All Entries Tagged With: "English Premier League"
Relegation: An Appreciation, For All The American Fans Who’ve Felt It’s Ugly Relative, Resignation
By Neil W. Blackmon This piece is dedicated to my co-writers, Puck, who has sat through meaningless Bills games in the blistering cold, and Jon Levy, who faces a month and a half long fight of his own with his beloved West Ham; and to any American sports fan who has been on the wrong [...]
Neil W. Blackmon | Apr 12, 2011 | Comments 3
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 [...]
Neil W. Blackmon | Aug 30, 2010 | Comments 5
