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SI.com: Grant Wahl: Galaxy honcho Leiweke wants another rulebook rewrite

The man who brought the "Beckham Rule" to Major League Soccer now wants to change it in a dramatic fashion. And if Tim Leiweke gets his way, David Beckham and MLS' other marquee players wouldn't count a dime against the league's salary cap.

SI.com: Luis Bueno: Mediocre L.A. clubs don't befit city's great soccer culture

There's no other soccer city in the United States quite like Los Angeles.

SI.com: Jonah Freedman: Galaxy handed down ultimatum from big boss

OAKLAND, Calif. -- The soap opera that is the Los Angeles Galaxy just gets weirder and weirder.

SI.com: Soccer America: Is Ruud Gullit the man to revive the L.A. Galaxy?

There are more pounds around the middle and less hair up top these days as perhaps the most powerful yet graceful player ever produced in Europe slides toward his 46th birthday, his playing days long past and an oft-aborted coaching career in its fourth phase.

SI.com: World Soccer: Beckham's first season in MLS showed mixed results

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.

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