Sports media run ad, admit they forgot about Beckham

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Sports Media Apologizes For Beckham Neglect
Published 5/15/2008 by SF (noreply@blogger.com) at The Offside Rules
From the most serious sports news network ever: NEW YORK, NY — In a unique gesture, the members of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association of America took out a full page ad in the sports section of USA Today, apologizing for “forgetting about David Beckham." Last week, after being contacted by MLS commissioner Don Garber, the NSSA had a startling realization - they had collectively forgotten Beckham was in America and playing soccer. According to sources, ...

Beckham: I love Zidane and I have really fabulous shoes
Published 7/13/2008 by Den Cotton at NationalSportsReview.com Master Site Feed
LA Galaxy supernova David Beckham recently surprised the soccer world when he was quoted as saying Zinedine Zidane was the best player ever. So I thought to myself… who do I think was the greatest player to ever step on the pitch? I went back and forth over Pele and Maradona. I thought too perhaps, that Eusebio and Cruyff should be in the discussion. And I really like to watch old highlights of George Best. But I decided that my favorite player in the history of soccer is my former teammate Cary, from the All-Stars of the Asheville Buncombe ...