Welcome to the Tuesday night Daily Digest. Our previously scheduled NFL culture preview has been pushed up due to an A-List magazine storm and Naomi Osaka is the answer to all your tennis fashion debates. Flo Balogun’s big Premier League move crashed out as the transfer window closed and the ‘Chad Powers’ admins are throwing a rager for season 2 welcome week. What would an NBA preview look like if every glass was half full? As always OffBall is here to show you Champions League-winning ‘Desperate Housewives’ superfans.
On to the links.
Our Cover Stories
Naomi Osaka Broke Out A Killer Allen Iverson Crossover (The Athletic, Free Guest Link)
Morgan Rogers Is A Leading Man In Soccer’s Golden Fashion Generation (CircleZeroEight)
Can Ben Shelton’s Serve Hold Up On Celebrity Court? (Vanity Fair)
The Glass-Half-Full End-Of-Summer NBA Preview (Basketball Poetry on Substack)
You Need More Than WAG Clips To Get Women Into The Stadium (She Gets It on Substack)
Agenda Setters And Trends, When One Take Isn’t Enough
Glossy Mags Declared Tuesday NFL Culture Media Day
Malik Nabers Is Chasing The Sun, But He’ll Take Your Fantasy Team To The Moon (Flaunt)
Break Out Your Sunday Best For The Most Fashionable Power Rankings (Women’s Wear Daily)
We’re Seated For The Exclusive Tom Brady Leather Pants Interview (The Wilder Things on Substack)
Roc Nation Has Their First Songs Of The Season Queued Up For Week 1 (Billboard)
The Internet’s Best Stuff
CeeDee Lamb Packed The Vlog Cameras For The Cowboys’ Training Camp Trip (cee2x___ on Instagram)
Harper Murray Is Taking Her Talents To YouTube (harpermurrayy on Instagram)
Who Says Flau’jae Can’t Have The Best Of Both Worlds (andscape on Instagram)
Sloane Stephens’s Return To The Grand Slam Winners Column Has Us Crying In The Club (The Tennis Letter on X)
Baller League Is Back! And KSI Is Bringing All The Fans Along For The New House Tour (ballerleagueuk on Instagram)
More Stories, Deeper Cuts
Victor Oladipo Is Back And Ready To Re-Climb The NBA Mountain (The Players’ Tribune)
How High School Football Became Sports YouTube’s Wild West (Front Office Sports)
We’re Less Than A Week Into The U.S. Open & The Photojournal Is Already Filling Up (graceball on Substack)
Indiana’s Story Was Too Good For Hollywood & We Can’t Wait For The Sequel (Musings Of An Old Sports Writer on Substack)