The best time of the Sports Year

Sport Fan doesn't begin to describe my love for the Vikings, Bolts, USF Bulls and Marlins

[Coach Dan Casey @CoachDanCasey]

If you want to understand the level of detail required to Run the Football effectively in the NFL, watch the next 131 seconds from Sean McVay.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Every famous death in The Odyssey is the same crime.

The Trojan War? Started because a houseguest stole his host's wife. The cyclops? Blinded for eating his visitors. The suitors? Slaughtered for overstaying their welcome in another man's home.

Nolan read it correctly. Homer wrote 3,000 years ago about one thing: how you treat strangers decides whether civilization holds.

Here's why the Greeks were obsessed with it. Ancient Greece had no hotels, no cops, no ID. If you traveled anywhere, you knocked on a stranger's door and hoped.

So they made hospitality sacred. Feed the stranger. Give him a bed. Don't ask his name until after dinner. Zeus himself enforced the rule, and any beggar at your door might be a god in disguise. So you treated every stranger like a king.

Break the rule and the gods break you. That's the entire plot.

We still carry the proof in our mouths. Guest, host, and hostile all come from the same ancient word. A stranger at your door was always both things at once.

Nolan bet $250 million that after 3,000 years, we still need the reminder. $257 million opening weekend, his biggest ever, says he was right.

[Ben Houselog @benlikessport]

Usually it’s called soccer

But tomorrow night in Seattle, for one day only against Belgium

It’s called Monday Night Football.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.?

Because we gave them that L in 1776.

[RedditCFB @RedditCFB]

Cabo Verde finishes their first ever World Cup undefeated in regulation.

[Sarah Langs @SlangsOnSports]

The Marlins are the first team to enter a calendar month 8+ games under .500 and leave said month 6+ games over .500

h/t @EliasSports

[Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber]

Whats strange about soccer: It employs absurd mathematical precision to police offsides, a rule that mostly matters in spirit rather than in strict application. (You just don't want cherrypicking) But its extremely casual about timekeeping, whose literal application matters a ton

[Tony Roundtree @Tonywithyy]

The year is 2046. College football has a 64 team playoff. Notre Dame gets an automatic bid if they win 1 regular season game. Every game is played in Atlanta or Dallas. National championship game is the first week of March. Transfer portal is open weekly. Presented by Fan Duel

[The best time of the Sports Year @StephenHanewinc]

All I have to say:

The Bolts lead for all of 12 mins in a 7 game series, including 4 OTs.

When the hockey gods dont want you to win, you are not going to win.

#GoBolts

[Pete Blackburn @PeteBlackburn]

The amount of the luck the Canadiens have in this game is making me feel like they sacrificed an animal or something last night

[Eduardo A. Encina @EddieInTheYard]

Asked Jon Cooper about this: "Did anybody see what the crowd was doing to me?...Yeah, at first I thought they were saying I was No. 1."

#GoBolts

[ESPN Insights @ESPNInsights]

Vasy shuts the door again 🛑

Andrei Vasilevskiy's 30-save shutout was the 2nd most saves in a playoff shutout for his career.

It was his 8th career playoff shutout in total, most among active goalies.

[Gabby Shirley @Gabby_Shirley_]

Jon Cooper on Game 6: “If you watched tonight's game, that game didn't need a goal. All it needed was one goal to end it and that's how exciting it was. It was thrilling. It was epic. It was goaltenders making extraordinary saves, players doing things that were of grace and skill and magic and there was intensity and there were hits. It was everything and there wasn't a goal scored yet everybody in the building was on the edge of their seats. I guess that's how epic games become epic.”

[The best time of the Sports Year @StephenHanewinc]

Game of the year.
Elite play on both sides.
PK, PP, Goaltending all incredible.

Bolts absolutely had to bring it. They did. And so did the Habs.

GAME 7.

(Need Game 6 Bolts again on Sunday)
#GoBolts

[The best time of the Sports Year @StephenHanewinc]

What a lifeless & boring showing tonight. This team makes no sense sometimes.
- Have all the momentum from previous game: give up early goal.
- Score a goal to make it even: give back the lead 11 seconds later.
- Reset to start the 3rd: Vasy gives up a weak... GWG.
#GoBolts

[NHL @NHL]

Brandon Hagel has been a HUGE factor for the @TBLightning ⚡ #StanleyCup

[JFresh @JFreshHockey]

bolts are such a good villain. even their generic blue and white jerseys are perfect for it, they look like a movie rival team

[The best time of the Sports Year @StephenHanewinc]

Hockey gods you always find a way to make it interesting:
- Game 3 the Habs were the better team and won.
- Game 4 the Bolts were the better team and won.

Three game series now...
#GoBolts

[Brian Hartline @brianhartline]

2022 Garrett Wilson No. 10
2022 Chris Olave No. 11
2023 Jaxon Smith-Njigba No. 20
2024 Marvin Harrison Jr. No. 4
2025 Emeka Egbuka No. 19
2026 Carnell Tate No. 4

Might have one in 2027 too!