Will the Koepka express keep on running?

The 2023 U.S. Open golf tournament is being held at the Los Angeles Country Club (LACC) from today, June 15th 2023, until Sunday. The tournament is one of the big 4 majors of the year. The last major result, the PGA Champs last month, was a real upset to the golf world, in that a player from the breakaway LIV tour, Brooks Koepka, won the title. That and other factors likely prompted the US PGA and the LIV tour to discuss merging for the good of the game. It will ensure that all of the world’s best players are present at all 4 majors going forward. The major tournaments follow their own rules and 2 of the 4 denied the PGA Tour's attempts to limit the major fields to only PGA players. 

Winner, Winner, Chicken Nuggets Dinner!

The Nuggets professional basketball team, based in Denver, Colorado, (aka 'the Mile High City'), won their first NBA championship in franchise history last night Monday June 12th 2023, defeating the Miami Heat 94-89 in Game 5 of the finals. The Nuggets were led by Nikola Jokic, aka the Joker, who was named the NBA Finals MVP after averaging 33.8 points, 14.7 rebounds, and 7.9 assists per game in the series. The Nuggets were the underdogs entering the series, but they never backed down from the challenge. They won Game 1 on the road in Miami, and they never looked back. They won three of the next four games, including Game 5 in Denver. This victory was a culmination of years of hard work and dedication. They had made the playoffs in four of the previous five seasons, but they had never been able to get over the hump and reach the NBA Finals. But this year, they were finally able to put it all together. 

Marvelous Messi

Lionel Messi is arguably the greatest soccer player of all time. He has won a record seven Ballon d'Or awards, a record six European Golden Shoes, and in 2020 he was named to the Ballon d'Or Dream Team. Until leaving the club in 2021, he had spent his entire professional career with Barcelona in Spain, where he won a club-record 34 trophies, including ten La Liga titles, seven Copa del Rey titles and the UEFA Champions League four times. With his country, he won the 2021 Copa América and the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The 2021 Copa América victory led Argentina to a spot in the 2022 Finalissima, where Messi was the winning captain. 

Novak Djokovic: The Greatest of All Time in Men's Tennis

As of today, June 11th 2023, Novak Djokovic has to be considered the Greatest Of All Time (GOAT) in men's tennis. He just won his 23rd Grand Slam singles titles, surpassing Rafael Nadal's total of 22, for the most in the sport's history. Djokovic has also been ranked world No. 1 for a record total of 387 weeks, and he has finished as the year-end No. 1 seven times on the ATP tour, more than any other male tennis player including the likes of Roger Federer, Ivan Lendl, Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe or Björn Borg. Against this list of tennis players, he has won not only more Grand Slam titles than the rest, he’s also the only male player to have won all four Grand Slams twice, i.e., a 'sweep' of all four in one year. 

Biggest change in the sport of golf in a generation

The PGA Tour and LIV Golf Tour, a Saudi-backed upstart, have proposed a merger that would see the two leagues combine their assets and operations. The deal, which is still in the early stages, would create a new golf league that would be very lucrative for those in power. 

Manchester City win league and FA cup and are on the verge of historic treble in Europe

There is a town in the north of England where soccer (“football” in the UK) is religion. The town is Manchester.  There are two main rival teams there that compete in the English Premier League, the highest professional soccer league in Britain with only the best club teams playing in it. If ticket prices and club valuations and player salaries are anything to go by then, all things equal, the English Premier League is probably the strongest and most competitive sports league in the world, of any sport.