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Chicago Sky coach Teresa Weatherspoon blew a fuse after a media member asked a simple question about Sky forward Angel Reese and future Team USA selections.
Rather than addressing the reporter’s query, Weatherspoon challenged the reporter for having the gall to ask if Reese could one day be a player selected for Team USA.
None of this year’s rookies, notably Caitlin Clark, made the women’s basketball Paris Olympics team.

Netflix is shaking up the competitive eating world with news that the streaming giant will hold a hot dog completion on Labor Day this year which will pit legends of the game Joey Chestnut against his old arch-rival Takeru Kobayashi.
The time and place haven’t been determined, but they’ve got one hell of a name worked out: Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef.
“Through all of my years in competitive eating, Kobayashi stands out as my fiercest rival,” Chestnut said in a statement, per The Hollywood Reporter.

If you need perspective, let’s remember that Jayden Daniels won the Heisman Trophy. And was selected by the Washington Commanders with the No. 2 overall pick in the April draft. And he’s been making the rounds around the Nation’s Capitol, throwing out the first pitch at a Nationals game and hanging out as a VIP with the Team USA soccer team.
Oh, yes, and he’s the new face of a team desperately wanting to reshape its identity both on and off the field.
So how’s that stardom fitting Jayden Daniels? 
“I mean, I ain’t a star quarterback yet.

Thanks to a court ruling, biological male swimmer Lia Thomas will not be permitted to swim in the Olympics in the women’s category this summer. 
As OutKick’s Mark Harris reported earlier Wednesday, Thomas “lost a legal battle against World Aquatics in which Thomas argued their ban [on Thomas] from competing against females was ‘invalid and unlawful.

New York Yankees superstar Aaron Judge had one of the best seasons in the modern era in 2022, when he set the American League record for home runs in a single season. 
He hit 62 home runs, drove in 131, scored 133 runs, hit.311/.425/.686 for a 210 OPS+. After adjusting for league factors and park factors, Judge was 110% better than league average. It was a historic level of production that compared favorably to most of Babe Ruth’s career statistics.
Somehow, nearly halfway through the 2024 season, he’s been even better.

The Florida Panthers took a somewhat unorthodox approach to a two-day break between Games 2 and 3 of the Stanley Cup Final, and it may have backfired spectacularly thanks to a tropical depression clobbering South Florida.
A lot has been made about how the Panthers and Edmonton Oilers — at 2,543 miles — are farther apart geographically than any other pair of teams in Stanley Cup history, even surpassing the previous record holder, which was the 2011 Final between the Boston Bruins and Vancouver Canucks.
So, how to handle that long trip has been something to consider.

Despite a massive uptick in popularity and interest, the WNBA is expected to continue its streak of losing money, according to the Washington Post. 
The league has operated at a loss in every year of its existence and survives by being subsidized by the WNBA. This year, the Post reports that the league is going to lose about $50 million. 
“On average [we’ve lost] over $10 million every year we’ve operated,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver told The Associated Press in 2018 when speaking about WNBA finances.

Rory McIlroy plays a shot during a Wednesday practice round ahead of the 2024 U.S. Open. | Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images
Rory McIlroy has not won a major since 2014, but he can win the U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2 if he can do these three things.
Rory McIlroy seems to have an extra pep in his step at Pinehurst No. 2 this week. Perhaps it’s because he and his wife, Erica, will not go through with their divorce and remain together as a family—a happy development for the McIlroys and the golfing world as a whole.

West was a basketball genius in so many ways and he never hesitated to pass along that knowledge. Because of that, his impact on the sport won’t end with his death.

The lack of self-awareness from current NBA players always astonishes me. Granted, I wouldn’t put it past any NBA team nowadays to do a tribute video for a former bench player. Hell, the Philadelphia 76ers and Brooklyn Nets did tribute videos for Ben Simmons, Kevin Durant, and Kyrie Irving despite winning no titles and demanding trades. However, former Boston Celtics backup Grant Williams is tripping.