USWNT’s Triple Espresso Adds Another Shot

…but the Bundesliga might have been the real winner. American football brought plenty of new eyeballs to the Allianz Arena, and with it, the top-flight of German soccer. It’s a partnership set to last for years.  We’re raising a beer stein in celebration.

How has basketball media shifted to play to our shortening attention spans? Katie Heindl takes on the issue from her unique perspective on her Substack, Basketball Feelings. Long live longform.

Lil Wayne is set to join “NFL Gameday Morning” on the NFL Network as a weekly guest. It’s not the Super Bowl halftime stage, but it’s something.

Part 2 of Netflix’s docuseries “Sprint” comes out this week. Get ready to follow the likes of Noah Lyles, Kishane Thompson and more through an inside look at all the drama on the track that took place at the Paris Olympics and beyond. Add it to your list today.

Where is Formula 1 headed next? Nations across the world are vying to bring a Grand Prix to their country, and billions are at stake. South Korea and Thailand have bids on the table—how long until they land a race? 

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Ladies and gentlemen, we got her. 

Lily Yohannes, the most coveted teenage midfielder in the world, is choosing to play for the USWNT over the Netherlands. This is like The Decision but for women’s international soccer, and it could change the landscape of the sport over the next decade.

Quick recap on this 17-year-old prodigy: Born in Virginia, Yohannes moved to The Netherlands when she was 10. It was a huge deal when she became the youngest ever player to start in a Women's Champions League match for Ajax last year, but she really made waves internationally in June during her USWNT debut.

It took her just 10 minutes to score a banger! The third youngest scorer in USWNT history. You read that right.

Since she didn’t play in a FIFA sanctioned friendly, Yohannes still had her choice of pledging her allegiance to either America or the Dutch. It’s been a few agonizing months waiting for her choice, but how sweet it will be to see her wearing the Stars and Stripes.

Even though she’s lived in Europe, she still has an affinity for American culture. Who amongst us haven’t posted a photo dump with a Future song in the background?

Yohannes’ American homecoming is also great news for Adidas, who snapped the starlet up a couple years ago as part of its mission to grow its brand in North America, working with the brightest young stars in US sports, from Anthony Edwards to Trinity Rodman.

And now, you’re telling us we can expect to see Yohannes dishing balls to Triple Espresso?! To our delight, the rest of the world shivers at the thought.

We’re coming back for our throne, thanks to our fleur-de-lis.

Lookalike contests have suddenly become all the rage. Competitions have been held to find the faces of Harry Styles and Paul Mescal—Timothée Chalamet showed up to a contest celebrating his own chiseled features.

So we had to ask…which athlete is going to do this first? There are literally no wrong answers.

Few figures in the history of the NFL loom as large as John Madden. A Hall of Fame coach, a beloved commentator, a Turducken connoisseur—Madden was all of these things. But it’s likely that the biggest legacy left by Madden was lending his name to the video game that would become a worldwide sensation.

Now, both Madden and “Madden” are heading to the big screen. On Monday, Prime Video released the trailer for its upcoming docuseries “It’s In The Game: Madden NFL,” which will, fittingly, come out over Thanksgiving break.

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For those that prefer a more cinematic approach, David O. Russell has you covered. The Oscar-winning director landed Oscar-winning actor Nicholas Cage to take on Madden’s persona, with Amazon MGM Studios producing. That’s vertical integration, baby.

So why does a commentator/video game pioneer deserve not one but two Amazon media properties? Because “Madden” is an institution. It is engrained into the fabric of American sports culture in a way that no other game is. The cover matters. The soundtrack matters. The ratings matter (especially to the players). It’s a game franchise that can only be counted in the hundreds of millions.