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Landon Donovan in the new LA Galaxy Jersey – Photo Credit: Diane Scavuzzo

Pro Soccer News: LA Galaxy New Look

Fashion hits the field again as the LA Galaxy show off a sleek new jersey destined to be one of the hottest on the field.  Yes, it is black and it is the best ever.

The LA Galaxy unveiled their new third uniform on Friday night at the club’s Fourth of July Weekend Kick-Off Party on the Target Terrace at L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles. While some say the new shirt builds off the Galaxy’s traditional white, navy and collegiate gold jersey, the club’s third jersey, which was designed by adidas, highlights the fashion and style of the Southland with a very deep dark blue-black color called Punjab and Light Old Gold.

“We looked at several options for our third jersey and in the end we all ended up agreeing on the same final design and color scheme. We were especially proud to see the color gold, which has been a constant throughout our club’s history, is so prominent in this new jersey,” Galaxy President Tom Payne said. “To debut the new third jersey at our annual Fourth of July game will make an already special day even more memorable for our players as well as our fans.”

The warm up for the new look is a paler dusty blue.

Since re-branding in 2007, all Galaxy jerseys have featured the LA Galaxy “Quasar” crest as a woven badge on the jersey with two embroidered stars representing their two MLS Cup championships, accompanied by the adidas three stripes down the sleeves. These basic design elements remain featured in the third jersey as well.

The third jersey features adidas FORMOTION technology, which moves naturally with an athlete’s body resulting in an ideal fit and comfort, as well as adidas CLIMACOOL, which combines a moisture wicking fabric and mesh construction in the player’s heat zones to improve body ventilation and keep them cool.

Before the game on the 4th of July between LA Galaxy and Seattle Sounders, the fans were flocking into the MLS store at the Home Depot Center and buying the new shirt. While  Punjab looks like a dusty dark black more than a blue, the new jersey is the hottest on the field and destined to be one of the most popular LA Galaxy pro soccer jersey ever.  For those of you who have never heard of the term Punjab, besides being this dark murky color, the term is also known as The Punjab, a persian word for the five waters which is a geographical region straddling the border between Pakistan and India…and it is also a state in India which has it’s own government website.  

Real Madrid also have a new look which Cristiano Ronaldo sports – click here for Real Madrid’s new take on soccer fashion for the professional soccer player!

David Robert Joseph Beckham, who was born on May 2, 1975 is the famous English footballer who plays midfield for LA Galaxy and simply makes anything look good.

Beckham has played previously for Manchester United, Preston North End, Real Madrid, and A.C. Milan, as well as the England national team.  When Beckham warmed up last night and entered the field, the crowd went wild and the game took on a higher fervor and pitch.  Although Beckham could not help his team secure a victory, his mere presence on the field changed the game and all fans (and press cameras) were focused on this agile soccer player.

A long time ago, more than 150 years ago in England, soccer players didn’t have such fashionable looks as many teams didn’t even have a standard jersey or team colors.  When the first ‘official” soccer match was played in 1860, there was not even the concept of a standardized team, let alone the concept of millions of dollars being made selling soccer jerseys to fans.  The concept of team colors seems to date back to collegiate soccer where two schools would play against each other and be referred to by the color of their shirts.  It really wasn’t until the 80′s when technology allowed for significant improvements in fabric design that adidas started making increasingly intricate designs.

When you look around in the stands at the Home Depot Center last night during the LA Galaxy vs Seattle Sounders match, you could find a few dedicated fans wearing ‘classic’ LA Galaxy jersey’s from before the rebranding.  Collecting pro soccer jerseys and wearing them at MLS games is a great way to demonstrate your dedication and passion to the game of soccer, and have a lot of fun. The 2011 LA Galaxy season is the club’s 17th year of existence and the team’s 16th year playing in the MLS.   

Yes, Beckham and Donovan look great in the new jersey.  

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Attention, “Shore� fans – one of your beloved “T-shirt time�-ers just may have departed the “Jersey Shore� for good.

Vinny Guadagnino has launched rounds of reports that he’s decided he’s done with the MTV reality show. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Vinny reportedly had some words with an unnamed cast member on Friday and decided to pack his bags and head home to Staten Island.

Reports suggest he was feeling “burnt out� and has no intention of stepping in front of “Shore’s� cameras again. Earlier that week he reportedly left the Seaside Heights house because he was feeling homesick, but his castmates supposedly were able to talk him into staying.

MTV isn’t commenting, other than to say that “We don’t comment on series while they are in production but viewers can be assured they will have answers when Season 5 premieres,” according to THR.

And although MTV has said there are no plans to recast the series as of yet, Spencer Pratt – remember “The Hills”? – is ready to take Vin’s place.

“I have my bag of sequined shirts and self-tanner packed ready to go! @VINNYGUADAGNINO needs a break…Put me back in the game coach!,” he tweeted to MTV on Monday. “First day in the Shore house I would lay down the law! Target 1 @Sn00ki Target 2 @ItsTheSituation Target 3 @MTVRonnie all before lunch!”

But for now we have season 4 of “Jersey Shore� in Italy to contend with, which will premiere August 4.

7/1/2011 12:15 AM PDT by TMZ Staff  

It’s barely a day old, but Pauly D is already undermining his brand new t-shirt business on the Jersey Shore — and TMZ has learned, it’s all because MTV is making him work for a nearby competitor.

Pauly’s “Dirty Couture Shore Store” opened for business yesterday on the boardwalk in Seaside Heights — but the “Jersey” star couldn’t help promote the big day … because according to his contract with MTV, he’s locked in to work exclusively at the infamous “Shore Store” t-shirt shop nearby.

Sources close to production tell us, MTV controls EVERYTHING while the cast is filming — and Pauly has no choice but to work with his roommates while they shoot the rest of Season 5 … in enemy territory.

As for Pauly’s store — we’re told it will sell the DJ’s complete “Dirty Couture” clothing line … AKA a bunch of neon t-shirts with Pauly’s tattoos printed on them.

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“It wasn’t important that a woman was a good pitcher, or a good first basemen, or a good catcher. It wasn’t important,” Falato, 78, said. “It was just fun.”

The Clementon native and a 1952 graduate of Lower Camden County Regional High School, now Overbrook Regional, never could have imagined the changes in uniform, equipment, and even the rules of the game in some circumstances, that her daughters and granddaughters would become accustom to.

“Who even knew that the girls were good because you never saw them,” Falato said of her early experiences with athletics. “You just heard about what the boys did.”

Title IX is a 1972 landmark legislation that bans sex discrimination in schools, whether it be in academics or athletics.

Thanks to that law, Falato’s daughter Dawn Falato Cauley, 50, and granddaughter, Paige Cauley, 22, have benefited through greater access, encouragement, and acceptance for women and girls in sports.

All three generations of women were encouraged early on to participate in sports through their parents and watching their older sisters play.

Falato, one of three sisters, was always competing with her siblings to see who could catch or run the fastest.

“When I had kids, there was no thought in my mind that they wouldn’t play sports,” Falato said. “I guess because the three of us were so competitive and loved sports so much.”

Falato Cauley, four years younger than her sister Sherrie, would keep score at her older sister’s games. By the time she was a freshman at Sterling High School in Somerdale, she was on the field hockey, basketball and softball teams, eventually being inducted in the school’s athletic Hall of Fame in 1992.

While Falato Cauley in part put her two daughters, Britt, 24, and Paige into sports to keep them out of trouble, she knew her daughters’ athletic talents could eventually be an opportunity to help with college.

By the time Paige was deciding which university to attend, she knew that “softball was my in.”

A three-year starter at second base at Mercy College in New York, she had previously started her freshman year at Iona College before transferring.

Signed into law, June 23, 1972, Title IX is often misunderstood and misrepresented. Encompassing 10 separate components, including math, science and sexual harassment, the original law did not explicitly focus on women’s athletics. But almost 40 years later, the advancements in women’s athletics are predominantly what the law is remembered for.

Today more than 186,000 women participate in college athletics, while fewer than 30,000 competed before the law was enacted. According to the Women’s Sports Foundation there were over three million female high school athletes for the 2007-2008 academic year, compared with 4.3 million high school male athletes.

“Often people think that if there are 10 women on the tennis team that there should be a male tennis team with 10 men getting scholarships. The law is not about a team-to-team comparison but it is more that there are equal opportunities for girls and boys across all of the teams,” Women’s Sports Foundation CEO, Kathryn Olson said.

“It is all in the spirit of equality, equal opportunity, and this is really about education for our youth,” Olson added.

In a 2003 Gallup poll, 30 percent of Americans acknowledged they had heard nothing about the policy. The year before Jennifer Capriati, a Gold medalist, Grand Slam winner, and former No. 1 ranked women’s tennis player admitted to having never heard of Title IX.

But the law is also often viewed as controversial, with some believing it perpetuates reverse discrimination on male athletes. And April 2011 reports by the New York Times demonstrated how institutions can evade the law and still be considered in compliance.

“What would be the ideal situation is that people don’t have to think day to day about Title IX because everyone is following the law, the compliance is there, and the focus is on the educational opportunities provided for the girls,” Olson said. “We are not in that state.”

For the Cauley and Falato families though, Title IX has been an important part of their story, even if they do not claim to know much about it.

“I really don’t remember hearing anything about it,” Falato Cauley, who was in middle school when the policy was signed into law, said. “I don’t ever remember talking about it, or our coaches talking about it.”

Just like her parents and grandparents before them, Cauley hopes to continue the pattern of keeping sports all in the family with her own children in the future.

“Because of how much I enjoyed it [sports] and how much it did for me, I want my daughter to have the same thing,” Cauley said.

“And I’ll be her coach.”

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