Beckham Scores, but not with the Galaxy

David Beckham, currently playing with AC Milan in Italy's Serie A (on loan from the Los Angeles Galaxy) has just scored his 2nd goal. 2 games in a row he was able to secure a point for Milan. It seems the fans and the players alike are enjoying his presence, celebrating together both times.

Here are both goals:

First: Scoring the 4th of 4 goals againt Bologna (4-1 AC Milan wins)


Second: What you call Beckham's Trademark "Bend it like Beckham" against Genoa



Maybe he hasn't lost his magic. I talk to my dad about soccer alot and he explained it well saying, "Well when you play with players who know your style and play well, they make you look good. It's easy to score goals. With Galaxy he has to make the other players look better."

True that.

Who was the bigger in 2008? Britney or Obama?

So 2008 was a year filled with a presidential election that made history and a swarm of celebrity gossip that seemed to be impossible to escape. Even if you were just buying tomatoes at the grocery store, it was hard not to be bombarded with the Obama photos at the register and the tabloid monsters. I decided to bring this up when someone let me know that Britney was the most searched person of 2008. I was a little shocked. Don't get me wrong, I am a Britney Fan, have been for a while...but I was super into this past election. It was a great time to be a part of America and enveloped in the whirlwind that was the Obama campaign. Does it matter that we care more about Britney's comeback Abs than Obama's world changing election? I dont know if that is entirely true, I was proud of America's involvement in this past election. But who was bigger in 2008?

Britney started the year with little hair and a meltdown that was seen on every magazine cover possible. Even Rolling Stone posted a cover story, with the title: Britney, An American Tragedy.
She launched her way back to success at the end of 2008 with a #1 album and a tour to follow. Seems like she may have won America back.


Obama started the year with little support and a campaign that no one saw coming. He became a national hero and a ray of hope for many Americans. By the end of 200
8 he was elected the President of the United States. And by the looks of it, his inauguration celebrations (aka wild parties) seem to blow any other event EVER, out of the water (including Britney Spears long due Circus tour).


So who really was more popular? Who did you see grace more magazine covers, headlines, tv spots, news shows..?

Whose face did you get tired of seeing, if at all?

Here are some facts:

Britney was the most searched person in Yahoo. Obama was 3. ouch. It scares me a little to think Britney was more avidly searched than Obama. I am not gonna lie, I searched Britney (on google) but I definitely searched Obama plenty more. It kills me more to see that #2 is WWE (Wrestling). Yes guys, this really happened.




He was the most searched politician (Sarah Palin was not far behind):


Here are the UK search results:

You Tube: Because You Tube changed the world

Obama music video: 15 million views

Britney Spears : Womanizer - 54 million views
Obama Victory Speech: 4 million views

Obama by far graced more "legit" magazine covers (and by legit I mean "non tabloids") than Britney.



So?

Women's Soccer: Hotties playing soccer - Good or bad?

Let's face the facts here: Women's Soccer is filled with a hott looking group of young women. Hard bodies and beautiful faces. But what role does this play in the appeal of women's soccer and more so in the fan base and the way they talk about it.

I was browsing through BigSoccer.com today, which is a huge forum space for soccer. WPS gets a lot of buzz from Big Soccer which is great. Going with the notion that many of the participants on Big Soccer are male, it is interesting to see the different opinions about the new league. There is lots of support, some trash talk and lots of questions. A real dialogue has been created in regards to the WPS Draft that took place last week. But when the pictures were posted of the drafted players, no one was talking about the soccer anymore.

Specifically I find it interesting how consecutive posts talk about how hot the players are or how they are cute in their little black dresses....

See for yourself (Click image to view closer):














I have had many conversations about women's soccer in regards to looking at these athletes bodies as hott women's bodies.

What do you think? If these hott girls are going to sell more tickets to the men lusting after them, then why not?
Should they be seen as athletes first and women second?

Does it matter?

(I am by no means generalizing Big Soccer or their bloggers, just using it as an example)

WPS Draft officially takes off...

The WPS Draft was held yesterday in St. Louis and I kept a close watch through twitter as most of the fans did. I did not work from the WPS offices most of this past week because the staff took off to good ole St.Louis for the NSCAA Convention and even more excitedly, our draft! 

I was lucky enough to attend the WPS West Coast Combine in San Diego in December, so I saw many of the Draft Picks play on the Combine fields. It was wild. I was glad to see many of them were drafted, like Christina DiMartino of UCLA. Let me tell you she is a treat to watch on the field. I have played and watched soccer for many years and watching DiMartino tap the ball around was stunning. I was not familiar with her game much, until I saw her play at the WPS Combine, and she instantly became the star on the field, it was hard to not watch her swift feet. Anyway, enough with the DiMartino talk, just see her with your own eyes and I am sure you will agree. So, many of those stand out players at the West Coast Combine made the cut like Abdullah, Abegg, Falk, Igwe, etc. 

Check out the full list I was able to post up at the WPS Fan Corner.  Oh and there are pictures too!

Anyway, now the teams have developed their rosters and the only thing standing between today and a complete roster is the open try out set to take place by each team in Feb. Open Try Outs always seem exciting to me, because you never know what will shock and what unknown player can become a pro over night. 

Oh I thought I would share with you all how the WPS Offices in San Francisco are doing.  Not only are the rosters and the league expanding dramatically, so is the WPS headquarters. Tuesday,  a few of us who were left in the office got the experience the wall coming down, literally. The back wall of the WPS offices were torn down in order to expand the office. Mighty exciting. After the layer of dust settled and the wall was gone, it was a pretty site. What do you think?

Oh ya. 

Cheers, 

Sue