Thanks, mom.

The things that go through people’s minds some days…

For Christensen and her fiance, Shawn Ostroskie, the decision was simple. “Her dad and I both love sports and he has an older daughter,” Rachel Christensen, an administrative assistant at Rogue Community College in Grants Pass, Ore., said in a phone interview. “He didn’t want to have any more kids and then I was pregnant and I wanted him to be excited about being pregnant. I saw Espn in the name book and after that he was like, ‘Yeah, I’m gonna have a kid named Espn!’”

ESPN may be ubiquitous, but Espn the baby name isn’t. It doesn’t appear among the top 1,000 choices since 1980 for either a boy or a girl in the Social Security Administration’s database. Admittedly, not everyone gets the choice.

“We didn’t know if she was going to be a boy or girl, but we both liked it,” Christensen said. “Everybody thinks we’re crazy and nobody can say it right.”

Umm… they may have a point.

What a difference a year makes.

Sony Michel, 7/4/16 vs. Sony Michel 7/4/17.

If we’re lucky, it’s a metaphor, right?

Happy Fourth, y’all.

Any place that can boast the likes of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers must be doing something right.

That goes double for the Godfather of Soul.