{"id":2068965,"date":"2026-07-30T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T08:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2068965"},"modified":"2026-07-30T11:00:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T08:00:58","slug":"this-week-in-sports-trivia-july-30-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2068965","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Sports Trivia: July 30, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Article_ContentContainer__jBNW3 article-content-container bodytext1\">\n<p>The World Cup is over. So is LeBron James\u2019 free agency. Seems like a good chance for everyone to catch their breath, right?<\/p>\n<p>Not so fast.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out there is quite a bit going on, with NFL training camps starting up this week, the college football season lurking just around the corner and the MLB trade deadline just days away.<\/p>\n<p>With so much going on, we hope you\u2019ve been reading <em>The Athletic<\/em>, as this week\u2019s quiz touches on a variety of questions from across the sporting landscape. Enjoy, and please try out our daily <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/connections-sports-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Connections: Sports Edition<\/a>, too!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%;height: 500px\" data-fillout-id=\"uXu474rzZgus\" data-fillout-embed-type=\"standard\" data-fillout-inherit-parameters data-fillout-dynamic-resize><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Top stories mentioned in this week\u2019s quiz<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7417464\/2026\/07\/24\/lebron-james-contract-76ers-free-agency\/\">LeBron James chooses Philadelphia 76ers for his next team<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7470464\/2026\/07\/25\/wnba-all-star-game-winner-dunk-clark\/\">WNBA All-Star game MVP comes off bench to lead the way<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7473248\/2026\/07\/27\/colts-training-camp-daniel-jones\/\">Colts QB Daniel Jones says he\u2019s \u201cfull go\u201d for camp<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7475882\/2026\/07\/28\/kyle-shanahan-crash-fault-broken-nose-airbag\/\">NFL coach says he was at fault for car crash<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7474870\/2026\/07\/28\/squirrel-comerica-park-detroit-tigers\/\">Animal dashes on field to interrupt MLB game<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7475423\/2026\/07\/28\/bret-bielema-sec-greg-sankey-big-ten-media-days-comments\/\">Illinois coach Brett Bielema speaks his mind at Big Ten media days<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7472097\/2026\/07\/27\/stanford-football-players-collective-bargaining-cfbpa\/\">Football players from one university take step toward unionization<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7469515\/2026\/07\/25\/vinicius-junior-arsenal-real-madrid-transfer-news\/\">EPL champion Arsenal explores deal for major star<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7470884\/2026\/07\/26\/anthony-joshua-tyson-fury-fight-finally\/\">Anthony Joshua gets off mat twice to earn KO win<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7471830\/2026\/07\/26\/nascar-brickyard-400-corey-heim-win-takeaways\/\">Corey Heim continues stunning ascent in NASCAR Cup Series<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Cup is over. So is LeBron James\u2019 free agency. Seems like a good chance for everyone to catch their breath, right? Not so fast. Turns out there is quite a bit going on, with NFL training camps starting up this week, the college football season lurking just around the corner and the MLB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,241],"class_list":["post-2068965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-nytimes-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2068965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2068965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2068965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2068965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}