Landon Donovan LOVE CHILD? Tabloid May Report Secret Kid

Landon Donovan has played his final World Cup game of 2010 after scoring three goals during the U.S. men's national team's run in South Africa, but his off-the-field life continues to make news.

Just days after reports surfaced that Donovan may be rekindling his romanace with wife and actress Bianca Kajlich, Grant Wahl of Sports Illustrated writes that a British tabloid is planning to feature a story about a woman who claims to be pregnant with what she says is Donovan's child.

"I was informed of the possibility during the World Cup, and if I need to take responsibility, then I will provide the appropriate support," Donovan told SI. Read Wahl's full report for more.

UPDATE: A source tells UsMagazine.com that Donovan's wife has "been aware of the claim [and] is extremely supportive of Donovan."

Comments

[Joan Reeves]

06:24 PM on 06/29/2010

He manned up instead of running away. What more does anybody want? He isn't John Terry.
"I was informed of the possibility during the World Cup, and if I need to take responsibility, then I will provide the appropriate support," End of story.

[thephenomenologist]

03:05 PM on 06/29/2010

who cares? it's not scandalous, it's not news, and it's nobody's business. why doesn't the huffpo do a serious report on the thousands of children born of momentary unions every month in the united states, and what happens to them: some are put of for adoption, some lucky ones are loved and cared for (as I assume mr. donovan's will be), but most grow up in homes where they are not wanted, unloved, and not cared for. this last group faces a statistically grim future, and little if anything is done to make it better. That's a story worth telling; Landon Donovan's personal life isn't.

[moreForNobody]

06:36 AM on 06/29/2010

She couldn't have given him the news AFTER the World Cup?

[the964kid]

03:52 AM on 06/29/2010

great, cuz I need at least one random love-child story per week.

[Brutus76]

11:38 PM on 06/28/2010

I'd have his babies

[kapalabhati]

03:56 PM on 06/29/2010

Uh, yeah.... Me too.

[JennaBee]

11:56 AM on 06/30/2010

Me3

[OneTop]

08:55 PM on 06/28/2010

He shoots, he scores !

[linton]

07:28 PM on 06/28/2010

Great, that should keep Maury busy for a while.

[hottingers]

05:57 PM on 06/28/2010

If I was a pro athlete I would have some sperm frozen and then I would have a vasectomy and I would have it announced in the media. That would take care of unwanted children, unwanted lawsuits and I would still be able to have children with the woman I wanted to. All upsides.

[cdnbystander]

10:37 PM on 06/28/2010

Or they could keep it in their pants, but maybe your idea is better.

[Bruckley]

07:13 PM on 06/29/2010

I would recommend every man do this, honestly.

[OregonCHG]

03:53 PM on 06/28/2010

He's a young athletic rich guy, so who cares what he does it's his life. How does this affect any of us?

[inthedesert]

03:48 PM on 06/28/2010

I'm carrying David Beckham's love child.......most people don't know that.

[UnknownSolider]

03:47 PM on 06/28/2010

Anyone remember the story about the 10 year old little English boy who fathered a child with a 14 year old girl???

When the DNA came back, he wasn't the father

[headly66]

03:44 PM on 06/28/2010

And why did this gold-digger need to air this publicly instead of just telling him?

[Skiwee]

04:41 PM on 06/29/2010

That wouldn't have brought her 'fame'!

[BankerTee]

03:28 PM on 06/28/2010

Here's my problem, among many, with “news” outlets like these and why I am glad the US is out of the World Cup: when the team wins, its member are invincible, they are heroes ... and we say to ourselves, “if perchance, the US team wins the whole thing, the whole world would have to called "futbol" soccer” - completely ignoring the odds.

Once the team loses, we find and dig up dirt to vilify or humanize its members. This is just sad!

Witness the same situation with Melanie Oudin, the young American lady who made it to the US Open quarterfinals last year.

This is why I seldom root for Americans in international sporting events. First, we defy them (for any margin of victory), then we vilify them (simply for losing a game).

[Dr Confuso]

04:22 PM on 06/28/2010

In South America, they shot and killed a goalie a few years back, who had allowed a goal.

[kjames196]

10:05 PM on 06/28/2010

I think you are referring to Andres Escobar, a Columbian defender who was killed by a deranged fan in a bar soon after Columbia was eliminated from the 1994 World Cup. He scored an own goal, which was why Columbia was out. Evidently that goal cost some Columbian drug lords a lot of money they had bet on Columbia (which had an excellent team that year).

[sf girl]

10:46 AM on 06/29/2010

What happened with Oudin after the US Open? I missed that...

[BankerTee]

11:23 AM on 06/29/2010

She was hailed a "hero" and deified after making it to the quarterfinals of the US Open (an impressive feat, no doubt), but as soon as she lost, the airwaves was flooded with the divorce news of her parents, the suggestion that her mother was sleeping with her coach, and the fact that Melanie's boyfriend was on 16 - suggesting statutory r'a'p'e.

[BankerTee]

03:17 PM on 06/28/2010

Here's my problem, among many, with “news” outlets like these and why I am glad the US is out of the World Cup: when the team wins, its member are invincible, they are heroes ... and we say to ourselves, “if perchance, the US team wins the whole thing, the whole world would have to called "futbol" soccer” - completely ignoring the odds

Once the team loses, we find and dig up dirt to vilify or humanize its members. This is deplorable!

Witness the same situation with Melanie Oudin, the young American lady who made it to the US Open quarterfinals last year.

This is why I seldom root for Americans in international sporting events. First, we defy them (for any margin of victory), then we vilify them (simply for losing a game).

[BankerTee]

03:16 PM on 06/28/2010

Here's my problem, among many, with “news” outlets like these and why I am glad the US is out of the World Cup: when the team wins, its member are invincible, they are heroes ... and we say to ourselves, “if perchance, the US team wins the whole thing, the whole world would have to called "futbol" soccer” - completely ignoring the odds

Once the team loses, we find and dig up dirt to vilify or humanize its members. This is despicable!

Witness the same situation with Melanie Oudin, the young American lady who made it to the US Open quarterfinals last year.

This is why I seldom root for Americans in international sporting events. First, we defy them (for any margin of victory), then we vilify them (simply for losing a game).