The GIST: Emma Raducanu (pronounced rah-doo-CON-ew) and Daniil Medvedev are your US Open champions. Alex, we’ll take “things we would have never predicted” for $800, please.

Football is back, baby. And today, in honor of the 32 teams across the U.S., we’re breaking down some of the best (and weirdest) traditions.

The GIST: It’s the middle of the quarter-final round at the US Open, and tennis’s young guns are winning both matches and the hearts of New Yorkers.

The GIST: In anticipation of the upcoming postseason, the NWSL announced on Monday that the NWSL Championship game would be held on Saturday, November 20th...at 9 a.m. local time...on artificial turf. So not okay.

The GIST: It’s the middle of the quarter-final round at the US Open, and tennis’s young guns are winning both matches and the hearts of New Yorkers.