👋Good Morning Stump Nation!

‘Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.’ Just like the Olympics have come to a close. A fun 2 and a half weeks to say the least! From Steph Curry to Yusuf Dikec we saw it all in Paris! This was a great bit of sports in August to give us a little boost as the NFL and College Football seasons are right around the corner! What a time to be a Stump!

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THE DAILY STUMPED🔮

Who holds the record for the most points scored in a single game of Olympics Men’s Basketball?

• A. Stephon Marbury

• B. Kevin Durant

• C. Andrew Gaze

• D. Carmelo Anthony

• E. Oscar Schmidt

Answer at the bottom of The Stump!

OUR JUICE🧃

• Do not scratch your eyes. You are really seeing this. A THIRD FACE in the Nighttime Recap! The only you need to join the party is JUICE, and Kieran’s got JUICE!

• Got the opportunity to interview UConn Point Guard, 2x National Champ, and reigning Big East 6th Man OTY Hassan Diarra! Check it out!

ON THIS DAY🗓️

On this day in 1974 —

New York Yankees teammates Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford become the first pair of teammates to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on the same day.

Mantle finished his career as a 3-time MVP and 7-time World Series Champion, while Ford finished as a 1-time Cy Young Winner and 6-time champion.

YESTERDAY IN SPORTS📰

Breaking News…

• ⛳️Aaron Rai wins in Chaotic Wyndham Classic after Max Greyserman’s MELTDOWN on the back nine!

  • QUAD-BOGEY from Max on the 14th

• ⚽️Legendary Anson Dorrance retires as North Carolina’s women’s soccer coach after 45(!!!!!!) years at the helm

• ⛳️LIV suspends Graeme McDowell for using banned nasal decongestant!

  • Well kind of… there was a substance IN the nasal contestant

Top Final Scores💯

• 🏈 Friday Preseason ACTION

  • Broncos def. Colts, 34-30 - BO NIXXXXXXXX ALERTTTTT

  • Rams def. Cowboys, 13-12 - STETSON. BENNETT. IV.

• ⚾️ Astros def. Red Sox, 10-2; Yankees def. Rangers, 8-7; Rays def. Orioles (2-1); Mariners def. Mets, 12-1 (UG-LY)

  • Astros SWEEP the Red Sox in an absolutely brutal show of baseball by the Sox

• 🇫🇷 OLYMPICS

  • 🏀 Basketball (W): USA def. France 67-66. A rollercoaster of emotion for France’s Gabby Williams. Not in a good way.

  • 🏐 Women’s Volleyball: USA swept 3 sets to none by the Italians, USA takes home the silver!

  • 🏊️ Men’s Water Polo: USA defeats Hungary (No actually I’m starved) to take home the Bronze Medal!
    

What Caught Our Eye👀

• 🏈 QBs Trey Lance and Stetson Bennett trade underwhelming drives in 13-12 win for the Rams over the Cowboys.

• ⚾️ Jarren Duran has a foul mouth. Caught using a slur on the mic during their 10-2 loss to the Astros.

STUMP STORY OF THE DAY✍️

Wild Throwback Today…‘Linsanity’

Talk about out of absolutely nowhere. We’re talking Linsanity today.

You know there’s so much we could talk about. And out of about the hundred things I could have gone with today I honestly have no clue with why this is was the final verdict. But it is.

You know those meme’s that show Vince McMahon getting emotional and the text says, ‘Dad, how good was LeBron James?’ Well yesterday my sister asked me, what was up with all that Jeremy Lin stuff 10 years ago. Well that opened the floodgates for storytime.

A run that seemed like it laster a year only was all of two weeks. After 4 seasons at Harvard, Jeremy Lin was not selected in the 2010 NBA Draft. He was picked up by the Warriors but never found his place. He was waived by both them as well as the Houston Rockets. For his second year he found himself on the New York Knicks as what he said was the ‘12th to 15th guy on the roster’.

How he went from that to becoming one of Time’s most influential people in the world just a year later could be one of the greatest comeback stories of all time. You would think it was a movie. He was sleeping on a teammates couch, most likely soon to be cut, but was given a chance.

On Feb. 4th, 2012, Lin and the Knicks faced off against the Brooklyn Nets in what Lin’s agent told him could possibly be his last NBA game. He came off the bench and scored a jaw-dropping 17 points.

This was the first of New York’s 7 wins in a row.

Being in NYC during this time, I won’t lie and say that I was a die hard Knicks fan at the time, because I wasn’t. But anybody in New York will tell you that there was a buzz. The winter days seemed to not be as cold, the vendor’s hot dogs seemed to taste a little better, and yellow cab drivers seemed to be following all traffic laws.

After his 17 point performance, Jeremy Lin was inserted into the starting lineup where he went on to have 136 points in his first 5 starts (5 wins by the way). This was the greatest point total (and still is) by an NBA player in their first 5 starts ever. More than Jordan. More than LeBron. More than Kobe.

It was a magical. This was the peak of his career but on this Monday I thought why not talk about a past moment of Magic. Monday Magic.

Here’s a full link to all highlights from that run. This has consistently become a once a year watch for me.

If Lin could go from a couch to Time magazine, than we too can achieve more than we even dream possible. Happy Monday. Go do it!

JUICE STATION🧃

Quote of the Day

Song of the Day

Glue Guy of the Day

Defined: Glue Guy (Noun, Verb, Adj., etc.) - a person, thing, idea, or thought that holds together the larger group. Not the star, not the main character, but a hard hat and lunch pale type who knows its role. The GLUE of the group.

WHAT TO WATCH📺️

MLB⚾️: Full slate all day long baby!

• Rangers @ Red Sox (7:00 PM ET on ESPN), Yankees @ White Sox (8:10 PM ET), Dodgers @ Brewers (8:10 PM ET), Houston @ Rays (6:50 PM ET), Pirates @ Padres (9:40 PM ET)