Former NFL quarterback Tony Romo may have won 2018’s American Century Celebrity Golf Championship, but Stephen Curry took home first place — and raised $5,000 for charity — at the event’s 11th annual Korbel Spray-Off.
Each year, the ACC tourney explains, “celebrities compete to see who can get the most cork distance by popping open a bottle of Korbel champagne.”
And by topping this year’s contestants, including Aaron Rodgers and Jared Goff, with a 63-foot cork pop, the Golden State Warriors star and back-to-back NBA champion won $5,000 for the Curry Family Foundation. Donated on behalf of the Korbel Toast Life Foundation, the money will benefit an organization meant to “improve the lives of endangered children and disadvantaged persons.”
Curry was in the giving mood outside of the Korbel Spray-Off, too. Just over a month removed from spraying plenty of other champagne at his latest Warriors parade, the former MVP invited a fan to be his caddie at the ACC tourney. During a Wednesday practice round, a boy called out to Curry, offering to carry his bag. The latter then asked the fan to be his caddie for the remainder of the tournament.
Charlotte Hornets guard Coby White, March 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Coby White is back in familiar territory. Not only is the 26-year-old point guard back in a starting role, he’s also doing it in his home state of North Carolina. After being traded to the Charlotte Hornets last season, White is taking over as the team’s primary point guard following the offseason trade of LaMelo Ball to the Minnesota Timberwolves.
A native of Wilson, North Carolina, White returns to the state where he holds the all-time high school scoring record (3,573 points) and where the Greenfield High star was named the state’s Gatorade Player of the Year in both his junior and senior seasons, and selected as a McDonald’s All-American. A consensus five-star recruit, he stayed in state to play for North Carolina, where he was named to the ACC All-Freshman team and was a second-team All-ACC selection.
He then declared for the 2019 NBA Draft, where he was the No. 7 overall pick to the Chicago Bulls. He eventually became a regular starter and averaged a career-high 20.4 points in 2024-25. But with the Bulls battling through another losing season in 2025-26 and White set to be a free agent, Chicago traded him to Charlotte in February.
In 21 games for the Hornets last season, he averaged 15.6 points, 3.0 rebounds and 3.0 assists. White felt comfortable enough with the new situation to re-sign with the Hornets over the offseason on a three-year, $74 million contract.
He also told the media that he sees God’s hand in how his career has played out.
“Like everyone knows, spiritually, I’m a believer in Christ, so I think He has a plan,” he said Monday. “If you would’ve told me two years ago that this is where I’d be sitting right now, I wouldn’t believe you.
“But I’m excited. I’m blessed. I’m fortunate. We have a really talented team — a lot of versatile guys and unique players. I’m excited to share the floor, and we brought in some really good vets that I’m excited to learn from. We’ve got a really good team and I’m excited for the opportunity I have. I think it’s on me to take full advantage of it.”
With White in the fold, the Hornets reached the NBA Play-In Tournament last season, winning a game against the Miami Heat before losing to the Orlando Magic. Now, Charlotte is looking to reach the playoffs for the first time since the 2015-16 season. The chance to lead the Hornets there was a big reason White wanted to re-sign with the team.
“I’m excited to see what this year holds,” White said Monday. “This is a different opportunity. I’m in a unique situation, a unique opportunity, and you know it’s definitely one of the main reasons why I did want to come back here was because I knew it would make me a better player. I knew it would be a challenge for the road ahead, and I knew that in order for me to become the player that I strive to be, that I dream of becoming, I have to take on this challenge.”
He’s fully aware of the expectations, especially given his accolades in high school and college in the state, and knows the franchise and fanbase are going to be looking for him to be a leader. He knows it will be a lot of responsibility and weight on his shoulders.
“I think I’m ready for it at this point in my career, maturity-wise, mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually,” he said. “So I’m just excited for the road ahead. I can’t tell you what it’s going to look like, but I know that I’m excited to see (it), just like you are.”
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In the past, White has acknowledged that he may not have been mature enough early in his career to handle such responsibility. Yet he’s seen how God has brought him through those times to make him the man he is.
“I feel with my journey the first four or five years God may not have thought I was ready, that I needed more maturing, maybe more learning,” White told NBA.com in April 2025. “But that was OK. I just wanted to stay patient and continue to be who I am and contribute to work and to strive to be the player who I try to become each and every day. I always give God all the thanks and all the glory because He kind of put me on this journey and He instilled me with the faith and patience to withstand all the trials and tribulations.”
One of White’s biggest examples of how to live a Godly life came from watching his dad, Donald, who was a factory worker in Goldsboro, N.C., and died of liver cancer in 2017 at age 65.
“I was raised to lead with love, raised to put God first and raised to uplift and spread positivity; that’s kind of how my family is,” White told NBA.com. “I look back at my life, growing up in one of the poorest cities in North Carolina. I look back and think, ‘How did I get here?’ I really don’t have an explanation. And then all I can point to is God and my family growing up, my mom, my dad. My dad got on his hands and knees every single night and prayed out loud to God. I saw that every night. He never missed a night, and growing up when you see that stuff as a kid, you start to take home what your parents are doing.”
His faith is big reason why he launched the Coby White Family Foundation, which provides holistic mental health support and scholarship opportunities for Black and Brown youth and families. It also hosts basketball camps and offers educational resources like tutoring, financial literacy and nutritional education.
The foundation is a family affair and guided by Luke 12:48, which says, “To whom much is given, much will be required.”
The Hornets kick off preseason play on Oct. 6 against the Brooklyn Nets, then begin the regular season Oct. 21, also against the Nets.
Scottie Scheffler after winning the Tour Championship, Aug. 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
Scottie Scheffler left no doubt on Sunday about who deserved to be ranked as the No. 1 golfer in the world, capturing the Tour Championship with a 16-under to win his second FedEx Cup in the last three years.
The four-time major winner began Sunday’s final round at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta trailing Norway’s Viktor Hovland by three strokes, but Scheffler carded a 4-under 66 to storm past Hovland and win by three strokes. The victory marked the 22nd PGA Tour win for Scheffler, who turned 30 only a couple of months ago.
Some were considering this a down year for Scheffler, considering he “only” won three tournaments — compared to six wins last year and nine in 2024. But he did finish in the top five at 13 of his 20 events in 2026.
“I’m very proud of being able to have the consistent results I’ve had over the years,” Scheffler said in Sunday’s post-round press conference. “I feel like it’s something that’s very difficult to do, and it’s something that I’m very proud of. I don’t take tournaments off. I don’t take days off during tournaments. I try to give it my all each and every day. I feel like it’s a gift to play out here on the PGA Tour, and don’t want to take it for granted.
“I don’t want to look back at the end of my career and feel like I could have done more in order to play well. I want to be able to tell myself when I hang it up that I did everything I could. I feel like years like this kind of show that to myself, how important that is.”
Scheffler — who won by eight strokes two weeks ago at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee, the first round of the FedEx Cup Playoffs — was stymied last week by hand, foot and mouth disease that left him with a fever and blisters on his hands. Still, he bounced back this weekend to take home the $10 million winner’s purse. In doing so, he became the PGA Tour’s all-time leader in career on-course earnings ($130.4 million), surpassing Tiger Woods’ $121 million.
But no matter how much money he earns, or wins he records, Scheffler’s face on Sunday revealed what is truly important to him.
Scheffler’s special moment with his wife, Meredith, and two young sons has become a regular sight on the PGA Tour in recent years.
“I would say my greatest priorities are my faith and my family,” he said in a press conference before last year’s British Open. “Those come first for me. Golf is third in that order. I’ve said it for a long time: Golf is not how I identify myself. I don’t identify myself by winning tournaments, chasing trophies, being famous or whatever it is.”
Scheffler has consistently discussed his faith in Christ throughout his rise to golfing stardom and historic run at the top of the sport. He calls himself a “Christ follower” in his Instagram bio, and in late December, Scheffler made time to speak to 40 collegians at a College Golf Fellowship (CGF) retreat about how to honor Christ while being a competitive golfer.
“It’s not bad to have the desire to want to be really good at something. That’s a good thing,” he said at one of the sessions. “It’s just the ‘why?’ Do I want to be a really good golfer so that I can become famous? Or do I want to become a really good golfer to glorify God?”
Scheffler was accompanied by Meredith for some of the sessions, and he was given the opportunity to share his testimony.
“I went to church and I heard for the first time really who Jesus was,” he said. “… I had no idea who Jesus was, what He’d done for us.”
He continued later, “I didn’t understand really exactly what sin was. I didn’t understand how sinful my heart was and really how much I needed a Savior, and I heard it for the first time. So after that, I’ve felt like I’m always gradually giving up different parts of my life to Christ. I feel like each day I’m trying to surrender something new.”
“You’ve really got to look at the motivation for why I play. For me, I have a relationship with Jesus Christ,” Scheffler said after winning the 2022 Arnold Palmer Invitational. “That’s why I play golf. I’m out here to compete because that’s where He wants me. He’s in control of what happens in the end. So just really staying the course and staying faithful and letting Him be the guidance for me versus anything that I do.”
As Scheffler’s name continues to get mentioned with the likes of some of the greatest golfers in history, he knows only the name of Jesus is worthy of ultimate praise and lifelong trust.
THIS IS THE SPORTS SPECTRUM PODCAST HOSTED BY JASON ROMANO, FEATURING OSCAR TSHIEBWE
Oscar Tshiebwe is an NBA player with the Houston Rockets. He went undrafted out of Kentucky in 2023 after winning the 2022 Naismith Player of the Year award and being named a first-team All-American in 2022 and second-team All-American in 2023. He led all of college basketball in rebounding in ’22 and ’23.
After signing a two-way deal with the Indiana Pacers and then with the Utah Jazz, he led the G League in rebounding in 2024 and 2025. On April 12 in the NBA, Tshiebwe posted a career-high 29 points and 17 rebounds against the L.A. Lakers. He signed with the Rockets as a free agent on July 24.
Today on the podcast, Oscar Tshiebwe returns to the show to tell us about his NBA Draft experience, how he left money on the table in trusting in God’s plan, celebrating the Lord even though he was undrafted, what it means to have courage in the dark, writing a book, and how he has mastered the art of rebounding.
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Cori Close is the head coach for the UCLA women’s basketball team. In her 15 seasons at UCLA, she has 358 career wins, back-to-back Final Four appearances, and her first national championship in 2026.
Today on the podcast, Cori Close joins Jason Romano to share about her experience leading UCLA to the women’s national championship, clinging to Christ during this past season, what it means to abide in Jesus, loving her players well, and the Gospel impact she wants to make with the platform she has.
