Has Alexi Lalas gone barking mad with his signing of Carlos Ruiz for the Galaxy, Mike Gumballhead asks, or is this the final stansa to complete the epic poem he’s long had planned?
Try as the likes of Ian Plenderleith might, it’s increasingly hard to satirise the David Beckham Extravaganza. Reality has become too absurd.
Major League Soccer (USA), the J.League (Japan) and the Hyundai A-League (Australia) today announced an unprecedented and innovative partnership in the creation of a new international soccer tournament to be hosted in Honolulu, Hawaii: […]
In Canada this week, Vancouver finally welcomes the Soccer Messiah, aka David Beckham, for a rearranged game against the Vancouver Whitecaps of the USL tomorrow night tonight. As the always thoughtful Global Game blog asserts, though, his arrival is more interesting as it “raises more interest in pre-existing soccer traditions than in the soccer actually […]
It’s a funny old world when the sports league that probably gets laughed at and dismissed both in its own country and abroad more than any other also employs the world’s biggest earner on any sports team, anywhere.
Forbes’ “World’s Top Earning Athletes” lists MLS’ own David Beckham at sixth place ($33 million), below only individual […]
Say what you will about ESPN’s influence on the American sports marketplace, they are masters of sport as theatre, even in a thirty-second advertisement.
