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The T Shirt is 100% cotton pre shrunk Gildan 5000 shirt. 1 Middle Weight Contender; Comfy Men’s Short Sleeve Blank Tee Shirt. 100% Cotton. Strong double needle stitched neckline and bottom hem. Shoulder-to-shoulder taping. Quarter turned. Seamless collar The Digital Printed Transfer and will be placed centered on the t shirt If there are any questions are you need any help with the design please feel free to contact us we will try our best to answer message very quickly and we would love to hear from you. If you would like bulk pricing on any of our products please let us know and we can give you special bulk pricing. Click here to buy this shirt: Cant kill a buck sittin on the couch gun T-Shirt Champion climber Kyra Condie used to mostly train alone. “The guys I was climbing with were kind of shitty,” she says with a laugh. Social anxiety was also a big factor. She was bullied when she was a pre-teen, growing up in Shoreview, Minnesota. Her peers made fun of the way she looked. She styled herself with graphic tees and baggy sweatpants tucked into knee-high black and white Converse boots. The finishing touch was the mismatched shoe lacing—the right shoe laced with a straight bar pattern and the left with a double helix. Others made fun of the way she ate. Condie, a vegetarian, was once chased up a tree while kids rubbed hot dogs on the trunk so she wouldn’t want to come down. She still harbors a deep concern that other people might hate her. Though things are a little different now. She doesn’t need to train alone: She has Allison Vest.Climbing has gone from niche to mainstream in recent years, largely due to the popularity of indoor climbing gyms. 2020 saw more new gyms opening than the year prior, despite COVID-19 precautions forcing many to operate at lower capacities, says Climbing Business Journal publisher Scott Rennak. He adds that new gyms are the leading indicator of growth, “since every new gym creates more new climbers.” Gyms have made the sport more accessible to people who don’t have outdoor experience. With the development of the sport came young athletes making names for themselves as professional climbers, signing sponsor deals, and building followings on Instagram. But Condie and Vest stand out as social icons in the sport.24-year-old Condie is on the Forbes 30 under 30 list, and she’s one of two American women qualified to compete in the 2021 Tokyo Games where climbing will make its Olympic debut. Vest, 25, was also born in Minnesota, but she moved with her family to Alberta, Canada when she was eight years old. She’s a dual citizen, but she competes in the Canadian circuit. She’s a three-time Canadian national champion and she is the first Canadian woman to climb the elite grade of V13—only four levels below the hardest boulder ever climbed, at V17. To complete the route, called The Terminator, hidden in a lichen covered forest in Squamish, British Columbia, Vest had to perform precise moves—her feet swinging over her head at times—while gripping small sloping edges on overhanging rock.In 2016, at a world cup in Paris, Vest joined climbers on the US team, including Condie, for lunch. That afternoon, Condie and her parents invited Vest to explore Paris with them. It turned into one of those corny Lifetime movie moments where they realized they were both born in Minnesota, had June birthdays, liked the same music, loved celebrity gossip, and shared progressive political views. The more they talked that day, the more they felt like they were the same person.In the spring of 2020, the competition season was cut short due to the pandemic. Without contests tying her to Canada, Vest moved in with Condie in Salt Lake City so they could train together at the USA Training Center there. For many, the pandemic has meant turning friendships virtual. But for years, Condie and Vest maintained a long-distance friendship over the phone, spending time together only when they traveled for competitions and climbing trips. Now they’re known as the inseparable @climbingroommates (their handle on TikTok).In non-pandemic times, a pro climber’s job involves traveling the world for international competitions, guest appearances, and photoshoots. These are components of creating content and building a following, which leads to advertising deals with brands. Now, the line between pro athlete and influencer is blurred. Despite being more homebound than usual, Condie and Vest have kept the content coming. If anything, living together has fueled their creative energies. They’ve been filling their followers’ feeds with fitness and comedy videos exhibiting their athleticism and endearingly awkward personalities. Condie’s posts are mostly training-focused with videos of casual one-arm pullups. Vest is comic relief. She spins in circles for 20 seconds—she’s so dizzy she can barely stand—then she attempts a climb before flopping hopelessly to the ground. And they film challenges together. In one, Vest stands with her legs spanned between two car bumpers while Condie slowly backs up her white Volkswagen GTI until Vest is in a split, parallel with the ground, suspended over the parking lot. They are performers, both with backgrounds in music, theater, and dance, though they pushed these hobbies to the side to focus on climbing when they were teenagers.On some weekends, they drive to climbing oases like the San Rafael Swell, Utah and Castle Rocks, Idaho. On sandstone and granite boulders they test their skills—honed on plastic holds in the gym—ascending real rock by way of the cracks carved by centuries of changing wind and water.Their followers want to know if they are dating each other. “We would make a terrible couple,” Condie says.“It would be bad,” says Vest. “Kyra and I exist as our own selves really well in the same space. But as an actual unit, no.”After moving in together, they realized they weren’t as similar as they thought. On paper, they like the same things. But they live on different emotional wavelengths, their Myers-Briggs types are nearly opposite besides both being introverts. When something stressful happens, Condie approaches things with logic while Vest leads with emotion. On election night—with early results looking favorable for Trump—Condie followed the data and live updates on TV. Vest went for a long walk to clear her head.Differences aside, they’re as close as ever. Vest makes light of the alleged secret romance. “If people don’t think you and your best friend are dating, are you really best friends?”Lunchtime in the climbing roommates’ house is low-key. They get a few hours of rest between morning and afternoon training sessions. Condie and Vest eat pickled plum onigiri, a conbini staple they were turned onto during their travels to Japan for world cups. They brew coffee while Pika and Pepper, Condie’s cats, lay patiently on their backs waiting for belly rubs. Condie and Vest talk fast, like they’re up against a clock to get all of their words out and there isn’t a second to waste. Maybe they became friends because nobody else could keep up.View on InstagramVest shows me a tattered friendship bracelet displayed on a shelf in their living room. It’s a thin cord with a circle ornament, the precursor to their matching circle tattoos on their left wrists. They laugh about the tattoos being awkward if their friendship doesn’t last forever. “I always joke that Kyra could just slap four more rings on it and call it an Olympic tattoo,” Vest says.Many athletes get tattoos of the classic interlocking Olympic rings if they compete in the games. Condie plans to get them on her leg, underneath another tattoo that says “you suck try harder,” a quote that was on a wall at the gym where she learned to climb when she was 11. It’s upside-down right below the line of her shorts so she can read it when she’s sitting, waiting for her turn in the running order at competitions. That tattoo received blowback when she posted a photo of it last year. Some said it was too negative, but they don’t get Condie. It’s a “reminder to stay humble, work hard, and always remember my roots,” she wrote on Instagram.Condie and Vest have faced pressure from expectations about how women should look. They also regularly receive harassment in their DMs—everything from unsolicited dick pics to death threats.In 2019, Condie, Vest, and other top female climbers started a group chat where they would send each other screenshots of the harassing messages they’d get. Then they created a separate Instagram page where they uploaded the screenshots with the senders’ usernames covered. It was empowering to share those messages, they say. They did it to draw attention to the harassment that female athletes deal with on social media. “It created this community of women leaning on each other based on these things they get from creepy dudes,” says Vest.But it didn’t last. One day Instagram removed the page—no notification, no explanation, it just disappeared.The messages that really strike a nerve for Condie and Vest are about their bodies. “Female athletes tend to get a lot of shitty comments about looking muscular,” Condie says. It happens in person too. “This week, two different people I know were like, ‘You look really muscular, in a good way.’” She says, “There’s not a bad way.”They use their platforms to show women that they can look however they want to look. They want to celebrate what their bodies can do, not how they appear. When Vest was younger, she thought she had to choose one appearance—be an athlete, an academic, an artist, or a girly girl. Now she knows she doesn’t have to conform to anyone else’s expectations. She can be all of those things.After lunch, there is just enough time to sneak in some Netflix before Condie and Vest need to head back to the training center for their afternoon workout. They are competitive people and obviously like tattoos, so their show of choice—Ink Master—makes sense. It’s a reality series where top tattoo artists face off in elimination-style contests.While we’re watching, they tell me about how much the competitive climbing landscape has changed to be more supportive for women. “At the training center this morning, there were more girls than guys,” Condie says. “That’s completely foreign to me.” The sport was very male-dominated when they were younger. Condie tells me about one time a few years ago when she was training at the gym and the men she was with were talking about what kind of porn they thought she would be in. It’s hard to focus on training when you’re being fetishized—it’s no wonder she preferred to train alone. But Condie and Vest see a future for the sport that’s more inclusive, where climbing teams have strong girl squads supporting one other.That’s the vibe at the training center. There’s a tight-knit group of younger women breaking into the highest levels of the sport. Condie and Vest are the veterans there. In many ways they are role models for their younger counterparts. There’s no ignoring the fact that climbing is an individual sport—everyone training there will have to compete against each other. But there’s a growing sense of community that overshadows that competitiveness. When Vest does a cool move on the wall, she says, there is always someone standing right behind her cheering. Let there be tennis! After last year’s complicated, frustrating, and foreshortened season, the very fact that there are now serves being served and rackets being swung on the pro tour is heartening—and for some, no doubt, alarming. If you haven’t yet tuned in to the earliest overnight rounds of the Open in Melbourne (the tournament kicked off last night around the same time as a slightly more-heralded American sporting competition), you should know in advance that this tournament is—after lengthy quarantines and months of stringent planning from both the country of Australia and the Open itself—the first large sporting event featuring crowds of maskless spectators.The tournament’s grounds feature three distinct zones to enhance both separation and contact tracing, and all spectators must clear a series of checkpoints and complete a health declaration before attending matches. As for the players and their various trainers, family, and significant others: More the 1,200 of them arrived in Australia weeks ago via 17 charter flights, but because of COVID-19-related issues and contact tracing on at least three of those flights, 72 players were required to quarantine in their hotels—many of them without attendant courts for practice—for two weeks. (Angelique Kerber, who was upset in the first round last night by Croatian-American Bernarda Pera, put much of the blame for her loss on the quarantine.) Aside from the Kerber upset, the early going in the first round has been mostly pro forma—but as the days roll on and the tournament takes shape, here are a few things to look out for.On the women’s side, there would seem to be an embarrassment of riches and a multitude of potential winners. The number-one seed for the second year in a row, Australian Ashleigh Barty, looked great in a warm-up tournament—but hasn’t otherwise played a competitive match in almost a year, riding out the pandemic at home in Queensland. Sofia Kenin, who beat Barty in the semis last year en route to the championship, is defending her title as the fourth seed. (The steady-as-a-rock Simona Halep and the occasionally erratic Naomi Osaka are seeded second and third, respectively.)Are we forgetting someone? A few, actually, one of them routinely mentioned as the greatest of all time. Serena Williams, 39, comes into the Open seeded 10th but, of course, eternally formidable. Her last major was here in Australia—but that was four years ago. Can she hold it together during a grueling tournament after a run-up that was itself grueling in a different way? The odds are against it—but who ever picked Serena based on odds? The 2019 U.S. Open champion, Bianca Andreescu, seeded eighth and recently back from an extensive injury leave, is hitting with serious power, and last year’s upset French Open winner, Poland’s Iga Swiatek, is seeded 15th and ready to prove everybody wrong all over again.Having said all that, who are we picking? Frankly, it’s any one of the above—along with a small handful of others capable of turning a big upset into a championship run. Let’s put it this way: The head says Ash Barty, the heart says Naomi Osaka, and the wild card/Cinderella story line has Serena finally grabbing that 24th Grand Slam.The men’s draw is both easier to predict and more frustrating to behold. While we’ve been waiting for a new field of Slam contenders to rise to the occasion for literally years now, the so-called Big Three (Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and Novak Djokovic) have won 57 of the 63 Grand Slams held since 2003. And while, with Federer nursing an injury, we’re reduced to the Big Two in Melbourne, that’s likely where the Norman Brooks Challenge Cup (as the champion’s trophy is known) will be found at the end of two weeks. Again, we’re mired in a bit of head-heart indecision here: Djokovic will likely be the most fit, best prepared player, while Nadal—particularly in Grand Slams—has an almost superhuman ability that’s less about willing himself to win and more about simply refusing to lose. The stakes here are huge. If Nadal were to pull off his 21st Slam here, he’d break his tie with Federer and, at least on paper, present a valid argument to be considered the greatest male tennis player in history.But not if Dominic Thiem has any say in the matter. Having reached the finals here last year—and having won the 2020 U.S. Open—he’d seem to be a strong contender, but frankly hasn’t looked the greatest in his last outings. He’s also on the same side of the draw as Djokovic, and finds himself in Australia without his coach, who tested positive for COVID-19. Other potential spoilers: Daniil Medvedev, Stefanos Tsitsipas, and Alexander Zverev. The first two are unquestionably beyond talented contenders who have yet to show the kind of mental fortitude necessary to dominate a two-week Slam, while the tsunami of off-court issues that Zverev has been contending with would seem to have made his actual tennis game a low priority.Then again, when it comes to Slams, anything is possible. So have that extra espresso (coverage on ESPN2 generally starts around 9 p.m. ET, with streaming platforms kicking off a couple of hours earlier) and start banking sleep for the 3:30 a.m. live men’s and women’s finals in two weeks. The 55th Super Bowl is upon us, and with it comes a myriad of inventive, hilarious, and occasionally bizarre TV commercials. A single 30-second TV spot during the Super Bowl can cost up to $5.6 million, and it’s no wonder why: A captive audience of snacked-out sports fans equals maximum viewing.2021’s Super Bowl looks significantly different from prior years, with mandatory mask-wearing and a limited number of in-person attendees, but at least the ads were as plentiful as ever. Below, find a list of the 7 best commercials from Super Bowl LV:1. Budweiser’s COVID-19 vaccination donation.Okay, it isn’t technically a traditional ad, but it’s powerful nonetheless; this year, Budweiser decided to sit out the Super Bowl ad race altogether, and instead donated the money that the company would have spent to COVID-19 vaccination awareness. Coke and Pepsi did the same, and we’re better off for it.2. Will Ferrell for GM.Will Ferrell, Kenan Thompson, Awkwafina, and some light fun poked at Norway for no particular reason? We’re on board.3. Drake for State Farm.“Stand-ins don’t have lines,” Drake is asked to understand in this ad. Why is it so funny to see him in a signature red State Farm polo?4. Lil Nas X for Logitech.Nothing will ever beat Lil Nas X’s “Cool Ranch” commercial from last year, but this Logitech ad—in which he wears a truly smashing pink pajama set—is a close second.5. Dan Levy for M&Ms.Fresh off an excellent Saturday Night Live hosting gig, Dan Levy brings his irrepressible charm to a TV spot that centers around the power of apologies.Bass Pro Shops for…outside?“In these trying times, we need nature more than ever. We need nature to remind us that like a sunrise or the turning of the tides, these challenges will pass,” this ad reminds us all along with much-needed panoramas of the great outdoors.Maya Rudolph for Klarna.The only thing better than one Maya Rudolph is four Maya Rudolphs, and that’s exactly what we get in this eclectic ad (on horseback, no less!) 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The finishing touch was the mismatched shoe lacing—the right shoe laced with a straight bar pattern and the left with a double helix. Others made fun of the way she ate. Condie, a vegetarian, was once chased up a tree while kids rubbed hot dogs on the trunk so she wouldn’t want to come down. She still harbors a deep concern that other people might hate her. Though things are a little different now. She doesn’t need to train alone: She has Allison Vest.Climbing has gone from niche to mainstream in recent years, largely due to the popularity of indoor climbing gyms. 2020 saw more new gyms opening than the year prior, despite COVID-19 precautions forcing many to operate at lower capacities, says Climbing Business Journal publisher Scott Rennak. He adds that new gyms are the leading indicator of growth, “since every new gym creates more new climbers.” Gyms have made the sport more accessible to people who don’t have outdoor experience. With the development of the sport came young athletes making names for themselves as professional climbers, signing sponsor deals, and building followings on Instagram. But Condie and Vest stand out as social icons in the sport.24-year-old Condie is on the Forbes 30 under 30 list, and she’s one of two American women qualified to compete in the 2021 Tokyo Games where climbing will make its Olympic debut. Vest, 25, was also born in Minnesota, but she moved with her family to Alberta, Canada when she was eight years old. She’s a dual citizen, but she competes in the Canadian circuit. She’s a three-time Canadian national champion and she is the first Canadian woman to climb the elite grade of V13—only four levels below the hardest boulder ever climbed, at V17. To complete the route, called The Terminator, hidden in a lichen covered forest in Squamish, British Columbia, Vest had to perform precise moves—her feet swinging over her head at times—while gripping small sloping edges on overhanging rock.In 2016, at a world cup in Paris, Vest joined climbers on the US team, including Condie, for lunch. That afternoon, Condie and her parents invited Vest to explore Paris with them. It turned into one of those corny Lifetime movie moments where they realized they were both born in Minnesota, had June birthdays, liked the same music, loved celebrity gossip, and shared progressive political views. The more they talked that day, the more they felt like they were the same person.In the spring of 2020, the competition season was cut short due to the pandemic. Without contests tying her to Canada, Vest moved in with Condie in Salt Lake City so they could train together at the USA Training Center there. For many, the pandemic has meant turning friendships virtual. But for years, Condie and Vest maintained a long-distance friendship over the phone, spending time together only when they traveled for competitions and climbing trips. Now they’re known as the inseparable @climbingroommates (their handle on TikTok).In non-pandemic times, a pro climber’s job involves traveling the world for international competitions, guest appearances, and photoshoots. These are components of creating content and building a following, which leads to advertising deals with brands. Now, the line between pro athlete and influencer is blurred. Despite being more homebound than usual, Condie and Vest have kept the content coming. If anything, living together has fueled their creative energies. They’ve been filling their followers’ feeds with fitness and comedy videos exhibiting their athleticism and endearingly awkward personalities. Condie’s posts are mostly training-focused with videos of casual one-arm pullups. Vest is comic relief. She spins in circles for 20 seconds—she’s so dizzy she can barely stand—then she attempts a climb before flopping hopelessly to the ground. And they film challenges together. In one, Vest stands with her legs spanned between two car bumpers while Condie slowly backs up her white Volkswagen GTI until Vest is in a split, parallel with the ground, suspended over the parking lot. They are performers, both with backgrounds in music, theater, and dance, though they pushed these hobbies to the side to focus on climbing when they were teenagers.On some weekends, they drive to climbing oases like the San Rafael Swell, Utah and Castle Rocks, Idaho. On sandstone and granite boulders they test their skills—honed on plastic holds in the gym—ascending real rock by way of the cracks carved by centuries of changing wind and water.Their followers want to know if they are dating each other. “We would make a terrible couple,” Condie says.“It would be bad,” says Vest. “Kyra and I exist as our own selves really well in the same space. But as an actual unit, no.”After moving in together, they realized they weren’t as similar as they thought. On paper, they like the same things. But they live on different emotional wavelengths, their Myers-Briggs types are nearly opposite besides both being introverts. When something stressful happens, Condie approaches things with logic while Vest leads with emotion. On election night—with early results looking favorable for Trump—Condie followed the data and live updates on TV. Vest went for a long walk to clear her head.Differences aside, they’re as close as ever. Vest makes light of the alleged secret romance. “If people don’t think you and your best friend are dating, are you really best friends?”Lunchtime in the climbing roommates’ house is low-key. They get a few hours of rest between morning and afternoon training sessions. Condie and Vest eat pickled plum onigiri, a conbini staple they were turned onto during their travels to Japan for world cups. They brew coffee while Pika and Pepper, Condie’s cats, lay patiently on their backs waiting for belly rubs. Condie and Vest talk fast, like they’re up against a clock to get all of their words out and there isn’t a second to waste. Maybe they became friends because nobody else could keep up.View on InstagramVest shows me a tattered friendship bracelet displayed on a shelf in their living room. It’s a thin cord with a circle ornament, the precursor to their matching circle tattoos on their left wrists. They laugh about the tattoos being awkward if their friendship doesn’t last forever. “I always joke that Kyra could just slap four more rings on it and call it an Olympic tattoo,” Vest says.Many athletes get tattoos of the classic interlocking Olympic rings if they compete in the games. Condie plans to get them on her leg, underneath another tattoo that says “you suck try harder,” a quote that was on a wall at the gym where she learned to climb when she was 11. It’s upside-down right below the line of her shorts so she can read it when she’s sitting, waiting for her turn in the running order at competitions. That tattoo received blowback when she posted a photo of it last year. Some said it was too negative, but they don’t get Condie. It’s a “reminder to stay humble, work hard, and always remember my roots,” she wrote on Instagram.Condie and Vest have faced pressure from expectations about how women should look. They also regularly receive harassment in their DMs—everything from unsolicited dick pics to death threats.In 2019, Condie, Vest, and other top female climbers started a group chat where they would send each other screenshots of the harassing messages they’d get. Then they created a separate Instagram page where they uploaded the screenshots with the senders’ usernames covered. It was empowering to share those messages, they say. They did it to draw attention to the harassment that female athletes deal with on social media. “It created this community of women leaning on each other based on these things they get from creepy dudes,” says Vest.But it didn’t last. One day Instagram removed the page—no notification, no explanation, it just disappeared.The messages that really strike a nerve for Condie and Vest are about their bodies. “Female athletes tend to get a lot of shitty comments about looking muscular,” Condie says. It happens in person too. “This week, two different people I know were like, ‘You look really muscular, in a good way.’” She says, “There’s not a bad way.”They use their platforms to show women that they can look however they want to look. They want to celebrate what their bodies can do, not how they appear. When Vest was younger, she thought she had to choose one appearance—be an athlete, an academic, an artist, or a girly girl. Now she knows she doesn’t have to conform to anyone else’s expectations. She can be all of those things.After lunch, there is just enough time to sneak in some Netflix before Condie and Vest need to head back to the training center for their afternoon workout. They are competitive people and obviously like tattoos, so their show of choice—Ink Master—makes sense. It’s a reality series where top tattoo artists face off in elimination-style contests.While we’re watching, they tell me about how much the competitive climbing landscape has changed to be more supportive for women. “At the training center this morning, there were more girls than guys,” Condie says. “That’s completely foreign to me.” The sport was very male-dominated when they were younger. Condie tells me about one time a few years ago when she was training at the gym and the men she was with were talking about what kind of porn they thought she would be in. It’s hard to focus on training when you’re being fetishized—it’s no wonder she preferred to train alone. But Condie and Vest see a future for the sport that’s more inclusive, where climbing teams have strong girl squads supporting one other.That’s the vibe at the training center. There’s a tight-knit group of younger women breaking into the highest levels of the sport. Condie and Vest are the veterans there. In many ways they are role models for their younger counterparts. There’s no ignoring the fact that climbing is an individual sport—everyone training there will have to compete against each other. But there’s a growing sense of community that overshadows that competitiveness. When Vest does a cool move on the wall, she says, there is always someone standing right behind her cheering. Let there be tennis! After last year’s complicated, frustrating, and foreshortened season, the very fact that there are now serves being served and rackets being swung on the pro tour is heartening—and for some, no doubt, alarming. If you haven’t yet tuned in to the earliest overnight rounds of the Open in Melbourne (the tournament kicked off last night around the same time as a slightly more-heralded American sporting competition), you should know in advance that this tournament is—after lengthy quarantines and months of stringent planning from both the country of Australia and the Open itself—the first large sporting event featuring crowds of maskless spectators.The tournament’s grounds feature three distinct zones to enhance both separation and contact tracing, and all spectators must clear a series of checkpoints and complete a health declaration before attending matches. As for the players and their various trainers, family, and significant others: More the 1,200 of them arrived in Australia weeks ago via 17 charter flights, but because of COVID-19-related issues and contact tracing on at least three of those flights, 72 players were required to quarantine in their hotels—many of them without attendant courts for practice—for two weeks. (Angelique Kerber, who was upset in the first round last night by Croatian-American Bernarda Pera, put much of the blame for her loss on the quarantine.) Aside from the Kerber upset, the early going in the first round has been mostly pro forma—but as the days roll on and the tournament takes shape, here are a few things to look out for.On the women’s side, there would seem to be an embarrassment of riches and a multitude of potential winners. The number-one seed for the second year in a row, Australian Ashleigh Barty, looked great in a warm-up tournament—but hasn’t otherwise played a competitive match in almost a year, riding out the pandemic at home in Queensland. Sofia Kenin, who beat Barty in the semis last year en route to the championship, is defending her title as the fourth seed. (The steady-as-a-rock Simona Halep and the occasionally erratic Naomi Osaka are seeded second and third, respectively.)Are we forgetting someone? A few, actually, one of them routinely mentioned as the greatest of all time. Serena Williams, 39, comes into the Open seeded 10th but, of course, eternally formidable. Her last major was here in Australia—but that was four years ago. Can she hold it together during a grueling tournament after a run-up that was itself grueling in a different way? The odds are against it—but who ever picked Serena based on odds? The 2019 U.S. Open champion, Bianca Andreescu, seeded eighth and recently back from an extensive injury leave, is hitting with serious power, and last year’s upset French Open winner, Poland’s Iga Swiatek, is seeded 15th and ready to prove everybody wrong all over again.Having said all that, who are we picking? Frankly, it’s any one of the above—along with a small handful of others capable of turning a big upset into a championship run. Let’s put it this way: The head says Ash Barty, the heart says Naomi Osaka, and the wild card/Cinderella story line has Serena finally grabbing that 24th Grand Slam.The men’s draw is both easier to predict and more frustrating to behold. While we’ve been waiting for a new field of Slam contenders to rise to the occasion for literally years now, the so-called Big Three (Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and Novak Djokovic) have won 57 of the 63 Grand Slams held since 2003. And while, with Federer nursing an injury, we’re reduced to the Big Two in Melbourne, that’s likely where the Norman Brooks Challenge Cup (as the champion’s trophy is known) will be found at the end of two weeks. Again, we’re mired in a bit of head-heart indecision here: Djokovic will likely be the most fit, best prepared player, while Nadal—particularly in Grand Slams—has an almost superhuman ability that’s less about willing himself to win and more about simply refusing to lose. The stakes here are huge. If Nadal were to pull off his 21st Slam here, he’d break his tie with Federer and, at least on paper, present a valid argument to be considered the greatest male tennis player in history.But not if Dominic Thiem has any say in the matter. Having reached the finals here last year—and having won the 2020 U.S. Open—he’d seem to be a strong contender, but frankly hasn’t looked the greatest in his last outings. He’s also on the same side of the draw as Djokovic, and finds himself in Australia without his coach, who tested positive for COVID-19. Other potential spoilers: Daniil Medvedev, Stefanos Tsitsipas, and Alexander Zverev. The first two are unquestionably beyond talented contenders who have yet to show the kind of mental fortitude necessary to dominate a two-week Slam, while the tsunami of off-court issues that Zverev has been contending with would seem to have made his actual tennis game a low priority.Then again, when it comes to Slams, anything is possible. So have that extra espresso (coverage on ESPN2 generally starts around 9 p.m. ET, with streaming platforms kicking off a couple of hours earlier) and start banking sleep for the 3:30 a.m. live men’s and women’s finals in two weeks. The 55th Super Bowl is upon us, and with it comes a myriad of inventive, hilarious, and occasionally bizarre TV commercials. A single 30-second TV spot during the Super Bowl can cost up to $5.6 million, and it’s no wonder why: A captive audience of snacked-out sports fans equals maximum viewing.2021’s Super Bowl looks significantly different from prior years, with mandatory mask-wearing and a limited number of in-person attendees, but at least the ads were as plentiful as ever. Below, find a list of the 7 best commercials from Super Bowl LV:1. Budweiser’s COVID-19 vaccination donation.Okay, it isn’t technically a traditional ad, but it’s powerful nonetheless; this year, Budweiser decided to sit out the Super Bowl ad race altogether, and instead donated the money that the company would have spent to COVID-19 vaccination awareness. Coke and Pepsi did the same, and we’re better off for it.2. Will Ferrell for GM.Will Ferrell, Kenan Thompson, Awkwafina, and some light fun poked at Norway for no particular reason? We’re on board.3. Drake for State Farm.“Stand-ins don’t have lines,” Drake is asked to understand in this ad. Why is it so funny to see him in a signature red State Farm polo?4. Lil Nas X for Logitech.Nothing will ever beat Lil Nas X’s “Cool Ranch” commercial from last year, but this Logitech ad—in which he wears a truly smashing pink pajama set—is a close second.5. Dan Levy for M&Ms.Fresh off an excellent Saturday Night Live hosting gig, Dan Levy brings his irrepressible charm to a TV spot that centers around the power of apologies.Bass Pro Shops for…outside?“In these trying times, we need nature more than ever. We need nature to remind us that like a sunrise or the turning of the tides, these challenges will pass,” this ad reminds us all along with much-needed panoramas of the great outdoors.Maya Rudolph for Klarna.The only thing better than one Maya Rudolph is four Maya Rudolphs, and that’s exactly what we get in this eclectic ad (on horseback, no less!) 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