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Scottie Scheffler's son suffers diaper malfunction as dad celebrates PGA Tour win
Scottie Scheffler's son suffers diaper malfunction as dad celebrates PGA Tour win

Miami Herald

timea day ago

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  • Miami Herald

Scottie Scheffler's son suffers diaper malfunction as dad celebrates PGA Tour win

After winning the Memorial Tournament on Sunday, June 1, Scottie Scheffler celebrated with his family. Watching the 28-year-old shoot 10-under par was his wife, Meredith Scheffler, and their son, 1-year-old Bennett. After being declared the victor, Scottie grabbed his son and hugged his wife. And in the midst of all the celebratory excitement, Bennett suffered a diaper malfunction and cameras captured the aftermath. As Meredith and Bennett met up with Scottie, Meredith warned her husband, video shared by CBS Sports shows. 'He's got poop all over his back so be prepared — sorry,' Meredith said as she handed Bennett to Scottie. 'That'll happen,' the proud dad replied. 'He had so much fun watching you!' Meredith added, according to Today. Fans of the Scheffler family empathized with the parents, calling Scottie's response to the blowout 'the daddest response.' One X, formerly known as Twitter, user wrote, 'We've all been there….as I've said for forty years, 'There is nothing more humbling than being a parent.'' 'That is the absolute best,' another X user wrote. 'Real stuff right there!' 'Honestly, I love it. This is what real life is—messy, hilarious, and completely grounding. The big wins are fun, sure. But the best parts are the quiet ones. The ordinary ones. Where no one's cheering, and you're still all in!' added another. Scottie got emotional talking about his wife and son with Golf on CBS reporter Amanda Balionis. 'Yeah, you're really trying to make me emotional now. My wife is my biggest supporter,' Scheffler said as tears formed in his eyes while he held their son. 'She's my best friend. This is our life out here on the road, and it's been a lot of fun. We've had some special memories at this tournament, and yeah, I definitely couldn't do it without her.' This was Scottie's third win in four starts. He won the CJ CUP at the beginning of May and the PGA Championship two weeks later.

In a historic first, the NBA Finals is a battle of non-taxpayers
In a historic first, the NBA Finals is a battle of non-taxpayers

Yahoo

time2 days ago

  • Business
  • Yahoo

In a historic first, the NBA Finals is a battle of non-taxpayers

Yahoo Sports AM is our daily newsletter that keeps you up to date on all things sports. Sign up here to get it every weekday morning. 🚨 Headlines ⛳️ Scottie wins (again): Scottie Scheffler didn't win until his ninth event this year. After running away with the Memorial, he's now won three of his last four events and pocketed nearly $10 million in the past month. Advertisement ⚾️ Down goes No. 1 (again): Two weeks after Texas A&M became the first No. 1 overall seed ever eliminated in softball regionals, Vanderbilt became the first No. 1 overall seed ever eliminated in baseball regionals. ⚽️ Celebration turns ugly: The excitement following PSG's Champions League victory was marred as celebrations across France devolved into chaos, leaving two fans dead, nearly 200 more injured and 300 arrested. 🏀 Zion faces lawsuit: Zion Williamson has been accused of rape and abuse in a civil lawsuit filed by a woman claiming to be his former girlfriend. The Pelicans forward has denied the allegations. 🏁 McLaren can't lose: Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris went 1-2 at the Spanish Grand Prix, giving McLaren seven wins (and 16 podiums) through nine F1 races this season. 🏀 NBA Finals: No taxpayers (Hassan Ahmad/Yahoo Sports) Oklahoma City and Indiana will meet in the 2025 NBA Finals, which will be the first in the luxury tax era (2003-present) to feature two teams that weren't taxpayers. Advertisement Last two standing: 11 teams exceeded the tax threshold of $170.8 million this season, and eight of those taxpayers made the playoffs (Timberwolves, Celtics, Knicks, Lakers, Nuggets, Bucks, Warriors, Heat). But the last two teams standing are the Thunder, who ranked 25th in payroll ($165.6 million), and the Pacers, who ranked 18th ($168.2 million). Contract breakdown: OKC and Indiana share fairly similar balance sheets, with mega deals for their point guards and veteran big men. The rest of their rosters are filled out with reasonably-paid veterans and rookie contracts. The 2024-25 salaries for both starting fives: Thunder: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander ($35.9M), Isaiah Hartenstein ($30M), Luguentz Dort ($16.5M), Chet Holmgren ($10.9M), Jalen Williams ($4.8M) Pacers: Tyrese Haliburton ($42.2M), Pascal Siakam ($42.2M), Myles Turner ($19.9M), Aaron Nesmith ($11M), Andrew Nembhard ($2M) Exclusive club: This year's champion will join the 2006 Heat, 2014 Spurs, 2015 Warriors, 2017 Warriors and 2020 Lakers as the only non-taxpayers to win a title while the luxury tax was in effect, per Spotrac's Keith Smith. Notes: Advertisement Finals preview: What to know about this unexpected matchup (Ben Rohrbach/Yahoo Sports) 📸 The world in photos () 🇺🇸 Erin, Wisconsin — Sweden's Maja Stark fended off world No. 1 Nelly Korda to win the U.S. Women's Open by two strokes for her first major title and a record-tying $2.4 million prize. Not bad for someone who'd earned less than $131,000 on tour so far this season. Tiafoe celebrates his fourth-round victory. () 🇫🇷 Paris — No. 15 Frances Tiafoe and No. 12 Tommy Paul became the first American men to reach the French Open quarterfinals since Andre Agassi in 2003. As many as three American women could join them. Pope Leo XIV greets Yates and other cyclists before their ride through Vatican City. (Francesco Sforza via) 🇮🇹 Vatican City — Simon Yates won the Giro d'Italia after erasing an 81-second deficit on the final mountain stage. The 2018 Vuelta a España champion joins Chris Froome as the only Brits to win multiple Grand Tours. ⚾️ Boswell: Baseball is pretty great right now (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images) Are we living through a golden age of baseball? In his latest column, longtime Washington Post scribe Thomas Boswell makes the case that MLB's on-field product is as good as it has ever been. Advertisement Here's Boz: This year I've watched plenty of MLB games and enjoyed them — a lot. I find baseball just as well-paced, dramatic and aesthetically pleasing as the sport I first fell for long ago. This has surprised, pleased and confused me. I'm one of those who, for years, has complained about two problems. First, games were too slow. Second, I agreed that the analytics era focus on "three true outcomes" — homers, walks and strikeouts, none of which involve defensive plays — subtracted athletic action. So why was I enjoying the game so much? The answer: Thanks to the pitch clock, games aren't too slow anymore. And aside from the steady rise in strikeouts, the "three true outcomes" aren't all bad trends. In fact, statistics suggest today's brand of baseball is remarkably similar to the brand that was played during MLB's boom years from 1975-1994, a 20-year stretch that saw the league's popularity skyrocket and showed "what the sport looks like when it's healthy," writes Boswell. Advertisement 1975-94: The average team scored 700 runs per 162 games, with 121 steals, 529 walks and an OPS of .713. The average game time was 2:43. 2024-25: The average team scores 709 runs per 162 games, with 122 steals, 506 walks and an OPS of .711. The average game time is 2:39. The last word: "If we could love only perfect things, our days would be bleak. Baseball, as we find it today, is an opportunity to appreciate an imperfect thing and allow it to make us feel happy," writes Boswell. "MLB has warts. But I've never been happier to have an exciting crisp version of the old game for summer company." Full column: Is baseball actually troubled, or is it as good as it has ever been? ⚽️ PSG finally conquer Europe (Maja Hitij/UEFA via Getty Images) PSG stormed past Inter Milan, 5-0, on Saturday night in Munich to win the club's first Champions League title after years of falling disappointingly short. Advertisement From Yahoo Sports' Henry Bushnell: For a little over a decade, PSG was a controversial project and a collection of names. It was Zlatan Ibrahimovic and David Beckham, then Neymar, Kylian Mbappé and Lionel Messi. It was a club transformed by money and defined by unflinching ambition. It was many things, but never the one thing it desperately wanted to be — until Saturday, when PSG, in its very first year without a megastar, became the European champion. PSG manager Luis Enrique is hoisted into the air by his players. () Behind the scenes: To be clear, this was not some low-budget rebuild or underdog story. PSG spent $800 million over the last two years, more than any other club. The difference: Instead of splurging on all-world players, they invested in talented but not-yet-heralded youngsters who, sans ego, would heed the demands of manager Luis Enrique. Advertisement Enrique took charge in the summer of 2023 and set out to build a team-first culture at a club where stars had been "treated like gods," he explained. He wasn't afraid to lecture Mbappé (as seen here), and ultimately, wasn't afraid to lose him. "I would like him to stay. He's the cornerstone of the team," Enrique said last year around the time Mbappé exited for Real Madrid. "But the moment he leaves, the team becomes the cornerstone. I think we can be even better next season." Completing the treble: PSG are the ninth club to win domestic league, domestic cup and European Cup titles in the same season, joining Celtic (1966-67), Ajax (1971-72), PSV Eindhoven (1987-88), Manchester United (1998-99), Barcelona (2008-09; 2014-15), Inter Milan (2009-10), Bayern Munich (2012-13; 2019-20) and Manchester City (2022-23). 📺 Watchlist: Monday, June 2 The Red Raiders are in the WCWS semifinals for the first time. (Texas Tech Athletics) 🥎 Women's College World Series, Semifinals | ESPN No. 6 Texas advances to the Final with a win over No. 7 Tennessee (12pm ET), while a loss would trigger a winner-take-all game at 2:30pm. No. 12 Texas Tech advances with a win over No. 2 Oklahoma (7pm); a winner-take-all game would be at 9:30pm if needed. ⚾️ NCAA Baseball Championship, Regionals | ESPN+ 10 teams have already advanced to the Super Regionals. The final six spots will be determined in tonight's elimination games. If you can only watch one, make it No. 14 Tennessee vs. Wake Forest in Knoxville (6pm, ESPN2), as the defending champion Vols look to keep their hopes of a repeat alive. 🎾 French Open, Fourth Round | TNT, truTV, Max No. 6 Novak Djokovic (7:55am), No. 7 Madison Keys vs. fellow American Hailey Baptiste (8:30am) and No. 1 Jannik Sinner vs. No. 17 Andrey Rublev (2:15pm) headline the action. 🏀 NBA Finals trivia Reggie Miller and Jalen Rose during the 2000 NBA Finals. (Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images) The Pacers are back in the Finals for the first time since 2000, when their lone appearance on the NBA's grandest stage ended in a 4-0 sweep. Advertisement Question: Who swept them? Hint: Their center won MVP that year. Answer at the bottom. ⚾️ The perfect season (August Frank/Lewiston Tribune via AP) LSU Shreveport became the first college baseball team ever to finish a season undefeated, capping their 59-0 campaign on Friday with the school's first NAIA national championship in any sport. By the numbers: The Pilots played only four one-run games and won eight games by 15+ runs. They led the nation in ERA (2.38) and fielding percentage (.982), ranked second in runs per game (11.3) and third in batting average (.361). Three players hit better than .400 and ace Isaac Rohde finished 16-0. Advertisement For comparison's sake: The NCAA's best single-season winning percentages are .914 by Arizona State (64-6 in 1972) in D-I, .939 by Savannah State (46-3 in 2000) in D-II and .978 by Trinity College (45-1 in 2008) in D-III. Trivia answer: Lakers We hope you enjoyed this edition of Yahoo Sports AM, our daily newsletter that keeps you up to date on all things sports. 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How renewables can help the earth live long and prosper
How renewables can help the earth live long and prosper

Irish Examiner

time6 days ago

  • Business
  • Irish Examiner

How renewables can help the earth live long and prosper

'What's the problem, Scottie?' 'It's the engines, Cap'n. They cannae take it anymore. She's gonna blow!' 'Then have to risk a full power restart. How long do you need?' 'At least fourteen hours, Cap'n. I cannae change the laws of physics!' 'You've got eight minutes.' In fairness to Captain Kirk, despite facing a seemingly unsurmountable crisis in almost every episode of the original Star Trek, he never actually lost the USS Starship Enterprise, and so continued to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, and to boldly go where no man has gone before. The Starship European Union could learn a lot from him, particularly in relation to delivering innovative solutions to complex problems in double quick time and on schedule. Admittedly, the EU missions tend to be far less glamourous than interplanetary exploration, but another important milestone date has just been pushed out and although it won't implode the whole spaceship, it is yet another small tear in the fabric of the EU sustainability strategy. The issue is with the prosaically titled 'Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive' (CS3D), an instrument designed to improve and standardise the quality and content of reporting sustainability performance among companies doing business in Europe. Think of an accountancy balance sheet but instead of stating asset and money balances, it measures 'good behaviour by companies.' The CS3D directive is a key element of the overarching 'Green Deal' strategy with the long-term objective of adding transparency and accountability on an 'apples with apples' comparison basis to ensure that businesses of meaningful size provide clear and reliable information on their performance against environmental, social and governance (ESG) mandates. The other key obligation is that 'in-scope' companies adopt and put into effect a transition plan for climate change mitigation which aims to ensure, 'through best efforts, compatibility of the business model and strategy of the company with the transition to a sustainable economy and with the limiting of global warming to 1.5°C'. For businesses, it presents a trade-off between the cost and hassle of implementing additional regulatory overhead and the commercial opportunity that an increased focus on sustainability will drive additional goodwill to their brand in global marketplaces and better efficiency and innovation in their supply chains. Broadly speaking, the directive has two tangible demands on the companies impacted. Firstly, to drive focus across global 'value chains' for climate mitigation. Secondly, it formalises the principle that all businesses have a responsibility to respect human rights, which are 'universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated'. The intent, or — more accurately — hope, is that to meet these twin objectives, companies would begin to steer more capital investment towards sustainable processes and products and reduce impediments to better net-zero and human rights outcomes. Peter Burke, Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment, has welcomed the deferral of the 'Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive' (CS3D). Simply put, companies that are subject to the directive will be compelled to report and publish information on any material risks identified and what countermeasures taken to mitigate these risks and publish annually the impact, positive or negative that accrue from these changes. Even simpler put, lots more cost and time-pressure for companies for what is effectively an increased burden of 'non-finance' accounting. CS3D was issued early in 2023 and scheduled to be enacted into the national laws of the member states by July 2024. Given that the accounting standards that we know, and love today can be traced as far back as ancient Mesopotamia this has proved to be a very short timeline for such a fundamental re-engineering of corporate statements and opposition to the whole package is gathering, like belligerent Klingons, on the starboard bow of the directive. 'How long do you need, Scottie?" "Five thousand years, Cap'n." "You can have two.' Opposition to the proposal among businesses of all sizes has deepened and as result of intensive lobbying the European Parliament realising that resistance was futile, 'set their phasers to stun' and voted overwhelmingly to 'stop the clock', allowing all stakeholders time and space to catch their breaths and reset the implementation tempo and strategy. The original timeline for full implementation has been extended in by two years and the number of companies that will be subject to the directive has been reduced. The amendment to the directive reclassifies 'large' companies to those whose activities are more likely to impact human rights, and the environment will be impacted. The new threshold means that companies with more than 5,000 employees and net turnover exceeding US$1.6bn are now subject to the directive and are expected to begin reporting from 2028. These changes also mean that 80% of the companies originally targeted for inclusion in the programme are now off the hook. Additionally, the transposition of the directive into national law has also been extended by another year. Since the 2024 due date has passed, only Bulgaria, Czechia, Denmark, Ireland, France, Croatia, Italy, Lithuania, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, and Sweden have met the target date for national legislation. Twelve down, still fifteen to go. While the recent amendments are not exactly a 'full power restart', they at least provide some much-needed wriggle room for Kirk to navigate the Enterprise away from those pesky Klingons. Other problems with the directive which may in the longer term be deeper than the noisy business issues were identified in an article published last December by Cambridge University Press, (The Unintended Consequences of the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive). In it, ESG lawyer Jowita Mieszkowska, argued that the CS3D directive could turn out to be a hat trick of own goals. Firstly, she points to the possibility that companies will withdraw from countries with problematic human rights because the risk of EU sanction leading to negative economic outcomes for regions that most need the investment. Second is the sheer regulatory overhead of implementation might divert capital from more productive and ethical uses. Thirdly, the directive might in fact weaken even stronger national legislation. For instance, Germany would actually have to dilute the impact of it's 'Supply Chain Act' to conform with the provisions of CS3D. Peter Burke, Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment, welcomed the deferral, saying that he 'strongly supports the simplification and burden reduction agenda that is being led by President von der Leyen at European level, to maximise the competitiveness of businesses in the EU in the evolving global trading environment. These proposed changes will of course significantly help enterprise in Ireland, and most of all our SMEs.' The CS3D directive is a key element of the overarching 'Green Deal' strategy; businesses of meaningful size must provide clear and reliable information on their performance against environmental, social and governance (ESG) mandates. Mr Burke will now have to amend the Irish legislation to accommodate the changes enforced by a missed schedule and the elephant in the room has been pushed into a dark corner where it will be neither seen nor heard. The intent of CS3D was after all to help stop the planet growing warmer by reducing sustainability-related risks and promote climate neutral economic transitions in accordance with the 2015 Paris Agreement. These noble aims have been sidelined amid all the political and administrative turmoil and First Officer Spock might reasonably ask: How will this help planet earth to live long and prosper?

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