LeBron’s Farewell Tour, Brady-Sweeney Sweetness, and the WNBA Expands

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🗓️ 1 July 2025

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This week in Pretty Boys of the NFL, Tom Brady apparently hit it off with Sydney Sweeney at the Bezos-Sànchez wedding across the pond in Venice. Blake begs the very important question — can Tom Brady even flirt? Back home, Tight End University kicked off, where players came for the football and stayed for an impromptu Taylor Swift concert. Thanks, Travis. In this episode of Well Played, we also cover: A recap of our time in the Stubhub suite for a recent Liberty game Kelsey Plum sharing the real reason many WNBA stars are in a shooting slump Ben Shelton confirming what Caroline knew to be true – butter yellow is in The prettiest boy in the NFL who refused to play because it was “too cold” How we want to see sporty enemies squash the beef, à la Coco and Aryna Blake’s IG: @blaaakkkke Caroline’s IG: @cghendy theSkimm’s IG: @theskimmPS: Did you know theSkimm has a sports newsletter? Sign up at theskimm.com/sports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to a play presented by the skim. I'm Caroline Hender shop.
0:07.4	And I'm Blake Morgan. I'm currently set up COVID-style 2020 March. It feels like that because I'm in
0:15.2	L.A. in a studio apartment with my boyfriend. He's in the bed right there. Can't sleep. It's 7.45 in the morning.
0:22.7	And I've got this laptop stand. I'm standing here. I got a cushioned pad. That's the situation
0:27.9	we're recording from because I went to visit my brother in L.A. Mm-hmm. It's not, it's no, no, no, no, no.
0:34.0	It's not like I brought it from New York and and brought it for this purpose like the place i'm
0:38.6	staying just happens to have a cushion pad for when um our friend does dishes you know oh yeah yeah yeah
0:44.1	because he's an adult like that i was going to say that you literally have never sounded crazier
0:50.6	for traveling with a cushioned pad to stand on no No, it's not, not my own, not my own.
0:57.5	I respect the taking it from the dishes to the podcasting. Relocation. Exactly. Have you been enjoying
1:05.9	your trip? Girl, I've been loving L.A. I can't tell if it's the vacation high slash vacation goggles or I'm like, should I live here?
1:16.5	Yeah, are we going to lose you to the West Coast?
1:18.8	You know, you might, because there's something that the sunshine every single day can do to a girl.
1:24.1	It's pretty remarkable and it's not humid.
1:27.1	Okay, well, don't brag because it brag. No swamp assery out here.
1:31.3	I have to say. Yeah. It's a lot of that right now. A lot of that on the East Coast. Well, jealous,
1:37.1	but happy for you. Thank you. Do we want to give a little shout out too? We forgot to mention it
1:42.8	last week. Oh, my God. We did. It's so much fun. Go ahead. Tell me we did. I actually lost my mind.
1:50.7	I think this was the first WMBA game that I went to, which crazy words.
1:56.1	Insane of me. But you know, we all know how I feel about crossing two rivers at once, so I don't
2:01.5	often go to Brooklyn. But I did go for Our Girls on the Liberty and to see Ellie the Elephant.
2:08.3	Thank you to Stebhub for letting Blake and I crash the game. It was so much fun. I lost my mind.
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