👋Good Morning Stump Nation!

Another great day at the Olympics for the US, who took home 17 medals in one day yesterday. This is the most for the US in a single day since the 1988 Summer Olympics. Enjoy the golf winding down with your morning cup of joe, and the fastest men in the world sprinting 100m around 3:45 PM ET. Have a great Sunday, there’s plenty of time for you to sit back, relax, and soak in some sports!

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THE DAILY STUMPED🔮

The last team to win the the Gold Medal in men’s basketball NOT named the United States was which country? Hint: it happened in 2004!

• A. France

• B. Italy

• C. Argentina

• D. Canada

• E. Germany

Answer at the bottom of The Stump!

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ON THIS DAY🗓️

On this day in 2007 —

At the age of 32-years-old, Yankees Third Basemen Alex Rodriguez became the youngest player in MLB History to reach 500 HRs!

He went YARD on the first pitch of he saw all game! The Yankees went on to thrash the Kansas City Royals, 16-8!

HR Number 500!

YESTERDAY IN SPORTS📰

Breaking News…

• 🏀 Quarterfinal matchups are set in Paris!

  • USA vs Brazil, Serbia vs Australia, Germany vs Greece, France vs Canada

• 🏊️ Katie Ledecky wins gold in 800m free! This is her fourth medal in Paris and her fourth medal in this exact event!

  • She won her first in London 2012 at the age of 15!

• 🏈 Tyreek Hill signs restructured deal with the Miami Dolphins!

  • Now a 3-year, $90 million deal!

• 🏈 NFL HOF Class of 2024 enshrinement ceremony featured Julius Peppers, Andre Johnson, Devin Hester, Dwight Freeney, and Patrick Willis

Top Final Scores💯

• 🇫🇷 OLYMPICS

  • 🏀 Mens: USA def. Puerto Rico, 104-83; Serbia def. South Sudan, 96-85

    • Womens: China def. Puerto Rico, 80-58; Spain def. Serbia, 70-62

  • ⚽️ Womens:USA def. Japan, 1-0 (ET); Germany def. Canada, 0(4)-0(2) in PKs; Brazil def. France, 1-0

• ⚾️ Yankees def. Blue Jays, 8-3; Rangers def. Red Sox, 7-4; Dodgers, def. A’s, 10-0; Orioles def. Guardians, 7-4; Angels def. Mets, 5-4

What Caught Our Eye👀

• ⚾️ 104 DOWN THE PIPE! What a way for your first career save!

• ⚾️ Is this a Pitcher walking out of the pen or a WWE Superstar at Wrestlemania!?

• 🏀 The human time machine! Who else but LeBron James!

STUMP STORY OF THE DAY✍️

Vincent Hancock: Gold in his Veins

This guy may be the most DOMINANT Olympian you have never heard of, so take a quick minute and soak this story in…

When I think of dominant US Olympians my head usually goes to Michael Phelps, Simone Biles, Katie Ledecky, the US men’s basketball team, among others. Never before have I went thought to look at skeet shooting to find a dominant American Olympian, but it’s safe to say we do.

Vincent Hancock should be at the top of the list when it comes to dominating a sport at the highest level. In case you aren’t sure what Skeet Shooting is, or maybe you just need a quick reminder: it’s the one where there’s a clay disk, or “pigeons”, shot into the air and the shooter must track is down and shoot it down with a rifle.

If you were wondering where Vincent is from, you’d probably be able to guess it. He’s a Texan, through and through. Love our cowboys winning Gold.

This isn’t his first run in the Olympics either. Quite the contrary. Mr. Hancock has won the gold in Skeet Shooting in 2008, 2012, and 2021. Yep. He’s a four-time gold medalist in this event. They should rename the sport after this guy.

The coolest part of all of this, is the fact that he not only won gold, but he beat a close friend of his. Conner Prince, who not only is close with Hancock, is one of his students. Prince is in his first Olympics and will take home the Silver.

Prince knocked down 57/60 Clay Pigeons, while Hancock nailed 58. Hancock had two misses pretty close together in the middle of his round of 60, but managed to hit 26 targets in a row to secure the gold medal. Ice in his veins.

Despite competing in five Olympics already and winning his four golds in Skeet Shooting, Hancock is only 35 and has already committed to defending his gold in 2028 in Los Angeles.

I’m sure Hancock will have a tough battle waiting for him in LA as his student continues to improve, either way, I’m a big skeet shooting guy now.

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WHAT TO WATCH📺️

MLB⚾️:

• Red Sox @ Rangers (2:35 PM ET), Blue Jays @ Yankees (1:35 PM ET), Baltimore @ Cleveland (1:40 PM ET), Rays @ Astros (2:10 PM ET), Mets @ Angels (4:07 PM ET), Cardinals @ Cubs (7:00 PM ET on ESPN)

Olympics🏅: We are ALL over the map today in terms of what’s on, so let’s get some high quality highlights!

• Day 4 of Olympic Golf and I’ll tell you what… this might mess around and be the BEST Golf Tournament of the year! Final Groupings here:

  • Jon Rahm, Xander Schauffele, Tommy Fleetwood (6:39 AM)

  • Nicolai Hojgaard, Hideki Matsuyama, Rory McIlroy (6:28 AM)

  • Scottie Scheffler, Thomas Detry, Tom Kim (6:17 AM)

  • Ludvig Aberg, Jason Day, Joaquin Niemann (6:06 AM)

• Women’s Basketball: USA vs Germany (11:15 AM ET)

• 3×3 Basketball: USA vs Netherlands (1:05 PM ET)

• Men’s 100M Final: THE FASTEST MEN IN THE WORLD (3:50 PM ET)