Serena & Venus at Wimbledon, Jalen Brunson’s Pay Cut, and FIFA Favorites from Week 1 with Ashtyn Butuso

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🗓️ 17 June 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Nature is healing. And by nature, we mean New York. The Knicks secured their first NBA championship in more than half a century, marking the city's fourth major sports title since 2023. Offball writer and Flagrant Magazine co-founder, Ashtyn Butuso, joins Blake to chat about witnessing the magic firsthand in Manhattan. Plus, some of our favorite post-game content from players. In this episode, we also cover: The Carolina Hurricanes winning the Stanley Cup over the Vegas Golden Knights The great Nike vs. Adidas debate – and which team we’re on When we can expect Serena and Venus Williams to make their doubles return How Vozinha, a 40-year-old goalie, and Pico Lopes smashed on defense in Cabo Verde’s match against Spain Why everyone’s obsessed with Japanese fans at the World Cup Send Its + bonus links: Nike football ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyZ1WIua_1s Adidas commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJJY53qhJe0 Toy Story challenge: https://www.instagram.com/p/DZf5mYRTS0a/ Brooklyn Beckham gets in on the joke: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZnNFoEuZzw/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Taylor feeds Travis, airplane style: https://youtube.com/shorts/j6ZJv-avKk4?si=3B1VS_zdo6oPJBMc Follow Ashtyn: @ashtynbutuso Follow/subscribe to Offball: @offball, @offballfc, @celebrityrow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to another episode of Well Played. I am Blake Morgan. Caroline. Oh, wait.
0:06.1	Wait a second. Um, when did you get orange hair? Uh, it's fresh just today.
0:12.3	Do, did anything else change or do I look the same otherwise? You have like lighter brown eyes now.
0:17.5	Yeah, they do that now. You can, you actually can get that done. Lightning on the spot.
0:21.5	I'm moving this pillow because I can't. I'm a mover and a shaker. Anyway, obviously that's not Caroline. That is actually Ashton Batuso. Which camera? Oh, that camera. Hey. That's your camera. That's the wide. And she's here to help me co-host well played today. while Caroline is in Zermat, Switzerland, I just checked her location.
0:39.4	It's funny too because I'm wearing this Puma, Switzerland jersey, and I have no affiliation to Switzerland. It's just like the jersey that I won when I did this Planko game at this event they did. But it's funny because it feels like she's here in person with us. I almost wore a Switzerland jersey. Really? Yeah. Oh, it would be cute if you did. I know, can you imagine? We could have been so much cuter. I know, but instead you're wearing the Cascade Soccer Club micros.
0:57.9	Yeah. Oh, it would have been cute if you did. I know. Can you imagine? We could have been so much cuter. I know, but instead you're wearing the Cascade
0:57.0	soccer club micros. My first ever soccer jersey. Wait, it's so cute. Thank you. I love how it became a baby tea. Yeah. Because you're not a baby anymore. I know. I imagine it was like actually oversized at the time and it is not anymore. Usually like the kids jerseys are so big too.
1:10.9	You know, they're always down to the knees.
1:11.9	So cute.
1:12.5	But anyway, who are you?
1:14.0	Um, okay, existential question.
1:17.2	What do you, what do you do in life?
1:19.4	What pays the bills?
1:20.5	Jesus.
1:21.7	We're starting off really intense.
1:23.4	Um, I, uh, work for a company called Offball, and I signed on as a newsletter writer.
1:32.0	That's like my official title, but certainly grown into so many other things as we've grown.
1:38.5	Right.
1:39.1	We are a media company and creative studio telling stories through our three
1:45.4	newsletters and also curating the best content from the internet.
1:49.3	So because people are exhausted of the internet.
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