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The final of the 2023 World Darts Championship was a thriller, producing a viral moment of concurrent 9-dart legs. Both competitors, though from different countries, coincidentally share the same first name. The #4 seed Smith defeated the #3 seed Van Gerwen to capture his first world championship title. What is the first name they share?

Michael

Basketball

2014-15 (3rd Team G) Cleveland Cavaliers; 

2018-19 (2nd Team G) Boston Celtics; 

2020-21 (3rd Team G) Brooklyn Nets

Kyrie Irving

Baseball

On Aug. 14, 1997, an electrical outage affecting a bank of lights at Camden Yards forced the Baltimore Orioles to postpone a game against the Seattle Mariners. Later, a conspiracy theory emerged that the Orioles had manufactured the outage as a means of canceling the game in order to preserve Cal Ripken Jr.’s consecutive games played streak. Ripken, the story went, had caught his wife in bed with another man that day, and was either too bruised from fighting the man, too distraught, or some combination of both, to attend the game. According to this now Internet-ubiquitous theory (which, it should be noted, is provably false), who had shacked up with Ripken’s wife?

Kevin Costner