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...David Beckham clearly wasn't ready for oblivion. The 33-year-old England wide man, who in 2007 joined the Los Angeles Galaxy on a $250 million five-year contract, looks set to return to Europe, next January, and join glamor club AC Milan on loan. If the deal is finalized in the wake of Milan's premature announcement Wednesday, it would mark an essential step in Beckham's bid to reclaim his place in the England squad ahead of the 2010 World...
...hyping the arrival of its new recruit, and suggests it could buy out the remainder of Beckham's contract with L.A. The chance of that happening, however, if highly improbable, given the money required and Beckham's own declining play. Galaxy coach Bruce Arena opposes even a loan deal, noting it would both fatigue one of his best (and oldest) players, and keep him away from L.A. well after the 2009 season begins...
...Furthermore, a few naming-rights deals for facilities are up in the air. New football stadiums will open next season in Dallas and at the Meadowlands in New Jersey, where the New York Giants and Jets play. Will companies pay the same sweet premium they would have, say, a year ago for the right to attach their name to one of these new venues? Very doubtful. AIG, the embattled insurance giant, has sponsored the U.S. Davis Cup team since 1999, an agreement that ends this year: if the company hadn't floundered, odds are it would have renewed the deal...
...lost revenue hits the Health Alliance as the system is grappling with its own financial troubles. The health care provider rolled out a strategic planning process early last month in an effort to deal with rising costs and diminishing funds...
...also poised to take command of the very power structure he so vividly and colorfully ran against. The number of his Reform Party allies in the state government is exactly zero. During the campaign, when he was asked how, if elected, he would deal with Democratic and Republican legislators, Ventura would roll up a sleeve, flex a bicep and rumble, "This is how." Good theater, but not a terribly plausible plan for running a government...