LAST WORDS

No more talk. Let the kids play.”

Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr., wearing a backward cap, just as he did as the fresh face of the sport in the early 1990s, in a Major League Baseball ad blasting the game’s so-called “unwritten rules,” including the anti-bat flip attitudes of many traditionalists. We never fought, that’s not our relationship. We’re two even-keeled guys, and I can’t even remember raising my voice to him or him to me in our four years of friendship.”

Golfer Brooks Koepka, dismissing reports in European media of two separate quarrels with Ryder Cup teammate Dustin Johnson. From staff and wire reports