Josie Becker
Editor
Josie Becker has been following soccer since the '94 World Cup. Her favorite player was Cobi Jones and his dancing golden dreadlocks. She grew up going to Dodger games, Lakers games and Kings games, and still loves those teams very much, but the Galaxy, with original star Cobi Jones were like this baby that got born into her life and she knew she had to take care of it. She's just glad that baby didn't stick with being green. Blue is a way better color. Josie graduated recently from UC Berkeley, and is totally not pretentious about it. Her degree in English afforded her much writing time, and she spent a few years on The Daily Californian. This is her first time on a sports beat. Her favorite Galaxian is Landon Donovan, obviously
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