It says something about Real Madrid, and perhaps the growth of soccer interest in the U.S., that the Spanish club can hold a practice at the home of the LA Galaxy — and it costs fans $35 to watch. That is the situation on August 1, two weeks hence, before the second round of the […]

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The news broke today, via ESPN, that Major League Baseball is looking to punish around 20 players connected to a Miami-based performance-enhancing drugs scandal, including Ryan Braun and Alex Rodriguez. Good. If the evidence shows these players are complicit in PED use, suspend them. PEDs have to be run out of baseball, and it’s clear […]

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We will keep this short. Jurgen Klinsmann‘s personal animus towards Landon Donovan, the greatest soccer player in American history, is plain for all to see, and the longer he carries on his one-way feud, the worse it will be for the 2014 World Cup campaign. But this latest bit of U.S. squad maneuvering by the […]

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Time to catch up on some Landon Donovan news. This broke while I was in the U.S. soccer-news vacuum known as “Italy” … and shows that Jurgen Klinsmann continues to nurse his hard feelings towards the leading scorer in American national team history. Klinsmann did not invite Landon into the national team ahead of some […]

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This is an awful time to be a Los Angeles-area sports fan. It has been mostly dreary since I left the region to live and work in Abu Dhabi, in 2009, but it seems to be bottoming out, the past four or five months. Aside from hockey, which has no significant hold on Southern California […]

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Two uplifting developments for U.S. soccer today, and after that, some video from some uplifting moments from the 2010 World Cup.

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And so it continues: What seems like the majority of U.S. soccer fans wanting to know where the hell Landon Donovan is, and … and well, how dare he!?! not report for every training session. An hour early. The day before. The latest misguided critic to weigh in is an ESPN blogger named Jeff Carlisle, […]

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Hunting seasons in most parts of the world are of limited duration.  A month maybe. A few weeks. The rest of the year the creatures on the other side of the guns can live in peace. Landon Donovan, however, tends to be targeted by many U.S. soccer fans every day of the year. It’s always […]

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David Beckham signed with Paris Saint-Germain today, and in my humble opinion he missed an opportunity to end his career with a dramatic and daring flourish. Signing with PSG is consistent with Beckham’s peregrinations since leaving Manchester United in 2003 — big clubs in world cities. He could have done it in a far more […]

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Some have wondered what Landon Donovan has been up to since the Los Angeles Galaxy won the MLS Cup last month. He left the Home Depot Center with some ambivalent comments about his future in soccer, and one interpretation was that he was through with the game. Since then, had he been wandering the Earth? […]

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