham came from the late George Best, Beckham's most illustrious predecessor in the No. 7 jersey of Manchester United.
David Beckham's return to the English national team for Friday's game against Brazil and next Wednesday's vital Euro 2008 qualifier in Estonia has dominated the headlines this week. The setting couldn't be more fitting: The return of the glamour boy of English football in a glamour friendly against Brazil at the new Wembley Stadium.
It has been almost a week since the Los Angeles Galaxy drew the biggest headlines in Major League Soccer history by signing David Beckham to a blockbuster five-year contract.
Very few people have heard of the Most Serene Republic of Excelsior, but those familiar with South American island nations may know that its annual governmental budget is $950,000. Next season David Beckham will earn that every week.
British soccer star David Beckham says he wants to become a part of American history. The 31-year-old former captain of the English soccer team has signed a five-year, reported $250 million deal with the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer.
Cross Brad Pitt with Pele, and you'll know why England is atwitter over soccer star David Beckham and his ex-Spice Girl wife, Posh. With Becks off to Spain, the pair are spilling ink worldwide. Wha...
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