Galaxy has two rock stars

Buried among the mammoth stacks of CDs and dusty albums -- welcome to the summer-cleaning, treasure-hunt season -- was a humble offering recorded in 1994, going by the title “Woodland.”

Yes, very young Galaxy fans ... long, long ago, before going semi-corporate with AEG, team President and General Manager Alexi Lalas was one of the boys in a band called The Gypsies. He had some seriously wild hair and he wore small hoop earrings in his picture on the inside jacket of the band’s CD, “Woodland.”

The disc was an homage of sorts, bearing the name of the street Lalas grew up on in Birmingham, Mich.

Considering the intense media scrutiny in these early days of the David Beckham era, a couple of songs on “Woodland” held a certain resonance.

Track 5: “Give It A Rest” -- Could Lalas have been looking into the future and crafting a response to British reporters forcefully pressing him last week about the (lack) of quality around Becks?

Track 6: “Private Superman” -- Yeah, we all know who that is.

Beckham, naturally.

Trivia time

Which four teams did Lalas play for in his MLS career?

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dose of Becks

The Sunday Times of London summed up Night No. 1 in Carson: “For David Beckham the ovations, for his supposed ‘pub team’ some credibility, but for John Terry the victory.” First thought: Pub team? Wonder where the kegger was held after the game.

The Independent: “A sellout crowd at the 27,000-capacity stadium in Carson had turned up to watch a barely fit footballer play a friendly for a below-average team in a second-rate league. Put like that, it was not the most enticing of prospects, but it is testament to the star quality of Beckham that he still managed to turn it into a piece of theater.” Second thought: Finally, some “praise.” Second-rate league certainly sounded like an upgrade over pub team.

Star power

It’s often been said that athletes want to be rock stars, and rock stars want to be athletes.

Who doesn’t want to be something they’re not?

Though tennis’ leading doubles team, Bob and Mike Bryan of Camarillo, are in a band, they are realistic about taking too much time away from the day job.

“We have our dreams, we want to be like rock stars,” said Mike Bryan. “Probably not going to happen.”

Family ties

It was Lindsay Davenport against her brother-in-law, Rick Leach, in a TeamTennis mixed doubles match Saturday in Sacramento, her first organized competitive outing on the court since giving birth in June.

Davenport and partner Mark Knowles beat Leach and Michaela Pastikova, 5-1. Perhaps the highlight was when Davenport aced her brother-in-law, who also once coached her on the tour.

“I didn’t mean to,” she told the Sacramento Bee.

Trivia answer

Four.

The New England Revolution, the MetroStars, the Kansas City Wizards and the Galaxy.

And finally

Belgian qualifier Steve Darcis, the lowest-ranked player (No. 29) in more than three years to win an ATP Tour title, to reporters on his victory Sunday at the Dutch Open in Amersfoort: “This was an unbelievable week for me. I still don’t realize what I did; it’s a great feeling, almost like a dream.”

lisa.dillman@latimes.com