Archive for December, 2010
Puck’s New Year’s Eve Happy Hour: 2011 USMNT BOLD PREDICTIONS
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome back into another Happy Hour. These holiday weeks have been quite relaxing, filled with cocktail parties, excellent food, friends, and family. While many of you office drones had to return to work this week, I am still enjoying my winter vacation. I am currently in Denver, enjoying the Mile High City’s [...]
2010 Yanks Are Coming US Soccer Awards: Please Vote !!!
In the next couple of days, we will announce the winners of the first annual Yanks Are Coming US Soccer Awards. Obviously the site is an outlet for writers who can’t stop being fans and fans who fancy themselves writers, but most of all it is for readers. As such, the readers get to vote [...]
Puck’s Christmas Cheer Happy Hour: Top Five USMNT Moments 2010 Edition
By Puck, writing from Rochester, New York Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome back into another Happy Hour. Hopefully, last week’s Sad Edition of the HH did not keep you up at night. Unfortunately, I did catch a lot of shit via Twitter regarding my Gooch is Dead piece. Clearly, the entire post should have been taken [...]
US Soccer Year In Review: Best of The Yanks Are Coming
By Jon Levy, Writing from Gainesville, Florida It’s not uncommon that we, here at The Yanks Are Coming try and point you in the direction of other quality soccer writing, because despite the fact that we are the most important blog of all time, good writing does exist outside of the TYAC world. But enough [...]
From South Beach to Catalonia: Why Cesc Will Inevitably Take His Talents To Barca
One of the more interesting parts of being a fan of more than one sports is the ability to observe parallels and general trends that transcend each sport. We as fans like to believe that every player on our teams is as dedicated to the cause as we are and yet in most cases this [...]
Yanks Abroad: December 8-21 Edition
Did you miss me last week? You didn’t even realize I was gone? That’s cold broseph. Well regardless, I’m here with your December update. Even without the full weekend slate of EPL action, there were quite a few fixtures for me to give you the run down on. Check out what went down and look [...]
C’mon Man ! Open Letter to FIFA Regarding Club World Cup
Dear FIFA, First, let me start off by saying I’m a big fan! I love that World Cup thing you put together once every four years, and y’know, a bunch of other soccer and such. Recently I see you’ve been real busy doing things like picking sites for future tournaments and dealing with issues like [...]
Puck’s Friday Sad Hour: Gooch Is Dead. A Requiem.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another Happy Hour, unfortunately this week has not been the happiest of times. My Flux compositor is on the fritz again; Cliff Lee signed with the Phillies; Carlos Tevez wants a one way ticket away from the Eastlands; and most importantly beloved USMNT central defender Gooch is Dead. Yes, [...]
Italian Job: Roberto Mancini The Right Man To Guide Manchester City To Global Elite
EDITORS’S NOTE: This is a guest piece from A Football Report Editor Eric Beard, writing from Boston. The article originally appeared yesterday at his wonderful website. We thank him for allowing us to reuse it here. We’re all guilty. No matter how noble we may try to seem in 140 character splices, we’ve all done [...]
2010 US Soccer Year In Review: Top Ten USMNT Villains
As we wind down 2010, a great and terrible year for US Soccer, we at The Yanks Are Coming thought a series of pieces discussing what’s been and what we’ve taken from the incredible year that was would ring in the New Year (and new World Cup cycle) quite appropriately. So pour yourself a cup [...]
