GreatSport

Archive for January, 2011

This is truly my favorite time of the sports year. Not because of the
beginnings of NFL preseason. Not because of my fantasy football
drafts. Not because of the MLB pennant race that’s heating up, and not
because of the upcoming college sports season. It’s all because of a
little known event, beloved in England.

None of those events, as much as some want to believe, can claim the
title of the world’s greatest sporting event. Instead, that
distinction has to fall distinctly to an event in England that most
Americans have never heard of. The event? It’s none other than the FA
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When David Beckham suffered a torn Achilles’ tendon in a Serie A game
in mid-March, doctors gave him an outside chance of returning in time
for the World Cup or at the very least part of the MLS season.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like either of these favorable
scenarios will transpire. In a recent statement to the media Beckham
broke the news that his recovery is behind schedule and he won’t be
able to resume playing soccer until November at the earliest.

This timetable does leave open the possibility that he could return to
action should the Los Angeles Galaxy make the MLS playoffs. As far as
a potential return to England’s national team the first realistic
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