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There are nine MLS-affiliated teams left in the tournament. Who has the best chance of winning?
The 2024 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup has hit the Round of 32, and the competition resumes with 16 matches. For the first time in this year’s edition of the tournament, the MLS teams will enter the competition, but only 8 of them will fight for the oldest trophy in American soccer.

Transgender golfer Hailey Davidson is hopeful for the chance to take a spot away from a deserving female in the upcoming U.S. Women’s Open.
Davidson, who was banned from a professional women’s tour earlier this year, came within one spot of qualifying for the U.S. Women’s Open. The biological male who played on various men’s teams in college could still get into the major championship field, however, after earning the first alternate spot in the qualifier at Bradenton Country Club in Florida.

The NBA has agreed to frameworks for new rights deals with Disney and Amazon, according to reports, letting Warner Bros. Discovery and NBC duke it out for the third and final package.
NBC was reportedly willing to pay as much as $2.5 billion a year, according to the Wall Street Journal, but WBD has matching rights to keep the NBA on TNT. The problem: WBD is in cost-cutting mode and would have to increase its current $1.2 billion a year investment in the NBA by more than double to fend off the competition.

Dallas Stars center Wyatt Johnston is celebrating a birthday on Tuesday and it’s a biggie. He’s 21, meaning he can legally buy beer in the United States and if he needed it, he’d still have another 5 years on his parents’ health insurance.
Johnston gets the day off (at least from games) on his birthday, but he had to play the night before. And after the game, ESPN’s Leah Hextall helped him celebrate a little early with the Charlie Brown Christmas tree of birthday cakes.

30 years ago today, Ayrton Senna stunned the F1 world, and himself, at the Monaco Grand Prix
At the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix, qualifying is entire ball game.
On this day back in 1988, Ayrton Senna won that ball game in astonishing fashion.
That day, Senna obliterated the rest of the grid, qualifying for pole position a stunning 1.4 seconds ahead of his rival — and McLaren teammate — Alain Prost. His performance that day lives on as perhaps the greatest qualifying effort in the history of the sport, as Senna was able to push his McLaren, and himself, beyond the limits.