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The Weekend In Sports: Happy Gilmore Returns, Training Camp Overreactions and skinny Luka

by: RT Young07/28/25

I have to start by talking about Happy Gilmore 2. After 29 years, golf’s long-ball-smashing, Bob Barker-pummeling and Subway-inhaling hero returned to our screens. Even if Adam Sandler as Happy came back into our lives on the small screen via Netflix, the sequel was still about 10,000 times better than I expected it to be.

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One reason the movie worked is that it didn’t attempt to be a sad imitation or a cash grab of the original. Sure, there’s a lot of fan service in the form of old bits, but the original seemed to exist outside the real world of golf. This movie shows just how much impact the 1996 film has had on golf over the last 30 years. That’s evident in the inclusion of golf’s biggest stars in the plot.

Longhorn fans will love the Scottie Scheffler bits and Jordan Spieth even gets a one-liner. And Jon Daly as a hand-sanitizer-guzzling hermit living in Gilmore’s basement is incredible—as is the redemption of Shooter McGavin. I won’t spoil all the cameos that barrage the movie, but as an NBA superfan, I loved Boban Marjanović playing the son of Mr. Larson, Happy’s nail-in-the-head former boss in the original.

It’s also pretty clear Sandler doesn’t like LIV Golf.

As for NFL training camp—I’m sorry, but I can’t do it. While it is exciting to see ex-Texas players in their new jerseys, like fan favorite David Gbenda wearing number 48 (a sweet connection to Gbenda’s good friend, the late Jake Ehlinger), we’ve reached peak silly season when it comes to one-off clips taken by fans and journalists.

Every catch means someone is about to have 2,000 receiving yards. Every slow get-off means a player is washed. Every completed pass by a backup means a starter is about to lose his job.

This Quinn Ewers throw made the rounds over the weekend and lots of people—like Dez Bryant—had takes.

I like Ewers. I’m appreciative of all he did for Texas and despite his draft slide, I think he ended up in a great situation. But the ability to make a one-off miraculous throw was never in doubt when it comes to the ex-Longhorn passer. The real doubts center around whether he can be more consistent, stay healthy and level up. I hope so, for all of those things. Though they won’t be answered during training camp practices in shorts.

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A slimmed-down, svelte Luka Dončić appeared on the cover of Men’s Health. The “Luka did Whole30 and is eating lots of leafy greens” offseason storyline was always going to be pushed by the Los Angeles media. But it appears Dončić really is making Nico Harrison’s bet against his body his new white whale.

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