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🚨 Headlines
⛳️ Yang’s first major: South Korea’s Amy Yang, 34, won the KPMG Women’s Professional Golf Championship by three strokes on Sunday, capturing her long-awaited first major title.
⚾️ Removing sticky substances: Mets closer Edwin Diaz was ejected before pitching Sunday after umpires determined his hands and glove were too sticky. He will serve an automatic 10-game suspension.
⚾️ PED suspension: The same weekend that he made his major league debut, Blue Jays infielder Orelvis Martinez was suspended 80 games for violating MLB’s performance-enhancing drugs policy.
🏈 Venables said: The University of Oklahoma has agreed to a six-year, $46 million contract extension with head football coach Brent Venables, who has a 16-10 record since taking over from Lincoln Riley.
🎾 America’s New Number 1: Tommy Paul won the Queens title in London, becoming the first American man to take the top spot in the competition. Paul moved up one spot to 12th, overtaking compatriot Taylor Fritz.
⚾️ Brutal Loss: The Rockies beat the Nationals on Saturday thanks to MLB’s first walk-off pitch time violation.
🏆 It all comes down to this
The NHL couldn’t have produced a more epic season finale. More attention will be focused on tonight’s Game 7 in South Florida than on a match with so much incredible history and outcome at stake.
Stakes: The Oilers have a chance to miraculously come back from 3-0 down and end Canada’s 31-year Stanley Cup winless streak, while the Panthers can either win their first championship or end the worst collapse in NHL history.
How we got here:
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Game 1: Panthers 3, Oilers 0
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Game 2: Panthers 4, Oilers 1
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Game 3: Panthers 4, Oilers 3
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Game 4: Oilers 8, Panthers 1
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Game 5: Oilers 5, Panthers 3
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Game 6: Oilers 5, Panthers 1
Comeback Kids: The Oilers are the first team in 79 years to overturn a 3-0 deficit to force a Game 7 in the Stanley Cup Finals, and if they win tonight they will become the only team to hoist the Cup after losing their first three games, joining the 1942 Maple Leafs.
The Canadian Curse: It’s been 31 years since a Canadian team last won the Stanley Cup (the 1993 Canadiens), the longest winless streak in Canadian history, but don’t be fooled into thinking that the whole of Canada is rooting for the Oilers.
Ian Mendes of The Athletic$):
To our friends in the U.S. who think we’re obsessed with bringing back the trophy, know that we’re not putting the country on pause to see if the Oilers will bring home the title. Not everyone is nervous on this side of the border. We’re not England waiting for the FIFA World Cup.
An Oilers win, while it would end a 31-year drought, would do nothing to help the rest of the country’s fanbase — cities like Ottawa, Vancouver and Winnipeg, who have never hoisted the Stanley Cup, would not get even partial recognition — and an Edmonton win would only further infuriate Toronto fans, who are nearing a 60-year title drought.
Can Florida bounce back? The Oilers may have momentum, but the Panthers are 8-4 in the playoffs on home ice (and 2-1 in the series), so it would be a surprise to no one if the Panthers win in a big way tonight and claim their first championship.
“This is probably going to be the biggest NHL game in years, so the fans are excited. We can’t wait.” — Matthew Tkachuk, Panthers forward
The wrong kind of history: The Panthers hope to avoid becoming just the sixth team in NHL/NBA/MLB history to lose a best-of-seven series after winning the first three games. NHL teams are 206-4 after blowing a 3-0 lead, NBA teams are 157-0 and MLB teams are 39-1.
⛳️ Schaeffler wins again
Scottie Scheffler will keep winning. His most recent victory came on Sunday at the Travelers Championship, where he held off Protester and Tom Kim for his sixth win of the season.
Rarefied Air: Scheffler is the first player to win six PGA Tour events in the first seven months of the month since Arnold Palmer in 1962. He also is one of just four players in the last 40 years to win six or more times in the same season, joining Tiger Woods (six), Vijay Singh (2004) and Nick Price (1994).
Scottie’s last 10 starts:
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Arnold Palmer Invitational: Winner
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player: Winner
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Houston Open: T2
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Masters: Winner
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RBC Legacy: Winner
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PGA Championship: Prison (T8)
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Charles Schwab Challenge: T2
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Monuments: Winner
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US Open: T41
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Traveler: Winner
Very wealthy man: Schaeffler has already earned $27.7 million in prize money in 2024 and could hit $60 million by the end of the season, and that doesn’t even include lucrative off-course endorsement deals with the likes of Nike and TaylorMade.
For those who missed it… Cameron Young shot 59 on Saturday, becoming the 13th player in PGA Tour history to finish under 60. He finished at 11 under with seven birdies, two eagles and no bogeys.
🇺🇸 Photos from across America
ARLINGTON, Texas — Christian Pulisic scored in the third minute and assisted Folarin Balogun’s goal in the 44th minute, and the United States comfortably beat Bolivia 2-0 in their Copa America opener on Sunday night.
OMAHA, Nebraska — Tennessee beat Texas A&M, 4-1, in Game 2 of the College World Series final on Sunday to set up a deciding game in tonight’s Game 3. The Aggies won 9-5 on Saturday and held a 1-0 lead into the seventh inning on Sunday before giving up two home runs late in the game.
EUGENE, Ore. — Noah Lyles fought back from a slow start to win the 100 meters at the U.S. Olympic Trials on Sunday, solidifying his status as America’s best hope to win a gold medal in Paris.
Indianapolis – Simone Manuel hit rock bottom in 2021 when she was diagnosed with overtraining syndrome. Three years later, the five-time Olympic medalist has qualified to compete in two events in Paris: the 50-meter freestyle and the 4×100-meter freestyle relay.
🌎 Photos from around the world
London – Travis Kelce made his Eraser Tour debut on Sunday, taking to the stage at Wembley Stadium with girlfriend Taylor Swift, dressed in a tuxedo and top hat.
Dortmund, Germany — Fans wanting to take selfies with Cristiano Ronaldo have become a concern at Euro 2024, with four already breaking through security and invading the pitch in Portugal’s first two matches, and Ronaldo was happy to pose with the youngest of them all.
Bridgetown, Barbados — The United States suffered a 10-wicket defeat to defending champions England in the T20 Cricket World Cup on Sunday, bringing an end to America’s Cinderella winning streak in their first World Cup appearance.
Barcelona — Max Verstappen (Red Bull) won his third consecutive race at Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix to extend his championship lead to 69 points. Lando Norris (McLaren) came second and Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) came third, giving the seven-time world champion his first podium of 2024.
📆 June 24, 2010: 11 Hours of Tennis
14 years ago today, John Isner beat Nicolas Mahut at Wimbledon in the longest tennis match in history (11 hours and 5 minutes). Final scores: 6-4, 3-6, 6-7, 7-6, 70-68.
By the numbers: The first round was played over three days and saw 980 points, 183 games and 216 aces (113 for Isner* and 103 for Mahut). Back then, the fifth set at Wimbledon was decided when a player won two games. Now, it is decided by a 10-point tiebreaker.
Details for this day:
*Marathon Man: Eight years later at Wimbledon, Isner’s semifinal match against Kevin Anderson lasted six hours and 36 minutes, making it the third-longest match in history.
📺 Watchlist: Champions Decided
Tonight, two champions will be decided in a winner-take-all game. It doesn’t get any better than this, folks!
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🏒 Stanley Cup Finals, Game 7: Oilers vs Panthers (8 p.m. ET, ABC)
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⚾️ CWS Finals, Game 3: Tennessee vs. Texas A&M (7 p.m., ESPN)
See also:
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⚽️ EUR*: Italy v Croatia (3 p.m., Fox); Spain vs Albania (3 p.m., FS1)
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⚽️ Copa America: Paraguay vs Colombia (6 p.m., FS1); Costa Rica vs Brazil (9 p.m., FS1)
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⚾️ MLB: Guardians vs Orioles (6:35 p.m., MLB.TV) …Today’s free games.
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🇺🇸 Athletics: U.S. Olympic Selections (1 p.m., Peacock/NBC)
*Group B standings: Spain (6 points), Italy (3 points), Albania (1 point), Croatia (1 point)
🏆 Championship Trivia
Estimated 1 million I attended the Celtics victory parade on Friday, Boston’s 13th major championship celebration this century and the most of any city/metropolitan area.
question: How many titles have each of Boston’s “Big Four” teams (Bruins, Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox) won this century?
The answer is at the bottom.
🍿 Baker’s Dozen: Top 13 plays of the weekend
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⚾️ Jose Siri!
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⚽️ Captain America
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⚾️ That’s robbery
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⚾️ Double play?!
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🏒 Save + Assist
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⚾️ Won by J-Rod
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⛳️ Silly spin
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⚾️ Short but smooth
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⚽️ And finally, Hungary!
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⚾️ Francisco Lindor!
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⚾️ Vols Web Gem
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⚾️ Pitchers are athletes too
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⚽️ Beautiful strike
Please watch all 13 films.
Trivia answer: Six Super Bowl championships for the Patriots (2001, 2003, 2004, 2014, 2016, 2018), four World Series championships for the Red Sox (2004, 2007, 2013, 2018), two NBA championships for the Celtics (2008, 2024) and one Stanley Cup championship for the Bruins (2011).
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