'Nightcaps' is a daily column that catches you up on the biggest sports, news and culture stories you may have missed while pretending to do work at your desk.
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It runs Monday-Friday on OutKick.com.
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We've got postseason baseball tonight.
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We've got college football tonight.
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I hear there's a big cold front headed south for the first time this fall.
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Sure, it's gonna stop just short of Florida as they always do, but I'm happy for everyone else.
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You all deserve it.
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It was my favorite part of living in Boston when I was there a decade ago.
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You can just smell it.
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You can feel it.
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We have to wait another month for ours, but I know it's right around the corner.
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Let's roll.
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Welcome to a Hump Day Nightcaps — the one where Sydney Sweeney catches a stray from the marketing folks over at Powerade because people weirdly think her naked GAMBLING ads are some sort of shot at women's sports.
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For the life of me, I still don't get that one.
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But, that same outrage mob is also pissed at Shane Gillis today for making a joke on "SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE.
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It's pointless to even try.
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What else do y'all wanna talk about?
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I've got a high school coach out in Oregon getting canned for running up the score.
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Wait till you see what he did!
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Also, MLB fans are PISSED at the league for moving tomorrow's ALCS game up five hours, and while we're on the subject of naked Sydney Sweeney ads, I'd like to ask the class a question about commercials on the way out.
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Powerade dips their toe into the Sydney Sweeney drama
Easy one.
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Maybe it's the Florida Man in me, but there's nothing better than a solid piece of key lime pie.
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And yes, the one from Publix absolutely counts as a solid piece.
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I got an email from a reader a few months ago berating me for saying Publix key lime pies were elite, and it was just nonsense.
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If you really think that, you've clearly never had one.
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They will change your lives.
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And that concludes the culinary portion today's class.
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Now, let's al take a swig of Powerade to wash it down, and check in with the ongoing drama surrounding the provocative Sydney Sweeney ad:
Was this a fireable offense?
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Silly, yet amazing.
So, Powerade is apparently waging war on Sydney Sweeney and Novig because, as you can see, they took Sweeney's nearly nude gambling ad as a shot at women's sports.
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They've slapped a brand new ad campaign entitled Never Just Sports right next to Novig's, and it's just a compilation of female athletes doing athletic things.
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It makes sense.
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Here's where Powerade looks dumb ...
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Sweeney's campaign has NOTHING to do with women's sports.
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They aren't connected at all.
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Her ad is for a GAMBLING company and is geared towards men.
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It's literally about betting on sports, which is why it's aptly titled Just Sports.
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The whole point of the ad was to get dudes to sign up for a Novig account and start hammering parlays this football season.
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And it worked, by the way.
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The left, of course, took this completely out of context because most things fly over their heads, and instead viewed it as Sweeney somehow demeaning women's sports.
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It makes no sense.
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