Colorful words. Beefcake and cheesecake. Interesting. Odd. One is guys with most of their clothes off. The other is girls. But what about cheesecake makes you think of women? Maybe guys can be beefy, but can’t they also be porky? Why not porkcake? But I digress. In this case, we are in the beefcake realm. […]

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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. […]

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It was fun. It was exciting. It was madcap. And it appears to have been a bit draining, as well. For all that, I’m sure it was 10 weeks Landon Donovan won’t soon forget, his 2010 loan to Everton of the English Premier League. But it is official: He is on the big bird back […]

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Brad Friedel is probably the best goalkeeper in the Premier League. Which, arguably, makes him the best goalkeeper in the world. Yet he hasn’t played for the U.S. national team since 2004. He announced his retirement from “international” soccer — that is, the U.S. national team — in February of 2005. Since then, he hasn’t […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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I saw this video a month or so ago, but early today a former co-worker sent me the link and demanded that I write about it … and I had considered it, earlier. So here goes. In this bit of video, Landon Donovan is shown attempting to sneak across the U.S.-Mexico border. Hilarity ensues. This […]

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I knew this was coming. I knew it while standing in the newsroom here in Abu Dhabi two nights ago, stopping on my way out out of the building and watching via computer the final minutes of the Premier League match between Everton and Manchester City. Everton coach David Moyes substituted for Landon Donovan in […]

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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 […]

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