DaMarcus Beasley's car was set on fire outside his Glasgow home on Monday. Beasley was not harmed. Police are calling the incident a deliberate act.
This isn't the first time Beasley has had his car hit by vandals in Glasgow. In December of 2008, Beasley had his car broken into.
Here are some other stories from Tuesday:
SAMPSON REVEALS USA 98 SECRET
If England captain John Terry's act of cheating with the significant other of a teammate sounds familiar, it does to members of the 1998 U.S. World Cup team. According to 1998 U.S. head coach Steve Sampson, former U.S. national team captain John Harkes had an affair with teammate Eric Wynalda's wife, an act that led to Sampson leaving Harkes off the 1998 World Cup team.
Wynalda spoke candidly about the incident, choosing to speak publicly after being asked about the John Terry situation.
"There's a lot of similarities between what happened to us in '98 and what's happening now to England," Wynalda told the Associated Press. "It's an unfortunate time for England, because I know how that can affect a team firsthand. Obviously, we all know how we did in the World Cup in '98."
ANOTHER CLUB AMERICA PLAYER SHOT
Club America midfielder Juan Carlos Silva was shot in the buttocks during an attempted carjacking in Mexico City on Monday, just eight days after teammate Salvador Cabanas was shot in the head.
Silva was not seriously hurt in the incident, but was grazed by a bullet. He is expected to return to training next week.
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What do you think of these stories? Worried for Beasley's safety? Have a better understanding of the U.S. national team's debacle in 1998? Glad Landon Donovan didn't go to Club America?
Agreed.
Good points all… Instead of saying: “Don’t go to Mexico”, Maybe we should say: “Don’t get involve in drug rings or drugs in Mexico.”
I get so tired of hearing talk of presidential assassinations. Every president of late has received much worse then threats… Bush, Clinton, Bush all had people who made effots to actually kill them (including one guy who crashed a helicopter on the front lawn), Reagan was shot, Ford had that nutjob Squeeky From. As for number of threats recieved, the increase in annonymous (or what we percieve as annonymous) emails have led to the biggest jump there.
Why isn’t the British press covering the BEasley story?
OH yeah… I forgot about that. You’re right, a joke about a tatoo via twitter does deserve a car getting torched. I can’t believe Ives didn’t run the headline: “Beas’ punk ass gets punked for tatoo shot.”
In reply to everyone, Every where in the World that you go there is violence, every country has its extremely violent locations, There is a lot of news that goes unreported no matter where you go, I’m sure there’s a lot worse happening someplace somewhere then what you see in the news doesn’t matter where you are.
And half of Harchester United have banged each other’s wives/ex-girlfriends. Hell, half that team’s all-time roster were murdered… by their own coaches no less.
I think Ives should change it to “Incendiary device” because I’m a real nitpicker.
Thanks for all your hard work Ives. You could change it to “Guys Make Beasley’s car go boom” to appease these ingrates.
But the mask they wore while they shot the player was made in Mexico.
What’s the point again?
You know things can be different then they seem on TV. I once met Dan Rather and he was nice and then met Tom Brokaw and he was a prick. I would have guessed that to be the other way around.
Just saying…
Keep this on the downlow, but I’m hearing Glasgow isn’t that safe for cars right now.
Sorry, but the Spanish and Italian crowds are much MUCH more Racist then anything Scotland has.
I don’t like Wynalda on FFF (although I dislike him less then I did at the start of the season for some reason) but I will give him major props for suggesting that Jim Rome do certain things to certain parts of his body.
I don’t think there’s any serious suggestion that Mexico is “safer” than the US. Neither country is perfect, but Mexico has a much larger crime problem now. It’s a lot easier to (a) deny it or (b) blame everything on America, however, I suppose.
Anyway, it’s truly a shame that intelligent people try to drag each other to the third rail of discourse (accusations or intimations of racism) rather than actually confront issues or openly debate without the relentless, incessant ad hominem. There’s no reason not to love either country.
James,
I can just see DMB telling the investigators “Oh you mean it was just Molotov cocktail? God I’m so sorry to bother you guys!”
Fire will kill you just as much as an explosion only maybe a little slower.
There is no such thing as safety anywhere, even in the nicest communities in the US and in Mexico. You don’t have to be overly paranoid but it’s up to everyone to keep an eye out for their own safety.
For example, a good start would be keeping one’s wife away from the Johns, Harkes and Terry.
Not only is this affair news new to me, but John Harkes has a book? What is it called, How to be a Jerk in 10 Easy Steps?
That’s because he is a dirt ball and players/coaches alike do not care for him.
People on this site ripped me a new one atthe end of last year when I questioned Harkes as a potential coach for DC. I have known about this for years.
Sitting on couch, listening to Harkes talk about the character of some of the players in the MLS and USNT makes me want to throw up. And now, we have an entire World Cup with this low life. I guess I will watch it on the spanish channel.
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Mexico being dangerous isn’t necessarily a reflection on Mexican people. If anything, it’s the US’s fault – all the drug related violence in Mexico is driven by demand for narcotics in the United States.
As for the Beasley situation, I hope this makes people here in the U.S. realize a little more what a world-wide problem racism is. Beasley has endured “monkey” comments, among other things, since arriving in Scotland. Racism, particularly against blacks, is not a problem unique to the Southeastern U.S., contrary to what many people think.
As for the Harkes/Wynalda situation, and now for the John Terry situation, there’s one simple golden rule…don’t screw your friend’s girlfriend/wife. I thought we all learned that a long time ago.
Tomato, tomahto,
Molitoff, Molotov
DC has a horrible murder/crime rate so should everyone stay out of America?
Must have pissed Wynalda off last year when he was dropped by ABC/ESPN for John Harkes
We should all just support Partick Thistle and ignore the old firm idiots.
Beas should come home. No shame in leaving ignorant people behind.
Wasn’t there also a lot of conflict/trouble between Harkes and Ramos? I remember hearing that Harkes said something or did something to Ramos in training and Ramos responded by spitting on him.
Harkes never seemed like the most popular guy.
I’ve met both Harkes and Wynalda. Harkes is probably the single most arrogant person I have ever met. Wynalda seemed to be a really nice guy.
I live in the rural part of America. A lot of guns and yet very few murders. Just because people have guns (for hunting or protection) doesn’t mean there’s murders or carjacking.
And of course not all of Mexico is dangerous. Neither is every NBA lockerroom, but when something keeps making the news people will associate it with the bigger image.
wow, i must be really out of the loop. I never even heard the rumor. I have a whole different outlook on that incident now (leaving Harkes off). I DO like Harkes, but that is a pretty low ball act. Hope he, and everyone else has moved on and is not repeating that kind of infidelity.
Wow, this entry should be retitled “Serious Dark News Ticker”
The whole “I don’t want to rehash the past” statement kinda reminds me of this baseball player from St. Louis. Weird.
I typically support Celtic, so I’d be extremely disappointed if Celtic fans were behind the torching of his car. Beasley and Edu both just need to get out of Scotland. It’s really not much more than a Globetrotters vs Washington Generals league anyway.
This is an apples and oranges argument. No doubt Mexico is a beautiful place with beautiful people (believe me …I know), but parts of Mexico, particularly near the Texas/Mexican border really aren’t safe right now. Is it like living in Iraq? Surely not, but to deny that these parts of Mexico are safe and then compare Mexican domestic terrorism (drug wars) to American sociopaths is pretty ridiculous.
You obviously having been keeping up with the news…this has been one of the deadliest (if not the most) years in Mexican drug killings ever.
I would venture a guess that gang/drug related violence has cost far more violence than any terrorist attack and serial killers combined. Take off your goggles.
wyandla talked about it on fox football fone in i beleive Monday night. Basically said he didnt tell sampson to kick him off the team, but that he wouldnt exactly stand up for the guy in a fight. The poinson, whomever it may be except in extreme cases, must be removed. Its not just Wynalda or Wayne bridge it affects, it’s about how people view Harkes/Terry.
Wynalda’s take on Terry’s incident on Fox Football Fone was unique and well thought out. If that had happened to me I doubt I would have been as calm or rational as he handled it. He’s earned a new level of respect.
Mexican is not a race
What did he do after 9/11?
Ha! Seems you forgot to mention the massive drug war that has been raging for awhile now and accounts for more deaths than the actual war in iraq. I’m not saying the war in iraq is better, simply that that war is being carried out by a military against insurgents not druglords fighting for turf. Mexico is dangerous no matter how hard you try to convince yourself otherwise
1. MexicanBluefish–geez, did you forget your meds today? Mexican data says that in 2008 there were over 8,000 drug-related EXECUTIONS (and that number went up in 2009 there is still dickering over the official numbers). I won’t deny that the USA is and can be a violent place. Nor has anyone implied that Mexicans are violent whack jobs. The original post just said that there was a lot of extreme violence going around in Mexico these days. I hope it’s temporary. But statistically (both in terms of raw numbers and percentages) there are two things that jump out at you in terms of Mexico (especially the major cities): drug-deaths (not violence, not drive-bys, but people being rounded up and body parts cut off or subjected to a welder or beheaded and then left someplace as a message) and kidnappings. Those things would give anyone (Mexican, American, Brazilian, Scot, whatever) the heebie-jeebies.
2. Yeah, the Old Firm has extreme fans who sing and do extreme things. But let’s be brutally honest here: there is also an element of racism that probably tinges this. Every President of the US gets death threats–that’s the nature of the job–regardless of their poll standings. But before the Secret Service tamped down on this issue for security purposes, the number of reported threats against Obama as a candidate and then in early days of his Presidency (when he had extremely high popularity ratings) were through the roof, exceeding any other US President in number. Any player in a country that takes football serious faces potential aggro from rival fans of some clubs. But black players in some areas are a bit more likely to face some over-the-top behavior.
3. I can’t believe anyone came down on Ives for using the term “bombed.” Well, if we want to get technical, unless someone dropped something from the sky, his car couldn’t have even been bombed wise-guy, it would have been an improvised explosive device or an incendiary device so the guy who tried to bash Ives doesn’t have a clue on this matter. “Bombed” is a very appropriate general-use term for anything that explodes, combusts, or ignites intentionally either on contact or by some form of fuse/detonation with the intention of destroying.
4. I’m sure Harkes doing the dirty to Amy Wynalda didn’t help things. But it also seems that this is myopia by Sampson. Wynalda was coming off knee surgery and really wasn’t sharp for the WC–he barely played in the leadup and could have easily been left off the side with almost no impact. To argue that this tore the team apart seems bit extreme to me. I’m sure it didn’t help. But that team had a lot more problems than that.
5. And yes, I haven’t had my coffee yet (grumble, grumble)….
Maybe MLS can use this to its advantage?
Instead of going to Mexico, come a little further north.
I say we go to Glasgow and help Beaz kick some ginger A$$!!!!!
Wonder if FIFa’s fair play applies here!!!
P.S. Stay away from Mexico
maybe Beas’s car fire can be linked to his little twitter joke about celtic fans and their tatoo’s. I can’t believe nobody saw that over on espn’s sight.
let’s drop frogs on them… old testament style
never liked Harkes and I’m glad I was never a big fan
Much better 🙂
Good job.
Open response to Steve Sampson,
I don’t want to hear your excuses 12 years later. You, Mr. Sampson were over your head as National Coach. You, Mr. Sampson pulled the 3-6-1 formation that was as nutty as a fruitcake. You, Mr. Sampson called in David Regis. You, Mr. Sampson left Thomas Dooley on the bench. You, Mr. Sampson, were a terrible tactician. This is the fault of Harkes banging Amy Wynalda? I think not.
I don’t want to hear excuses for why he didn’t have the Americans prepared for WC 98. The results of that World Cup lay on his shoulders and shouldn’t be pawned off on an easy excuse.
Ha! What does you being Latin have to do with the rest of your post about Mexico?
I don’t know what to believe anymore…
ya ives was wrong people so big woop lets get on with our lives.