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Weekend winners
Luke List. Yes, Hideki Matsuyama won the Genesis event Sunday with a sizzling final round, but List, a Chattanooga-area native and Baylor School alum, got a T2 and cashed a tidy check for $1.8 million in one of the new PGA Tour super events. What a great weekend for one of the most deserving area superstars I have had the privilege to know.
Kentucky. Wow, that was a gutsy win — maybe the best single-game win of the entire season across all leagues considering the absence of Tre Mitchell — and with all apologies to Dalton Knecht, Antonio Reeves is the best player in the league.
Adam Sandler. Wow, what a perfect Sandler handling of last night’s “Icon” award at the People’s Choice Awards. No, I did not watch it. C’mon. But Sandler is a great story, no? The silly dude who started on MTV’s “Remote Control” and probably had to sleep on a couch as a bit player and occasional contributor early in his SNL days is now an icon and will receive the Mark Twain American Prize for Humor later this year. And it’s well deserved, too. No, not all his movies are home runs, but almost of his movies are at least enjoyable in some way. Well, other than “Jack and Jill,” of course. And “Grown Ups 2.” Let’s just move along.