On the latest episode of @TheChiefsWire podcast: @EdEastonJr’s chats w/ Robbie Gould #KCvsSF
We’re back with an all-new episode of the Chiefs Wire podcast! This week, we’re previewing the Kansas City Chiefs Week 7 matchup with the San Francisco 49ers.
Senior Writer Ed Easton Jr. spoke to retired 49ers kicker Robbie Gould to discuss his playing career longevity mindset and facing off against the Chiefs in Super Bowl LIV.
We check in with this past week’s press conferences, which featured comments from wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster on his big game against the New Orleans Saints in Week 5. Head Coach Andy Reid gives an update on the roster and plans heading into Week 7 against the 49ers as Kansas City regroups after the bye week.
The latest episode of the Chiefs Wire Podcast will inform listeners about all developments in the team’s game plan for Week 7 against the 49ers following the bye week, knowing they will officially be without lead wide receiver Rashee Rice. Gould’s first-hand reflection on facing the Chiefs in Super Bowl LIV confirms the greatness of quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
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On the latest episode of @TheChiefsWire podcast: @EdEastonJr’s chats w/ Derek Jeter and Medium Rare’s Joe Silberzweig and Adam Richman #NOvsKC
We’re back with an all-new episode of the Chiefs Wire podcast! This week, we’re previewing the Kansas City Chiefs Week 5 matchup with the New Orleans Saints.
Senior Writer Ed Easton Jr. spoke to Arena Club co-founder Derek Jeter about the business’s continued growth; Patrick Mahomes’ best quality as a captain and hand revealed the mindset of his New York Yankees three-peat teams.
We check in with this past week’s press conferences, which featured comments from quarterback Patrick Mahomes on the interception that led to the unfortunate injury to wide receiver Rashee Rice. Head Coach Andy Reid congratulates general manager Brett Veach for earning his 200th victory as an NFL executive after last week’s win over the Los Angeles Chargers.
Lastly, Medium Rare founders Joe Silberzweig and Adam Richman about the company’s origins and teaming with Travis Kelce on ‘Kelce Jam.’
The latest episode of the Chiefs Wire Podcast will inform listeners about all developments in the team’s game plan for Week 5 against the Saints following another devastating injury on offense.
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“It’s like a mini version of the Sphere in Vegas.”
Inglewood, Calif. — Picture a place to watch a football game that has the abundant TVs of a sports bar, the comfy lounging chairs of a movie theater and a planetarium-inspired screen reminiscent of the Sphere in Las Vegas; that’s what it’s like to watch a game at Cosm, the domed Los Angeles-area sports bar.
Adjacent to SoFi Stadium after opening in June, Cosm has been going viral this college football season, and it’s easy to see why. So For The Win checked it out in person for the Tennessee-Oklahoma game Saturday.
“It’s a unique but ideal sports experience,” said 53-year-old Tennessee fan Robert Washington, who was one of several fans who said they saw clips on TikTok and other social media platforms that piqued their interest.
“It’s wonderful. We’re sitting amongst different people. It’s almost like you’re at the game or at whatever event you’re going to see. We literally feel like we’re there. We’ve gone to Tennessee and watched football games before, and this is literally what it’s like, other than the crowd noise.”
On the surface, Cosm is just another sports bar, albeit a new one with far more screens than your average dive. But Cosm’s Dome is what steals the show with a giant curved screen, making fans feel like they’re in the stands watching the game. Or the end zone or a team’s sideline.
The game is so up-close and in your face that it feels like field goals and running backs are coming right at you. It’s mesmerizing and easy to get lost staring at the minute details on the massive screen.
“We’ll never beat the in-stadium experience; we don’t want to,” said Jeb Terry, Cosm’s CEO and president and former NFL player. “There’s nothing like the energy of a big crowd. But we want to create an experience for the fans that can’t get there. We’re gonna have Tennessee, Oklahoma fans in California watching like they’re in Norman. …
“For those fans in California that can’t get there, it’s a next-best thing, right? So that’s why we have multiple cameras there — below both goalposts, on the Chapman cart [movable beam lift], high and wide, multiple positions — so that we can always give a really cool look and give the fans something valuable.”
For events broadcast in the Dome, Cosm has partnerships with networks and leagues ranging from ESPN and NBC Sports to the NBA and UFC allowing the bar to have its own broadcast feed. Typically, there are four to six cameras strategically placed around the venue — though it can go as high as 12 — and Cosm controls which of its feeds is shown on the Dome’s screen.
Audio from the TV broadcast — in our case, it was ESPN’s ABC team on the call — serves as the voiceover for Cosm’s feed and cuts away to music for commercial breaks.
The end result is the immersive experience Cosm was aiming for, but it’s not without its kinks. Most notably is the Dome screen itself where the visuals in the center are nearly crystal clear, but the images get a little fuzzy and distorted around the edges where it curves. One fan on Saturday noted that the picture is good, but the resolution could be more precise.
And, of course, it’s more expensive than watching on your couch.
“I went to Tennessee. I’m used to going to the games,” said Scotty McClure, a 31-year-old Nashville native who was at Cosm with his sister and twin brother. “It’s an unbelievable experience, and this is closer to the experience of sitting on my couch. It’s like a hybrid. It’s a good sports bar. L.A. has terrible sports bars, so this is a better experience. … It’s like a mini version of the Sphere in Vegas.”
Terry emphasized the goal was never to replace your couch or your stadium seats; it was to provide a game-like space for those who don’t want to watch at home but can’t go to the stadium in person. In line with one of the arguments made to networks for the production rights, Terry says Cosm — with another location in Dallas and construction underway in Atlanta — is meant to complement the already-existing sports coverage and experience.
“We’re really not cannibalizing anything here; we’re efforting to be a net positive,” Terry said about adding to the sports ecosystem.
General admission for the Dome area is $22, but reserved seating in the Dome itself starts at $77 and go up from there, depending on the event and the specific seats. Several fans who bought the $22 tickets to initially check it out said they’d come back and splurge for reserved seating in the Dome, complete with table service.
“I kind of wish there were more Tennessee fans here, and I wish that there was like playing of the theme songs,” said Elyse Deleo, McClure’s 36-year-old sister. “But I mean, it’s great to feel like I’m like on the field, essentially.”
On the latest episode of @TheChiefsWire podcast: @EdEastonJr’s chats w/ Tech N9ine #KCvsLAC
We’re back with an all-new episode of the Chiefs Wire podcast! This week, we’re previewing the Kansas City Chiefs Week 4 matchup with the Los Angeles Chargers.
Senior Writer Ed Easton Jr. spoke to Strange Music co-founder Tech N9ne about his earliest memory as a Chiefs fan and his creation of the team anthem, ‘Red Kingdom.’ He also discusses his interaction and feedback with current Chiefs players and their influence on the community. He selected his all-time starting tight end between Tony Gonzalez and Travis Kelce.
We check in with this past week’s press conferences, which featured comments from quarterback Patrick Mahomes on the self-criticism of his play to start the season. Wide receiver Rashee Rice and head coach Andy Reid responded to his thoughts ahead of Sunday’s game at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.
The latest episode of the Chiefs Wire Podcast will inform listeners about all developments in the team’s game plan heading into their first AFC West matchup of the 2024 regular season. The Chargers are battling injuries and missing players as both teams compete on Sunday, and Chiefs Kingdom will learn more about a music icon and loyal Chiefs fan.
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On the latest episode of @TheChiefsWire podcast: @EdEastonJr’s chats w/ J.J. Birden #KCvsATL
We’re back with an all-new episode of the Chiefs Wire podcast! This week, we’re previewing the Kansas City Chiefs Week 3 matchup with the Atlanta Falcons.
Senior Writer Ed Easton Jr. spoke to former Chiefs wide receiver J.J. Birden about his thoughts on this year’s first-round NFL Draft pick Xavier Worthy. He also details his time playing alongside Joe Montana in the 1990s. The one-time Falcons receiver breaks down his reasons for retirement and life after football.
We check in with this past week’s press conferences, which featured comments on Kareem Hunt’s return from quarterback Patrick Mahomes, cornerback Trent McDuffie, and head coach Andy Reid ahead of Sunday night’s game at Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta.
The latest episode of the Chiefs Wire Podcast will inform listeners about all developments in the team’s game plan heading into their first road game of the 2024 regular season. The Falcons game plan after their Monday Night Football win, as both teams compete on Sunday night after comeback victories, and Chiefs Kingdom will learn more about a fan-favorite former player.
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On the latest episode of @TheChiefsWire podcast: @EdEastonJr’s chats w/ Jermaine Kearse & Trent McDuffie #CINvsKC
We’re back with an all-new episode of the Chiefs Wire podcast! This week, we’re previewing the Kansas City Chiefs Week 2 matchup with the Cincinnati Bengals.
Senior Writer Ed Easton Jr. spoke to Chiefs All-Pro cornerback Trent McDuffie after he hosted the Little Caesars’ Love Kitchen’ event at Arrowhead Stadium. He recapped the fantastic event with Little Caesars, the NFL’s Official Pizza Sponsor, spreading love to Kansas City and looking ahead to Week 2 against the Cincinnati Bengals.
We check in with this past week’s press conferences, which featured comments from quarterback Patrick Mahomes, wide receiver Xavier Worthy, and head coach Andy Reid ahead of Sunday’s game at Arrowhead Stadium. Lastly, Former Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl champion Jermaine Kearse opened up about his involvement in the inaugural First Responders Children’s FoundationGolf Classic Fundraiser to honor local first responders in commemorating the 23rd anniversary of 9/11 event and thoughts on the success of fellow Washington Huskies alum McDuffie.
The latest episode of the Chiefs Wire Podcast will inform listeners about all developments in the team’s game plan and allow them to learn more about their Pro Bowl cornerback.
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On the latest episode of @TheChiefsWire podcast: @EdEastonJr’s chats w/ Don Cheadle & @TheJohnDillon speaks to ‘Hollywood’ Brown #BALvsKC
We’re back with an all-new episode of the Chiefs Wire podcast! This week, we’re previewing the Kansas City Chiefs Week 1 matchup with the Baltimore Ravens.
Chiefs Wire Managing Editor John Dillon recently sat down with Chiefs wide receiver ‘Hollywood’ Brown to discuss adjusting to his new team and NFL Rivals, an officially licensed video game of the National Football League and NFL Players Association.
We check in with this past week’s press conferences, which featured comments from quarterback Patrick Mahomes, tight end Travis Kelce, and head coach Andy Reid ahead of Thursday’s game at Arrowhead Stadium. Lastly, Senior Writer Ed Easton Jr. speaks with award-winning actor and longtime Chiefs fan Don Cheadle.
With just hours between the release of the first Chiefs Wire Podcast and Kansas City’s first game of the 2024 season, listeners can look forward to being well-informed about all developments relative to Brown’s injury, the team’s game plan, and get to know better a Missouri native and celebrity member of Chiefs Kingdom.
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Fans don’t see are the endless hours of training and recovery preparing for a moment that happens only every four years.
Ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics, For The Win spoke with Team USA swimmers competing at the Games to learn what a typical training day is like for them. So here’s a look at a day in the Olympic training life of Regan Smith, Ryan Murphy, Katie Grimes and Chase Kalisz — all of whom are at least two-time Olympic swimmers.
Smith told For The Win in June that she has two typical training days: one when she swims twice and another when she swims and then weight lifts.
6:20 a.m. — Wake up, eat breakfast, go to practice
Breakfast for Smith is all about packing in as many nutrients, protein and overall calories. She usually eats oatmeal with a spoonful of peanut butter, a scoop of protein powder and a tablespoon of chia seeds, topped with honey, bananas, strawberries and chocolate chips.
“I eat that like every day,” she said. “Sometimes, I eat it twice a day because it’s so good, and I never get sick of it.”
7 a.m. – 8 a.m. — Swim practice
After her first practice, she heads home for a second breakfast and a nap. Then she has lunch, catches up on emails, watches TV or plays with her cat, Roo. At the time of the interview, she said she was binge-watching America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders on Netflix.
For lunch, she sticks with typically breakfast food and will have two or three eggs with toast, orange juice and chocolate milk.
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. — Weight training when she doesn’t have a second practice
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. — Swim practice when she doesn’t have weight training
After her second practice, Smith is done for the day. So she eats dinner — often meal prep from Hello Fresh because she loves routine — and finds ways to relax and unwind.
“Yesterday [in June] after my second practice ended, I spent an hour and a half sitting outside reading my book in the shade because I love heat,” she said about living and training in Austin with Longhorn Aquatics. “I’m a great heat girl, so I just sat outside and it’s like 95 degrees and relaxed and then went to bed.”
Ryan Murphy: 100-meter backstroke, 200-meter backstroke
Back for his third Olympics, 29-year-old Murphy has been remarkably consistent over the years, and at U.S. trials, he became the first swimmer to win the men’s 100 and 200 backstroke at three straight U.S. trials. He trains at Cal Berkeley, where he competed in college, and For The Win spoke with him on campus in May.
5:15 a.m. — Wake up, drink an espresso shot, eat a banana and energy bar
6 a.m. – 8 a.m. — Swim practice
After his first practice of the day (on days when he has doubles), Murphy heads home for a second breakfast and gets some non-training work done.
“I’m building a swim school in my hometown of Jacksonville right now,” Murphy said. “So I’ll always have some calls with that. The building’s still going up, so it’s calls with contractors.
“And then I’m also an advisor to do two different investment firms out here. So I’m an advisor to a venture capital group that’s investing in companies with a Cal co-founder, and then I’m an advisor to a private equity group that’s investing in medical devices. So I try to keep myself busy in between the practices.”
12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. — Weight training
2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. — Swim practice
“When I go home at night, then I’m typically recovering for the next day,” Murphy said. “So I’ll turn on the sauna, get in the sauna for a little bit, have a have an ice bath, and then, typically, I’ll do some stretching to make sure I’m loose for the next day.”
The at-home sauna and cold plunge is a huge perk and probably the No. 1 tool in recovery, he said.
“I’m able to get way deeper into my muscles when I’m stretching in the sauna,” he said. “Then when I go to the cold tub, your heart rate just plummets. So I’ll go into the sauna, I’ll be at about 150 heart rate. And I’ll go into the cold tub, and a minute later, I’ll be at a 36 heart rate. So it’s really a nervous system reset when you go back and forth between the two, and so it just makes you feel really good the next day.”
Katie Grimes: 400-meter individual medley, 1,500-meter freestyle, 10k open water marathon
The most versatile swimmer on Team USA’s Olympic roster, 18-year-old Grimes has been training for very different events: a marathon swim, the longest race in the pool and the 400 IM, which is a grueling spectacle of 100 meters butterfly, 100 backstroke, 100 breaststroke and 100 freestyle. So her Las Vegas training days start early, especially as she finished high school.
3:45 a.m. — Wake up, eat breakfast, head to the pool
5 a.m. – 7 a.m. — Swim practice
7:30 a.m. — Return home, eat a second breakfast
“I always have oatmeal before morning practice because it’s light, and it doesn’t upset my stomach,” she said in June. “And then after practice, I eat breakfast again, and sometimes I’ll have waffles or pancakes or something like bacon and eggs.”
Until she recently graduated from high school, Grimes said she’d get some school work done for two or three hours. She was an online student, which helped enable her training schedule. Sometimes, she’d sneak a nap in there too.
Midday — Lunch
“I’m so basic, and I can eat the same thing every day if I have to,” Grimes said. “But usually, I’ll just have white rice and grilled chicken or steak or salmon or something like that with a vegetable. And then it’s usually the same for dinner.”
3 p.m. – 5 p.m. — Swim practice
5:15 p.m. – 6:45 p.m. — Weight training
7:15 p.m. — Get home, eat dinner, hang out with her family on the couch
9 p.m. — Bed
“And then wake up and do it again.”
Chase Kalisz: 400-meter IM
A three-time Olympian with a gold and a silver medal, 30-year-old Kalisz is aiming to make history in Paris. Although no man at least 30 years old has ever won an Olympic swimming medal in a race at least 400 meters long, as Swimming World magazine noted, Kalisz could be the first if he makes the podium.
For The Win spoke with Kalisz, who was promoting his partnership with Eli Lilly and Company, while he was training at the U.S. Olympic training center in Colorado Springs in May.
“It’s not too fun, but it’s part of the job,” he said about training at altitude.
9 a.m. – 11 a.m. — Swim practice
Midday — Weight training on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays
5 p.m. – 7 p.m. — Swim practice
Kalisz said at the training center, he was doing two swim practices a day on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, along with Saturday mornings. Wednesdays, he would just have a morning workout and the afternoon off, and Sundays were rest days.
“It’s quite a bit hectic schedule for just going back and forth to the pool, trying to recover, trying to eat, trying to mentally prepare for the next workout,” he said.
“And then you throw in the aspect of being up at altitude where just walking down the street makes you sore. So I think it’s a very crucial part of my training, and this is my third month-long camp this year that I’ve been to. I think collectively — I’ve looked it up — I’ve done about two years of my life total up here in Colorado, and I’ve never lived here once.”
Two-time Olympic gold medalist Kaleigh Gilchrist shares her keys to know.
Welcome to FTW Explains, a guide to catching up on and better understanding stuff going on in the world. This is FTW Explains: The Olympics. During the Olympics, some of the sports can be intimidating, especially if you’re not super familiar with them. That’s OK because we’re here to help.
Team USA dominates women’s water polo on an international level, including at the Olympics. The American women have won three consecutive Olympic gold medals and are eyeing No. 4 at the Paris Olympics this summer.
So For The Win asked Kaleigh Gilchrist — now a three-time Olympian playing for her third straight gold — to share what she thinks are the three most important things for fans new to water polo to know about her sport (aside from Flavor Flav now backing the U.S. team).
1. “There’s no horses.”
2. “You can’t use both hands. You can only use one hand at a time holding the ball.”
3. “We can’t touch the ground, so we’re egg-beatering [also known as treading water] the whole time we’re swimming.”
That last point is one that makes water polo one of the most challenging sports ever. Treading water for a significant period of time is challenging by itself. But adding the ball, offensive schemes and defensive strategies to the mix while fending off your opponents would be impossible for many people to sustain over four eight-minute quarters.
Katie Ledecky literally has a long way to go at the Paris Olympics.
As perhaps the greatest distance swimmer to ever hit the pool, Katie Ledecky’s Paris Olympics schedule is understandably packed with long events. But those events add up, leading her to compete for a ridiculous number of meters over the course of about a week at the 2024 Games.
The 27-year-old titan is now a four-time Olympian and looking to add to her Olympic medal count with seven golds and three silvers. But she literally has a long way to go to get there and could end up racing a total of 5,600 or 5,800 meters.
“I care a lot about the 800 and the 1500, and then the 400 is a great race,” Ledecky said at U.S. Olympic trials in June. “I want to be right in there, and same with that relay. I know how to train for all those events. Everything we do has a purpose. Every training set we do has a purpose. So I feel very confident in my training and my training group and my coaches that I’ll be ready for the 200 through the 1500 in Paris.”
She qualified for the 2024 Games in the 200-meter race with a win at U.S. Olympic trials in June, but after finishing fifth at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics — she won gold in 2016 in Rio — she’s opting to skip the individual 200 and just swim the relay (and presumably only the relay final, not the heats).
Luckily for Ledecky and distance swimmers everywhere, the longer events only have heats and finals, whereas most pool events have heats, semifinals and finals. So at most, she only has to swim her events twice.
Assuming Ledecky swims all her races and qualifies for the finals — definitely a safe bet there, barring unexpected scratches — she could end up racing 5,600 meters if she only does the 4×200 relay final. If she swims in the relay heats, she could race 5,800 meters.
To put that in perspective, that’s about 3.6 miles’ worth of racing — not including warming up and down — and more than half of what the marathon swimmers will do in the open water 10k.
— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) July 7, 2024
Ledecky is a three-time reigning Olympic champion in the 800 free, the only event she swam in her 2012 Olympic debut in London. When the 1,500 was finally added to the women’s Olympic schedule for Tokyo in 2021, Ledecky won the first gold and is definitely expected to repeat.