All Entries Tagged With: "Champions League"
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. [...]
Kljestan Begins 2014 Quest With Purpose in Belgium
The World Cup has come and gone but it isn’t hard to beckon back a year and a half ago and remember that a man who ultimately was left off the World Cup roster was, for a brief respite in time, the toast of the proverbial town. Indeed, USMNT fans felt shaggy-haired Chivas USA attacking [...]
Puck’s Happy Hour: Champions League
TYAC readers, hopefully you are as excited for this weekend as I am. Not only will ol’ Jonny Lightning Cup and I continue our weekend warrior status by partying non-stop, the UEFA Champions League Final is this Saturday. First, I would be remiss if I did not mention how surprised I was to see that [...]
Tell Your Own “I Was There” Tale
It was 50 years ago today… Like the Berlin Wall collapsing, President Kennedy’s assassination and the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, some powerful, era-defining events are so visceral in their meaning, signifying changing orders and societies, that their ramifications are felt beyond the span of their years so even people who weren’t even born at [...]
Introducing ‘Predictable Predictions’
Hello, and welcome to my newness. Editor-in-Chief Dan Seco told me that I was stretching The Yanks Are Coming budget too thin living in Europe and diligently covering the various Yanks Abroad. On my flight back to the US of A, I decided I wanted to provide my reader(s) with a set of predictions so bold that [...]
Orwell United
I was and remain a huge Smiths fan and like any wide-eyed zealot I would look to shoehorn in references to my idol’s lyrics and ideas where none already existed and to use any passing similarity, no matter how oblique, to justify the universality of their brilliance. Using any excuse to slip their lyrics into [...]
An ATL Yankee In Camp Nou’s “Court”
Okay, so the title is a stretch. I felt it fitting, however, on a beautiful spring feels like summer day as I take in the action from the Camp Nou stateside. The soccer pub here has a tremendous feel; the televised crowd noise matched by clapping and shouting from the pub’s patrons. After Monday night’s [...]
Why The World Cup Trumps The Champions League
The April 5, 2010 ESPN The Mag has an interesting piece written by Doug McIntyre (“World (Up) Stage: South Africa Gets the Buzz, But the Champions League Has the Goods,” p.82) that argues the UEFA Champions League is superior to the World Cup. McIntyre rattles off a few arguments, none of which are necessarily false: [...]
