 | | ISSUE Nº 012 · WEEK OF OCTOBER 5, 2026 |
Scottie Scheffler won $10 million for winning the last golf tournament of the season. A baseball playoff game in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ended when the ball hit the roof. A horse won the richest race in Europe for the second year in a row. Everything below is safe to repeat out loud.  | GOLF |
 | | SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER, PHOTOGRAPHED IN 2025, ALREADY SMILING ABOUT SOMETHING | | EXHIBIT A Scottie Scheffler won golf's season finale and the $10 million that comes with it Scottie Scheffler won the Tour Championship in Atlanta, Georgia, the last event of golf's postseason, and with it the FedEx Cup, the season-long title, and $10 million. He began Sunday three shots behind Viktor Hovland of Norway, shot 66, the only under-par round among the last six players out, and won by three. It is his second FedEx Cup in three years. The FedEx Cup is named after a delivery company, and for the second time in three years it has gone to the same address. PHOTO: BRYAN BERLIN / CC BY-SA 4.0 / WIKIMEDIA COMMONS |
 | BASEBALL |
 | | THE ROOF IN MILWAUKEE, PHOTOGRAPHED IN 2005, FROM BELOW, ITS PREFERRED ANGLE | | EXHIBIT B A playoff game in Milwaukee ended when the ball hit the roof, and Milwaukee won the next one too In Saturday's playoff opener in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a ninth-inning San Diego fly ball struck a cable under the stadium roof, which the ballpark's rules count as still in play, and was caught for the last out of a 3-2 Brewers win. On Sunday, with the roof open, Jackson Chourio's two-run single in the ninth won it 4-3. Milwaukee leads the best-of-five series 2-0. The roof was in the right place at the right time, and the department has recommended it for a contract extension. PHOTO: JERAMEY JANNENE / CC BY 2.0 / WIKIMEDIA COMMONS |
 | THE BIG ONE |
 | | MICKAEL BARZALONA, WHO RODE DARYZ BOTH YEARS, PHOTOGRAPHED IN 2013 AT SOMEONE ELSE'S TROPHY CEREMONY | | EXHIBIT C A French-trained horse won Europe's richest race for the second year running The Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, run every October in Paris, France, is the richest horse race in Europe, worth 5 million euros. Daryz won it on Sunday for the second straight year, by a length and a quarter. He is the first male horse to win it twice since 1978, and his owners have suggested he will now retire to a career in breeding. None of the five million euros goes to the horse, who did all of the running, which makes Daryz the only participant in this story with a legitimate grievance and no lawyer. PHOTO: OGIYOSHISAN / CC BY 3.0 / WIKIMEDIA COMMONS |
 | FOOTBALL, AMERICAN |
 | | MINKAH FITZPATRICK (39), PHOTOGRAPHED IN 2021, IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF A CATCH | | EXHIBIT D New England handed Buffalo its first loss, and the New York Jets intercepted a pass for the first time in 637 days The New England Patriots beat the previously unbeaten Buffalo Bills 29-26 in Buffalo, New York, on Sunday. The New York Jets lost 23-12 to the Chicago Bears but intercepted a pass, meaning a defender caught one, for the first time in 637 days; the 20 games between their interceptions are an NFL record. Sunday's late games ended after filing. The Jets' defense finally caught a pass meant for someone else, ending a streak that began before most people's current phone. PHOTO: ERIK DROST / CC BY 2.0 / WIKIMEDIA COMMONS |
 | BASKETBALL |
 | | GABBY WILLIAMS, PHOTOGRAPHED IN 2019, IN THE UNIFORM OF A TEAM THAT HAS BEEN AROUND LONGER | | EXHIBIT E A team in only its second season won the first game of its WNBA semifinal The Golden State Valkyries, who played their first game in May 2025, beat the Las Vegas Aces, champions in three of the last four seasons, 71-60 on Sunday in San Francisco, California, to open their semifinal series in the WNBA, the American women's professional basketball league. Gabby Williams scored 25. The Atlanta Dream beat the New York Liberty 92-82 in the other semifinal. The Valkyries are new enough that their first team photo is barely dry, and they just beat a team with three championships in four years. PHOTO: LORIE SHAULL / CC BY-SA 4.0 / WIKIMEDIA COMMONS |
 | HOCKEY |
 | | GUSTAV FORSLING, PHOTOGRAPHED IN 2025, WITH 4.3 SECONDS TO SPARE | | EXHIBIT F Carolina raised its championship banner, then lost to the team it took the championship from Hockey's regular season opened on Tuesday in Raleigh, North Carolina, where the Carolina Hurricanes first raised a banner for the Stanley Cup, the championship they won in June. They then lost 1-0 to the Florida Panthers, champions in 2024 and 2025, when Gustav Forsling scored with 4.3 seconds left in overtime, the extra period played when a game is tied. Florida sat politely through a ceremony about its own defeat and then won with 4.3 seconds left, a reply-all of historic precision. PHOTO: THE KIP / CC BY-SA 4.0 / WIKIMEDIA COMMONS |
 | SOCCER |
 | | HARRY KANE, PHOTOGRAPHED IN JUNE, FOUR MONTHS BEFORE SCORING TWICE IN CROATIA | | EXHIBIT G England beat Croatia 7-0 in Croatia With England's Premier League stopped for a three-week break, national teams played in the Nations League, a European competition between countries. England beat Croatia 7-0 on Saturday in Rijeka, Croatia, the worst defeat in Croatia's history; Harry Kane and Bukayo Saka scored twice each. Croatia reached the World Cup final in 2018. Spain beat Czechia 3-1 for a tenth straight win. Croatia had never lost a game by seven goals, and on Saturday it was able to cross that off, at home, in front of family. PHOTO: BRYAN BERLIN / CC BY-SA 4.0 / WIKIMEDIA COMMONS |
 | FORMULA 1 |
| Nothing happened. You're welcome. There was no Formula 1 race this weekend. The series resumes in Singapore on Sunday, October 11. The department spent the weekend at the posted speed limit. |
 | ALSO FILED |
| ⚲ Baseball, also: the Chicago White Sox swept Houston, last week's division winner with exactly as many losses as wins, out of the playoffs in two games, their first playoff series win since 2005. | | ⚲ Football, also: the Los Angeles Rams scored 14 points in the last four minutes to beat Philadelphia 24-20, and Indianapolis beat Washington 30-13 in London, England. | | ⚲ Football, also, college: 25th-ranked Missouri beat eighth-ranked Florida 45-17, a week after Florida had beaten the fourth-ranked team by 24. | | ⚲ Tennis: Novak Djokovic, 39, beat the top seed in Beijing, China on Sunday and is now 32-0 at that tournament; the final is Tuesday. | | ⚲ Tennis, also: Jannik Sinner, the top-ranked player, withdrew from his next two tournaments with a right knee injury. | | ⚲ Correction: last week's issue said hockey's regular season would start in October. It started on Tuesday, September 29. The department regrets the error. |
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