Weekend winners
Always Dreaming, Todd Pletcher and the entire crew. AD, a big horse who closed as the favorite, cruised to the win in the Kentucky Derby. For Pletcher, he had exactly one winner in his previous 45 Derby entries. He now has two. Overnight numbers had NBC’s coverage up 12 percent from last year with 10.5 ratings share. As for our contest, several of you – including Dawg747 and Andrew A. – had the victor, but only Michael P. had the winner and the loser with Thunder Snow, which did not finish the race.
LeBron James. Dude is simply crushing it right now, and he and his Cavs will get a sizable amount of rest until the Eastern Conference Finals. Since Game 5 of the NBA Finals last June, James and Co. is 11-0 in the postseason, and his averages – 34.9 points, 9.7 rebounds and 7.8 assists per game – are staggering.
The finishing hole. Golf had two fun finishes this weekend. On the PGA Tour, Brian Harmon drained a long birdie on the 72nd hole to win the Wells Fargo. On the Champions Tour, John Daly and his buds celebrated his first win on that circuit with a champagne bath. Good times.
Cardale Jones. One of the many scholarship stars to walk this weekend, Jones officially flipped his designation from student-athlete to graduate-athlete. And in tribute of his famous one-liner when he said he was not at THE Ohio State “to play school” Jones put that quote on his graduation cap.