Thanks to our friends from A Football Report and www.football-corner.org, we’re proudly taking part in the 2010-2011 Premier League Fantasy Challenge. Again, the challenge is sponsored by A Football Report, and we along with the good folks at Football Corner wanted to make sure we helped out and made the league as competitive and fun as possible. So, if you’re as excited as I am to see EPL football get going again in late August, and you’d like to try your hand… Read more
If you haven’t been to Jared Montz’s site, you’ve been missing out on a wealth of excellent content. Not only is Jared a former professional soccer player, he’s also an accomplished coach, writer and interviewer. While pretty much everything is top-notch on his site, we here at The Yanks Are Coming really enjoy his podcast. This week, Jared sat down with Andy Barron, a non-professional soccer player, who actually made the New Zealand national team and saw… Read more
Get out the Springsteen music and make that requisite trip to Wal-Mart for an “I Heart America” t-shirt ‘cuz it’s our country’s birthday! Enjoy your day and look for some oh-so-sweet content coming very shortly. Until then, please refrain from blowing up your face lighting off fireworks, even you,… Read more
Sometimes in life, all you need is a bro. A Lanbro, that is. One that’s totally getting iced tonight. Still numb from the awesomeness that is Landon Donovan, I find myself hardly in a state of mind to articulate the innumerable emotions running through my sober veins hours after the US took the group from England’s grasp. Instead of pulling a Ke$ha and putting up some blah blah blah post (Neil or Raf will toss you a gem at some point), let’s just bask in… Read more
The Yanks Are Coming’s Dan and Neil will be tweeting live from The Brewhouse Cafe in Atlanta, GA. If you are in the area, we’d love for you to join us, watch some incredible soccer and pound beers. If you are new to the site, Neil is nwb_USMNT and Dan runs the YanksAreComing Twitter account. Feel free to peruse the site as we put up 10 posts in the lasts 24 hours. Don’t know where the Brewhouse is located? Dan can be reached at 201-952-4588. Get… Read more
It’s soccer Christmas Eve and Dan Wiersema from The Free Beer Movement has quite the read for you below. If you don’t know Dan or The Free Beer Movement, you’re really missing out on one of the cooler soccer sites out there. Enjoy. Now our boys are safely in Irene, South Africa, checked into their hotel, and begun their final preparations for the World Cup Finals we can reveal this…. We’ve managed to piece together the flight of the U.S. Men’s… Read more
What is there to say about this image besides the fact that it is incredible? Beyond the hold-your-breath matches, infallible fandom and myriad talking heads the World Cup will surely provide us, soccer-related artwork has become commonplace in the weeks leading up to South Africa. From ESPN’s caricatures of the USMNT on the Delaware River to The Free Beer Movement’s USA/England photoshop work from a few weeks ago, the World Cup has inspired a wealth of… Read more
From columns riddled with mistakes to chats featuring personalities equipped with resumes more suited for interning at The Yanks Are Coming, ESPN’s pre-World Cup efforts could hardly be described as “match-fit.” As the world’s attention shifts to South Africa over the coming weeks, relying on the four-letter network for myriad forms of coverage remains inevitable. Sure, it’s easy to hate on Bristol’s finest export since Bob Crane of “Hogan’s… Read more
If you’re not going to be in Hartford or at a bar for tonight’s match, then you should join us for a live chat with The Yanks Are Coming staff and readers. We will have live commentary, be taking your questions and guzzling a few beers (whiskey for Jon Levy). Tell your friends and join us back here at 8 as we get the party started. To take part in the chat (window will pop up), click here. On a side note, if you have any burning questions that you just need… Read more
Another week, another slew of USMNT-driven content from the ol’ four-letter. After purchasing a snazzy new dress shirt (he traded the Italian one he was wearing to Jozy), Josh Elliott’s back in the studio interviewing Landon Donovan. Interestingly enough, like the announcers in “Winning Eleven,” Elliott has trouble pronouncing Chuck D’s last name as he refers to the beleaguered striker as “Davis” instead of “Davies.” I found myself half-expecting Land-bro to… Read more
Rather than draw similarities between Nike’s latest offering and my writing style (consistently a near-masterpiece fueled by hyperbole), let’s check the pulse of the masses on Deadspin as the video has attracted a great deal of commentary… The CFL Allstars 08:17 PM If Nike really thinks the Ivory Coast can actually win, than I got some sand in the Safari to sell ya. offee is for closers 08:06 PM Figured Guy Ritchie directed this, but surprised… Read more
Far too infrequently a commercial comes around that changes one’s life. Think “Terrible Terry Tate the Office Linebacker” or “Chicks Dig The Long Ball,” starring Mad Dog and Tommy G. Or anything involving high school football and Nike. When I die and they lay me to rest / Gonna go to the place that’s the best / When I lay me down to die / Goin’ up to the spirit in the sky … Jozy Altidore’s tour-de-force performance in ESPN’s latest cinematic… Read more
Our friend, Jared Montz, was kind enough to allow us to put up his podcast on The Yanks Are Coming. A former professional soccer player in the MLS, Jared is doing big things down near New Orleans where he coaches, runs soccer camps, does private training and heads America’s first online soccer academy. I strongly encourage you to check out his site as it’s full of cool stuff for you to peruse — not to mention improve your skills on the pitch. In his latest… Read more
Before we announce the winner of the contest, we’d like to take the opportunity to thank all of our readers who participated. There were so many great videos of Clint going bananas which made for a very hilarious evening in the very cold and boring Northern New Jersey. That being said, we’d like to congratulate one of our long-time readers, Dakota Sillyman, for his winning entry. Way to go, Dakota! On a side note, who is going to Hartford and Philly? I’ll… Read more
