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Thanks for waking up with us three times a week. We hope we make your day a little brighter and the small talk a little easier.


Thank you for being a friend,
The Last Night’s Game Team


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Tour de France

If you’re looking for motivation to jump on the Peloton this weekend, turn on the Tour De France, which starts on Saturday. Here's a fun fact about the tour. Until the 1960s, it was common for participants to drink alcohol to numb the pain. Despite its 'healing power,' alcohol was later banned because it's a stimulant. This 21-day race with only two days of rest will make your 30-minute HIIT class looks like a breeze. SADDLE UP

Overtime

This week, retired Chicago Cubs (MLB - Major League Baseball) player and former World Series MVP Ben Zobrist filed a lawsuit against Byron Yawn, his former pastor who was allegedly having an affair with Zobrist’s wife, Julianna. Yawn provided the couple with marital counseling and worked with Zobrist on his depression and anxiety while carrying on the alleged affair. Unbeknownst to Zobrist, he hired Yawn to be the executive director of his foundation, which is where the lawsuit comes into play. There won’t be a happy ending for anyone, but this story is far from over. SO MANY SECRETS

Sideline stat

Manchester United (European soccer) star Marcus Rashford spent the pandemic concerned with how the children in his country would eat. He rallied Parliament to provide support for children who received free lunch. After failing the first time, he raised millions of dollars for the cause and then on his second try, he successfully secured a $556 million grant to provide meals into 2021, impacting the lives of 1.7 million children in the UK. Rashford will receive the Pat Tillman Award for Service at the 2021 ESPYS on July 10. Rashford was also recently named to Time's Top 100 List for his advocacy work on homelessness and child hunger. GOOD GUY ALERT

Coaches’ corner

It’s been a day or two since Ted Lasso (aka Jason Sudekis) and Coach Beard (Brendan Hunt) announced the Olympic roster for the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team. But if you need a smile this Friday morning, it’s worth checking out. EXPERT OPINION

A Moment Like This

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.

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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?

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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

Gnarly! The 5 Things You Need To Know About The Summer X Games

These athletes are conquering feats that so many wouldn’t even dare to attempt.

Total domination,

The Last Night’s Game Team

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1. The first Extreme Games were started by ESPN in 1995 with the idea that they would be every two years. But the fans loved it and the games evolved into to an annual contest. In 1996, the X Games as we know it, became a reality with the first Winter Games taking place in 1997. This year’s Summer Games take place on August 1 - 4 in Minneapolis, MN. LET’S GET CRAZY 

2. At the heart of the X Games is the Shred Hate campaign. The campaign talks about how sports can provide a safe harbor from bullying or create it; that many of their athletes didn’t fit into traditional sports. So they created a campaign that takes a stand against bullying through partnerships with innovative bullying prevention programs in the country. TAKE A STAND

3. The popularity of the sport of skateboarding skyrocketed partly because of the X Games. Now skateboarding will make its Summer Olympics debut in Tokyo in 2020. Watch for the “Flying Tomato” himself, Shaun White, who is the first athlete to win in both the summer and winter X Games. It may be a long road as skateboarding Olympians will compete in street and park events and White’s expertise is the vert. Also look out for Brighton Zeuner. At age 13, she became the youngest athlete in the X Games’ 21-year history to take home gold and is hoping to qualify for Tokyo. GET IT GIRL

4. We all remember the man, the myth and the legend, Tony Hawk. Well, these games mark the 20th anniversary of his famed 900 (two-and-a-half rotations = 900 degrees) on a skateboard, something that had never been done before. It took him 10 years of practice, a broken rib, lost teeth and several concussions but in 1999, he landed the iconic trick. (Now the 1080 is the trick to land). PERSISTENCE IS EVERYTHING

5. Skateboarding isn’t the only soon-to-be global sport, BMX freestyle is coming to the 2020 Summer Olympics as well. BMX has grown faster than the CBD craze, with the first World Cup taking place in 2016. What is BMX freestyle? In two one-minute runs each, riders will be judged on the difficulty, originality, style, flow, risk, height and execution of their tricks and jumps. THE SKY’S THE LIMIT

Wednesday Wisdom 

Let’s talk about what’s blowing up your phone today including a big change for the two-time World Cup Champion U.S. Women’s Soccer Team, why LeBron is being dad shamed and would you get a head tattoo in exchange for game tickets? READ