By Diego Maradona

Alexi,

What's up you leather-faced buffoon? Last time I saw you I was probably putting the ball through your legs. Or blowing lines off your wife's potatoes after your country banned me in 94'. You're lucky I didn't get you on the field. Just kidding. Have we met before? I don't remember.

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Grant Wahl discusses his new book, The Beckham Experiment, out now from Crown

Why do book reviews have to be summaries of the book? I never got that. I understand it but don't get it. I do get jacket blurbs, though. Those few sentences of praise on the back of a boo I'm always curious what names are there and what they say.

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With less than a week out from the release of Grant Wahl's The Beckham Experiment, further revealations come to us via The Associated Press. Among them are that ESPN paid Beckham's Management to produce an hour-long TV special in 2007, Alexi Lala's over-ruled the voting results and gave the team MVP award to Chris Klein which allegedly cost Landon Donovan $25,000 in bonus cash and that David Beckham is good to stay in the Seacaucus Sheraton (which, let's be honest, most of us are). Click to continue reading...

Americans Abroad / USMNT
US Earns Respect Of Soccer Powers - Florida Today
US Readies For Sterner Test - Boston Herald
Bob Bradley And Players Discuss Upcoming Game Against Honduras - The MNT Blog
Opportunity Knocks For US Players At Gold Cup - Washington Post
Robert Kraft Joins US World Cup Bid Committee - Revolution official site
Kraft Joins US World Cup Bid Committee - MLSnet
Kraft Joins Efforts To Bring World Cup Tourney To US - Boston Globe
Onyewu Signs With AC Milan - Soccer By Ives
Onyewu First US Player Signed By AC Milan - Associated Press
'Gooch' Makes Historic Move For US Soccer - Sports Network
Onyewu Joins AC Milan - Goal (NY Times)
Onyewu Signs With Rossoneri - Yanks Abroad
US Defender Onyewu On To AC Milan - MLSnet
Onyewu Signing Brings More Attention To US Players - Soccer365
Oguchi Inked By AC Milan; Talk About Jackpot - Soccer y Futbol
Video: Alexi On Oguchi Onyewu To AC Milan - ESPNsoccernet
Onyewu To Milan - Soccer Insider
Onyewu Signs Contract With AC Milan - MLS Daily
Gooch Signs With Milan: Reaction - MLS Talk
Into The Milan Frying Pan - No Short Corners
Milan Sign Onyewu - ESPNsoccernet
Oguchi Onyewu To AC Milan - Extra Time (NY Post)
Inter Wanted AC Milan Signing Onyewu - Goal. Click to continue reading...

douchebag: (n) an individual with an over inflated sense of self worth, often combined with a low level of intelligence, typically behaves in a ridiculous manner with no sense of how moronic he appears
In soccer teams, you know that have certain players that you just love to hate. Everything they do on the field drives you crazy. Click to continue reading...

Amazing when you miss when you're locked up in meetings all day but manager Ruud Gullit has resigned as manager of MLS's Los Angeles Galaxy. The club, who have gone seven matches without a win, also parted with president Alexi... Click to continue reading...

June 1994 Alexi Lalas shows off a hand-drawn gift received from a fan after the USA's World Cup victory over Colombia at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. The U.S. won the game 2-1. Photo Mike Powell /Allsport... Click to continue reading...

Didn't take long for GMs like Alexi Lalas to get back to work today. Sources say the Red Bulls have traded Clint Mathis, the club's all-time goal-scoring leader, to the LA Galaxy for the Galaxy's third-round draft pick in the 2008 MLS Draft. The trade sends Mathis back to the Galaxy, the club where his MLS [...] Click to continue reading...