CARROLLTON — LIV Golf Dallas’ poster boy and Grapevine resident Bryson DeChambeau gave out fist bumps as he exited his 15th hole to cheers at 4 p.m Sunday. A smile crossed his face after passing the last fan.
One of the boys he fist bumped was wearing an SMU shirt. DeChambeau, who won the NCAA Division I national championship in 2015 for the Mustangs, turned around and gave the boy a thumbs up before telling him “pony up.”
DeChambeau finished LIV Golf Dallas 3-under-par and tied for ninth, but that would have been hard to guess with the way he interacted with fans at Maridoe Golf Club. He thanked everyone at the last hole and then moved to sign hats and take selfies with as many fans as he could.
“Dallas showed up and this is what I expected,” DeChambeau, who captained the winning Crushers GC team, said Sunday. “This is what I thought was possible and our team showed up. I just got to say that I’m super thankful to Dallas and super thankful to the team for playing as well as they did.”
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DeChambeau was tied for 15th and nine shots behind the morning’s leader and tournament champion Patrick Reed going into Day 3 of the LIV Golf Dallas tournament. Nonetheless, fans flocked to the fifth tee at noon to watch DeChambeau tee off for the shotgun start.
DeChambeau, who finished 13th after Day 1, was a big part of LIV Golf’s marketing for their second time hosting in Dallas. The SMU grad was on billboards around the D-FW area promoting the weekend at Maridoe.
“I want to showcase this great golf course and what LIV product is all about, the team competition about it, how diabolical it can be and how difficult it can be to win not only an individual title out here but a Team Championship title out here,” DeChambeau said in a news conference Thursday about the responsibility he felt to promote this tournament.
Less than two weeks before the tournament, DeChambeau went out to Interstate 635 with a cardboard sign that read “Come to my tournament.” At one point he even ended up on top of a scaffolding next to the freeway signs.
The fans, including the 3 million followers he has on Instagram, listened. He had a crowd at every hole this weekend, even as the temperature reached the upper-90s. Saturday’s crowd of 20,000 fans broke the single-day record for most fans at a LIV Golf event in the United States.
DeChambeau made sure to acknowledge his fans every step of the way. After finishing even par for the second day in a row on Saturday, DeChambeau showed up to the Whiskey Myers concert Maridoe Golf Club hosted as a part of the LIV Golf Dallas festivities.
“My face was on a billboard this week trying to get people out here and they definitely showed up and I wanted to show my respect and appreciation for them coming to this tournament especially in the heat,” DeChambeau said of his moment on stage Saturday night. “It was not easy to come out here and have fun and enjoy this massive heat wave, but they did it and they showed up.”
The two-time U.S. Open Champion told the crowd he loved them twice and promised them that Sunday night would be even better, before throwing his hat into the sea of fans.
He was right about Sunday. For the first day in the three day tournament, DeChambeau finished under-par. His team, Crushers GC, finished first for the third tournament in a row.
“Big thanks to Dallas and Bryson [DeChambeau] for the amount of effort he’s put in,” DeChambeau’s Crushers GC teammate Anirban Lahiri said Sunday. “I’m really curious to know what the merchandise sales were for the Crushers because you could see so many hats and shirts and that’s what this league’s about.”
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At least four people were injured after a vehicle drove into a crowd of people in Dallas on Thursday evening.
Dallas police responded to an “Assist Officer call with an Ambulance” at approximately 7 p.m. in the 300 block of West Davis Street.
Authorities learned that a vehicle drove into a crowd, injuring multiple people. At least four have been taken to a local hospital for treatment. Police said no one was in critical condition.
The driver of the vehicle was arrested at the scene, police said. Authorities are still working to determine if this driver could have been drunk or if this could have been a medical episode.
According to police, there is no indication that the crash was terrorism related.
The investigation is ongoing.
This story will be updated as we learn more.
Dana Perino announces that Scottish World Cup fans have caused an unprecedented beer shortage in Boston, emptying bars and liquor stores. Jesse Watters playfully observes that Europeans visiting America seem to “love it,” despite negative media portrayals, while Greg Gutfeld adds a satirical comment about “liberal mayors” and local resource management, contrasting Boston’s beer woes with LA’s water and Chicago’s Bears.
FOX Soccer analyst Kasper Schmeichel came prepared for this year’s World Cup on American soil.
The former Danish goalkeeper may not be from around these parts, but that didn’t stop him from dropping an eerily accurate comparison between two overconfident but long-suffering sports programs.
With England and Croatia warming up inside AT&T Stadium, the home of the Dallas Cowboys, Schmeichel decided he would roast two fanbases with one stone, comparing the Cowboys to the Three Lions with a hilarious one-liner.
Funny, but also painfully true if you’re a supporter of either team.
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I made a comparison last week between the English national team and Notre Dame, but Schmeichel got me thinking, who are the sports analogs to England from the four major North American leagues (NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA)?
Today, I will be doing exactly that, including giving a slightly better NFL comp than the Cowboys (shocking, I know).
Without further ado, let’s piss off our neighbors from across the pond.
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Chicago Bears helmets are displayed before the game against the Las Vegas Raiders at Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nev., on Sept. 28, 2025. (Kiyoshi Mio/Imagn Images)
While the Dallas Cowboys are a fine comparison for the English national soccer team, I think I can do one better.
Schmeichel mentioned that England “won it once and have never stopped talking about it,” and although the second part of that statement applies to both, the Cowboys are five-time Super Bowl champions, having won it most recently in January 1996, a good three decades after England.
If you really want a team that more accurately mirrors the hard luck of the English, it would have to be the Chicago Bears.
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They have one Super Bowl win to their name, which came 40 years ago, and really don’t have much else to show for it.
Also, having lived in the DFW area for the better part of a decade, I can confidently say Cowboys fans are a little too arrogant and cocky to be compared to the English.
Sure, England will say things like “it’s coming home,” but they are far more self-deprecating and aware of their faults, even nihilistic in some cases.
The Bears hang onto their history because they know things will inevitably go bad for them on the biggest stage.
Speaking of which…
Spencer Carbery, assistant coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs, looks on from the bench during the third period against the Washington Capitals at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ont., on April 14, 2022. (Kevin Sousa/NHLI via Getty Images)
The Toronto Maple Leafs actually line up with England more closely than either fanbase would like to admit.
While the Leafs have a litany of Stanley Cups to their name, their most recent win was back in 1967, less than a full year after England won their first and only World Cup.
As far as expectations go, both constantly go into their respective tournaments with the weight of the world on their shoulders, only to come crashing down in the most horrific ways imaginable.
For the Leafs, it comes in the form of blowing big leads in the playoffs, while English fans and players alike can’t even hear the words “penalty kicks” without having a mental breakdown.
England and Toronto are both long-suffering cities, but their fans keep showing up expecting a different outcome.
Insanity? No, just sports fandom.
Jalen Brunson of the New York Knicks celebrates a three-point basket with Karl-Anthony Towns during Game Two of the 2026 NBA Finals at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Texas, on June 5, 2026. (Ronald Cortes/Getty Images)
This one would have been an even better comparison if the New York Knicks hadn’t gone and won the whole damn thing this year, but these two sports teams are still eerily similar.
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Think of the Knicks’ 2026 NBA Championship run as a window into what it would look like if England captured a World Cup (on American soil, no less).
Before this year, the Knicks famously had not won a Larry O’Brien trophy in over 50 years, yet they were still considered one of the “blue bloods” of the NBA.
Decades of heartache didn’t change that; it only made their fans more insufferable, but their triumph earlier this month in the NBA Finals exorcised all those demons.
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A win in the World Cup Finals would probably do the same for England fans, as you could probably feel that sigh of relief from the other side of the Atlantic.
New York Mets outfielder Juan Soto reacts after scoring a run on an RBI double by infielder Bo Bichette against the San Francisco Giants during the first inning at Oracle Park in San Francisco, Calif., on April 2, 2026. (Robert Edwards/Imagn Images)
Hello again, New York.
The Big Apple certainly has its fair share of winners, but it also has plenty of franchises that are aching to make a trip back down the Canyon of Heroes, none more so than the Mets.
Year after year, the Mets are near the top of MLB in terms of spending, with little to show for their efforts.
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They won a World Series back in 1986 and have been chasing that high ever since.
The common thread between England and the Mets (along with all the other teams on this list) is expectations relative to results, and it seems like the Mets are sort of a Schrödinger’s baseball franchise in that regard, expected to both compete for a World Series with their high-priced talent and flame out in spectacular fashion all the same.
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England always has flashy players heading into World Cup play, but the results haven’t been there, and they’ve often been sent home in brutal fashion, offering a great parallel to the Mets’ clockwork-like midsummer swoons and late-season meltdowns.
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