Here we go! Final Monday of July.Final week of July.
Come Saturday, we'll have turned the page to a new month.A big month.
The real "calm before the storm."All 32 NFL teams report this week.College football media days wrap up with that pesky Big Ten conference, and then the boys hit the practice fields.
We've got the MLB Trade Deadline in a few days.There's a lesbian cheating scandal currently rocking the WNBA.And they say this is a quiet time of year.
Hogwash! Things are HAPPENING right now.The news cycle never sleeps.
We don't, either.Let's roll.Welcome to a Monday Nightcaps — the one where '90s heartthrob Topanga Lawrence (Danielle Fishel) puts her acting shoes back on and joins a "Sandlot" reboot of sorts set to hit screens next month.What a time to be alive.What else? I've got a flag football player getting absolutely leveled during an interception return, the Bills may have created the worst alternate uniform of all time, and the Sophie Cunningham story is already taking a predictable turn.You do this long enough, you learn to see these things coming from a mile away.I sniffed this one out last week.
You'll see.OK, throw on your favorite NFL theme song to celebrate us being one week closer to football season, and settle in for a Monday 'Cap!Chills.Every time.
God, I miss football.I'm quite sure I've done this one before, but whatever.Mount Rushmore of NFL theme songs:Honorable mention? The NFL Network theme song for the 9 a.m.
games we all forget about until the second half.Man.What a song.
What a jingle.Brings me back to an old Dolphins game with an old Marino still slinging it.
Or with a young Jay Fiedler handing it off to Ricky Williams 400 times a game.Or to Greg Gumbel.How great was Greg Gumbel? Boy.
We had it all, didn't we? Few more weeks, folks.Hang tight.In the meantime, let's get this class started with Danielle Fishel — AKA Topanga Lawrence from 'Boys Meets World' — turning heads in the premiere trailer for the new Sandlot-esque re...