Weekend winners
Lucas Glover. Hard to believe that a dude in his early 40s who could not make a 4-footer a decade ago and had his wife get into a police-involved fight with his mother has now become the hottest PGA player on the planet. But this is where we live, and Glover, who won the St. Jude Championship and became the first 40-plus back-to-back PGA Tour winner since Vijay 15 years ago, is hard to handle.
Braves bats in general, Matt Olson in particular. Yep, as consistently entertaining as a swimming pool in the South in August. When you head to NYC and score 41 runs in four games, well, that’s a pretty good clip, right Spy? As for Olson, well, he now leads the majors in homers (43) and RBIs (107, which is 17 ahead of Ozzie Albies in the MLB rankings). Which begs two questions: Would you trade Olson for Freddie Freeman at this moment? And has Olson passed Ronald Acuña in the NL MVP voting? Discuss.
Football fans. And yeah, that’s all of us. But the NFL preseason is rolling. The college football news is starting to be about depth charts and predictions — which is way better than conference realignment — and high school football starts Friday. Giddy-up.
This dude. Yeah, fishing is fun. I like it more now than I used to for sure. This would be a lot more fun, as an angler caught a record-setting Blue Marlin that was worth more than $6 million. Yes, please.