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Beckham hopes to finish best MLS season with title

CARSON, California (AP) — If David Beckham's five-year football odyssey in the United States is about to end, he'll go out playing at his highest level in five years.

The English superstar hasn't decided where he'll play next season, but he's determined to lead the Los Angeles Galaxy to a Major League Soccer championship this month.

"Obviously, if you look at statistics and the games I've played, it is the best season since I moved to L.A.," Beckham said Wednesday after the Galaxy prepared for the home leg of their playoff matchup with New York. "It's nice to have that at 36 years old, because people start to doubt you, but it's the best season I've had since I moved here. The …

F1 in 2011 needs more show, less hype

PARIS (AP) — Give the drivers push-button rockets, give them tire-slashing blades like on James Bond's Aston Martin, give them something, anything, to make Formula One more interesting next season. Please.

What a crushing anticlimax. The much-hyped but ultimately tedious season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix delivered more proof, as if more proof was needed, that the sport's fatal flaw is a continued shortage of exciting overtaking.

With four drivers in contention for the world title at this supposedly grand finale in the exotic surrounds of the Middle East, with long-shot Lewis Hamilton blustering that he was ready to drive his wheels off to win because he had nothing to lose, …