Peabo Bryson has suffered a stroke and is under medical care, as shared by his representatives. The two-time Grammy Award winner is known for his songs in Disney movies like Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin.
The singer-songwriter often sings ballads, especially in duets with female singers. He has sung numerous iconic songs over the years, including singles like Tonight, I Celebrate My Love, and You’re Looking Like Love to Me. The South Carolina native also sang the famous As Long as There’s Christmas.
On Sunday, Bryson’s representative released a statement regarding his health, stating (h/t Variety):
“Two-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and balladeer, Peabo Bryson — the voice behind the Oscar-winning Disney songs ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and ‘A Whole New World’ — has suffered a stroke and is currently under medical care.”
“At this time, the family requests privacy as they navigate this deeply personal moment together. The thoughts, prayers and love of friends and fans are welcomed and deeply appreciated,” the statement added.
Peabo Bryson is 75 years old, having been born on April 13, 1951, in Greenville, South Carolina, US. He started his career as part of groups such as Moses Dillard and the Tex-Town Display. However, he then joined the Atlanta indie label Bang Records as a solo artist.
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He has released 18 studio albums, with his debut album being Peabo, released in 1976. He released Reaching for the Sky and Crosswinds in the following two years, gaining prominence in the industry.
Peabo Bryson won two Grammy Awards in 1994 for his duets. He won the Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals Award for Beauty and the Beast with Celine Dion. He also won the Record of the Year Award for A Whole New World with Regina Belle.
Peabo Bryson spoke about his heart attack in 2019 and his upcoming album, Grace
The Gentlemen Of Soul In Concert – Atlanta, GA – Source: Getty
Last year marked Peabo Bryson’s 50th anniversary in the music industry. To celebrate the occasion, he announced a new album titled Grace, which was set to be released later this year.
In an interview with WBGO, published in October last year, he spoke about the album and also about his heart attack in 2019. His wife, Tanya Boniface, gave him CPR back then before he was taken to the hospital in Atlanta. Explaining the situation, Bryson said:
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“When I awoke five days later, I realized that whole ordeal that took about 34 minutes, and that’s a long time not to be breathing. If she had not breathed for me that I would not have had any cognizant skills left.”
Peabo Bryson also announced his new album and a book on the occasion of his 50th anniversary. He said that he got the motivation to write a book from TV personality Glenda Hatchett, saying:
“She read one of my responses and calls me. I’ve known her for about four years and said I should write a book of essays and that I have something to say. Writing for me has always been channeled to the music that I do. Did I know that there’s poet inside of me. Of course I did. I am what I always am a poet.”
Meanwhile, Peabo Bryson has two kids: son Robert, with Tanya Boniface, and daughter Linda, from a previous relationship.
Chair of the Rugby Football League Nigel Wood said: “On behalf of the whole sport, our thoughts and condolences are with John’s wife Dawn, his family, and with those who played or worked alongside him over the last 50 years.
“Having had a 10-year career at Castleford, he found his passion for coaching which saw him oversee more than 700 games across a career which included coaching England in the 2000 World Cup, Wales in the 2017 and 2021 World Cup, oversaw Challenge Cup victories at Sheffield Eagles and Hull FC, and most recently took Batley Bulldogs to the Championship Grand Final.
“But John was also an excellent broadcast summariser with a great turn of phrase and an undiluted love and positivity for the sport.
Commentator Dave Woods, who worked with Kear at the BBC ad became a close friend said: “He was a great rugby league man, the most passionate and eloquent of evangelists for the sport, who relished the opportunity to do that on radio and television for the BBC.
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“But I’ll remember him as simply the best of blokes, humble, friendly, cheerful, always smiling, always happy to talk to anyone, especially about rugby league.”
That’s what was expected when Oba Femi and Brock Lesnar stepped into the ring for a second match at Clash in Italy on Sunday and it delivered and then some.
It was an all-out blitz from both men. Lesnar started Femi with four consecutive F-5s as he tried to make quick work of “The Ruler” just like when he made a surprise return to “Monday Night Raw” to answer the open challenge. But Femi wasn’t as caught-off guard as he was earlier this month. Femi kicked out of Lesnar’s pin attempt.
Brock Lesnar delivers an F5 to Oba Femi during Clash in Italy at Inalpi Arena in Torino di Sangro, Italy, on May 31, 2026.(Andrew Timms/WWE)
Lesnar went to his mixed martial arts background and tried to get Femi to tap out with a kimura lock. Though Lesnar did damage to Femi’s arm, the Nigerian giant wasn’t about to give up that easily. He got the upper hand on Lesnar as the two went out of the ring.
Lesnar hit a fifth F-5 and then delivered his sixth onto Michael Cole and Corey Graves’ announce table. “The Beast” got back into the ring and waited for the referee to count to 10 and cement the victory. As the referee got to six, Femi stood straight up as if the sixth finishing maneuver that Lesnar delivered was almost non-existent.
Brock Lesnar delivers an F5 to Oba Femi on an announce table during Clash in Italy at Inalpi Arena in Torino di Sangro, Italy, on May 31, 2026.(Rich Freeda/WWE)
Femi came back and hit Lesnar with running uppercuts. Femi tried to hit Lesnar with a Fall from Grace, but Lesnar wiggled out of it. Lesnar put Femi on his shoulders, hitting a seventh F-5 and pinning Femi for the win.
“You’re done b—h,” Lesnar exclaimed before he walked to the back.
Lesnar made the decision to forgo retirement for a little bit longer to keep a rivalry with Femi afloat. Their series is now tied at one apiece with a third match obviously coming soon.
Oba Femi makes his entrance during Clash in Italy at Inalpi Arena in Torino di Sangro, Italy, on May 31, 2026.(Andrew Timms/WWE)
KELOWNA, B.C. — Sam O’Reilly stepped up again. Jared Woolley did his part, too. And Jussi Ahokas made history in the process.
Together, they led the Kitchener Rangers to their third Memorial Cup championship, culminating with Sunday’s 6-2 victory over the Everett Silvertips.
“To win this, it’s a hard trophy to win, and how we did it, it’s an unbelievable feeling,” said Ahokas, who became the first European head coach to win the Memorial Cup on the same day his home country of Finland won the world men’s hockey championship. “Proud moment, of course, and maybe I might open up some doors for some other European coaches who might come over. So it’s big.”
O’Reilly came up big in the final with a four-point performance, including three assists, to earn another MVP award — becoming only the fourth player to be named most valuable in the regular season, playoffs and at this tournament, joining past and present NHL stars Brad Richards, Corey Perry and Mitch Marner.
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O’Reilly finished tied for the tournament lead with eight points, alongside teammate Jack Pridham, who scored his tournament-best fifth goal in the final, and Everett’s Matias Vanhanen.
“Unreal. I can’t say enough about him,” Ahokas said of O’Reilly, a first-round pick who was traded from the Edmonton Oilers to the Tampa Bay Lightning last off-season. “He’ll play in the NHL next year. An unbelievable player to coach.”
Woolley scored what stood up as the winner, with the physical shutdown defender netting his second clutch goal of this showcase. He made it 3-1 with the lone tally of the second period against Everett after giving Kitchener a 2-0 lead late in the middle frame of their tournament-opening 5-0 triumph over the host Kelowna Rockets last Friday.
“He’s the backbone of our team, and he does so much for us,” O’Reilly said of Woolley, a sixth-round pick for the Los Angeles Kings. “He might not get all the love, but he’s a huge piece to our team and we wouldn’t be here without him.”
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O’Reilly and Woolley repeated as Memorial Cup champions, also winning last year with the London Knights before being acquired at the January trade deadline to put this Kitchener club over the top. London knocked Kitchener out of the playoffs en route to winning OHL titles the two previous seasons.
“They’re winners. We knew how good of players they were,” Ahokas said of adding rivals to their roster. “Winners are winners. If you get two players like that, of course you take them.”
The Rangers were also happy to take Pridham, when he left the West Kelowna Warriors of the B.C. Hockey League to join Kitchener in November 2024 after changes to the NCAA eligibility rules. This time he is leaving the Okanagan as a Memorial Cup champ.
“It’s just so special. My family is here, they’re all down, so it’s great to be able to celebrate with them and my old billets,” said Pridham, a third-round pick who needs to sign with the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday or re-enter the NHL draft later this month after decommitting from Boston University.
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“I was just focusing on playing here and ultimately winning the final. I’m just going to celebrate with my teammates here tonight and soak it all in.”
Billed as a battle of the favourites from the outset, Kitchener proved to be the class of the Canadian Hockey League this year — sweeping Barrie to win the OHL and earning a bye to the final here by running the table in round-robin play, also downing the QMJHL champion Chicoutimi Saguenéens 3-2 on Tuesday.
The Silvertips were trying to avenge Monday’s loss by the same score, which was Everett’s only other blemish of the tournament — previously defeating Chicoutimi 5-3, then rebounding to beat Kelowna 4-0 before blowing out Chicoutimi 6-1 in their rematch during Friday’s semifinal to earn another shot at Kitchener in the championship final.
“They were built to win. A mature team,” said Everett head coach Steve Hamilton, also acknowledging the impact of O’Reilly and Woolley as veteran ringers. “You add players with that kind of experience at the deadline and bringing them into the fold. They were built for this. I can’t sit here and say that we could have done anything miraculously different.
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“They’re deserving champions. I have all kinds of respect for the way they played. They were very, very professional in the way they handled this tournament.”
Christian Kirsch made 30 saves for the Rangers, who struck twice on a 5-on-3 power play to start the third period — pulling away for a repeat of Monday’s result after leading 2-1 and 3-1 at the intermissions. They never trailed, with Luke Ellinas opening the scoring and Dylan Edwards making it 2-1.
Christian Humphreys rounded out the scoring with a short-handed empty-net goal and Haeden Ellis had two assists for the Ontario Hockey League champions.
Vanhanen and Carter Bear, both with their fourth goals of the tournament, provided the offence for the Western Hockey League champs.
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Everett’s exceptional status defender Landon DuPont had a point in every game he played here, assisting on both goals in the final. DuPont, who turned 17 on Thursday, finished with six points in four games (two goals, four assists). He sat out Everett’s round-robin finale on Wednesday with an undisclosed injury but returned to score twice in the semifinal.
Anders Miller stopped 26 shots for the Silvertips in suffering his second defeat to Kitchener, with the WHL’s drought still dating back to 2014 for the league’s last Memorial Cup win.
Celine Boutier won the ShopRite LPGA on Sunday, although it might be Arpichaya Yubol who was left wondering what could have been.
Yubol fired a five-under 66 on the Bay Course at Seaview Hotel and Golf Club in Galloway, N.J., on Sunday, which was good enough to push her into solo second and earn $183,814 in the 54-hole event. At eight under, she finished a stroke behind Boutier.
But then you remember what happened on Saturday.
The LPGA Media account tweeted Saturday evening that Yubol was assessed a one-stroke penalty for slow play during her second round on Saturday. The tweet said she was penalized for “exceeding her maximum time allowed for her total strokes timed on hole #13.”
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Arpichaya Yubol was assessed a one-stroke penalty for exceeding her maximum time allowed for her total strokes timed on hole #13. @LPGA | @ShopRiteLPGA
It’s just the second time a pace of play penalty has been issued on the LPGA this season. Jin Hee Im was also penalized one shot during the third round of the JM Eagle.
In February 2025, the LPGA announced its new pace of play policy that went into effect that spring. The LPGA already had a warning system and timing guidelines in place for players out of position, but the updated policy included a new penalty structure for plus times. Under those changes, one to five seconds over a time would be a fine; six to 15 seconds would be a one-stroke penalty, and 16 seconds or more would lead to a two-stroke penalty.
Yubol’s 73 Saturday was changed to a 74. Under the LPGA’s policy, a player is timed for the accumulation of shots for a hole and not one specific shot.
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Despite the rare penalty, it was a good week for the 24-year-old Yubol. After missing the cut in back-to-back starts earlier this season, she has now turned in her second runner-up finish of the year. Although she still finished one shy of Boutier, who closed with a 66 to come from four strokes back to win. The 32-year-old pro also won the ShopRite in 2021; this was her first win since the Maybank Championship in 2023.
Next up? The U.S. Women’s Open begins Thursday at Riviera in Los Angeles.
“It’s definitely always good to come back after a win,” Boutier said. “I think it’s going to be a very different challenge for sure with different course conditions, but I’m excited to see what the course is going to be like. Happy where my game is at, so let’s see what I can do there.”
Man Utd have made an important academy appointment, hiring a new employee from another Premier League club
Manchester United have appointed Harvey Busby as the new lead national scout between the Under-14 and Under-18 age groups in the academy. Busby moves to Manchester after being headhunted from Newcastle.
The Lead National Scout vacancy opened at Carrington following the internal promotion of Connor Hunter, who recently became head of academy recruitment after working as the U14 to U18 national scout.
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Busby was identified as a standout candidate to be appointed to Hunter’s previous role in the academy, and he has officially started work at United after making the switch from Newcastle.
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Busby played a key role in Newcastle’s academy recruitment during his time in the north east, helping the Magpies to sign talented prospects ahead of other Premier League clubs.
He will work closely with Hunter to attract the best young players to United’s academy.
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United’s academy recruitment has been narrowed to the British shores in the post-Brexit era, which means scouting talented young players closer to home has become even more important.
The Reds completed the signing of talented goalkeeper Charlie Hardy from Derby in December, while the likes of ChidoObi, James Overy and Samuel Lusale arrived in the 2024 summer transfer window.
The signing of Obi from Arsenal was viewed as a coup in the industry. The young striker made eight first-team appearances last season, but he was told he would play exclusively in youth games this term.
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Obi will audition for first-team involvement under Michael Carrick during pre-season this summer.
Sky Sports, HBO Max, Netflix and Disney+ with Ultimate TV package
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Sky has upgraded its Ultimate TV and Sky Sports bundle to now include HBO Max, Netflix, Disney+, discovery+ and Hayu, as well as 135 channels and full Sky coverage of the Premier League and EFL.
Sky broadcasts more than 1,400 live matches across the Premier League, EFL and more with at least 215 live from the top flight alongside Formula 1, darts and golf.
The 2026 Melon Music Awards (MMA) is expected to take place in late 2026. However, as always, early predictions are out. X user @KoWatermelon, a K-awards prediction account, shared detailed forecasts on May 31, 2026, based on data up to May 30.
These predictions use the typical Melon Music Awards criteria of Digital 60 percent plus, Votes 20 percent plus, Judges 20 percent, with a tracking period starting from November 20, 2025. The account also provided separate Millions Top 10 predictions based on Digital 80 percent plus Votes 20 percent. All information comes directly from the posted charts by @KoWatermelon.
Moreover, these remain early predictions and are subject to change with ongoing activity.
List of early 2026 Melon Music Awards predictions: BTS, ARIRANG, IVE, AKMU, and more
Here’s the full prediction list by X user Kowatermelon for the 2026 Melon Music Awards (MMA):
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Top 10 Artists
BTS
AKMU
IVE
KiiiKiii
ILLIT
PLAVE
Hearts2Hearts
NCT WISH
HAON
fromis_9
Millions Top 10 Albums
ARIRANG (BTS)
FLOWERING (AKMU)
REVIVE+ (IVE)
Ode to Love (NCT WISH)
Caligo Pt.2 (PLAVE)
REVERXE (EXO)
Fame (RIIZE)
EUPHORIA (ALPHA DRIVE ONE)
Unfiltered (WONPIL (DAY6))
7TH YEAR: A Moment of Stillness in the Thorns (TXT)
Artist of the Year
BTS
AKMU
IVE
KiiiKiii
ILLIT
PLAVE
Hearts2Hearts
NCT WISH
HAON
fromis_9
Album of the Year
ARIRANG (BTS)
FLOWERING (AKMU)
REVIVE+ (IVE)
Delulu Pack (KiiiKiii)
Ode to Love (NCT WISH)
ALLDAY PROJECT (ALLDAY PROJECT)
LOVE CATCHER (YENA)
Caligo Pt.2 (PLAVE)
GREEN GREEN (CORTIS)
REVERXE (EXO)
Song of the Year
404 (New Era) (KiiiKiii)
BANG BANG (IVE)
RUDE! (Hearts2Hearts)
NOT CUTE ANYMORE (ILLIT)
Paradise of Rumors (AKMU)
White Memories (fromis_9)
SWIM (BTS)
365Days (Lee Chang Sub)
TICK TOCK (TEAM ZICO X Crush)
Catch Catch (YENA)
Best Male Solo
HAON
NOWIMYOUNG
Raf Sandu
Marv
Jung Joon Hyuk
Best Female Solo
YENA
TAEYEON
Heize
WENDY
MILLI
Best Male Group
BTS
PLAVE
NCT WISH
CORTIS
EXO
Best Female Group
IVE
KiiiKiii
ILLIT
Hearts2Hearts
fromis_9
Best New Artist
ALPHA DRIVE ONE
LNGSHOT
HADES
Lee Ji Min
Song ziu
About the Melon Music Awards
The Melon Music Awards (MMA) is an annual music ceremony organized by Kakao Entertainment through its Melon music streaming platform. It began as an online fan-voted event in 2005 and has been held as an offline ceremony in Seoul since 2009. The awards evaluate artists based on digital performance data from Melon, along with online voting and judges’ evaluations.
BTS leads the early 2026 predictions and has won a record 40 awards at the Melon Music Awards in previous years, including 13 daesangs. IVE appears high in several categories and has secured multiple wins in past ceremonies, such as Best Female Group and Album of the Year. AKMU has earned several category awards over the years. Newer acts such as KiiiKiii, ILLIT, PLAVE, and others in the lists have begun collecting their first awards in recent editions, including 2025.
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These are just predictions, and the nominations may vary. Official nominees and winners will depend on full-year performance, voting, and judging.
Check in every week for the unfiltered opinions of our writers and editors as they break down the hottest topics in the sport, and join the conversation by tweeting us at @golf_com. This week, our writers look ahead to the U.S. Women’s Open and discuss the most important parts of the PGA Tour’s long-term schedule.
The 81st U.S. Women’s Open kicks off Thursday at Riviera with lots of intrigue surrounding the championship. It’s the first time the tournament has been held at the historic Los Angeles course, and the top player, Nelly Korda, enters playing some of the best golf of her career. Is this the best chance she’s ever had to win a U.S. Women’s Open?
Josh Berhow, managing editor (@Josh_Berhow): She might have had more pressure on her at the 2024 U.S. Women’s Open, since she entered it coming off a victory that was a part of a stretch that included six wins in seven starts. But she somehow shot 80 and missed the cut — and then missed cuts in her next two tournaments. Although this season is starting to look a lot like that dominance we saw two years ago, where she won seven times in 16 starts. In seven events this year she’s won three and finished as the runner-up three other times. Her last start she tied for 8th, which is her worst of the season! She’s more consistent this season, and plus, that 2024 U.S. Women’s Open disaster can now be chalked up to a learning experience. That could help her this week. I also think Riviera suits her game well.
Zephyr Melton, associate game-improvement editor (@zephyrmelton): It’s pretty wild that Nelly doesn’t have a USWO title to her name at this point in her career. With her length and ball-striking prowess, the sorts of setups the USGA likes to present should play right into her hands. She’ll certainly be the favorite to hoist the trophy Sunday night, but the mental battle will be as difficult as the physical one. With how she’s playing this year, it would be surprising if she isn’t the winner, but as we saw at Lancaster in 2024, anything can happen.
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Alan Bastable, executive editor (@alan_bastable): Thing is, she has been so much more dominant this year than in 2024. Her strokes gained in ’24: 2.86. This year through seven starts: 4.03! A nearly 1.2-shot differential! Stunning stuff. She’s also 10 yards longer off the tee than she was two years ago. Her only bugaboo, relatively speaking, is her putting. If she can find a way to get hot on the greens at Riv, this thing could be over in a hurry.
While Korda’s quest for her fourth major title will be the big talker, there are plenty of other good storylines at the U.S. Women’s Open. What’s one of your favorites?
Berhow: Whether it’s top-ranked Kiara Romero, defending Augusta National Women’s Amateur champ Maria Jose Marin or Stanford’s Paula Martin Sampedro, who just helped her team win a NCAA title last week, there’s a ton of really good amateurs who have promising pro careers teeing it up this week. I’m curious to see if any can contend on the weekend.
Melton: Seeing if Jeeno Thitikul can finally rid herself of the best-player-without-a-major moniker. She’s been close many times before, but winning the first one is always the hardest. She’s in fine form with a win at the Mizuho earlier this month, but major championship golf is a whole different animal.
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Bastable: Yes, Jeeno Watch always fully on in these big weeks. I’m also intrigued by Julia Lopez Ramirez, the second-year player from Spain who is the LPGA’s longest hitter (291-yard driving average) and 10th in greens in reg, and who finished top 20 at the USWO as a rookie last year. I don’t see her contending — her short game and putting just isn’t there — but if you’re lucky enough to be on-site, she’d be great fun to follow.
What’s the more likely scenario come Sunday — Korda lifts the U.S. Women’s Open trophy for the first time, or Scottie Scheffler three-peats as champion at the Memorial? (The last time someone won the same event three years in a row, by the way, was when Steve Stricker won the John Deere in 2009, 2010 and 2011.)
Berhow: This actually is a tough one. Scottie Scheffler is definitely due — third or better in four of his last five starts — and besides his two wins at Muirfield Village he’s also finished third twice. But I really like Nelly Korda to pick up the biggest win of her LPGA career this week.
Melton: I’ll go with Scottie. He’s been close too many times this season to be stuck on one win. I like him to get it done at Jack’s place.
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Bastable: Scottie who? Our guy hasn’t won in — gasp! — 10 starts. Gimme Korda, for all the reasons we laid out above. I truly believe if she can find a rhythm with her putting, this could be a transcendent week for her on one of golf’s greatest stages.
Scheffler will have stiff competition at the Memorial, which includes Rory McIlroy. Oddly enough, this will be the first Signature Event Scheffler and McIlroy have both played since the Arnold Palmer Invitational three months ago. Forget bigger fields and bigger markets and relegation highlighting a potential two-track PGA Tour schedule coming in 2028, is this the best example of why the Tour schedule might need a major overhaul?
Berhow: Yes, but I also think the Tour knows that. There is too much golf. And even with the two-track system, there will still be too much golf. But if we can have the very best players compete in the same events 20 times a year or so — and have them actually all show up — it’s a win. But more importantly, it has to stick. The Tour schedule needs stability for people to know what’s coming instead of the constant tweaks. Is this a Signature Event? A Florida Swing shakeup? The playoffs format changing again? When it comes to the schedule, the PGA Tour’s continued evolution, while at times necessary, has also been somewhat of an own-goal. It’s hard to keep up.
Melton: I agree with all points raised by Josh. We need to see the stars together more often, but we also can’t oversaturate. It sounds like Brian Rolapp knows this — but crafting a schedule that toes that line correctly won’t be easy.
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Bastable: Of greater concern to me than having every star in every marquee event is reinstituting cuts in all of them (so we get some mid-tourney drama) and expanding the fields (so we get some more underdog stories). I like the idea of relegation, but if the A flight is too exclusive, it could start to feel stale.
The Stanford women’s golf team won its third NCAA title in five years last week, and now it’s the men’s teams’ turn at the NCAA Championship at Omni La Costa, which is taking place now and finishes next week. One name to watch is Jackson Koivun, the Auburn junior who has won six of his last nine starts and could turn pro this summer. For those uninformed, what makes Koivun one of the best pro prospects we’ve seen in years?
Berhow: Koivun seems to be the real deal. Six wins in nine starts?! That’s hard to do at any level. Plus he’s already flashed in PGA Tour starts. His coach raves about him, and lofty expectations like that wouldn’t be put on someone if they couldn’t handle them. He’s already in the U.S. Open (but has to remain amateur to keep his spot) but he could turn pro after that. He’s a name golf fans should know.
Melton: I can’t say that I watch a ton of collegiate golf, but it seems like Koivun has that “it” factor. However, dominating the pros and dominating in college are two different things. We’ve seen plenty of “can’t-miss” prospects this decade that have faltered early on (Gordon Sargent, Luke Clanton, etc.), so for now, I’m in wait-and-see mode.
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Bastable: Wait and see?! We already have seen, Melton! In seven PGA Tour starts last year, Koivun racked up four top-11 finishes, and in his last three of those starts went T6-T5-T4. Then he went back to little old Auburn, where all he did was post a 67.9 (!) scoring average this season. I’d say the kid is destined for big things.
Nigeria’s sprint hurdler Tobi Amusan produced an outstanding performance to win the women’s 100m hurdles at the Rabat Diamond League in Morocco on Sunday.
The 29-year-old crossed the finish line in 12.28 seconds, finishing ahead of Devynne Charlton, who recorded 12.40 seconds, and Nadine Visser, who came third in 12.47 seconds.
The victory marked Amusan’s second career win in the event at the Rabat Diamond League and saw her set a new meeting record. Her time of 12.28 seconds erased the previous mark of 12.45 seconds, which she established at the same competition last year.
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It was also Amusan’s first Diamond League triumph of the season after finishing third and second in her opening two races.
Starting strongly from lane four, the Nigerian matched her rivals over the opening hurdles before taking control of the race after the third barrier. She gradually increased her advantage and pulled clear of the field in the closing stages.
With victory already in sight, Amusan powered through the final hurdles and comfortably crossed the line first, equalling her season’s best time.
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The former world champion will now turn her attention to the next Diamond League meeting, the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea in Rome, Italy, scheduled for June 4.
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