OKC And Indy Are Twin Flames

…The Ringer’s pop culture golf matrix ranks famous TV and film characters on a scale of bad at golf to good at golf (horizontal axis), and by the book to maverick status (vertical axis). Would you be surprised to learn Tony Soprano is at the axis origin? If all this didn’t take you back to eighth-grade algebra, well . . . we had to look it up too. 

Como 1907 launched an alternate kit as part of a very nice collab with Rhude (and Adidas). This partnership might signal a larger trend in putting consumer desires over promotion and marketing. More here.    

Hey, who’s the kid brother here? For the first time, Peyton Manning is following in his little brother’s footsteps—he’s investing in an NWSL team. The currently unnamed NWSL Denver team welcomes Peyton as part-owner. 

Bill Simmons had Pablo Torre on to squash their Jordon Hudson-Bill Belichick-inspired beef. It’s a great listen and offers multiple perspectives on what journalism is and should be. So, who won? America. Sports. All of us.

It’s us against the world. No, for real. Perhaps feeling a little Four Nations envy, Adam Silver announced the new NBA All-Star format will be the US vs. the rest of the world. Will this be the format that sticks or will we go back to the drawing board for 2027?