Scout’s Overview
📡 🚨 Weekly Sports Radar: Jugger

Jugger is a high-intensity sport that blends elements of rugby and martial arts. Players are divided into two teams of five, with most team members equipped with padded weapons to duel and disable opponents, while a single unarmed player, called the "qwik," races to take a ball and score by placing it into the opposing team's goal.

A match is won when a team successfully scores more points than the opponent by delivering the ball into the mal during a set number of "thirds" (like periods). What’s crazy is that Jugger was originally inspired by the 1989 dystopian movie The Salute of the Jugger, after which fans of the film in Germany brought the game to life in the early 1990s.

🏋 Athlete of the week: Nadia Nadim

Nadia Nadim is an Afghan-born Danish footballer and medical doctor who, as a child, escaped the Taliban and went on to score over 200 career goals. Additionally, off the pitch, she completed medical school, planning to be a reconstructive surgeon after retiring from football.

On top of THIS, she speaks ELEVEN languages fluently, and is on the Forbes list of Most Powerful Women in International Sports.

🏟️ Venue of the week: The Floating Green

Okay, okay, imagine you’re playing golf and then you realise your next green is slowly floating away from you. The Floating Green at Coeur d'Alene Resort is the world’s only movable, floating golf hole. It’s set on a lake and adjusted daily to challenge players with varying distances.

🧤 Fit Check: Saskatchewan ‘Rush Reimagined’ 2025

This Lacrosse uniform, designed by a local Saskatchewan illustrator, Isaac Thomas, is beautifully executed. The designer chose the flowers because they're all native to Saskatchewan, specifically, the prairie lily in the centre.

After the team wore the jerseys on March 29th this year, the club auctioned the sweaters with proceeds going towards ensuring a healthy and vibrant river valley in the Saskatoon area.

From the bench
🗞️ In case you were injured:

• Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh spent 12 days with sharks, swimming 59 miles around Martha’s Vineyard (a common shark territory) to raise awareness for shark conservation.

• A daredevil broke a Guinness World Record by performing 7 backflips in 30 seconds. While completely set on fire.

• After years of illness, crashes, and heartbreak, Simon Yates finally won the Giro d’Italia, the race that nearly broke him back in 2018

🎯 In overtime:

• China just hosted the World’s first humanoid robot boxing tournament. The robots demonstrated punches, kicks, and even aerial spin moves, all while being remotely controlled by human teams. What a wild time to be alive.

• As a tennis player, there are just 2 things you need: A tennis ball and 2 racquets. So you can imagine the look on one of the world’s best tennis players when she realised she forgot to bring her racquets to the game.

• A few days ago, the GOAT of chess lost to the World Chess Champion. His response was to slam the table so hard in frustration, his pieces toppled over.

📊 Analyst’s Corner:

2 weeks ago, we looked at the top 10 highest-paid athletes in the world. We had derived the numbers from Forbes’ top 50 highest-earning athletes list, and something we noticed is that there are no women athletes in the top 50. Let’s break it down:

• Number of Women in the top 50 this year: 0

• One of the highest-paid athletes is Coco Gauff, who earned $34.4M in 2024. She still missed the Forbes top 50 by $19.2M

• The cutoff to enter the top 50 in 2025: $53.6M 

• Highest-earning female athletes ever:

  • Naomi Osaka (2021): $57.3M

  • Serena Williams (2021): $45.9M

  • Coco Gauff (2024): $34.4M

• This means that from the highest-earning female athletes ever, only one would make it into the top 50 of 2025

🏆 Sports Calendar

Here’s a look at the ongoing and upcoming sports events this week: