Call me sentimental, but to me the most joyful moment in sports is the soccer goal.

And when that goal happens at the World Cup?

Well, it's pretty good.

I'm Brian Phillips with the 2022 Men's World Cup approaching.

I'm making a podcast called 22 Goals on the Ringer Podcast Network.

It's about 22 of the most fire-emogie goals in the history of the tournament.

We're gonna have so much fun.

Hello media consumers, welcome to the press box.

Brian Curtis of the Ringer here along with producer Erica Servantes.

Last Friday was the opening of the Premier League season.

So I went to Stanford, Connecticut to interview Rebecca Lowe, who hosts NBC's studio coverage.

Now on my East Coast road trip, I talked to Reese Davis and Laura Rutledge about how

you host a studio show.

But when Lowe came to NBC in 2013, after a decade working in the UK, she found she was

actually doing two jobs at once.

Lowe was setting up her analysts and introducing those, you are looking live shots of distant

stadiums.

Lowe, whose first ambition was to be a comedic actress, does that stuff very well.

But at NBC, Lowe was also talking soccer to an American audience.

One that in some cases was still learning the fine points of the game.

This wasn't like Chris Burman hosting NFL prime time.

So Lowe had to find a way to speak to very serious soccer fans into the rest of us at the

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