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Weekend winners
Michael B. Jordan. Sure, Paul Thomas Anderson and the “Battle” thing won the most awards, but Apollo’s boy and Black Panther’s nemesis won the biggie and arrived as a bona fide, first-team Hollywood A-lister. Cool. Who would have thought that Wallace from “The Wire” — and Vince from “Friday Night Lights” — would be the next Denzel?
Cam Young. When you are facing a tied mini-major after 71 holes and you pipe a 375-yard drive that softly draws into the short grass, well, you deserve to win, friends. On a golfing weekend filled with train-wrecks, Young was the most steady, and that generally means you walk away with the chip.
The NBA, at least for one night. Great Saturday night game between Lakers and Nuggets, which L.A. won in overtime behind Austin Reeves’ and Luka Doncic’s heroics down the stretch. But here’s the thing: The NBA needs these Lakers being a mainstay in the playoffs, and the way each team played hard until the final, final horn amid today’s “tanking” and “resting” narratives was super cool.