And the Emmy goes to ... Phillies star Trea Turner? Documentary on Turner's ovation wins Emmy Award

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — And the Emmy goes to ... Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Trea Turner?

Turner already won an NL batting title and a World Series championship ring in his 11-year MLB career.

How about adding an Emmy Award to that trophy case?

“Trea Turner’s an Emmy winner, absolutely,” sports documentary producer Kyle Thrash said. “He definitely held it up like he owned it.”

Turner may not actually have the award in hand to keep for good, but he got to hoist the real deal ahead of Friday's game against Toronto in a short celebration for the Emmy won for a best sports short documentary produced on the 2023 standing ovation credited with turning around his season.

“The Turnaround” won a sports Emmy in May and Thrash and Phillies fan Jon McCann — whose personal struggles with mental health and kinship with Turner were the heart of the film — attended the game to show off their new bling to Turner.

“Cuz, we did it, huh?! “McCann said as he shook Turner's hand on the field after batting practice. ”Trea Turner, we share an Emmy together.”

Turner read the inscription at the bottom of the Emmy and promised the fans he would wave to them in section 301 if he stole a base in Friday's game.

“We get to bring a trophy back to the ballpark tonight and share it with so many people that were involved in the standing ovation. It's pretty incredible,” Thrash said.

Philly sports fans — often billed as some of the worst in sports — gave a slumping Turner standing ovations in at-bats throughout the weekend in an August 2023 series to show he had their full support.

Turner was in the first season of an 11-year, $300 million deal with the Phillies but was batting just .238 with 11 home runs and 39 RBIs. He was even dropped to eighth in the batting order headed into that series against Kansas City.

In three games over the weekend against the Royals, Turner went 4 for 12 with two doubles, a home run and five RBIs and he would eventually help lead the Phillies to the playoffs.

Turner later helped pay for “Thank You, Philly" digital billboards in the greater Philadelphia area.

The documentary was produced by Higher Ground, the media company founded by former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama

McCann, also known as “The Philly Captain," is a Philadelphia based YouTuber and was one of the fans — along with a Philly sports talk radio host — credited with rallying the fans to get behind Turner.

“During the ceremony, one of the award presenters said, ‘When you go up against the Olympics, you lose.’ So I kind of thought we already lost,” McCann said. “We didn't. It was a great, great shock.”

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Philadelphia Phillies' Trea Turner (7) singles off Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Chase Shugart, driving in two runs during the fourth inning of a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Friday, June 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Trea Turner, left, poses with Phillies fan Jon McCann, center, and documentary producer Kyle Thrash with a sports Emmy won for best sports documentary "The Turnaround", the story how McCann inspired a city-wide movement to cheer for instead of boo for Turner, before a baseball game against the Toronto Blue, Jays, Friday, June 13 , 2025, in Philadelphia (AP Photo/Dan Gelston)

FILE 0 Philadelphia Phillies' Trea Turner acknowledges the crowd after hitting a three-run home run during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Kansas City Royals, Saturday, Aug. 5, 2023, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday announced 6.5 billion euros in extra military spending in the next two years because of new and unprecedented threats, from Russia to terrorists to online attacks.

The French leader laid out the spending plans in a sweeping speech calling for intensified efforts to protect Europe. He said France will aim to spend 64 billion euros in annual defense spending in 2027, the last year of his second term; that would be double the 32 billion in annual spending when he became president in 2017.

″Since 1945, freedom has never been so threatened, and never so seriously,'' Macron said in the French president’s traditional speech to the military on the eve of the Bastille Day national holiday.

″To be free in this world we must be feared. To be feared we must be powerful,'' he said.

He insisted that France can find the money to spend more on the military even as it tries to bring down massive debts. Conservative and far-right parties have supported greater defense spending, while left-wing parties accuse the government of sacrificing hard-won social welfare benefits for military spending.

Europe is in danger because of Russia’s war in Ukraine and wars in the Middle East, and because ″the United States have added a form of uncertainty,″ Macron said. He also cited online disinformation campaigns by unnamed foreign governments and propaganda operations targeting children, in ″the screen era.″

Macron also ordered France’s top military and defense officials to start a ″strategic dialogue″ with European partners about the role that France’s nuclear arsenal could play in protecting Europe. France and Britain agreed recently to cooperate on nuclear arsenal issues.

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks to the army leaders at the Hotel le Brienne, Sunday, July 13, 2025, ahead of the Bastille Day parade in Paris. (Ludovic Marin, Pool Photo via AP)