Weekend roundup, with a dash of ‘Thrones’

Disa and data from the weekend, which was a good time to get outside and trim the hedges.

If you have a certain invasive species of honeysuckle shrub on your lot, you pine for a pet dragon to flame the thing into a smoking pile of compost. Drogon would do just fine.

It was a better weekend to watch television. To that end, one must ask: Bran Stark? Seriously? As someone who has so far listened to the first four books of "A Song of Ice and Fire" — and is saving the "Game of Thrones" television series for later — I’m wondering what the heck happened when the show wrapped in Westeros. Dany would have been my pick. She had dragons.

Thank the old gods for live sports. The weekend was capped with the Toronto Raptors’

double-overtime victory over the Milwaukee Bucks. Some bad basketball (goodness, people, run your stuff) was saved by Kawhi Leonard, who did a credible impression of Michael Jordan. In any case, one of these teams is going to get flamed by the Golden State Warriors. Draymond seems a good name for a dragon.

Brooks Koepka could’ve choked away the PGA championship — but he didn’t. He had a gagproof, seven-stroke lead going into the final round at Bethpage Black. Things got a little dicey by No. 18 Sunday, but Koepka chipped out of the rough, made an extraordinary par and won by two. Of course, as Koepka addressed what might have been the biggest shot of the tournament, CBS cut away to a Dustin Johnson interview.

Koepka has won four majors. Old Tom Morris also won four. So did Young Tom. Raymond Floyd, who has Targaryen blood in him, won four majors. Ernie Els and Rory Mcilroy have four majors. This is very heady company.

Koepka is a little like Bran Stark — didn’t see him coming, did you? As yet, Koepka has not committed to play in next week’s Memorial Tournament. According to our Rob Oller, the prospects of a Koepka appearance are not good. Deadline to enter is 5 p.m. Friday.

On Saturday night, the Crew played at Minnesota and lost for the seventh time in eight games. The Crew was shut out for the sixth time this season, and for the fifth time in five weeks. The game in Minny was a nadir. The Crew couldn’t even pass the ball backward. It was painful to watch.

The Crew (5-8-1) has slipped to eighth in the Eastern Conference. Its next game is against the worst team in the league, the Rapids (1-9-2), Saturday at Colorado. Perhaps an own goal is in the offing.

Among the best weekend viewing was the Preakness. Hats off to War of Will and his 24-year-old jockey, Tyler Gaffalione. War of Will, coming out of the No. 1 gate, never got boxed in, and Gaffalione picked a perfect moment to make his move. The great Javier Castellano, atop pacesetter Warrior’s Charge, left too much room on the rail and allowed War of Will to pass coming out of the final turn. Everfast, a long shot, finished second, and Owendale crushed the spirits of the Arace household by finishing third.

For all of this, Bodexpress was the story of the middle leg of the Triple Crown. He threw his jockey coming out of the gate and kept right on going, riderless. In fact, he made two circuits of Pimlico’s course before he could be reined in.

The Belmont Stakes is June 8. Don’t know yet who’s in the field. If Bodexpress runs, he might look pretty good with his Hall-of-fame jockey, John Velasquez, on his back.

They’ve got big hedges around the Belmont track, by the way.