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⚾️ No no-no: The Astros pulled Ronel Blanco on Sunday after seven hitless innings (and 94 pitches), ending his bid to develop into the seventh pitcher in MLB historical past with two no-nos in the identical season after first tossing one on April 1.
🥇 Fourth Olympics: Katie Ledecky is headed to Paris 2024, making her simply the eighth American swimmer to qualify for 4 Olympics.
🏀 Barkley to retire: Charles Barkley dropped a surprising announcement on Friday, revealing that he plans to retire from TV after the 2024-25 NBA season.
⚾️ Another betting scandal: MLB umpire Pat Hoberg was reportedly disciplined for violating the league’s playing guidelines. Hoberg, who denies betting on baseball, is interesting.
🏏 USA advances: Team USA superior to the Super 8s of the T20 Cricket World Cup after their last group stage match towards Ireland was deserted on account of climate. The last eight: USA, India, England, Australia, Afghanistan, West Indies, South Africa, Bangladesh.
⚾️ Dodgers accidents: Mookie Betts (fractured wrist) and Yoshinobu Yamamoto (strained rotator cuff) are each out indefinitely after struggling accidents this weekend.
🏈 Lions signal Bates: Jake Bates, who hit three 60-yard area targets this season for the UFL’s Michigan Panthers, signed a two-year contract with the Detroit Lions.
⚽️ Fastest objective: Albania scored the quickest objective in Euros historical past on Saturday, discovering the web simply 23 seconds into their eventual 2-1 loss to Italy.
⛳️ Victory for Bryson, heartbreak for Rory
Bryson DeChambeau received his second U.S. Open on Sunday, firing up the crowds and holding off a late cost from Rory McIlroy, who watched yet one more main slip away.
Dispatch from Pinehurst: Here’s Yahoo Sports’ Jay Busbee…
In an epic battle, DeChambeau and McIlroy went to the 18th gap tied at 6-under. McIlroy, up forward, missed a 4-foot putt for par, opening the door for DeChambeau. Only, it took some sorcery from DeChambeau to make it occur.
After a wayward drive left him hunched underneath a tree, forcing him to punch out to a greenside bunker, DeChambeau hit the bunker shot of his life, dropping it to inside 4 ft.
Unlike McIlroy, he would not miss, and a second U.S. Open championship was his.
“I can’t believe that up-and-down on the last,” DeChambeau stated. “Probably the best shot of my life.”
For McIlroy, it is one other main gone with out lifting a trophy, this one perhaps as bitter as any within the 37 (and counting) since his final main victory on the 2014 PGA Championship. He missed two putts inside 4 ft within the last three holes. Watching contained in the scoring tent as DeChambeau’s putt dropped, McIlroy understandably appeared as dejected as ever.
For DeChambeau, who decamped from the PGA Tour to LIV Golf two years in the past, he is out of the blue discovered himself the darling of the galleries, cheers and chants of “U-S-A!” accompanying his each step.
What this implies for the continuing PGA Tour-LIV break up stays to be seen, but it surely’s clear that DeChambeau is now one of many sport’s prime attracts, particularly after making good on his post-round promise to let everybody contact the 18-inch tall, sterling silver winner’s trophy.
More heartbreak for McIlroy…
Where does Rory go from right here? Where do you even begin to decide up the items of a shattered dream?
Does he consolation himself with the truth that, but once more, he was within the combine for a significant proper till the ultimate holes?
Does he think about that he is misplaced three majors up to now two years — the 2022 Open Championship, the 2023 U.S. Open and this — by a complete of 4 strokes?
Does he collapse? Implode? Plod his approach by the remainder of his profession questioning how 6 ft value of putts on Sunday night time may have modified his life?
Sunday night time on the U.S. Open at Pinehurst, McIlroy noticed his finest probability to win a significant up to now decade — a decade, let’s not neglect, already stuffed with near-misses — roll towards the cup, peer over the sting, and lip proper on out. Twice.
Every championship ends in heartbreak for somebody. At this level, each golf main ends in heartbreak for McIlroy.
Every time the solar units on one other main Sunday and McIlroy leaves the 18th inexperienced and not using a trophy; each time he has to stroll into one other main week and face the questions of “Is it going to happen this week, Rory?”; each time an engraver faucets out yet one more participant’s title … properly, how way more can one man take?
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Elite firm: DeChambeau joins Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus and Bobby Jones as the one gamers to win the U.S. Amateur and a number of U.S. Opens.
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Insane stat: McIlroy was 496-for-496 placing inside 3 ft this season earlier than his brutal miss on 16.
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Olympics roster: Collin Morikawa edged out Patrick Cantlay for the ultimate Team USA spot, becoming a member of Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele and Wyndham Clark.
Must-see TV: Do your self a favor and watch DeChambeau’s post-round interview with Golf Channel’s Johnson Wagner. So good.
🇺🇸 Photos throughout America
Dallas — The Mavericks annihilated the Celtics on Friday to maintain their season alive and hand Boston its first loss in 5 weeks. The 122-84 win was the third-largest in NBA Finals historical past.
St. Louis — The Birmingham Stallions shut out the San Antonio Brahmas, 25-0, to win the inaugural UFL championship and declare their third consecutive spring soccer title, having received the USFL in every of the previous two years earlier than it merged with the XFL.
Indianapolis — Gretchen Walsh, 21, smashed the world document (55.18*) within the ladies’s 100m fly on Saturday, then received Sunday’s last to earn her first journey to the Olympics.
Las Vegas — Gervonta “Tank” Davis returned from a 421-day layoff to efficiently defend his WBA light-weight title, knocking out Frank “The Ghost” Martin within the eighth spherical to enhance to 30-0 (28 KOs).
*First since Phelps: This was the primary time a world document has fallen on the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials since Michael Phelps’ 200m particular person medley in 2008.
🌎 Photos around the globe
Edmonton — Connor McDavid (3 assists*) and the Oilers staved off elimination towards the Panthers on Saturday with an 8-1 shellacking, marking the second-largest margin of victory in Stanley Cup Final historical past.
Stuttgart, Germany — Three years in the past, Christian Eriksen suffered cardiac arrest on the sphere at Euro 2020. On Sunday, he scored Denmark’s first objective of Euro 2024.
Le Mans, France — Ferrari received its second consecutive 24 Hours of Le Mans on Sunday, outlasting Toyota in a wild and moist 92nd version of the long-lasting endurance race.
Villars-Sur-Ollon, Switzerland — The 87th Tour de Suisse, the ultimate tune-up earlier than the Tour de France, concluded on Sunday.
*Passing Gretzky: McDavid’s three assists gave him 32 for the playoffs, passing Wayne Gretzky’s 1988 mark of 31 for probably the most ever in a single postseason.
⚾️ A weekend of walk-offs
The College World Series acquired off to an exhilarating begin over the weekend, with three walk-offs within the first 4 video games.
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Friday: Tennessee* rallied from a 9-4 deficit to beat FSU, 12-11, on a walk-off single; UNC beat Virginia, 3-2, additionally on a walk-off single.
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Saturday: Kentucky beat NC State, 5-4, on a walk-off homer within the tenth; Texas A&M beat Florida, 3-2, after robbing a would-be go-ahead homer within the ninth.
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Sunday: FSU cruised to a 7-3 win over Virginia to get rid of the Cavaliers; Tennessee beat UNC, 6-1, to push the Tar Heels to the brink.
Where it stands: Seven groups are nonetheless alive within the double-elimination bracket, with Kentucky, Texas A&M and Tennessee sitting fairly with zero losses. NC State and Florida play an elimination sport this afternoon, whereas FSU and UNC play one tomorrow.
*Historic efficiency: Tennessee 2B Christian Moore — a projected first-round decide in subsequent month’s draft — hit for the second cycle in CWS historical past, with the primary coming all the best way again in 1956.
📆 June 17, 1994: The day the Juice acquired unfastened
30 years in the past at this time, O.J. Simpson’s notorious freeway chase headlined a day so chock-full of newsworthy sporting occasions that it impressed a “30 for 30” movie.
What else occurred? The first U.S.-hosted World Cup kicked off, the Rangers held their victory parade, the Knicks took a 3-2 lead over the Rockets within the NBA Finals, Arnold Palmer performed his last spherical on the U.S. Open and Ken Griffey Jr. tied Babe Ruth’s then-record for many house runs earlier than July, together with his thirtieth.
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⛳️ 1962: Jack Nicklaus received the primary of his document 18 majors, defeating then five-time main champion Arnold Palmer in an 18-hole playoff on the U.S Open.
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🏀 1976: The ABA and the NBA merged, with the NBA absorbing 4 of the ABA’s six remaining groups* into the brand new 22-team league that tipped off within the fall.
*Which groups have been absorbed? The Nets, Nuggets, Spurs and Pacers all acquired ported over to the NBA. The Kentucky Colonels and Spirits of St. Louis folded, with their gamers dispersed in a particular draft.
📺 Watchlist: Game 5 in Boston
The NBA Finals head again to Boston tonight for Game 5 (8:30pm ET, ABC), the place the Celtics hope to rebound from their historic loss to clinch their 18th title.
Bottoming out: The C’s scored simply 84 factors in Game 4, the one time in 100 video games this season they failed to interrupt 90. They additionally had simply 35 factors at halftime, the fewest they’ve scored in any half underneath Joe Mazzulla.
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⚾️ CWS: NC State vs. Florida (2pm, ESPN); Kentucky vs. Texas A&M (7pm, ESPN)
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⚽️ Euro 2024: Ukraine vs. Romania (9am, FuboTV); Slovakia vs. Belgium (12pm, FS1); France vs. Austria (3pm, Fox)
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🇺🇸 Swimming/Diving: U.S. Olympic Trials (8pm, NBC)
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⚾️ MLB: Reds at Pirates* (6:40pm, FS1); Giants at Cubs (8pm, MLB); Brewers at Angels (9:30pm, MLB)
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🏏 T20 World Cup: New Zealand vs. Papua New Guinea (10:30am, WillowTV); West Indies vs. Afghanistan (8:30pm, WillowTV) … Final matches of the group stage.
*Skenes day: Rookie phenom Paul Skenes (3-0, 2.43 ERA) takes the mound for Pittsburgh.
🏀 NBA trivia
Klay Thompson has unfollowed the Warriors on social media, fueling hypothesis that the pending free agent may depart the one crew he is ever identified.
Question: How many championships has Thompson received with Golden State?
Bonus factors: What years did they win?
Answer on the backside.
🍿 Baker’s Dozen: Top performs of the weekend
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⛳️ Shot of his life
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⚾️ What a theft!
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⚾️ Fastest man alive
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⚽️ Gorgeous objective
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⛳️ Timely ace
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⚾️ Francisco Lindor!
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⚾️ Basket catch
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🏒 What a save
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⚾️ Bobby Witt Jr.!
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🥍 Airborne!!!
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⚾️ Diving play at brief
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🏈 Hauls it in for the rating
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⚾️ Arcia ends it
Watch all 13.
Trivia reply: Four (2015, 2017, 2018, 2022)
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