A record that will never be broken

Here's some video of Eddie Gaven setting the MLS record for the youngest player to score a goal. Gaven goes in as a keeper, making him the youngest goalkeeper in MLS history. He then switches jerseys and quickly scores.


The league, pressured by complaining soccer folk, (Soccer folk complaining? Say it ain't so.) changed the substitution rule for keepers. This likely means that Gaven's record may stand forever.
At the time, Eddie Gaven was the ballyhooed star on a hapless New York Metro Stars team. The team sold jerseys and posters emblazoned with Gaven's name. At the time he was the youngest player named to the All-Star team. He's since been traded to the Columbus Crew, who won last years MLS Cup and are poised to repeat. Gaven plays a supporting role. This begs the age old question: would you rather be the best player on a bad team, or an ordinary player on the best team?
Adding insult to injury, a lot of us believe Gaven is blocked from any World Cup action by the coach's son who plays his same position. Or maybe we should say adding incentive to injury.

betzy

How do you follow perfection? First keep it up there all summer. How's that for an excuse for not blogging all summer? Then follow with pictures of beautiful women. Betzy Jiminez trains near where I work and has been spotted recently, so it must be cross country season. Watching her run is a treat that everyone should get to enjoy but few do because of the obscurity of cross country. There are a few other Texas women athletes who will be stars, but others will write about them.
Betzy may never get the recognition she deserves, but she is the real deal. She's a natural. Originally a volleyball player, she's only been running for a few years and is already a top NCAA athlete.
I truly believe that Title IX has everything to do with her ability to compete and go to school and most importantly, break up the day, and inject a bit of joy into the robotic machinations of this working stiff. Title IX also helps women where other programs fail.
Please do not read perhaps the most chauvinistic article ever written in opposition to Title IX. If this article had any evidential merit, I might argue with is idiot, but someone might be listening. Did Clay's sisters used to beat him up everyday? What kind of an ass would object to the positive contributions Title IX has made to our sports world? What kind of misogynist doesn't like the beauty and grace that women have added to sports that if nothing else at least offsets the ugliness and corruption that permeates men's sports? A guy who thinks MIT has one of the biggest sports programs I guess.
I can't explain or defend this douchebag, but I will say that a lot of us feel quite the opposite.