Here’s to hoping that the most drama you encounter this weekend is in this newsletter.
Let’s do this,
The Last Night’s Game Team
NFL (National Football League)
The conversation around the NFL season seems to be marred with constant COVID chatter, so let’s talk about something positive. This week brings us the player-led campaign My Cause My Cleats. A record number of players worked with artists and cleat manufacturers to create custom-designed cleats that will be worn this week and then auctioned off to benefit the charity of their choice. More than 20% of the 1,000 players participating chose social justice causes with others selecting youth, education or health and wellness-related initiatives. TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD
Overtime
It’s the sports-related drama everyone is talking about – the Minnesota Timberwolves (NBA - National Basketball Association) Malik Beasley, 24, and Larsa Pippen, 46. Allow us to fill you in. Beasley asked Pippen out via a public Instagram post. Here’s the awkward part - Beasley is married and has a child with Montana Yao. Then photos surfaced of Beasley and Pippen out together, only a month after Beasley was charged with felony threats of violence and fifth-degree drug possession. Oh, and Pippen’s estranged husband is NBA legend Scottie Pippen. (She also a past history – allegedly – with rapper Future but we’ll let you go down that rabbit hole yourself). Yesterday Yao, who was said to be caught off guard by all of this, filed for divorce from Beasley. SO MUCH DRAMA
Sideline stat
It’s the football game we seriously never thought we’d be talking about – BYU and Coastal Carolina. The two teams are making lemonade out of the lemons 2020 gave them. Both BYU and Coastal Carolina have 9-0 records but are still looking for the respect of the CFP committee (College Football Playoff committee – they decide which teams go into the playoffs). So when Coastal Carolina’s opponent cancelled their game on Thursday, BYU lived by their 2020 motto of “Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime” and stepped in to play Coastal Carolina on two days’ notice. Now they’re the game of the week and College GameDay will even be broadcasting live from the campus. SEIZE THE DAY
Coaches’ corner
Normally we’d say that George Russell has big shoes to fill this weekend in replacing seven-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton (who has COVID) in this weekend’s F1 (Formula One) race, but not in this case. Russell has a big problem and it’s not nerves. His size 11 feet are too big for Lewis Hamilton’s car so he’s having to wear smaller shoes to make it work. NO PAIN NO GAIN
