The Knicks' grimy Game 1 win, plus a World Cup retrospective

The Pulse Newsletter 📣 | This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! Embrace the grime today. Coming up:  🗽 New York’s moxie 🌬️ Sabalenka’s collapse 👨🏻‍🦲 Wildest World Cup moments One thought raced through my head every time I watched a New York Knicks possession in the fourth quarter last night: These dudes are grimy. I mean that as a huge compliment.  There’s grit, and then there’s grime. Every bucket, every rebound, every screen oozed difficulty, as if each player was...