A person leaves town … switches states .. crosses an ocean … and eventually his sports preferences morph. It’s one of those things that you don’t realize until you do a sort of internal check. “Which teams’ results do I follow? Which have I stopped tracking? Which teams can make me feel a little better […]

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The Galaxy won the Major League Soccer championship today, and the way this will play around 98 percent of the soccer world is this: David Beckham leaves MLS with another championship. That is how it will be looked at here in the UAE, certainly. I have two thoughts here. The first is something I’ve already […]

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Why not? Those were the words from Kefah Al Kaabi, a TV and radio soccer pundit here in the UAE. The question was:

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The good news about Harry Redknapp being fired as coach of the Tottenham soccer club: Galaxy fans won’t be tempted to spend $50 to listen to him describe a practice session. It was a curious news release, from the Galaxy, which tumbled into my inbox. In part, it read:

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Wow. This seems to be over in the blink of an eye. Landon Donovan’s last game with Everton, during his second two-month loan spell to England’s Premier League, will come in an FA Cup game with Blackpool today. And he may not play because he has been ill, David Moyes, the Everton coach, said on […]

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Landon Donovan continues to make news on the Old World side of the Atlantic. And David Beckham’s decision to stay with the Galaxy led to some financial fallout in Paris. It’s rather fun to read about this stuff in English and French papers, respectively, and we have some links for you. The news peg here: […]

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This probably was a global trend, but it was certainly got a boost from the Barcelona club and the Spain national team. To wit: Soccer is increasingly the province of tiny men with high technical skills who can run forever. Big is out. Muscles? Not really necessary, aside from those needed to move your almost […]

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Everton got a result against Aston Villa on Saturday, a 1-1- tie, their first point in the Premier League since Landon Donovan rejoined the Liverpool-based team on loan from the Galaxy, and when it was over David Moyes, the Everton coach, was calmly direct about identifying his most influential player. It was Donovan, the Galaxy […]

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This was a first: A Briton asking me to write a story about Landon Donovan. The news peg is that Landon is back in England, for two months, on loan with the Premier League side Everton, and he seems likely to play his first match (in his second Everton go-round) Wednesday night. Here is that […]

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This surprised me a bit. Landon Donovan going back to Everton, the English Premier League side in Liverpool, on a two-month loan spanning January and February, during the Major League Soccer offseason. Why should this have puzzled me? For at least two reasons.

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