⚽ How Trinity Rodman Models Game After NBA Dad

USWNT’s Trinity Rodman has internet-binged Dennis’ basketball highlights for years. [View in browser]( [FOX SPORTS INSIDER WITH MARTIN ROGERS] In today’s FOX Sports Insider with Martin Rogers: Trinity Rodman plays with a fire that is reminiscent of her father … Bill Belichick has struggled drafting receivers, but can Tyquan Thornton break the trend this season? … and more! CARSON, Calif. - Let's get this out of the way: The United States women's soccer team has Trinity Rodman on it, and yep, she's Dennis Rodman's daughter. To anyone who lived through the '90s and geeked out on the Chicago Bulls, all things Michael and Scottie, and – perhaps even higher in the fascination stakes – Dennis, anything that gives a reason to glance to yesteryear has enjoyable value. But just know this. Trinity Rodman is more, and deserves to be regarded as more, than the athletic and talented daughter of an iconic dad. The nostalgia piece tied to hoops is fun, but the "right now" is downright exhilarating. That's because Rodman, the 21-year-old forward for the defending champion American squad, has rapidly risen from high-school standout to one of the very best players in the world, and deserves attention for so many more reasons than the name on the back of her jersey. It has sometimes seemed like she preferred to distance herself from her father's legacy, and were that the case, her wishes would demand full recognition. Family relationships, though, are tricky, and flow differently over time. As things stand right now, Rodman hasn't communicated with her five-time NBA champion dad recently, but she does talk about him. On Tuesday, at the national team's official media day, she did so, first discussing him unprompted during a casual roundtable news session, then offering previously unheard insight. She went into deep detail, and there's not room for all of it here, but the most striking, surprising and completely-freaking-awesome nugget might be that not only has she internet-binged on Dennis' basketball highlights for years, but that she still uses his hardwood techniques to benefit her own soccer game. For the rest of the story, [click here.]( [STORY IMAGE 1] [IN OTHER WORDS] - Ronald Acuña Jr. is back to full strength and "trying to steal as many bases as possible." It has him on track for the [best power/speed season of all time](. Jordan Shusterman has the story. - Our [MLB mock draft]( covers the first 39 picks, with LSU's Dylan Crews and Paul Skenes going back to back at the top and plenty of talent following them. 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