Weathering The Storm
Barstool Sports is stepping up for women’s golf, arrests in a sports star’s death and how the Bills are setting the hiring standards.
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The Last Night’s Game Team
Golf
The PGA (Professional Golfers Association) Championship tournament is the talk of the weekend. It’s the second major tournament of the PGA season. While the tournament is a big deal, what’s an even bigger deal is what Barstool Sports Is doing for the college women golfers. After the NCAA cancelled their championship tournament seemingly without any valid reason, Barstool Sports stepped in to put together a championship tournament in a week. The “Let them play” tournament featuring 10 teams vying for the championship began yesterday in Phoenix, AZ. BOLD MOVES
Overtime
This is the craziest story that we couldn’t make up if we tried. In November, the world mourned when the international superstar and Argentinean soccer legend Diego Maradona, 60, died following brain surgery. This week his team of medical professionals was charged with homicide in his death. The medical board found that his medical team acted in an "inappropriate, deficient and reckless manner." OY VEY
Sideline stat
The Buffalo Bills (NFL - National Football League) are pushing through the glass ceiling. The team hired a new offensive assistant Sophia Lewin. They recently hired Andrea Gosper, Mechelle Geeter and Nikki Donoff, all in football operations positions. The team is co-led by co-owner Kim Pegula. BETTER TOGETHER
Coaches’ corner
Who doesn’t have travel envy after the last year and a half? Well, the F1 (Formula One) race in Monaco is going to make that worst. Forget the race; the scenery steals the show at this race with beautiful architecture and more yachts than you can count lining the race track. Lewis Hamilton, the seven-time World Champion, and Max Verstappen, the 23-year-old with a racing pedigree, are the two to watch In the race while you dream of a European vacation. WHY YACHT?
Give The People What They Want
Whether you're at the office or lying on a beach somewhere during this holiday week, today's conversation starters are a universal language.
Whether you're at the office or lying on a beach somewhere during this holiday week, today's conversation starters are a universal language.
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The Last Night's Game Team
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NBA (National Basketball Association)
When Hollywood is calling your name. On Friday LeBron James said peace out to the Cleveland Cavaliers and last night he said hello to the wild west. He signed a deal for $154 million over four years with the third team of his career, the Los Angeles Lakers. His new locale has some calling him LA-bron. Also interesting about the deal? The coach of the Lakers, Luke Walton, was drafted the same year as James (2003). TWITTER WENT CRAZY
Overtime
In the wake of LeBron’s signing, Lakers ticket prices have skyrocketed and all Cleveland Cavaliers fans have to look forward to next season are free TUMS, which the company will giveaway to fans to calm their heartburn from the King James rejection. ALWAYS A SILVER LINING
Sideline stat
Wimbledon starts today and the main attractions are Serena Williams and her daughter Olympia, who took some time off to visit friend Duchess Meghan Markle this weekend. The Wimbledon seeding committee used their discretionary powers to seed Williams at #25, even though she’s not among the top players in the world after her maternity leave. Who to watch on the men’s side? A #1 seeded 36-year-old Roger Federer, who hasn’t been seeded that high in a decade. SCHEDULE
Coaches’ corner
While traditional powerhouse countries like Germany, Portugal, Argentina and Spain have been eliminated from the World Cup, host country Russia has advanced. In one of the two games yesterday that came down to penalty kicks, Russia became the lowest ranked team to ever advance with their win over Spain. BUT THEY DIDN’T PARTY LIKE THE CROATIAN FANS
What to watch
In a battle for the ages, Brazil and Mexico play each other this morning in the World Cup. We’ll find out if Brazil will advance to the next round under the leadership of Neymar, the last of the notable global soccer superstars still standing after Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi’s teams were both eliminated.
For The Win!
It's a new week to bond over sports with your clients, coworkers and family.
It's a new week to bond over sports with your clients, coworkers and family.
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The Last Night's Game Team
COLLEGE BASEBALL WORLD SERIES
What to say to a newly engaged friend…The boys of college baseball love diamonds too. Oregon State defeated Mississippi State (and their rally banana) to reach the College World Series championship games. They'll face an Arkansas team that ousted the defending champions from Florida to reach their first finals in 39 years. (They’ve never won a College World Series title). The best-of-three championship series starts Monday. SCHEDULE
OVERTIME
Saudi Arabia was the only country in the world that prevented women from driving, until this weekend. Celebrating her country’s decision to overturn the law, Aseel Al-Hamad, the first female member of Saudi Arabian Motorsport Federation, took the wheel and fulfilled her dream to drive an F1 (Formula One) car before the French Grand Prix race yesterday. (F1 driver Lewis Hamilton took home the race’s checkered flag). FEEL THE POWER
SIDELINE STAT
We’re almost halfway through the World Cup and the teams will wrap up group play this week. Most of the teams that were favored are still in it, but there are plenty of teams who have already packed their bags, knowing they won’t advance to the next round. Could Lionel Messi and his Argentinian team be one of them? WHO’S IN AND WHO’S OUT?
COACHES’ CORNER
The empty feeling of being ditched by your ride is all too familiar to the San Diego Padres (MLB – Major League Baseball). Their team bus failed to show up to take them to play the San Francisco Giants. Thinking fast, their director of player and staff services flagged down an empty double-decker tour bus, negotiated a rate and then the team was on their way to the stadium in style, taking in the sights along the way. MAKING THINGS HAPPEN
WHAT TO WATCH
The ESPN Body Issue is out today featuring athletes in the nude (with their important bits strategically covered of course). PICS…Also, the NBA (National Basketball Association) Awards are tonight where the MVP and the highly contested battle for Rookie of the Year will be announced. PEOPLE ARE LOSING SLEEP OVER THIS