A Moment Like This
Ushering in a 3-day weekend with big things to start off the college football season, two tennis phenoms taking the court and football fashion.
Can we take a moment to recognize the extravaganza that is this weekend -- week one of college football and a three-day weekend?
We can barely contain ourselves,
The Last Night’s Game Team
PS : Make yourself armed and dangerous in week one of college football. First, we decoded the 2019 college football rankings for your perusal. Then, we’re helping you dress the part with our newest feature on what to wear to a football game.
College Football
Hold on to your hats because it’s week one in college football and it’s going to be a wild one. (5 things you need to know about the college football season) To celebrate playing in the first college football game 150 years ago, Rutgers will be wearing special uniforms to commemorate the anniversary. TAKING YOU WAY WAY BACK
Overtime
Love food and feel like it’s time to take on a new career? Pickswise, a sports betting website, is seeking an official NFL (National Football League) food tester, a person who will travel around the country, visiting football stadiums to find the “best signature dishes throughout the league.” DO THE JOB PERKS INCLUDE ANTACIDS?
Sideline stat
U.S. Women’s Soccer player Carli Lloyd is considering giving an NFL kicking career a shot in 2020. She nailed a 55-yard-field goal in Philadelphia Eagles practice and that piqued the interest of some teams. Hall of Famer Morten Anderson, one of two full-time placekickers ever inducted into the hall of fame, took to Twitter to offer his help. LEARNING FROM THE BEST
Coaches’ corner
He may be bruised and battered from his plane crash, but Dale Earnhardt Jr. will still be behind the wheel of a race car this weekend. Since he retired from NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing) in 2017, he’s been racing in one race a year for his own race team that competes in the second-tier XFINITY Series. AIN’T NOBODY GONNA HOLD ME DOWN
What to watch
15-year-old tennis sensation Coco Gauff is taking on another tennis phenom in #1 ranked Naomi Osaka, who beat her idol Serena Williams in last year’s U.S. Open. Gauff and Osaka will meet on the court at the U.S. Open on Saturday. LOVE-LOVE
Weekend Warrior
The bottle cap challenge is all the rage, how the U.S. Women broke a monumental record and why you might want to become a vegetarian.
Make your own fireworks this weekend.
Heating up the small talk,
The Last Night’s Game Team
Women’s World Cup
If you think everyone is excited about Sunday’s finals game between the U.S. and the Netherlands, you’d be right. Proud U.S. Soccer fans have made the U.S. Women's home jersey the number one soccer jersey, men's or women's, ever sold on Nike.com in one season. (The game is Sunday at 11 am EST). HEY LOOK MA I MADE IT
With the soar in popularity of women’s soccer, ESPN picked up the television rights to the second half of the National Women's Soccer League season, which starts back after the World Cup. BIG FAN
Overtime
The queen of tennis, Serena Williams, has been entertaining a royal audience at Wimbledon. Meghan Markle attended a match and watched her dear friend advance to the next round. Kate Middleton also attended one of Williams’ matches. Markle and Williams met at the 2010 Super Bowl and became fast friends.
Also, drawing major attention after beating Venus Williams in the first round is 15-year-old Coco Gauff, the youngest competitor in the tournament, who has advanced to the third round. PLAY ON
Sideline stat
He didn’t break his own record but professional eater Joey Chestnut still had an epic day that would make most of us vomit. He downed 71 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes to win the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July hot dog eating contest. Chestnut’s closest competitor ate 50 hot dogs/buns. WORLD DOMINATION
Coaches’ Corner
The new celebrity challenge hitting the internet is the bottle cap challenge. Can you unscrew a bottle cap on a bottle with a kick? John Mayer succeeded and Blake Shelton didn’t. Regardless, it’s funny watching them try. DON’T FORGET TO STRETCH FIRST
What to watch
In case you want an all soccer Sunday, the U.S. Men’s soccer team is playing Mexico in the finals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup Sunday night in Chicago. (CONCACAF - pronounced CON-kuh-kaff - stands for the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football). The biennial tournament crowns the champion of our continent. SHOW ME SOME SOCCER