OMG U.S. women's rugby just won a bronze medal, and they basically did it on the equivalent of a walk-off kickoff return TD. No time left and she broke free for a long run to win it. That was INCREDIBLE
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Michele Tafoya reporting from the tunnel that players are complaining about the sandwiches during the weather delay.
"There's too much peanut putter on the sandwiches; it's 70/30 with the jelly."
Excellent TV.
My Day 7 Olympics viewing guide! A monster day. The big stuff is easy to see.
But also: I unironically love trampoline, and this is the only day to see it. And French judo legend Teddy Riner competes. And hello, kayak cross!
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One last time:
My Day 16 Olympics viewing guide!
People have been very nice about these, and I appreciate it. I will say a little more about that tomorrow. Enjoy Day 16 🥇
My Day 11 Olympics viewing guide! Getting smaller as U.S. teams get knocked out, but the number of medal events will go back up after Tuesday
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In 2014 Stan Van Gundy called The Process embarrassing.
Now the Sixers are 47-30 and beating his Pistons by 16 at halftime in Detroit as they go for a 4-0 season sweep.
It is absolutely insane that in a league where Luke Falk and Devlin Hodges are forced to start within the first 6 weeks, no team will even invite Kaepernick in for a workout.
Andy Reid:
✅ 23 seasons as head coach
✅ 16 10+ win seasons
✅ 13 trips to the divisional round
✅ 8 trips to the conference title game
✅ 3 SB appearances
✅ 1 SB win
✅ 5th all-time in wins
✅ 4th all-time in playoff wins
Any time you win your country's first ever Olympic medal is very cool.
To do it with gold in an event as high-profile as the 100 meters is next level.
Congrats Julien Alfred of St. Lucia.
Sha'Carri Richardson silver.
The French crowd timing their cheers while Leon Marchand is out of the water on his breaststroke is one of the coolest home court/field/pool advantages I've ever seen.
Olympic record in the 400 IM
It's pretty incredible that Brett Favre is second on the Packers in passing TDs, so I looked up who is second on every other team and how far behind Favre they are.
Monster stretch coming up here:
🔘 2:00 USA W rugby
🔘 2:30 swim finals start
🔘 3:00 USA w soccer
🔘 3:45 USA vs. USA fencing final!
🔘 4:00 Top USA beach volleyball team
🚨I updated the sheet because I accidentally had the badminton times listed as p.m. instead of a.m.
I also added USA women's epee QF to the Team USA section (I had the medal time already).
Apologies to anyone who planned their day around p.m. badminton!
(h/t
@LandonBundySID
)
P.S. Eight down, eight to go.
Still really appreciate lots of kind words about them, and the people who have shared stories about how you've been enjoying the Olympics.
Simone Biles:
🥇 9 Olympic medals
🥇 6 golds
🥇 2x individual all-around champ
First American with multiple all-around golds
First woman with multiple individual all-around golds in 56 years 🐐
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The ESPN NFL playoff scenario generator is the best.
Here's Buffalo and Cleveland getting a bye, with New England missing the playoffs and the whole AFC South finishing 8-7-1.
Plus seven NFC teams finish 9-7, resulting in a bye for Atlanta!
Reggie Wayne taunted the Titans fans who booed him. Said the Titans played the Colts 20 times in 10 years and only won 3 games.
Fact Check: True! Reggie came ready with the facts.
Kayak cross is going to be a breakout hit tomorrow and Sunday. Brand new Olympic event.
Today is just the time trials, so they are solo on the course.
Tomorrow they will actually race four kayaks on the water at once. And they have to barrel roll under the water. Great stuff.
Conspiracy theory: Brandon Staley called the timeout so people wouldn't spend all night talking about how he went for it on fourth-and-1 from his own 18.
The best ending for the Colangelo story would be
@JoelEmbiid
changing his jersey next season to No. 91 in honor of the phone number used to create the accounts.
Steph Curry stretching the NBA record from 286 threes made in a season to 402 (as he did in 2016) is proportionally equivalent to a guy hitting 103 home runs in one MLB season.
Andy Reid has been a head coach for 21 season:
15 playoff appearances
10 division titles
10 times reaching at least the divisional round of the playoffs
Andy Reid:
✅ 22 seasons as head coach
✅ 17 winning seasons
✅ 15 10+ win seasons
✅ 12 trips to the divisional round
✅ 8 trips to the conference title game
✅ 1 SB win
✅ 6th all-time in wins
✅ T-5th all-time in playoff wins
Shout out to anyone who had no idea 7-year NBA vet Chase Budinger is now an Olympic beach volleyball player, and found out when they turned on his first match.
🚨UPDATE: I botched the swimming.
It starts at 12:30 p.m. ET Sunday. (Two hours earlier than it has on the previous days.)
I'm sorry. Not my best work today 😬
8 straight W 🏀 gold games:
🥇 ’96: US 111, Brazil 87 (24)
🥇 ’00: US 76, Australia 54 (22)
🥇 ’04: US 74, Australia 63 (11)
🥇 ’08: US 92, Australia 65 (27)
🥇 ’12: US 86, France 50 (36)
🥇 ’16: US 101, Spain 72 (29)
🥇 ’20: US 90, Japan 75 (15)
🥇 ’24: US 67, France 66 (1) 😅
The Pistons, meanwhile, will soon miss the playoffs for the 8th time in 9 years.
They have had 6 coaches since they last won a playoff series.
They traded their lottery pick for Blake Griffin.
I wonder which situation their fans would prefer.
We’ve been talking about the metric system for 14 days, and it just occurred to me that the L.A. opening ceremony in 2028 should feature Nate Bargatze as George Washington
I ranted about this on the pod yesterday, but:
When they first ruled in Chiles's favor, you'd think they'd have a checklist of things to look for before granting a score change.
The first item on that list should be: "Is this a legal inquiry?"
Should never have come to this.