Monday Afternoon Weekend Backtrack News
du Nord, April 25, 2005
-Clint Dempsey sprang one of his wild diving headers for the game winner on Saturday night in DC. Then he did one of the best goal scorers celebrations I have ever seen. He used that baseball diamond on the RFK field as his prop. He ran to where home plate would be, settled into the batters box, and cranked the imaginary pitch into the upper deck seats!-Eddie Lewis had to have his appendix removed and will not play for Preston again this season. This seems to be quite a blow to Preston who are trying to get promoted from the Championship League to the Premiership.-MLS continues to be second rate on ESPN. The LA derby on Saturday night was delayed waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too long when the NFL draft coverage ran overtime by about an hour! An hour! Finally they tape delayed the whole game after the NFL coverage. But as Joe J points out ESPN rubbed an infection into our wounds by running their stupid sports scoreboard ticker across the bottom of the screen with real time scores from the match, showing LA going u