All Entries in the "August 2010" Category
A Book Review: Star-Spangled Soccer by Gary Hopkins
In the 1970s the U.S. had books that explained the rules. Then came the soccer books filled with coaching tips, diagrams of drills and British verbiage. Next a few biographies–Mia and Brandi. Finally, the United States has enough experience to justify a few books on soccer history between our borders. “Star-Spangled Soccer” helps us understand [...]
1,500 Words on the EPL’s First Three Weeks
In a culture where we readily deploy American sporting metaphor in everyday conversation, there’s little reason to embrace the English Premier League. It opens, at least in terms of its general reception by the American “sports as sacred” public, with three strikes against it, or at the very least, on fourth and long. Strike one—Americans [...]
Puck’s Friday Happy Hour: Michel Platini is a Jackleg Edition
Fans, lovers, scholars, inmates, brothers, haters, stalkers, and anyone else who sends me fan-mail, welcome to another Happy Hour. I hope your week has been most excellent. While I have been slaving away trying to calibrate my new Hydride Generation Atomic Fluorescence Spectroscopy instrument, I trust you have been stuck at your jobs doing something [...]
Yanks Abroad: Week of August 15-21
Raise your hand if you had three 6-0 results this weekend. I had expected, foolishly, that week two would feature some closer match-ups. It was (dis)interesting to see that the 4 letter network featured a pair of games that found the winning sides scoring 9 goals, while their opponents couldn’t find the net. Please don’t [...]
Contest Entries: Liverpool FC
Today, two of The Yanks Are Coming’s longtime readers serve up reasons Dan should pick Liverpool as his English Premier League team. The red team, from Merseyside is the third of the big four represented in the contest, and although they are in turmoil, their rich history is surely worth strong consideration. Blessed with one [...]
Puck’s Friday Happy Hour: Clint Mathis, Brazil Edition
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to yet another wonderful Friday in the Happy Hour. I must say that the contest entries have been very good thus far, but we would love for you to continue “Bringing The Funk”. The more entries we receive really give our fearless leader and occasional editor, Dan Seco, a flavor of [...]
Contest Entries: Fulham FC
Today we bring you the latest club in our published group of “Find Dan Seco an EPL Side” contest entries– the entries in support of the Cottagers of Fulham FC. The Northwest London side has earned a great deal of love stateside over the years as the home of many past American players, and of [...]
For one Glorious Season, Dan Should pick Blackpool
The Yanks Are Coming’s Guy Bailey needs no introduction as he’s been doing a fine job for the site for a long while now. Guy, a Middlesbrough fan, beckons back to a time before well-before Barclays painted their name on stadium walls in this contest-related piece. Sometimes you need to sit back and wonder as [...]
Euro-Snobs? No. Proud Anglophiles? Perhaps. Yanks? Always.
Don’t call it a comeback. No really, don’t call it a comeback. July 9th through the first week of August does count as a nice little post-World Cup TYAC vacation though. So what have I been up to in the meantime aside from meticulously monitoring the lazy journalism and conjecture that comprises the coverage of [...]
Contest Entry: Arsenal FC
Our second entry suggesting Dan Seco pick a “big four” side as his EPL team comes from GOAL.COM and Match Fit USA writer Keith Hickey. We aren’t completely sure where the Gunners fall on Hickey’s sports fan hierarchy, but if his twitter handle @usarsnl is any suggestion– they are probably near the top. When he’s [...]
