Associated Press
GLASGOW, Scotland ó David Beckham wants to leave the Los Angeles Galaxy and stay with AC Milan after his stay with the Italian club ends next month.
The 33-year-old English midfielder announced his intentions Wednesday after playing in Milan’s 2-2 exhibition tie at Glasgow Rangers. Beckham has scored twice for Milan and been included in the team’s 25-man roster for UEFA Cup games against Werder Bremen on Feb. 18 and 26.
His three-month loan is due to end March 8.
“At the moment my lawyers are not talking to the Galaxy,” Beckham said. “But I have expressed my desire to stay at AC Milan now, and it’s just down to Milan and Galaxy to come to an agreement.”
“I have enjoyed my time here,” he added. “I knew I would enjoy it but I didn’t expect to enjoy it as much as I have and do as well as I have.”
Beckham is about two years into a $32.5 million, five-year contract with Major League Soccer. The Galaxy had no immediate comment.
BASEBALL
TAMPA, Fla. ó Yankees captain Derek Jeter wants to reiterate it yet again: Alex Rodriguez has the support of his teammates.
Rodriguez became an offseason focal point again this winter with the release of former manager Joe Torre’s book, “The Yankee Years.”
Torre mentioned that some people in the Yankees clubhouse referred to Rodriguez as “A-Fraud.”
“Like I’ve said before, we all support Alex. He’s our teammate,” Jeter said Wednesday after working out at the Yankees’ minor league complex.
“It seems like that we keep talking about the same things over and over again. It’s not like this a new thing that’s come up. The only thing that you’d like to see, going into spring training is, you’d like to see everyone talking about the excitement of the season and getting ready for the season. That’s the unfortunate thing.”
NBA
CHARLOTTE ó Gerald Wallace is finally headed back to Charlotte. It’s just going to take a while.
A week after the Bobcats suffered a partially collapsed lung against the Lakers, doctors cleared Wallace to return home. But there’s a catch: he still can’t fly.
So Wallace left Los Angeles on Tuesday in a charter bus loaded with movies and videos to pass the time. A team spokesman said they expect Wallace to complete the 2,400-mile trip today.
It’s still uncertain when Wallace, Charlotte’s starting small forward, will play again.
– AUBURN HILLS, Mich. ó The Detroit Pistons failed to sell out their game Wednesday night against Miami, ending the team’s sellout streak at just over five years.
NFL
IRVING, Texas ó There will be no reunion for Dan Reeves and the Dallas Cowboys.
Reeves, 65, who played and coached for the Cowboys, had been at the team’s facility this week in anticipation of joining the organization in some capacity. But the team said Wednesday night that wasn’t happening.
– PITTSBURGH ó The University of Pittsburgh says students involved in vandalism, fire-setting and other crimes after the Steelers’ Super Bowl victory will face discipline and could be expelled.
City police say more than 80 people were arrested Sunday night. Crowds threw bottles at police, set small fires, broke store windows and overturned cars. Much of the violence occurred in the Oakland neighborhood that is home to Pitt’s main campus.
GOLF
SAN DIEGO ó He captured more majors than anyone last year, won every player of the year award on golf’s landscape and will make his PGA Tour debut this week in the Buick Invitational.
The story should sound familiar, just not the name.
“Never really thought of it that way,” Padraig Harrington said Wednesday.
Instead of Tiger Woods, the feature attraction at Torrey Pines is Harrington.