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South Lake Tahoe is hosting the American Century Championship this week with A-list celebrities at every turn. It’s an event like no other.
This weekend, Lake Tahoe is hosting the American Century Championship, the biggest celebrity charity golf event of the year. This tournament brings out all the A-list athletes, from nearly every sport.
Jerry Rice, Patrick Mahomes and John Elway are just a few of the NFL guys out here. Steph Curry and the whole Curry family are in the field as well representing the NBA.

Alcaraz wasn’t the only player who impressed. Here are seven others whose success bodes well.

The first day of the rest of David Montgomery’s life begins July 22. Or something like that.
Montgomery’s fifth year in the NFL will get underway with a new team when veterans report to training camp in Detroit. It will be his first year with the Lions after four seasons with the Bears.
There is a lot of hope for both the 26-year-old running back and the organization that this will be something of a resurgence year. His time in Chicago, outside of a 1,000-yard season in 2020, was largely disappointing.

Reminder: David Montgomery has been the least efficient RB the last four years.

The sports world absolutely loved the Wimbledon men’s final between Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic on Saturday.
The Spaniard ended up winning the nearly five-hour, five-set match. Alcaraz secured his second Grand Slam title, his first coming from last year’s U.S. Open.
Various tennis stars posted congratulatory messages to the 20-year-old, starting with fellow Spaniard Rafael Nadal. The 22-time Grand Slam champion hasn’t played since January’s Australian Open, but his message was seen as somewhat of a passing-the-baton moment.

Baker Mayfield’s career has not played out as he had hoped to this point. That does not mean that it has not been successful, nor does it mean that he does not have time to turn the narrative around.
The former Heisman Trophy winner went No. 1 in 2018 and never quite got it to click while in Cleveland. Mayfield had losing seasons in three of four years.
Baker Mayfield left Cleveland disappointed.(Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images)
And then, when the Browns traded for Deshaun Watson, they shipped him off to Carolina.

Carlos Alcaraz defeated Novak Djokovic the way the 23-time Grand Slam winner conquered so many others. Now, the next few years of tennis look very interesting.

Sometimes stardom come through side doors and service entrances. But Sunday at Wimbledon centre court, Carlos Alcaraz achieved it by going through the front door— smashing it down, in fact. In a spellbinding insta-classic, he beat Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon final 1–6, 7-6(6), 6–1, 3–6, 6–4.
Alcaraz gave a full expression of his vast battery of skills. If this match lived up to its billing though, it certainly didn’t play out as anyone expected. This was not so much a tennis match as a five-act mellow drama.

The Tennessee Titans needed DeAndre Hopkins and now they have him.
The Hopkins free agent sweepstakes, which came down to a two-team decision between the Titans and New England Patriots, was decided Sunday afternoon when the team that was “more aggressive” won out.
And, yes, the Titans were aggressive in that coach Mike Vrabel was communicating with Hopkins even while he was on a visit with the Patriots.
But a team being “more aggressive” usually means it offered more money. And that’s the case here.
It’s unknown to what lengths the Patriots were willing to go to sign Hopkins.

World No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz won his second Grand Slam title in less than a year, defeating seven-time Wimbledon champ Novak Djokovic 6-1, 7-6 (6), 6-1, 3-6, 6-4.

With 24 Grand Slam titles, Novak Djokovic is the most prolific player in men’s tennis history. So it’s not often he finds himself in the position he was in on Sunday, standing at Centre Court to give what had the feel of a concession after falling to Carlos Alcaraz in the Wimbledon final in five sets.
When asked to reflect on the road that led him to this result, Djokovic was a class act, looking back on his many memorable matches and offering deference to the 20-year-old phenom by paying an enormous compliment just moments after a heartbreaking defeat.