Live basketball, baseball and now hockey, oh my!
Oh and it’s Friday,
The Last Night’s Game Team
NHL (National Hockey League)
The road to the Stanley Cup begins tomorrow when the NHL restarts their season in two hub cities. The bubble looks a little different than other sports with the Western Conference playing in Edmonton and the Eastern Conference playing in Toronto. The two conference winners will meet up in late September to play in the Stanley Cup Finals. What’s more interesting than the fact that hockey started off by using frozen cow dung as a puck? The fact that the Stanley Cup lives its best life on a daily basis by traveling the world and never having to worry about catching COVID. DON’T WE WISH
Overtime
Shaq had four months off from his day job and he was still late to his first day back on set. The NBA (National Basketball Association) Hall of Famer and current commentator for TNT was stuck in Atlanta traffic and missed the start of the show, which kicked off the NBA season restart. SHAQ-A SNAIL
Sideline stat
There’s been a buzz with college football conferences across the country choosing to only play necessary conference games this season. Now the big daddy of conferences, the SEC (Southeastern Conference – think Alabama and LSU) has jumped on the bandwagon. This week’s “Ask Amy” explains why this is such a big deal and is a detriment to football programs, in a way that normal humans can understand. NO PH.D. NEEDED
Coaches’ corner
Golfer Bryson DeChambeau came back for the start of the season with a buffed-up physique and a very short fuse for officials. So it was almost comical when he asked officials for relief when he hit his ball into some ants. The PGA (Professional Golfers Association) has a “dangerous animal condition” and DeChambeau wanted the rule enacted for said ants. The rule says, "A 'dangerous animal condition' exists when a dangerous animal (such as poisonous snakes, stinging bees, alligators, fire ants or bears) near a ball could cause serious physical injury to the player if he or she had to play the ball as it lies." The official determined that they were not fire ants and he had to play his shot as it lies in the brush. KARMA?
What to watch
This Megan Rapinoe (U.S. Women's National Soccer Team) narrated Nike commercial was released last night and will give you chills. WE CAN'T STOP WATCHING IT
