If you’re like us, you’re drooling over all the Oscars fashion while wearing something similar - the office standard athleisure. One day we’ll dress up again.
Until then, at least we’ll have great conversation,
The Last Night’s Game Team
NBA (National Basketball Association)
Kevin Durant and Mike Conley joined Kobe Bryant last night in a rare category for professional athletes – Oscar winner. The two are listed as executive producers on the film “Two Distant Strangers,” which won for live-action short film. According to IMDb, it is a film that dramatizes police brutality as an inescapable time loop like a tragic "Groundhog Day" for Black Americans. Bryant won an Oscar in 2018 for his role in the animated short “Dear Basketball.” DIVERSIFYING THE RESUME
Overtime
Kentucky won their first-ever Women’s Volleyball College Championship on Saturday night, beating Texas. The town of Lexington went crazy with the celebrations by burning couches and partying in the streets. SEEMS LOGICAL
Sideline stat
Party boy Rob Gronkowski came out of retirement to win a Super Bowl with Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (NFL – National Football League). This weekend he added another title to his resume, Guinness World Record holder. While visiting his alma mater, the University of Arizona, he caught a 600-foot pass from a helicopter on his third attempt. It was the highest altitude catch that's ever been recorded in the world. HOLD MY BEER
Coaches’ corner
This morning your sports colleagues may be talking about the no-hitter in baseball that wasn’t. Here’s what happened. MLB (Major League Baseball) has new rules that state that doubleheaders (i.e., back-to-back games played on the same day) will only be seven innings, not the traditional nine. Well, that cost the Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Madison Bumgarner an official no-hitter. He threw a no-hitter for the complete seven innings, but because it wasn’t the traditional nine, the league won’t count it. RULES ARE MADE TO BE BROKEN
