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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Laugh about it, shout about it / When you've got to choose / Every way you look at it, you lose
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Lost in the whirlwind tour of South Africa and the Confederations Cup, which brought outlets
from Harper's to Deadspin to what seemed like every newspaper in the country out for a week-long
soccer columning festival, was the demise of Brad Friedel's once heralded (here at least) soccer
academy in Ohio.
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Steve Nash and friends throwdown for the showdown in chinatown, for charity, take
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It's never as good as the first time. The rain, the grand stand bleachers, the wet turf, the
steady cam man on the field, the crane cam hovering over the crowd. What was an underground
experiment last year became the mainstream mainstay as Steve Nash and Claudio Reyna hosted their
2nd annual Showdown in Chinatown to benefit each of their namesake charities.
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Discovered at the age of 10 in New York. In an elite American residency program in Pennsylvania
at age 11. Three seasons at FC Metz youth academy in France at 13. A year in Italy as an amateur on
AS Livorno's reserves at 17m followed by a spell in Scotland at St. Mirren.
A soccer vagabond by the age of 19, Devann Yao is now back home in New York, and that's where he
wants to stay.
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Indoor is in a weird place. If you think soccer has it bad in the American sporting landscape, how
bad is it for its little indoor brother, a wholly unique being known to most players as that crazy
game that filled the cold winter months between club seasons? Better than you might think actually.
I loved [.
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December 15, 2008 - Global sport lifestyle brand PUMA and Women's Professional Soccer (WPS)
announced an exclusive partnership making PUMA an official founding partner of WPS and an
official sponsor of all WPS franchises. The multi-year partnership makes PUMA the official
sport and lifestyle apparel, footwear and equipment supplier of WPS, including the official WPS
Match [.
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Not long ago, perhaps just over 5 years, this title of this piece could have been much the same as
it is now. The same, except that the main noun of the sentence will be replaced, so it will read,
'Are the days of the technical wizard over?' It seems we have gone half circle in the last 5 years.
Perhaps even full circle in the last 15 years, as we can all remember players like 'Fash the Bash'
and his many Nigerian based clones swarming our league.
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(this is all five parts of the story in its entirety) Ron Isley croons from the stereo of the Audi
A6 Quattro Clint Dempsey purchased from sports agency-mate Ryan Nelson. "You fool one day
you're here and then you're gone." But before the beat drops, before UGK's Pimp C and Bun B
have a chance to [.
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PART 5 Looking over photos back in New York, it's clear that the closest I ever got to being Clint
Dempsey was on the golf course (and that probably will end once he puts in some practice). The
flare that helped get Clint to where he is today might be lacking at the moment as he [...]
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PART 4 It's dark out, time has gotten away. I didn't envision talking to Dempsey to be this easy,
for him to be so engaged. I should probably let the guy get some rest. But he keeps asking
questions, almost as many as me. He wants to compare our lives, proving his point that he's just
[...]
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PART 3 Lance Dempsey now coaches soccer in North Carolina. Seeing the game from the other side of
the sidelines gave him a new respect for the work his older brother put in. "My parents
sacrificed a lot," he tells me. "But I don't want it to sound like something crazy, like
we were homeless, like [..
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PART 2 A talented tennis player, Jennifer Dempsey ranked in the top two at Nacogdoches High School.
Her athletic pursuits begged for more attention, and being a family of limited means, younger
brother Clint, 13 at the time, was forced to put his soccer development on the backburner after
three years of family sacrifice supported his [.
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PART 1 Ron Isley croons from the stereo of the Audi A6 Quattro Clint Dempsey purchased from sports
agency-mate Ryan Nelson. "You fool one day you're here and then you're gone." But before
the beat drops, before UGK's Pimp C and Bun B have a chance to trade verses about making the most
of the Texas [.
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losing effort maybe not the only lesson for american soccer at the olympics In the 2000 Summer
Olympics in Sydney, Australia, China came home with 59 medals (28 gold), good enough for 3rd place
in the medal count behind Russia and the United States, the latter of which had 91 (36 gold) and
dominated the games [.
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Adidas are launching the new Chelsea Third Kit less than two weeks in to the new Premier League on
the 28th August. The bright yellow kit modeled by defender Ashley Cole incorporates ClimaCool to
keep the athletes at their peak by keeping them dry and at a comfortable temperature. The new
ForMotion technology uses designs [.
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Things that jocks are doing with their free clip are asinine. A bevy of these happenings have
got transpired to a broad assortment of athletes. The first event that come ups to mind is about
the Cincinnati Bengals. If I were to listing all of the NFL participants who have got got got got
been arrested on that team, I would have to pass an infinity in presence of a computing machine
(just like those swots who play Warcraft and have no life).
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