The Bull City Braves won all three of their games in winning the Durham
All-City League Tournament for players age 13-15 played Saturday at
Hillside Park in Durham.

In the title game, the Braves defeated the Yankees 14-0. (Complete scores are below.)

The tournament was the finale of a season that nearly did not begin because of city budget cuts.

Ryan Nagy of Raleigh shot a 6-under-par 64 to win the 20th annual Jack Ratz Jr. Memorial Golf Tournament played Aug. 3 at the Wildwood Green Golf Club in North Raleigh.

Seventy-five junior golfers turned out for the annual privately
sponsored tournament, which is conducted by the Ratz family to promote
teenage-driver safety. Proceeds from the event are used to fund the
Cardinal Gibbons High School Scholarship Fund in the memory of Jack
Ratz Jr., who was a Wildwood Green member and a 15-year-old Cardinal
Gibbons freshman when he died in a car accident in 1988.

In the girls 16-18 Division, Katie Yelle of Raleigh and Jeda Borek of
Raleigh each shot a 77, and Yelle won the playoff. (A list of top
finishers in each division is below.)

Many Americans admit that they are spending less time with members of their households. A brief in the June 16 paper linked the dwindling togetherness with the increasing use of the Internet and the popularity of social networking sites. What the story didn't say was whether it counts as togetherness when your teen is sitting at the computer updating her Facebook page while you're sitting 3 feet away on the couch watching Jeopardy.

On today's certain-to-divide installment of the Condition, I talk to Steven Boone, East Coast freelance critic, blogger and friend of Armond. And we get into it on the subject of classical filmmaking, something that Boone feels is sorely lacking in our contemporary film culture, and whether the most acclaimed movie and the most ghettofabulous waste of time aren't that different from one another these days. (Hence the titular question.)

We also discuss how one particular, Oscar-winning summer blockbuster from way back can soothe that savage beast known as — the American teenager. You can also download it here.

NEXT WEEK: A two-parter that still has my head buzzing.