What We Learned: Garth Snow is a genius; draft winners, losers)
Puck Daddy —
Hello, this is a feature that aims to recap the weekend's events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each team. Feel free to complain about it. Remember a couple years ago when the Islanders announced that Garth Snow, the guy that had been their backup goalie just 15 minutes before, would be their general manager? Oh how we all laughed and laughed. "HIM?" we scoffed. "Garth Snow? The guy went to MAINE for God's sake! How smart could he be?" And, quickly, he gave us an impetus ...
Landon’s Brazil Goal — Not PMS
LA Galaxy —
You need to know what I did when he scored the goal. It’s embarrassing, but as you know your verbose blogger has to share these things.
First, a little recap.
First, I screamed. I scared the crap out of my seven-year-old daughter who was scrapbooking in the kitchen.
My husband screamed too — but in a more manly way. He never watches soccer with me, unless it’s a big game like this one, or unless it is highlights of EPL goals.
Then I sat up in my chair and I started crying. Not boo-hoo crying. Just ...
Donovan’s gem ends Revs streak
LEEInks —
A Spice Girls song blasted over the Gillette Stadium loud speakers Saturday night. No, it wasn’t a reunion concert, thankfully. It was a pre-game warm-up song for the Revolution and L.A. Galaxy. The song no doubt welcomed Spice spouse David Beckham to Foxboro along with 26,623 nearly filling the lower bowl at Gillette.
The 2-1 Galaxy win was also a welcome site to Beckham. But it was his teammate Landon Donovan who deserved the attention Saturday, controlling the field early on and scoring a goal worthy of SportsCenter’s ”Top Plays” in the first half.
Donovan’s goal in the 21st minute took some ...







