David Beckham will make a guaranteed $6.5 million dollars with the Los Angeles Galaxy this year. The league’s minimum salary: $30,000. And Beckham hasn’t played a game in MLS yet. Here in America, we have a name for that kind of job: CEO.

Wie bit off the pace

Michelle Wie did not submit a qualifying application for this year’s U.S. Open. A family spokesman declined to disclose a reason. Isn’t being no better than the second or third-best teenage girl golfer in the world reason enough?