All Entries in the "September 2010" Category
Puck’s Friday Happy Hour: Gulati-Klinsmann Soap Opera Edition
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome back into another Happy Hour. If your week has been anything like mine, that cocktail your dreaming of right now will be the taste of freedom. The thought of staring at a computer screen for another marathon session of “Journal of Containment Hydrology”, and “Environmental Toxicology” articles makes me want to [...]
On Kevin Faulk, NFL Company Man, and His Soccer Brethren
My lunch was interrupted yesterday by a sad piece of news scrolling at the bottom of the screen on the four letter sports network. New England Patriot running back mainstay Kevin Faulk had torn his ACL and would have to miss the rest of the season. The news quickly sparked a few minutes of debate [...]
Yanks Abroad: Week of September 13-19
Rangers @ Man U. 9/14/10 Mo Edu and the Gers went to Old Trafford and came away with a 0-0 draw in the Champions League match. The Gers next two Champions League matches will be in the cozy confines of Ibrox. Walter Smith, the Rangers’ manager, went with a 5-4-1 heavy defensive look in the [...]
West Ham United vs. Yom Kippur (and Stoke City)
My favorite English football club may not be very good. Okay, they’re definitely not very good. But what West Ham United tends to lack in on-field acumen, they tend to make up for in wildly entertaining storylines. Just within the last four years they’ve been rescued from foreclosure at the hand of the Icelandic national [...]
Puck’s Friday Happy Hour: Champions and Europe League, MTV Awards Edition
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome back into another Happy Hour. This week has been especially hellish for me. I know you all probably don’t give a shit, but that hydride generation fluorescence spectroscopy instrument that I have told you all so much about, well it decided that it was time to pull a Roque Santa Cruz. [...]
Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Ryan Giggs
Survival kit contents check. In them you’ll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days’ concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs [...]
Yanks Abroad: Week of September 5-11
Bolton @ Arsenal 9/11/10 Stu Holden was understandably excited heading into the match with Arsenal, however after the match I don’t believe Stu would say it was an enjoyable afternoon. Holden started and played all 90 minutes for the Trotters, however the 3 fouls he took were not enough as they fell 4-1 at Emirates [...]
Fulham Fans, Dempsey Say Wolves “Disgrace to Premier League”
Editors Note: This article originally ran at A Football Report. Eric Beard, the author of the piece, is the Editor-In-Chief of that site. Fulham fans are a lively bunch. You don’t hear too many people bashing the way Fulham goes about with their business. So when the 20,000 Cottagers chanted “Disgrace to the Premier League” [...]
Puck’s Friday Happy Hour: PBR vs. A Girlfriend Edition
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back into another Happy Hour. I seriously enjoyed watching the first group play games for EURO 2012 qualifying. Again if those predictions hold up, I need to win some type of award. I hope you are just as excited as I am for the return of the EPL after the international [...]
A Hammer For Huddlestone: Tom’s Not Everyday Tottenham Trash
Before we get into the specifics of Terrific Tom and Terrible Tottenham, and even before I throw more unnecessary alliteration at you, I feel it’s only appropriate to say a few words on our newly minted “Teams We Loathe With Players We Love” feature series. We’re excited about these pieces that will give our writers [...]
