

…and the next generation of Team USA Women’s Basketball is shooting their best shot. Caitlin Clark, Paige Bueckers and Angel Reese are ready to lead the new era of basketball’s greatest dynasty and if you still have questions about the 10-day FIBA Women’s World Cup, your answers are right here.
Even before Wednesday, L.A. felt a little like the set of Sports Apocalypse Now. USC football fans were being cooked by the Internet (and the 100-degree sun). Ohtani looks really un-right. The Lakers’ ongoing ownership drama? Still chaos. Then the NBA dropped the Adam bomb nobody saw coming. Wait….there’s more?!
Sports styling is a high-intensity sport. The days of throwing just any old fit are over. As the lights get brighter and the cameras get bigger, the rules of the tunnel get a little bit stricter. The walk-in still remains the ultimate pathway for athlete self-expression, maybe just leave the Versace at home if your team’s been taking L’s.
Roger Federer went into the International Tennis Hall of Fame last weekend, and someday he will go into The Met Gala Hall of Fame when Anna Wintour thinks to create one. But GQ’s Alec Dent has the most inspired idea we’ve heard all week: Induct David Foster Wallace into the Tennis Hall. The late, great author, himself no slouch on the court, merits the honor alone for his 2006 New York Times profile of Feds, considered by some to be the greatest piece of sportswriting ever. You have one weekend of summer beach reading left. Dig in.
The U.S. Open continues to make its case as the best reality show in sports. To which Lane Kiffin says: Hold my Honey Deuce.
Forward this to the laziest hardworking person you know.

