CHELSEA INTO FINALS

Chelsea will play Manchester United in the Champions League final after two goals from Didier Drogba and a penalty from a grieving Frank Lampard gave them a 3-2 second leg semi-final win over Liverpool on Wednesday.

Lampard missed Saturday’s win over Manchester United following his mother Pat’s death from pneumonia last Thursday, but that didn’t stop him from contributing to the match.

After 90 minutes with no winner the match went into extra-time…Essien sent a 20-yard beauty into the net, but it was ‘questionably’ disallowed for offside…98th minute, Lampard kept his composure and delivered the icing on the cake, as he scored one for his mother and helped send Chelsea to their first UEFA Champions League final.

EDDIE VEDDER PERFORMS AT KELLY SLATER FOUNDATION BENEFIT

This one practically went down in my own backyard, yet not a peep of it mentioned anywhere…About 600 lucky bastards got a stellar open air concert at a someone’s house overlooking Trestles last week. The shindig was organized by the newly founded Kelly Slater Foundation, which raises money to create awareness for environmental groups such as Miocean, Reef Check and the Surfrider Foundation. Popping in to lend their support for the king-o-waves, were Eddie Vedder and Ben Harper. “Half of every song I’ve ever written, was written in the ocean so that’s sort of my way of giving back,” says Vedder. And dear god kill me now, Sean Penn was also there enjoying the concert, which was topped off with an impromptu jam session with Vedder, Harper and Slater pumping out the evening’s final song, Pearl Jam’s “Indifference,” to a standing ovation. Props to Slater and his foundation, who raised over $350,000 for several environmental causes that night. (Surfline.com)

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