I am still on the Los Angeles Galaxy’s media list, so I get this stuff sent to me, and this item came a week ago, and I have intended to mention it ever since.
It’s about a 16-year-old forward the Galaxy has signed. And this most certainly is premature, but could this Jack McBean kid be […]

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Funny. I’ve been exposed to so much soccer in the past three years, I might actually go to Galaxy games as a fan, now. Though I would rather get paid to cover them, of course.
Anyway, the club recently has been making news pretty much all over the spectrum involving some names well-known in the U.S. […]

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Received an e-mail from the Los Angeles Galaxy today about roster moves the club has made.
“LA Galaxy Acquire the Rights to Juan Pablo Angel and Frankie Hejduk”
I know Juan Pablo Angel, a goalscoring machine, is supposed to be the big news here. Which is why he was listed first.
But what I am interested in … […]

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David Beckham has had rather a rough go of it in Los Angeles. He has been hurt, he has gone off to play chunks of years in Europe, he has been rather knocked around in the book “The Beckham Experiment” (the Landon Donovan comments). And then he suffered a ruptured Achilles’ tendon that took him […]

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Interesting concept. Landon Donovan returning to Redlands for an episode of an ESPN series entitled “Homecoming with Rick Reilly.”
Turns out you don’t just go home … you go home with Rick Reilly, the former Sports Illustrated columnist who is now the “other guy” columnist at espn.com. The other guy to Bill Simmons, that is.
When I […]

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I don’t allege to be the ultimate Landon Donovan watcher. I’ve known him since he was 16, but it’s not as if he’s been readily accessible for the past few years.
And this may be more about just reading between the lines than any special insight.
On the Everton Football Club home site, Landon is quoted as […]

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Landon Donovan may not be extending his stay with Everton in the English Premier League,  after all.
That’s what his Everton coach, David Moyes, is saying.
Unless Moyes is engaged in some sort of semantics game here … it looks as if Los Angeles Galaxy fans can expect Donovan back in SoCal before March is over.  On […]

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A watershed for Landon Donovan.
We assumed he would score in the Premier League for Everton, but he didn’t in his first four matches with the club (including a defeat Saturday in the FA Cup) … and he never scored in a real match for Leverkusen or Bayern Munich, which left him 0-for-European clubs in his […]

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Let’s assume that Landon Donovan will remember this day for a long time.
When he made his debut in the English Premier League … and played at Emirates Stadium in north London … during a steady snowstorm … on a day when his match was the only one at 3 p.m. (and, thus, seen by a […]

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No pressure … but the next 10 weeks could define Landon Donovan on the global stage.
Donovan joined Everton of the English Premier League earlier this week, on loan from the Los Angeles Galaxy, and the ramifications are enormous.
For better or worse, unfairly or otherwise, Donovan’s career could turn on how he performs in maybe 6-10 […]

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