Team USA Gets an Awesome Pre-Game Speaker Ahead of

It seems like we have been just celebrating the gold medal wins of our Team USA males’s and ladies’s hockey groups at the Milan Cortina Olympic Games, and it bringing a swell of delight for many Americans across the fruited plain – even if they’ve never watched a second of hockey in their lives. As my colleague Brad Essex wrote in February on the thrilling triumph for our nation:

The United States just accomplished one of its most memorable Olympic hockey runs since 1980. The males’s workforce edged Canada in additional time for gold, and the ladies’s workforce did the same days earlier.

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With spring formally racing in direction of us in less than a week, the World Baseball Classic is on. In case you aren’t acquainted with it, the WBC is an exhibition sequence which Major League Baseball holds every season during Spring Training.

And who has Team USA overwhelmed yet again on Friday? Canada! But this time, besting the Great White North is just the warm-up for more profitable. After the quarter-finals spherical recreation, they performed a music acquainted to hockey followers (and traditional rock followers) after the win:

Play Free Bird. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/qKNKgTZYMg

— USA Baseball (@USABaseball) March 14, 2026

Possibly one of the best half of the entire thing was when the U.S. workforce received to hear from a stunning (and yeh, superior) speaker before Friday’s win – none other than Robert O’Neill, who helped get rid of Osama bin Laden. Watch how a lot he cracked up the workforce with his story on the mission.

Warning: accommodates coarse language

Robert J. O’Neill spoke in Team USA’s clubhouse forward of their recreation vs. Canada

O’Neill was one of the members of SEAL Team Six that carried out the mission to kill Osama bin Laden pic.twitter.com/kQzixmcrJB

— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) March 14, 2026

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While the workforce beat Canada, 5-3,  they needed some help from Italy to make it into the next spherical:

#VinniePasquantino had #WorldBaseballClassic’s 1st 3-homer recreation, main #Italy over Mexico 9-1 to win Pool B & ADVANCE USA to quarterfinals as group’s 2nd-place workforce. Next: Italians face #PuertoRico in #Houston on Saturday, a day after USA performs #Canada. https://t.co/Kq6eB5gAPh

— samuella (@samuella) March 12, 2026

Team USA’s  Aaron Judge said after the sport the boys have been “excited to hop on the flight to Miami” and “get things rolling” against a stable opponent:

“The boys are excited,” Aaron Judge says of the upcoming semifinal matchup against the Dominican Republic #WorldBaseballClassic . 🇺🇸🇩🇴 pic.twitter.com/Kx0UYhPrVq

— Our Esquina (@OurEsquina) March 14, 2026

It will probably be an major offensive problem for Team USA, but we could have a phenom on the mound: (emphasis added)

The win units up a star-studded semifinal against the Dominican Republic on Sunday in Miami. The Dominicans thumped Korea, 10-0, to stay undefeated in the match, having outscored opponents by 41 runs in their 5 victories.

The United States was coming off a stunning loss to Italy, whose subsequent victory over Mexico allowed the Americans to advance. Now they’re poised to use their best starter, Paul Skenes, against the fearsome Dominican lineup.

You can tune in to see the U.S. charging into the semi-finals with their recreation against the Domincan Republic on Sunday night time; it should give some gamers a likelihood to oppose a former Yankees teammate, Albert Pujols, who is the 2026 DR supervisor, the US’s supervisor, Mark DeRosa, expects it to be “one of the best games of all time,” he said in a post-game press convention.

To paraphrase Robert O’Neill writing on his own X post about the rousing send-off: “Knock ‘em dead, boys!”

I’ve only one factor to say to that, “USA USA USA!”

Sweet victory 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/MvagMlenc6

— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) March 14, 2026

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