Good morning, Sunshine. It is Monday, August 26th. And let's dive into all the conversation starters you need for this week because no one wants to talk about politics, so let's talk about sports. A few quick points before diving into our big stories of the day. Great news for Ted Lasso fans. Season four has been greenlit with the most of main cast returning. Great news for Ted Lasso fans. Season four has been greenlit with the main cast returning.
Talking about college football this last weekend, we had some shocking underdog wins over the weekend in college football. In week zero, mostly Montana State was paid $360 ,000 to travel to New Mexico and play the Lobos in week zero. They overcame a 17 point 4th quarter deficit to secure the first FCS over FBS win. FCS is like a division two versus division one. So they were paid $360 ,000 for hopefully an easy win by New Mexico and it didn't work out that way for New Mexico. We had some...
Let's talk a little bit about the Little League World Series. It wrapped up yesterday with a team from Lake Mary, Florida, winning the Little League World Series over Chinese Taipei in a chaotic walk -off bunt play. Now walk -off, if you don't know, means that the winning score from the bunt won and closed out the game for Florida. Now talking about one of the big stories today, this story is written like a riddle. How did Danny Jansen play for both teams in the same Major League Baseball game?
Well, he's going to make history tonight as the first player to ever play for both teams in a game. But how? Well, he was at bat when the Red Sox and the Toronto Blue Jays were playing earlier in the year on the June 26th and the game was suspended by a rain Now, the game between the two teams will resume today as the first half of a doubleheader. The catch is that between that game on June 26th and now, Jansen was traded to the Boston Red Sox.
When asked if Jansen would be in the lineup, Boston manager, Alex Cora said, yeah, he's catching. Let's make history. He gets it. Now there's a huge week ahead. This is a huge, huge week in sports. We have a ton of big events. Starting today is the US Open, which is the final tennis major of the year. And with no curfew, the US Open is known for its ruckus atmosphere. The total prize money is $75 million, a 15 % increase from 2023.
The US Open will hand out the highest individual prize money for all. The US Open will hand out the highest individual prize money of all four Grand Slams of 2024 with a $3 .6 million reward for the singles champions. Now that's happening in New York. Also happening in the New York area is Yankees Aaron Judge, who continues to shine. He recently became the fastest player to reach 300 home runs. He became the fifth player.
He became the fifth member of the exclusive club to hit 50 home runs in a season. Judge is also appearing on Nickelodeon's Paw Patrol today in a special episode of the cartoon. Not sure which is the biggest highlight of his career right now. Also stepping in Wednesday, the Paralympics opening ceremony is on Wednesday with competitions starting on Thursday. Now keep in mind, you're going to have a lot of the same broadcast opportunities that we had for the Olympics.
GoldZone will be back, so you'll be able to catch all of the action. Make sure you check out Wednesday's podcast. It will be all about the Paralympics so you are ready to rock. And on Thursday of this week, it's the official start of the college football season with week one. Check out last week's Wednesday Wisdom podcast. It will give you everything you need to know about college football for this season. Have a great week ahead. It's action packed.
Make sure you stick with us at lastnightsgame .com and on social media to be in the know about all things sports and all things great. Conversation starters. Have a great week.