Salma Hayek
Originally uploaded by d_black007 Salma Hayek aposto por Beckham y no recibió nada .
Esta nota me la van a restregar por que dirán que es del corazón, pero no importa es un pretexto para el Área Chicas que tanto éxito tiene.
Leo por ahí que Salma Hayek en Febrero de este año pago 226,000 dolares por una lección de una hora con David Beckham, esto en una subasta organizada por Madonna con fines benéficos en New York.

I heard a while back that our David was going to make an appearance on Sesame Street this season, but all I knew about it was that he was alleged to have beef with Oscar the Grouch. And now that I have seen a photo of him on-set I have more questions that I did before. Questions like, who's hairier, Becks or Elmo?

*While I've been columnizing much of the day, plenty of other stuff is going on in the soccer world with one highlight being former Galaxy defender Chris Albright slamming departed Galaxy Coach Ruud Gullit at SI.com:

"My thought was that he'd be gone by midway through this year - I thought that two days after meeting him," said the 29-year-old defender, who was part of the Galaxy squad that made preseason trips to Australia and New Zealand.

El día 23 de Abril los americanistas vivieron un momento incomodo gracias al estiramiento o calentamiento de Cabañas y German Villa.
Pero por ahí esta este vídeo de la selección USA de hace 4 años, y al parecer eso de marcar territorio no es exclusivo de Landon Donovan (ver vídeo)
también por ahí me toco ver la entrevista de Ellen a David Beckham (ver vídeo) aunque este no sea tan loco.

Golden Balls is everywhere, isn't he? But the one place I thought I could be sure I would never see Becks and Co. was at an AEK game. + = WTF?! Could this really happen? It's just a rumor right now, but check it!

Diego's little daughter Giannina (left) got knocked up, by longtime boyfriend and Atletico Madrid superstar forward Sergio Aguero (middle).
Fortunately for the young Argentine, the legend (right) didn't seem very upset:

According to the Argentinean press, Diego Maradona has confessed to his fellow "showbol": "Boys, I will be a grandfather.

Behold Mo Edu's new FIFA 09 cover. Props to him for getting the Altidore replacement call this year ahead of someone like Becks, Blanco or Landon. And notice that Ronnie is wearing his Brazil kit...I guess his club team for this year was too close to call at the time of deadline.

Quick. Name a soccer player. David Beckham's name is generally the first name that comes to mind to the average American followed by Ronaldinho in most cases. Sometimes Pele will be named, but for the most part, its Beckham. Becks has been playing with the LA Galaxy of Major League Soccer for almost a year [.

So, who likes this commercial better than the Sharpie one?
The "Practice Pop-In" is a tactic that's been done before for adidas and DSG with different athletes. Reggie Bush (Becks' buddy from an earlier commercial the two did together) featured in one.

David Beckham's publicist has issued a statement on today's events on behalf of Becks:

"He is sad to see Ruud and Alexi go, but he and the team remain focused on getting back to winning ways starting with the game against Chivas on Thursday."

I'm sure a good number of people would like to be David Beckham. At least Beckham before he made the decision to move to MLS. Luckily, David is giving the world a chance to be as close to Him as ever, and at the bargain basement price of £99,000. Dave's selling his fully customized 2002 [...]

The Los Angeles Galaxy's transformation from butt of all MLS jokes to leaders of the Western Conference has been nothing short of impressive while Edson Buddle's progress from wayward MLS striker to hat-trick machine is almost as jaw-dropping.

The Galaxy thrashed the San Jose Earthquakes, 3-0, with Buddle netting all three goals.

More ridiculous rumours from Beckhamworld Rumour 1 Becks has stinky fish breath, due to the fact he takes fish oil tablets every day - he's contracted as the face of Go3 Omega-3 supplements, and reportedly loves the energy the tablets...

People take note, never count out Miami.
Miami Ultras rejoice, just when it looked like Miami was as good as dead as an expansion candidate it is thrown a lifeline.
Remember way back when we told you that David Beckham had the option to buy a club and speculated he would buy one in New York or Miami rather than add a 3rd one to Southern California?

Another soccer-filled weekend is on tap, so let's get to it.

*The Galaxy are out of town in New York where Claudio Reyna retired this week and the Red Bulls signed two South American midfielders who could make their debuts Saturday.

The game airs live at 3:30 p.m. on Fox Soccer Channel and a crowd of more than 45,000 is expected to turn out largely to see David Beckham who continues to prove why he's nicknamed Golden Balls.

Is it coming back home? Joseph S Blatter said last week that 3 other countries have been contacted over the possibility of staging the next World Cup in 2010 if South Africa is suddenly hit by some nasty natural disaster or if they encounter problems which will make it necessary for them to have it moved.

"Yep, smells like $250m to me..." Mr JT (not John Terry, but the talented Timberlake) wowed guests - including Posh & Becks and C-Ron - at the ESPY sports awards ceremony last week. Here he is embarrassing the shit out...

So that's 1 point for Shep, 1 kabillion for Becks. Not that anyone is keeping score.

Before I really begin this post let me preface it by saying, "no one is asking". By that I mean I know that no one is asking me what I think MLS should do in regard to signing players nor would I ever feign being qualified to tell anyone over there what to look for in a player. I say this because I don't want this post to come across like one of those that you read on some other blogs where a guy who's got less access and insight than the janitor at HDC tells you who Chivas USA should sign, so please don't take it too seriously.

While we're on the subject, I'll take last week's Manchester United vs. Juventus friendly match as an opportunity to show these cool PEPSI commercials. No commentary needed, just... enjoy! Hey, isn't that the Coca-Cola tagline?.. . Inside the Man U Changing Room . On a Foosball Table . Becks vs.

Whilst thumbing through The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer in bed the other night, I wondered to myself "when is someone going to do the first book about Becks in America?". With Europe's bookshelves already rammed full of books about our David it was only a matter of time before someone got in the act over on this side of world.

Last year, Chicago destroyed LA's playoff hopes in the final game of the year. This year, they could pretty much kill the Galaxy off - a little earlier this time around.
LD talks about doing "internal work". Sounds like colonics or something. LD gives a nod to Hispanic Heritage month, saying those were his soccer teammates when he was growing up.

How about them Wizards?
Anyway, the injury of Sean Franklin means the Galaxy have had to scramble to replace him. He's been their most consistent defender, rookie or no.
So who replaces him? Greg Vanney or Troy Roberts? The short answer is that both players are in the starting lineup.
Galaxy: Cronie, Kleiny, Troy, Vanney, Ante, Ely, Becks, Pete, Willie, Eddie, LD
Chivas USA: Guzano, Talley, Shavar, Jonny, 'Tiba, Sach, Jesse, Nags, Panchito, 'Te.

America's Major League Soccer All Star XI defeated West Ham United 3-2 in a preseason friendly. Dean Ashton was the standout performer of the match as he notched both of West Ham's goals. Carlton Cole partnered Ashton up top and was largely ineffective throughout the match, stressing the need for a healthy Craig Bellamy.

We're finally online.
Chivas USA
Zack Thornton
Carey Talley
Bobby Burling,
Shavar Thomas
Francisco Mendoza
Keith Savage
Jesse Marsch
Paulo Nagamura
Daniel Paladini
Justin Braun
Atiba Harris
Galaxy
Steve Cronin
Chris Klein
Sean Franklin
Ante jazic
Greg Vanney
David Beckham
Alvaro Pires
Peter Vagenas
Ely Allen
Edson Buddle
Landon Donovan
Sorry I have no details about game atmosphere - we've been scrambling to get wireless here in the pressbox.

ESPN2 will be all Chi-town down tonight when the Galaxy comes to town to finally give us the Becks-Landon-Lewis vs. Blanco-McBride-Mapp match that we missed out on a few weeks back. Even though both teams haven't exactly been pissing excellence as of late (LA's result against D.C. aside) I'm more excited to watch this than any of the CONCACAF Champions League games/ass-whippings that were on this week.

Found another post on ballhype about Beckham opening a soccer academy in Brazil. The video on that post seems to be down but I found the clip where he is juggling a ball on the beach, with no shirt on of course. Check out this post for some funny reading, it sure took me by [...]

1. New England (7-3-2). As long as Chicago isn't around, New England has the tools for yet another MLS Cup run.
2. Chicago (6-3-1). No truth to the rumor that Fire petitioned league to play rest of schedule on the road.
3. Houston (4-3-5). Suddenly, Houston is at top of Western Conference standings, and all is right in that part of Texas.

David Beckham thought his career with England´s national team was over when he was dropped in 2006 by the former manager Steve McClaren. Becks doesn't expect any sentimentality from the current England coach Fabio Capello.
"I won't get a phone call when I'm left out and I won't expect one," David Beckham was quoted as saying in Tuesday's edition of The Times of London, speaking in an interview in Los Angeles.

I watched the LA Galaxy clobber the San Jose Earthquakes last weekend thanks to
Edson Buddle's hat trick. David Beckham's name was barely mentioned a half dozen times, he was that inconsequential in the win. So far he has been rugged, injury free, playing almost a 1000 minutes, scoring some important goals, and assisting in half a dozen more.

In a new ad for Sharpie, Becks gives a fan the shirt off his back - for a price. What's interesting is that the commercial also shows a bit of what Becks does in LA these days. He picks up coffee, he drives around with the top down on his convertible, he gives that smile to people who recognize him on the street.

When the New York Red Bulls hosted LA Galaxy this weekend, the obligatory group of young female fans was screaming for Beckham.

They'd painted B-E-C-K-S onto their midriffs.

Becks does his best K-fed...

Harry Redknapp, the Portsmouth manager and Setanta pundit whom I quoted earlier today, rubbed the England gaffer's rhubarb the wrong way with his comments regarding the lacklustre performance versus the Czech's yesterday and primarily with the positioning of a certain Scouser. Now, Mr. Capello responded shortly after saying that he was playing a 4-3-2-1 and said Scouser, Steven Gerrard, was indeed playing behind the striker, along side Master Rooney.

Stuff to read while you find naturally growing marijuana plants at the beach.... Lesson: Don't leave your children unattended around British tourists. (Unprofessional Foul) Becks playing for Preston North End way back in the day. (The Spoiler) Stuff overheard after the US game. (Dan Loney Blog) Somebody's questioning Fabio Capello & his trophy cabinet.

Headed out to Galaxy training today largely to see how new signing and former UCLA Bruin Eddie Lewis was doing after that ghastly looking head injury in Guatemala last week.

Turns out the 34-year-old Cerritos native was just fine - albeit with a chunk still noticeably missing from his head - and went through the entire 80-minute practice with no restrictions and no problems.

Five points if you can guess what country Lake Balaton is in?
For the record, I'd have scored a zero.
Anyway, here are the rankings. One team is on a surge and has shot up, up, up the rankings. They're not in a playoff position yet but I'd take them to beat all the teams from 6-14 without question, at least at home.

David Bentley said in December of last year "I've a bit of banter with Becks. I tell him I'm the new Becks and better looking. Some players are in awe of him but he's just Becks to me. "I believe I should be in the England team instead of him. Any footballer [...]

The Designated Player Rule in Major League Soccer allows every franchise to sign one player whose ersonal terms are not affected by the league's salary cap regulations. Allowing clubs to compete for the very best talent in the international game, it is known colloquially as the Beckham Rule, and shatters the myth that Americans don't [.

David Beckham took time out from being criticised by journalists on both sides of the Atlantic to overhit a pass to a Chinese Olympic organiser. Becks took part in the handover section of the closing ceremony as part of the London 2012 team. He appeared with Leona Lewis and Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page.

David Beckham banked No. 5 on Forbes "Celebrity 100" list on Wednesday, trailing only Oprah Winfrey, Tiger Woods, Angelina Jolie and Beyonce Knowles as one of the most powerful celebrities to date. This year's annual list is based on Beckham's past year's rise in stock.
Forbes evaluates the celebrities in four categories:
1) base salaries including endorsements
2) web presence and searches
3) press coverage
4) television/radio presence.