“THE SCOREBOARD” ===== BASEBALL SEMI-STATE PAIRINGS NORTH 1. LAPORTE (SCHREIBER FIELD) G1: NORTHWOOD VS. NORWELL G2: ANDREAN VS. DEKALB CHAMPIONSHIP: G1 WINNER VS. G2 WINNER 2. LAFAYETTE JEFFERSON (LOEB STADIUM) G1: FORT WAYNE BLACKHAWK CHRISTIAN VS. NORTH MIAMI G2: ROSSVILLE VS. KOUTS CHAMPIONSHIP: G1 WINNER VS. G2 WINNER 3. GRIFFITH (GARY STEEL YARD) G1: ZIONSVILLE VS. LAKE CENTRAL G2: PENN VS. FORT WAYNE SNIDER CHAMPIONSHIP: G1 WINNER VS. G2 WINNER 4. OAK HILL G1: LAPEL/LCC VS. BLUFFTON G2: EASTBROOK VS. LAKELAND CHAMPIONSHIP: G1 WINNER VS. G2 WINNER SOUTH 5. MITCHELL G1: HAUSER VS. NORTH DAVIESSG2: GREENWOOD CHRISTIAN VS. NORTHEAST DUBOIS CHAMPIONSHIP: G1 WINNER VS. G2 WINNER 6. LAWRENCE CENTRAL G1: UNIVERSITY VS. EVANSVILLE MATER DEI G2: HERITAGE CHRISTIAN VS. SULLIVAN CHAMPIONSHIP: G1 WINNER VS. G2 WINNER 7. CASTLE (UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE) G1: EVANSVILLE NORTH VS. CENTER GROVE G2: BLOOMINGTON SOUTH VS. NORTH CENTRAL (INDIANAPOLIS) CHAMPIONSHIP: G1 WINNER VS. G2 WINNER 8. JASPER (RUXER FIELD) G1: PROVIDENCE VS. GUERIN CATHOLIC G2: GIBSON SOUTHERN VS. INDIANAPOLIS CATHEDRAL CHAMPIONSHIP: G1 WINNER VS. G2 WINNER ================================== INDIANA SOFTBALL STATE FINALS FRIDAY, JUNE 12 5:30 PM ET / 4:30 CT | CLASS 3A | NEW PALESTINE (24-7) VS. NORTH SEMI-STATE WINNER 8 PM ET / 7 CT | CLASS 4A | TERRE HAUTE NORTH VIGO (30-1) VS. NORTH SEMI-STATE WINNER SATURDAY, JUNE 13 4:30 PM ET / 3:30 CT | CLASS 1A | BARR-REEVE (29-2) VS. NORTH SEMI-STATE WINNER 7 PM ET / 6 CT | CLASS 2A | TECUMSEH (28-4) VS. WESTERN BOONE (22-7) ====================================== INDIANA BOYS GOLF SECTIONAL RESULTS 1. VALPARAISO (11) | FOREST PARK GOLF COURSEFRI, 8:30 AM CT | RESULTS SCHOOLS: BOONE GROVE, CHESTERTON, HAMMOND BISHOP NOLL, HAMMOND MORTON, HEBRON, HOBART, PORTAGE, VALPARAISO, WHEELER, RIVER FOREST, WHITING 2. LAKE CENTRAL (13) | PALMIRA GOLF & COUNTRY CLUBMON, 8 AM CT | RESULTS SCHOOLS: ANDREAN, CALUMET, CROWN POINT, DEMOTTE CHRISTIAN, GRIFFITH, HANOVER CENTRAL, HIGHLAND, ILLIANA CHRISTIAN, KANKAKEE VALLEY, LAKE CENTRAL, LOWELL, MERRILLVILLE, MUNSTER 3. LAPORTE (12) | BEECHWOOD GOLF COURSETHURS, 8:30 AM CT | RESULTS SCHOOLS: GLENN, KNOX, LAPORTE, MARQUETTE CATHOLIC, MICHIGAN CITY, MORGAN TOWNSHIP, NEW PRAIRIE, NORTH JUDSON-SAN PIERRE, OREGON-DAVIS, SOUTH CENTRAL (UNION MILLS), TRI-TOWNSHIP, WESTVILLE 4. SOUTH BEND RILEY (11) | ERSKINE GOLF COURSEFRI, 9 AM ET | RESULTS SCHOOLS: ELKHART, JIMTOWN, LAVILLE, MISHAWAKA, MISHAWAKA MARIAN, PENN, SOUTH BEND ADAMS, SOUTH BEND RILEY, SOUTH BEND SAINT JOSEPH, SOUTH BEND WASHINGTON, TRINITY SCHOOL AT GREENLAWN 5. LOGANSPORT (12) | DYKEMAN PARK GOLF COURSEFRI, 9:30 AM ET | RESULTS SCHOOLS: CASTON, FRONTIER, LOGANSPORT, NORTH NEWTON, PIONEER, ROCHESTER COMMUNITY, RENSSELAER CENTRAL, SOUTH NEWTON, TRI-COUNTY, TWIN LAKES, WEST CENTRAL, WINAMAC COMMUNITY 6. NORTHRIDGE (12) | MEADOW VALLEY GOLF CLUBFRI, 8 AM ET | RESULTS SCHOOLS: BREMEN, BETHANY CHRISTIAN, CONCORD, ELKHART CHRISTIAN ACADEMY, FAIRFIELD, GOSHEN, LAKELAND, NORTHRIDGE, NORTHWOOD, PRAIRIE HEIGHTS, WEST NOBLE, WESTVIEW 7. EAST NOBLE (14) | NOBLE HAWK GOLF LINKS – KENDALLVILLEFRI, 9 AM ET | RESULTS SCHOOLS: ANGOLA, CARROLL (FORT WAYNE), CENTRAL NOBLE, CHURUBUSCO, COLUMBIA CITY, DEKALB, EAST NOBLE, EASTSIDE, FORT WAYNE NORTHROP, FREMONT, GARRETT, HAMILTON, LAKEWOOD PARK CHRISTIAN, LEO 8. WARSAW COMMUNITY (11) | EAGLE GLEN GOLF CLUBMON, 8 AM ET | RESULTS SCHOOLS: CULVER ACADEMIES, CULVER COMMUNITY, HUNTINGTON NORTH, MANCHESTER, NORTHFIELD, PLYMOUTH, TIPPECANOE VALLEY, TRITON, WARSAW COMMUNITY, WAWASEE, WHITKO 9. FORT WAYNE CANTERBURY (13) | CHESTNUT HILLS GOLF CLUBTHURS, 8:30 AM ET | RESULTS SCHOOLS: FORT WAYNE BISHOP DWENGER, FORT WAYNE BISHOP LUERS, FORT WAYNE BLACKHAWK CHRISTIAN, FORT WAYNE CANTERBURY, FORT WAYNE CONCORDIA LUTHERAN, FORT WAYNE NORTH SIDE, FORT WAYNE SNIDER, FORT WAYNE SOUTH SIDE, FORT WAYNE WAYNE, HERITAGE, HOMESTEAD, NEW HAVEN, WOODLAN 10. PERU (12) | ROCK HOLLOW GOLF CLUBMON, 8 AM ET | RESULTS SCHOOLS: EASTERN (GREENTOWN), KOKOMO, LEWIS CASS, MACONAQUAH, NORTH MIAMI, NORTHWESTERN, PERU, SOUTHWOOD, TAYLOR, TRI-CENTRAL, WABASH, WESTERN 11. LAFAYETTE JEFFERSON (12) | BATTLE GROUND GOLF CLUBMON, 8 AM ET | RESULTS SCHOOLS: BENTON CENTRAL, CARROLL (FLORA), CLINTON CENTRAL, CLINTON PRAIRIE, DELPHI COMMUNITY, FAITH CHRISTIAN, HARRISON (WEST LAFAYETTE), LAFAYETTE CENTRAL CATHOLIC, LAFAYETTE JEFFERSON, MCCUTCHEON, ROSSVILLE, WEST LAFAYETTE 12. WESTFIELD (11) | ULEN GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUBMON, 9 AM ET | RESULTS SCHOOLS: BETHESDA CHRISTIAN, CARMEL, FRANKFORT, GUERIN CATHOLIC, LEBANON, SHERIDAN, TRADERS POINT CHRISTIAN, UNIVERSITY, WESTERN BOONE, WESTFIELD, ZIONSVILLE 13. ATTICA (12) | HARRISON HILLS GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUBFRI, 9 AM ET | RESULTS SCHOOLS: ATTICA, COVINGTON, CRAWFORDSVILLE, NORTH MONTGOMERY, NORTH PUTNAM, NORTH VERMILLION, PARKE HERITAGE, RIVERTON PARKE, SEEGER, SOUTH VERMILLION, SOUTHMONT, TRI-WEST HENDRICKS 14. DECATUR CENTRAL (9) | WINDING RIVER MON, 9 AM ET | RESULTS SCHOOLS: BEN DAVIS, BREBEUF JESUIT PREPARATORY, COVENANT CHRISTIAN (INDPLS), DECATUR CENTRAL, INDIANAPOLIS CARDINAL RITTER, INDIANAPOLIS SHORTRIDGE, PIKE, PURDUE POLYTECHNIC – DOWNTOWN, SPEEDWAY 15. MARTINSVILLE (11) | FOXCLIFF GOLF COURSEMON, 9:30 AM ET | RESULTS SCHOOLS: AVON, BROWNSBURG, CASCADE, CLOVERDALE, DANVILLE COMMUNITY, MARTINSVILLE, MONROVIA, MOORESVILLE, PLAINFIELD, SOUTH PUTNAM, GREENCASTLE 16. NORWELL (12) | TIMBER RIDGE GOLF CLUBFRI, 8:30 AM ET | RESULTS SCHOOLS: ADAMS CENTRAL, BELLMONT, BLACKFORD, BLUFFTON, EASTBROOK, MADISON-GRANT, MARION, MISSISSINEWA, NORWELL, OAK HILL, SOUTH ADAMS, SOUTHERN WELLS 17. INDIANAPOLIS CATHEDRAL (11) | MAPLE CREEK GOLF CLUBFRI, 8:30 AM ET | RESULTS SCHOOLS: HERITAGE CHRISTIAN, INDIANAPOLIS ARSENAL TECHNICAL, INDIANAPOLIS BISHOP CHATARD, INDIANAPOLIS CATHEDRAL, INDIANAPOLIS SCECINA MEMORIAL, INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF INDIANA, LAWRENCE CENTRAL, LAWRENCE NORTH, NORTH CENTRAL (INDIANAPOLIS), PARK TUDOR, WARREN CENTRAL 18. NOBLESVILLE (12) | FOX PRAIRIE GOLF CLUBMON, 9 AM ET | RESULTS SCHOOLS: ALEXANDRIA MONROE, ANDERSON, DALEVILLE, ELWOOD COMMUNITY, FISHERS, FRANKTON, HAMILTON HEIGHTS, HAMILTON SOUTHEASTERN, LAPEL, NOBLESVILLE, PENDLETON HEIGHTS, TIPTON 19. MONROE CENTRAL (12) | HICKORY HILLS GOLF COURSEMON, 9 AM ET | RESULTS SCHOOLS: COWAN, DELTA, JAY COUNTY, MONROE CENTRAL, MUNCIE CENTRAL, RANDOLPH SOUTHERN, UNION CITY, UNION (MODOC), WAPAHANI, WES-DEL, WINCHESTER COMMUNITY, YORKTOWN 20. GREENFIELD-CENTRAL (11) | HAWK’S TAIL OF GREENFIELDMON, 9 AM ET | RESULTS SCHOOLS: BLUE RIVER VALLEY, EASTERN HANCOCK, GREENFIELD-CENTRAL, KNIGHTSTOWN, MORRISTOWN, MT. VERNON (FORTVILLE), NEW CASTLE, NEW PALESTINE, SHENANDOAH, TRITON CENTRAL, TRI 21. TERRE HAUTE NORTH VIGO (12) | HULMAN LINKSMON, 9 AM ET | RESULTS SCHOOLS: BLOOMFIELD, CLAY CITY, EASTERN GREENE, LINTON-STOCKTON, NORTH CENTRAL (FARMERSBURG), NORTHVIEW, SHAKAMAK, SULLIVAN, TERRE HAUTE NORTH VIGO, TERRE HAUTE SOUTH VIGO, WEST VIGO, WHITE RIVER VALLEY 22. VINCENNES LINCOLN (13) | CYPRESS HILLS GOLF CLUB OF VINCENNESFRI, 9 AM ET | RESULTS SCHOOLS: BARR-REEVE, GIBSON SOUTHERN, NORTH DAVIESS, NORTH KNOX, PIKE CENTRAL, PRINCETON COMMUNITY, SOUTH KNOX, TECUMSEH, VINCENNES LINCOLN, VINCENNES RIVET, WASHINGTON, WASHINGTON CATHOLIC, WOOD MEMORIAL 23. EVANSVILLE MATER DEI (12) | HELFRICH HILLS GOLF COURSETHURS, 7 AM CT | RESULTS SCHOOLS: BOONVILLE, CASTLE, EVANSVILLE BOSSE, EVANSVILLE CENTRAL, EVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN, EVANSVILLE F.J. REITZ, EVANSVILLE HARRISON, EVANSVILLE MATER DEI, EVANSVILLE NORTH, EVANSVILLE REITZ MEMORIAL, MT. VERNON, NORTH POSEY 24. JASPER (14) | SULTAN’S RUN GOLF CLUBTHURS, 10:30 AM ET | RESULTS SCHOOLS: CRAWFORD COUNTY, FOREST PARK, HERITAGE HILLS, NORTHEAST DUBOIS, JASPER, LOOGOOTEE, ORLEANS, PAOLI, PERRY CENTRAL, SHOALS, SOUTH SPENCER, SOUTHRIDGE, SPRINGS VALLEY, TELL CITY 25. BLOOMINGTON NORTH (13) | CASCADES GOLF COURSEMON, 8 AM ET | RESULTS SCHOOLS: BEDFORD NORTH LAWRENCE, BLOOMINGTON NORTH, BLOOMINGTON SOUTH, BROWN COUNTY, BROWNSTOWN CENTRAL, EDGEWOOD, LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY, MITCHELL, SALEM, SEYMOUR, TRINITY LUTHERAN, WEST WASHINGTON, OWEN VALLEY 26. FRANKLIN COMMUNITY (13) | THE LEGENDS GOLF CLUBMON, 8 AM ET | RESULTS SCHOOLS: CENTER GROVE, EDINBURGH, FRANKLIN CENTRAL, FRANKLIN COMMUNITY, GREENWOOD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY, GREENWOOD COMMUNITY, INDIAN CREEK, INDIANAPOLIS LUTHERAN, PERRY MERIDIAN, RONCALLI, SOUTHPORT, WHITELAND COMMUNITY, BEECH GROVE 27. UNION COUNTY (10) | LIBERTY COUNTRY CLUBTHURS, 9 AM ET | RESULTS SCHOOLS: CAMBRIDGE CITY LINCOLN, CENTERVILLE, CONNERSVILLE, FRANKLIN COUNTY, HAGERSTOWN, NORTHEASTERN, RICHMOND, RUSHVILLE CONSOLIDATED, UNION COUNTY, OLDENBURG ACADEMY 28. GREENSBURG (14) | GREENSBURG COUNTRY CLUBFRI, 8:30 AM ET | RESULTS SCHOOLS: BATESVILLE, COLUMBUS EAST, COLUMBUS NORTH, EAST CENTRAL, GREENSBURG, HAUSER, JAC-CEN-DEL, MILAN, NORTH DECATUR, SHELBYVILLE, SOUTH DECATUR, SOUTH RIPLEY, SOUTHWESTERN (SHELBYVILLE), WALDRON 29. MADISON CONSOLIDATED (13) | SUNRISE GOLF COURSEMON, 11 AM ET | RESULTS SCHOOLS: AUSTIN, CHARLESTOWN, HENRYVILLE, JENNINGS COUNTY, MADISON CONSOLIDATED, NEW WASHINGTON, RISING SUN, SCOTTSBURG, SHAWE MEMORIAL, SOUTHWESTERN (HANOVER), SWITZERLAND COUNTY, LAWRENCEBURG, SOUTH DEARBORN 30. PROVIDENCE (14) | COVERED BRIDGE GOLF CLUBTHURS, 8 AM ET | RESULTS SCHOOLS: BORDEN, CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF INDIANA, CLARKSVILLE, CORYDON CENTRAL, EASTERN (PEKIN), FLOYD CENTRAL, JEFFERSONVILLE, LANESVILLE, NEW ALBANY, NORTH HARRISON, PROVIDENCE, SILVER CREEK, SOUTH CENTRAL (ELIZABETH), CROTHERSVILLE ==================================== NBA PLAYOFFS 2026 NBA FINALS SAN ANTONIO VS. NEW YORK GAME 1: NEW YORK 105 SAN ANTONIO 95 GAME 2: NEW YORK 105 SAN ANTONIO 104 JUNE 8: NBA FINALS 2026 – GAME 3 ON ABC, 8:30 ET JUNE 10: NBA FINALS 2026 – GAME 4 ON ABC, 8:30 ET JUNE 13: NBA FINALS 2026 – GAME 5 ON ABC, 8:30 ET* JUNE 16: NBA FINALS 2026 – GAME 6 ON ABC, 8:30 ET* JUNE 19: NBA FINALS 2026 – GAME 7 ON ABC, 8:30 ET* * = IF NECESSARY ==================================== NHL PLAYOFF SCHEDULE STANLEY CUP FINAL GAME 1: VEGAS 5 CAROLINA 4 GAME 2: CAROLINA 4 VEGAS 3 OT GAME 3: VEGAS 5 CAROLINA 4 2 OT GAME 4: CAROLINA AT VEGAS, 8 P.M. ET, TUESDAY, JUNE 9 (ABC, SN, CBC, TVAS) *GAME 5: VEGAS AT CAROLINA, 8 P.M. ET, THURSDAY, JUNE 11 (ABC, SN, CBC, TVAS) *GAME 6: CAROLINA AT VEGAS, 8 P.M. ET, SUNDAY, JUNE 14 (ABC, SN, CBC, TVAS) *GAME 7: VEGAS AT CAROLINA, 8 P.M. ET, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17 (ABC, SN, CBC, TVAS) * – IF NECESSARY =================================== MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PHILADELPHIA 9 CHICAGO WHITE SOX 5 ATLANTA 3 PITTSBURGH 2 NY YANKEES 6 BOSTON 1 TORONTO 6 BALTIMORE 4 MIAMI 4 TAMPA BAY 1 DETROIT 5 SEATTLE 4 LAS VEGAS 5 HOUSTON 0 KANSAS CITY 6 MINNESOTA 5 ST. LOUIS 5 CINCINNATI 3 TEXAS 10 CLEVELAND 0 MILWAUKEE 12 COLORADO 4 ARIZONA 5 WASHINGTON 1 LA ANGELS 13 LA DODGERS 5 NY METS 7 SAN DIEGO 3 SAN FRANCISCO 2 CHICAGO CUBS 1 (10) =================================== MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL ST. PAUL 3 INDIANAPOLIS 0 LAKE COUNTY 3 FT. WAYNE 2 SOUTH BEND AT QUAD CITIES PPD =================================== COLLEGE BASEBALL SUPER REGIONALS SUNDAY’S SCOREBOARD GEORGIA 11 MISSISSIPPI STATE 9 NORTH CAROLINA 4 USC 3 TEXAS 6 OREGON 5 ===== MEN’S COLLEGE WORLD SERIES: FRIDAY, JUNE 12 – SUNDAY/MONDAY 21/22 | CHARLES SCHWAB FIELD IN OMAHA, NE GAME 1 | 2 P.M. FRIDAY, JUNE 12 ON ESPN GAME 2 | 7 P.M. FRIDAY, JUNE 12 ON ESPN GAME 3 | 3 P.M. SATURDAY, JUNE 13 ON ESPN GAME 4 | 8 P.M. SATURDAY, JUNE 13 ON ESPN GAME 5 | 2 P.M. SUNDAY, JUNE 14 ON ESPN GAME 6 | 7 P.M. SUNDAY, JUNE 14 ON ESPN GAME 7 | 2 P.M. MONDAY, JUNE 15 ON ESPN GAME 8 | 7 P.M. MONDAY, JUNE 15 ON ESPN GAME 9 | 2 P.M. TUESDAY, JUNE 16 ON ESPN GAME 10 | 8 P.M. TUESDAY, JUNE 16 ON ESPN GAME 11 | 2 P.M. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17 ON ESPN GAME 12 | 7 P.M. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17 ON ESPN BRACKET 1 | TBD THURSDAY, JUNE 18 ON ESPN (IF NECESSARY) BRACKET 2 | TBD THURSDAY, JUNE 18 ON ESPN (IF NECESSARY) CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES GAME 1 | TBD SATURDAY, JUNE 20 ON ESPN CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES GAME 2 | 2:30 P.M. SUNDAY, JUNE 21 ON ABC CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES GAME 3 | 7 P.M. MONDAY, JUNE 22 ON ESPN (IF NECESSARY) =================================== WNBA TEMPO 85 SKY 68 SPARKS 89 FIRE 72 =================================== UFL SCORES SEMI-FINALS SUNDAY JUNE 7 DEFENDERS 28 STORM 22 KINGS 29 BATTLEHAWKS 20 =============================== MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER NO GAMES SCHEDULED =============================== MAJOR NATIONAL HEADLINES/RELEASES NBA FINALS THE NBA FINALS ARE BACK IN NEW YORK, AND EVERYONE SEEMS CAUGHT UP IN THE HOOPLA EXCEPT THE KNICKS NEW YORK (AP) — Madison Square Garden has seen just about everything in sports and entertainment, from the first Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier fight to the first Wrestlemania. It just hasn’t seen much of the NBA Finals. The New York Knicks have brought the finals back to their home court for the first time since 1999 and can make sure they don’t leave again this year. Fans are spending astonishingly high prices for tickets and the potential to witness a celebration more than five decades in the making. With a 2-0 lead over Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs, the Knicks are halfway to their first championship since 1973. They are the biggest thing in the Big Apple, and it seems everyone is caught up in the hoopla except the Knicks themselves. “I know the fan base is really excited, as they should be,” captain Jalen Brunson said. “But as a team, us inside the locker room, we have more work to do.” Game 3 is Monday, with President Donald Trump in the building. Whether they’ve played in the arena or sat way up in the cheap seats — not that there is such a thing this time with tickets reselling for more than $10,000 — people know this night will be different. “I think it’s going to be through the roof,” Spurs guard Dylan Harper said. “I think it’s going to be everything that I’ve kind of seen or dreamed of times 10.” It will be the first NBA Finals game at Madison Square Garden since June 25, 1999, which ended with the Knicks watching the Spurs celebrate their first championship after winning Game 5. That series, and one in 1994, were the only finals games played at MSG since the Knicks won the 1973 title. They were rarely close again until this 13-game winning streak, the second longest by any team in one playoffs, with the atmosphere around the city seemingly becoming more raucous with each victory. “Fans have earned the right and deserve the right to see finals basketball be played here at Madison Square Garden,” Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns said. “For this to be the first game in a long time that they have seen finals basketball, it’s up to us to bring it, give them something to cheer for, give them something to get loud for and also give them something to believe in.” Wembanyama, Brunson and the rest of the players will be only part of the scene Monday, sharing it with the first sitting president to attend an NBA Finals game and the celebrity fans who surround the court. Some of them were already there Sunday for practices, with Knicks coach Mike Brown finally getting to meet actor Ben Stiller, then having his news conference extended when rapper Fat Joe insisted on a chance to speak from the back. Wembanyama got to show his stuff at MSG in his second season, when the Spurs were given the leadoff game on the NBA’s marquee Christmas schedule and he scored 42 points. Opportunities like that, which the Spurs increasingly have been treated to since drafting the 7-foot-4 phenom from France, could help them with what they will face Monday. “This arena’s like no other. The added circumstances will be on top of that,” Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said. “We’ve been fortunate to play some games in this arena recently that have been, again, not finals, but a Christmas game. Again, I just think added attention around Victor and being in this arena a few times, we’ve experienced that. I would expect tomorrow will be more than that.” The Knicks have been so dominant during this run that they haven’t gotten to see MSG much. They have played only four home games since May 4, when they opened the second round of the playoffs. So even the home team struggles to put into words exactly what Monday will look and sound like. “I’ve seen a lot of crazy atmospheres,” guard Deuce McBride said. “I don’t think I’m going to know what to expect, but I’m just proud to be here, I’m so blessed to play here and I know the fans are going to bring it and we’re going to do everything we can.” The arena that shook when Willis Reed walked onto the court for Game 7 in 1970 will be rocking again Monday. The current MSG had opened just a couple of years earlier, and the previous one never even saw the NBA Finals. The Knicks made it three straight years from 1951-53, but those games were played at the 69th Regiment Armory on Lexington Avenue because the Garden was hosting the circus. Game 3 kicks off a massive sports week in the New York region, with a World Cup game scheduled for Saturday in nearby East Rutherford, New Jersey, which will host the final. Knicks forward Josh Hart had signed on in an ambassador role for the local World Cup committee but knows the Knicks have put even the world’s biggest sporting event on the back burner for the moment. “I love football, man, so obviously a little bummed I can’t go to some of those matches, but I have something a little more interesting right now going on in my life,” Hart said. “It also adds to the energy of the city.” =================================== NHL FINALS CAROLINA TRAILS VEGAS IN THE STANLEY CUP FINAL AND HAS A BIG DECISION TO MAKE FOR GAME 4 A sequence of events in a Stanley Cup Final that has gotten crazier by the minute has put the Carolina Hurricanes at a crossroads. They blew a two-goal lead and lost Game 1, erased a two-goal deficit and won Game 2, and rallied from down four goals in Game 3, only to lose in double overtime on a fluky bounce. They have lived the ups and downs of a tight series against the Vegas Golden Knights and head into Game 4 on Tuesday night with a razor-thin margin for error. While each of the first three games was decided by a single goal, close doesn’t count toward anything but a 2-1 deficit they now need to try to overcome. “It’s part of the gig, and it’s never easy,” captain Jordan Staal said. “It’s never going to be easy, and we know that and we understand that. We’ve got a bigger hill to climb now, but we’re excited for the challenge and excited to keep playing hard and keep moving forward.” Carolina faces several lingering questions, most notably who starts in net between Frederik Andersen and Brandon Bussi. Andersen played every minute of the first 15 playoff games before getting the hook at the second intermission Saturday night down 4-0, and Bussi was perfect in relief until a shot from Shea Theodore banked off the end boards and went in when the goaltender inadvertently redirected it with his left skate 5:38 into the second overtime. Coach Rod Brind’Amour deferred the decision until after practice Monday, if not later. “I don’t anticipate a lot of changes to our lineup,” Brind’Amour said on a video call with reporters Sunday. “We’ll see how (Andersen is) feeling. I haven’t made any decisions on the lineup, so I can’t tell you.” It was not clear if Andersen was banged up in any way. The 36-year-old from Denmark also was not chiefly to blame for allowing four goals on 16 shots in Game 3. “You obviously don’t want to give up some of the chances we’ve given up, but overall I thought he’s been fine,” Brind’Amour said. “You ask him to make the saves that he’s got to make, and I think he’s done that. A couple bad bounces, they are what they are. He’s been solid for us, Buss came in and was solid for us, so that’s got to continue.” A too many men on the ice penalty flipped the momentum Saturday at Vegas, after Brind’Amour had two Golden Knights goals taken off the board by successful challenges. Reliable defenseman Sean Walker knocking the puck into his own net came at an inopportune time, as did fourth-line forward William Carrier failing to clear the zone. Mitch Marner scored on each of those occasions and finished off the hat trick and a four-point second period with a breakaway goal. One emphasis moving forward will be trying to avoid Marner breaking through for quality chances. “We have to know when he’s on the ice because that’s kind of how he loves to play,” Brind’Amour said. “If we can eliminate some of those, I call ’em freebies … that’ll definitely help.” It would also help to get Carrier back after he missed the third period and OT because of an upper-body injury. Brind’Amour did not have an update other than hope that Carrier would be good to go in Game 4. With or without him, the Hurricanes face close to a must-win situation at the arena on The Strip nicknamed the “Fortress.” Only one team out of 39 that has fallen behind 3-1 in the final has come back to win it: Toronto in 1942. Pointing out his team is a couple of shots away from what could be a 3-0 series lead, Brind’Amour is not worried about players dwelling over this deficit because they know how close it has been. “I think we can tighten some things up and be a lot better, and I think we’re right there,” veteran winger Jordan Martinook said. “We’ll look at some things and see where we can improve and come back Tuesday ready to try and even this up.” ================================== NBA NEWS STACEY KING, LONGTIME BULLS BROADCASTER WHO PLAYED ON THREE NBA CHAMPIONSHIP TEAMS, DIES AT 59 CHICAGO (AP) — Stacey King, who played on three consecutive NBA championship teams with the Chicago Bulls from 1991-93 before returning to the organization as an Emmy-winning, fan-favorite broadcaster, has died. He was 59. The Bulls announced that King died Sunday and said they were notified by a family member. No other details were immediately available. “Stacey King was a cherished member of the Bulls family and one of the truly unique personalities in our organization’s history,” Bulls chairman Jerry Reinsdorf said in a statement. “His connection to Chicago, the Bulls and our fans spanned more than three decades — first as a player and later as the unmistakable voice that helped bring Bulls basketball into the homes of generations of fans. We will miss him deeply and remember the joy, energy, humor, candor and passion he brought to our organization, our broadcasts and our fans every day. Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones.” King began his NBA playing career with the Bulls, who selected the 6-foot-11 forward/center out of Oklahoma with the sixth overall pick in the 1989 draft. He averaged 6.6 points and 3.3 rebounds over his five seasons with the Bulls. He played a total of eight seasons in the NBA during a career that also included stops in Minnesota, Miami, Boston and Dallas. King posted career averages of 6.4 points and 3.3 rebounds. As a broadcaster, King endeared himself to a new generation of Bulls supporters. He spent more than two decades as a commentator on Bulls games. “Stacey loved being a Bull,” Bulls president and CEO Michael Reinsdorf said in a statement. “You could feel it in everything he did — the way he played, the way he called games and the way he connected with our fans. He had a unique gift for bringing people together and making every game feel personal. He brought an energy and love for the game that came through in every broadcast, helping fans feel connected to our team. Whether it was through a broadcast, a conversation or a photo with a fan, Stacey made people feel seen and valued. “We were fortunate to know him not only as a player and broadcaster, but as a friend. Stacey genuinely cared about people, and he made our organization better. We will miss him dearly, and his impact, memory and legacy will remain a part of the Chicago Bulls forever.” Chicago Sports Network president and CEO Michael McCarthy called King “one of the most beloved figures in Chicago sports.” “Stacey had a unique ability to connect generations of Bulls fans,” McCarthy said. “Whether through his basketball insight, his humor, or his unforgettable calls, he made every game more enjoyable and every broadcast better.” King delighted fans with his memorable calls and nicknames. His enthusiasm was apparent every time the Bulls hit a big shot. “We enjoy what we do,” King said last month on his “Gimme the Hot Sauce” podcast, a reference to a comment he’d frequently make after big plays. “It’s a fun job. It never seems like work for me. Every night, I go to work, win, lose or draw, I’m having fun.” ================================= MLB NEWS MLB ROUNDUP: KEVIN MCGONIGLE’S 1ST WALK-OFF HIT LIFTS TIGERS PAST M’S Kevin McGonigle ripped a two-out, two-run single in the bottom of the ninth and the host Detroit Tigers rallied past the Seattle Mariners for a 5-4 victory on Sunday afternoon. McGonigle lined a single to right off closer Andres Munoz (3-4), allowing Detroit to capture the series, two games to one. The rookie also hit his fourth homer, while Wenceel Perez supplied a two-run triple to help Detroit rally from a 4-1 deficit entering the bottom of the seventh. Will Vest (2-4) picked up the win with a scoreless inning of relief. Jack Flaherty gave up three runs with seven strikeouts in five innings. Josh Naylor had two hits, scored a run and knocked in another to lead the Mariners’ offense. Luis Castillo gave up one run in 5 2/3 innings. Braves 3, Pirates 2 Michael Harris II delivered a bases-loaded pinch-hit double in the seventh inning to drive in three runs, leading Atlanta to a win over visiting Pittsburgh. Atlanta earned its third sweep of the season and its first sweep of Pittsburgh since 2022. The Braves have won eight of their last 10 and improved to 24 games above .500. The winning rally started when Dominic Smith reached on third baseman Tyler Callihan’s throwing error. With one out, Mike Yastrzemski and Jorge Mateo walked to fill the bases, causing the Pirates to lift Bubba Chandler (2-7) for reliever Evan Sisk. Harris, unable to start the last two games because of back soreness, batted for light-hitting catcher Sandy Leon and smacked the second pitch he saw into the right field corner to drive in all three runners and give the Braves their first lead. Yankees 6, Red Sox 1 Cody Bellinger hit a tiebreaking home run with two outs to start a five-run eighth inning, and New York recorded a victory over visiting Boston. Jazz Chisholm Jr. hit a three-run homer to put a cap on the scoring. The Yankees won for the eighth time in 12 games and second time in five games since losing Aaron Judge to a stress fracture in his right rib. Willson Contreras had an RBI double and Ranger Suarez had six strikeouts with no walks for Boston. Phillies 9, White Sox 5 Brandon Marsh homered for the third consecutive game, drove in two runs and scored twice, fueling host Philadelphia to a victory over Chicago. Rafael Marchan belted a two-run homer and Alec Bohm also had two hits and two RBIs for the Phillies, who won the rubber match. Bryce Harper had an RBI double among his two hits, Trea Turner doubled and singled and Bryson Stott added a go-ahead RBI single in the fifth inning to help Philadelphia win for the ninth time in 12 games. Randal Grichuk ripped a two-run single among his two hits, and Tristan Peters and rookie Sam Antonacci each had two hits and an RBI for the White Sox, who left 10 runners on base. Tyler Davis (2-3) allowed three runs in one inning of relief work to take the loss. Angels 13, Dodgers 5 Sebastian Rivero drove in a career-high six runs with five hits, Jo Adell had a home run among his four hits and the visiting Angels avoided a season sweep at the hands of the Dodgers in the final game of the season between the Los Angeles foes. Zach Neto hit a three-run home run and Jose Siri drove in a pair of runs as the Angels won after opening 0-5 against the Dodgers. The bottom four hitters in the Angels’ lineup finished the game 13-for-15 with four walks. Right-hander Jose Soriano (7-4) gave up five runs (four earned) on eight hits over six innings to win for the first time in five starts. Dalton Rushing hit a three-run home run among his four hits and Ryan Ward added a home run for the Dodgers, who are now 11-4 since May 23. Blue Jays 6, Orioles 4 Yohendrick Pinango started a five-run sixth inning with a solo home run and Toronto rallied to defeat visiting Baltimore. Four of the sixth-inning runs were unearned because of shortstop Gunnar Henderson’s error as the Blue Jays rallied from a 4-0 deficit. Brandon Valenzuela added an eighth-inning homer as the hosts captured the rubber game of the weekend series. Taylor Ward hit a two-run homer and Colton Cowser added a solo shot for Baltimore. Cowser and Blaze Alexander each had two hits in four at-bats for the Orioles. Athletics 5, Astros 0 Nick Kurtz and Brent Rooker homered, and Gage Jump carried a shutout into the seventh inning as the visiting Athletics salvaged the finale of a three-game series against Houston. Alika Williams’ leadoff single in the third set the table for Kurtz to hit his 12th home run of the season. Rooker added an RBI double, while Jump (2-1) surrendered three hits and walked three while recording three strikeouts over 6 1/3 innings. The A’s bullpen finished a combined four-hit shutout. Astros starter Mike Burrows (3-8) allowed five runs (four earned) on eight hits and two walks with three strikeouts. Cam Smith went 2-for-3 with a walk. Royals 6, Twins 5 Starling Marte belted a three-run shot for his first home run of the season, and Kansas City held on for a win over Minnesota in Minneapolis. Nick Loftin went 2-for-3 with a double and an RBI for the Royals, who finished the series with three wins in four games. Vinnie Pasquantino went 2-for-4 with two runs and a double.Royals left-hander Noah Cameron (3-4) allowed one unearned run on three hits in six innings. Lucas Erceg got the final two outs for his 12th save. Josh Bell’s three-run homer sparked the Twins’ four-run ninth which ended just short of a full comeback with Brooks Lee’s flyout to the warning track. Twins left-hander Connor Prielipp (2-4) gave up two runs on four hits in 4 1/3 innings. Marlins 4, Rays 1 Sandy Alcantara recorded his second consecutive June win with seven strong innings and Otto Lopez boosted his average to .336 as Miami claimed its three-game series against visiting Tampa Bay. Alcantara (5-4) yielded one run and five hits, all singles, striking out seven with only one walk over 90 pitches. Michael Petersen and Anthony Bender (second save) crafted scoreless frames to seal the win. Lopez was 2-for-4 with a double, triple, run and RBI. Rays starter Griffin Jax fired five scoreless innings. The Marlins scored twice against Garrett Cleavinger (1-2) in the sixth and added two more (one earned) against Steven Matz in the seventh. Yandy Diaz recorded an RBI single but the American League’s leading hitter fell to .325 as Tampa Bay fell to 3-10 in its past 13 games. Rangers 10, Guardians 0 Justin Foscue hit a two-run home run, and Wyatt Langford, Josh Jung and Michael Helman added solo shots to lead Texas to a shutout of Cleveland in Arlington, Texas. Ezequiel Duran was 4-for-5 with a double, one run and three RBIs, and Jacob deGrom (5-4) carried a shutout into the sixth inning as Texas took two of three games in the series. deGrom scattered three hits, walked two and struck out six in his 87-pitch outing. Steven Kwan notched two hits for the Guardians. Joey Cantillo (4-3) allowed seven runs on nine hits while striking out seven in five innings. Brewers 12, Rockies 4 Gary Sanchez hit a two-run home run and Brice Turang added a two-run single as Milwaukee scored seven runs in the sixth inning to beat Colorado in Denver. Garrett Mitchell went 3-for-5 with two RBIs and two runs for the Brewers. Andrew Vaughn also had three hits in five trips, scoring three times and driving in one. Shane Drohan (3-1) picked up his first win as a starter this year, giving up five hits and three runs in 6 1/3 innings to help Milwaukee complete its first three-game sweep at Colorado since 2014. Colorado jumped ahead 2-0 in the first on Ezequiel Tovar’s RBI double followed by Hunter Goodman’s RBI groundout. Rockies starter Kyle Freeman gave up seven hits and three runs over five-plus innings before Jaden Hill (0-2) allowed four hits, two walks and five runs in one-third of an inning. Diamondbacks 5, Nationals 1 Corbin Carroll and Gabriel Moreno homered, Michael Soroka contained the highest-scoring offense in the majors and Arizona avoided a weekend sweep with a victory over Washington in Phoenix. Carroll hit a solo homer off Cade Cavalli (3-4) in the first and Moreno added a two-run shot in the fifth for a 4-1 lead, which turned out to be plenty for Soroka (8-3), who gave up one run — a CJ Abrams homer in the second — and three hits in seven innings for his fifth quality start in the last seven outings. The Nationals, who led the league with 351 runs entering the day, managed just three hits, with Curtis Mead and Keibert Ruiz each delivering a double. Cavalli gave up four runs and seven hits in five innings, snapping a streak of nine straight starts allowing three or fewer earned runs. Cardinals 5, Reds 3 Reliever Sam Moll’s eighth-inning throwing error on Victor Scott II’s sacrifice bunt attempt allowed the go-ahead run to score for host St. Louis, which beat Cincinnati to complete the three-game sweep in a battle of National League Central teams. The game was tied at 3 in the eighth inning before the Cardinals reclaimed the lead with two hits, one walk, two fielder’s choices and two Reds errors. Ryne Stanek (2-0) got the final two outs in the Cincinnati half of the eighth to earn the win. Riley O’Brien allowed a one-out double to Tyler Stephenson in the ninth, but that was it as he earned his 17th save Moll (1-5) received the loss after allowing two runs (one earned) without recording an out. Matt McLain went 2-for-4 with a pair of solo home runs, giving him three in two days. Stephenson’s 3-for-4 day included a solo homer and a double. Mets 7, Padres 3 Rookie Carson Benge went 5-for-5 and supplied one of his team’s three home runs Sunday as New York won the rubber game of its weekend series at San Diego. Benge clubbed his seventh homer of the year in the sixth inning, two batters after MJ Melendez belted his fourth homer. Marcus Semien homered in the second as the Mets totaled 13 hits. In the eighth, Benge capped his career game by lacing an RBI triple. Sean Manaea (1-1) worked four innings as the bulk reliever, allowing four hits and two runs. Freddy Fermin homered for the second straight day and drove in all three of the Padres’ runs. Randy Vasquez (5-4) fell to 0-3 in his last four starts after being knocked out during a two-run fifth. Vasquez gave up eight hits and four runs in four-plus innings. Giants 2, Cubs 1 (10 innings) Matt Chapman opened the 10th with a go-ahead single, Dylan Smith capped a five-inning shutout effort by the San Francisco bullpen with a 1-2-3 bottom of the inning and the visiting Giants finished a marathon trip with a win in Chicago. Playing a second consecutive extra-inning affair at the end of a 10-game, three-city venture, the Giants wasted no time taking advantage of their automatic baserunner in the 10th when Chapman grounded a Trent Thornton (2-2) pitch into right field, easily scoring Jonah Cox. The outcome spoiled a remarkable effort by Cubs reliever Javier Assad, summoned cold from the bullpen in the second inning when Chicago starter Jameson Taillon was forced to leave with a left hamstring strain. Entering with one out in the second, Assad kept the Giants scoreless for the next 6 1/3 innings, allowing just one hit and one walk while striking out five. ===== REPORTS: DIAMONDBACKS SIGN SUSPENDED OF MAX KEPLER Max Kepler has 18 days remaining until his suspension for performance-enhancing drug usage is over. But when the ban is over, the outfielder now knows where he’ll be headed. The Arizona Diamondbacks have signed Kepler, multiple outlets reported Sunday, with Sports Illustrated reporting it is a one-year deal. Major League Baseball suspended Kepler for 80 games in January. He was a free agent at the time, having spent last season with the Philadelphia Phillies. Should the Diamondbacks make the playoffs, Kepler, 33, will be ineligible for their postseason roster, per MLB rules. The outfielder will be eligible to return on June 25. Kepler has played 11 seasons, the first 10 with the Minnesota Twins. He is a career .235 hitter with 179 home runs and 560 RBIs. He played in the postseason in five different seasons — including last season with the Phillies — but has only 64 career postseason at-bats in 16 games. Arizona ended Sunday in second place in the National League West, 7 1/2 games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers. ===== CUBS RHP JAMESON TAILLON HEADED TO IL WITH HAMSTRING STRAIN The Chicago Cubs don’t yet know the extent of starting pitcher Jameson Taillon’s hamstring injury. But one thing all parties seem to be certain of: the veteran right-hander is headed for the injured list. The 34-year-old Taillon left with one on and none out in the second inning of the Cubs’ Sunday night game against the visiting San Francisco Giants. After walking Matt Chapman on six pitches to start the second, Taillon summoned the trainer to the mound. Taillon was pulled from the game, walking gingerly into the dugout and down the stairs toward the clubhouse. He was replaced by Javier Assad, who pitched 6 1/3 scoreless innings in a game ultimately won by the Giants, 2-1 in 10 innings. “It’s a left hamstring strain,” manager Craig Counsell announced after the game. “Imaging tomorrow … it’s an IL. We’ll get more information tomorrow (regarding) severity and maybe an idea of a timeline.” For his part, Taillon was optimistic about a long-term prognosis but resigned to the fact that he will be missing some time. “I don’t think it’s crazy,” Taillon told reporters after the game. “Like, I’m walking around and moving around. Obviously, it will be an IL stint but, hopefully, we can keep the arm conditioned and moving around. … But I don’t it’s surgical or anything like that. I’m getting an MRI tomorrow and we’ll know more.” Taillon entered the game sporting a 2-5 record and 5.19 ERA in 67 2/3 innings across 13 starts. In his fourth season with Chicago, Taillon is 33-30 with an ERA just above four in 94 games (93 starts) with the Cubs. He is 84-65 with a 3.94 ERA in 10 seasons with the Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates (2016-19) and New York Yankees (2021-22). =================================== INDYCAR (INDYCAR RELEASE) JOSEF NEWGARDEN CONTINUES SHORT OVAL REIGN WITH WWTR WIN The king of World Wide Technology Raceway has returned to his throne. Josef Newgarden won for the sixth time in 11 starts at the 1.25-mile oval just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, enduring two rain delays during the race Sunday night to capture a feverish, fascinating Bommarito Automotive Group 500 presented by Axalta and Valvoline. The victory was Newgarden’s second this season, as he also won in March at the 1-mile Phoenix Raceway oval. SEE: Race Results The two-time NTT INDYCAR SERIES champion has captured 15 of his 34 career victories on ovals shorter than 1.5 miles. This win came as he was still recovering from a lower leg injury suffered two weeks ago in the 110th Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge. “Great job to the group,” Newgarden said. “Just a methodical night. We had a good car to start. It wasn’t perfect, but it really came to us just when we needed it. It was a track position day.” Newgarden, who started eighth, drove his No. 2 Astemo Team Penske Chevrolet to victory by .6613 of a second over the No. 28 Delaware Life Honda of fellow Indianapolis 500 winner Marcus Ericsson, who still managed a season-best finish. Christian Rasmussen finished a season-best third in the No. 21 Splenda Chevrolet of ECR. Rinus VeeKay continued the trend of season-best finishes by ending up fourth in the No. 76 Juncos Hollinger Racing Chevrolet, with Scott McLaughlin rounding out the top five in the No. 3 DEX Team Penske Chevrolet that featured a throwback livery honoring the 2009 Indianapolis 500-winning car driven by Helio Castroneves. Newgarden took the lead for good on Lap 221 after a spirited duel with Rasmussen that began almost immediately after a restart on Lap 212. Rasmussen dove under Newgarden in Turn 1 for the lead on Lap 215, but Newgarden drove past Rasmussen in Turn 3 for the top spot on Lap 219. One lap later, Rasmussen again drove under Newgarden for the lead in Turn 1, one of his race-high 38 on-track passes. But Newgarden countered again in Turn 3 one lap later for a lead he would not surrender. It was the most decisive of an event-record 268 passes for position in this frantic race. Ericsson sped under Rasmussen for second in Turn 3 on Lap 225 and set his sights on Newgarden. But one lap later, a plume of smoke trailed from the No. 4 Combitrans Amazonia Chevrolet fielded by A.J. Foyt Enterprises for Caio Collet, who was enjoying the best race of his rookie season by leading seven laps and running consistently in the top five in the second half of the race. That triggered the last of four caution periods, with another wrinkle to concern Newgarden and the lead pack. A host of trailing cars entered the pits for fresh Firestone Firehawk tires, while the top eight cars stayed out. McLaughlin made a spirited charge toward the front on the restart on Lap 234, climbing from ninth to fifth in just four laps. But the Kiwi and the other cars that pitted for tires didn’t have enough traction from the fresher rubber or speed to challenge the top four down the stretch. Meanwhile, Newgarden maintained a gap of around one-half of a second over Ericsson over the closing 10 laps and never was threatened. “You’ve got to give a lot of credit to Marcus,” Newgarden said. “I thought he was incredibly strong. I don’t really think there was much between us, so it was a matter of who was going to get position on each other, and that was going to seal the deal. He drove a great race.” Said Ericsson, seeking his first win since March 2023 at St. Petersburg: “I’m very proud of our performance, but at the same time it’s tough to lead that many laps … I thought we had it at some points, but Josef is the best in the business on these short ovals.” Two red-flag periods totaling 50 minutes kept strategists’ heads spinning on the pit wall as various permutations and fuel options were considered. Chip Ganassi Racing rolled the dice earlier in the race by calling NTT P1 Award winner Alex Palou and his teammate Scott Dixon to the pits to top off fuel as soon as the pits opened after the first red flag period, which lasted 38 minutes. The hope was to get enough caution to need one fewer fuel stop than rivals or be out front when a race-ending rain shower arrived. But neither happened, and Palou paid the price dearly. The four-time series champion entered the pits on Lap 203, two laps after Dixon had to enter a closed pit for emergency service as his No. 9 PNC Bank Chip Ganassi Racing Honda was running out of fuel. Palou’s No. 10 HRC Chip Ganassi Racing Honda sputtered when it entered the pit lane and ran out of fuel, and he was forced to coast to his pit box for a stop made even longer when his engine wouldn’t refire. Palou’s car restarted, and he returned to the track to finish 17th. The two short oval races this season have been Palou’s Achilles’ heel. He finished 24th after contact in March at Phoenix, and that result and tonight’s disappointing showing are his only finishes outside of the top seven all season. Reigning series champion Palou’s lead in the standings was trimmed to 49 points over Kyle Kirkwood, who finished sixth in the No. 27 Sam’s Club Honda of Andretti Global. The next NTT INDYCAR SERIES race is the XPEL Grand Prix at Road America on Sunday, June 21 at Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. ================================= GOLF NEWS NELLY KORDA CAPTURES U.S. WOMEN’S OPEN AS DREAM YEAR CONTINUES Nelly Korda drained a birdie putt on No. 17 and curled in a par putt at No. 18 on Sunday to win the U.S. Women’s Open for the first time in her career at Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles. Korda carded a 2-under 69 and finally was the last golfer standing in her 12th attempt to win the U.S. Women’s Open, finishing at 8-under 276. England’s Charley Hull (67) and Mexico’s Gaby Lopez (68) finished one behind and were part of a late four-golfer battle that also included South Korea’s In Gee Chun. Korda instantly knew her tiebreaking birdie putt on No. 17 on Sunday was a huge make as it placed her on the verge of a major career breakthrough. A short time later, the 27-year-old lined up a 34-inch par putt on No. 18 to clinch the win, but once the ball left the club, Korda didn’t like what she saw. With Hull and Lopez watching from the clubhouse to see if they would sneak into a playoff, Korda’s putt went left. But the ball hit the left side of the cup and circled around the back lip before falling in on the right side to give Korda a memorable victory. “I knew that I didn’t want to miss it right, so I like maybe had aimed a little bit too far left and pulled it,” Korda said. “I mean, your heart rate is going.” Korda now has four major titles, including both played so far in 2026. She was victorious at the Chevron Championship in April. “Just a dream to win here,” Korda said of Riviera, located just blocks away from where the devastating fire roared through the Pacific Palisades neighborhood in early 2025. “You know, the golf course holds so much history, and to have my name alongside so many great champions is a dream come true.” Lopez had roared into contention with four birdies on the back nine. Chun (70) finished fourth at 6 under and fellow South Korean Sei Young Kim (72) was fifth at 5 under. Chun earlier needed a birdie at the final hole to catch Korda but missed an 8-foot par putt to finish with her third bogey over the last seven holes. She also had four birdies. Kim, who shared the third-round lead with Korda, had four birdies and five bogeys. Hull knocked in a 7-foot birdie putt on No. 17 to move to 7 under and tie Korda and Chun for the lead. Just before Hull’s putt, Lopez missed a 4-foot par putt at the par-3 16th for her first bogey of the day and fell one shot off the pace. Hull sank a 9-foot, 7-inch par putt at the 18th to remain tied for the lead. A short time later, Lopez made it a four-way tie at the top by making a 15-foot birdie putt to end her round. Korda then took the solo lead by sinking the 9-footer for birdie at No. 17. It was one of her three birdies on the day against one bogey. “I knew that I needed to make it,” Korda said. “I knew it was going to be a really fast putt so I needed to put decent pace on it with how much I was playing it left-to-right. “I don’t really throw out fist pumps too often, but I did this weekend. I threw out a couple fist pumps here and there and I threw out a double-fist pump on that hole because I knew what it meant.” Hull got off to a sensational start, shooting 4 under over the first six holes with an eagle on the par-5 No. 1 and birdies on Nos. 3 and 6. She bogeyed No. 9 but steadied herself with birdies on 10 and 11. She later bogeyed Nos. 12 and 14. Hull had five birdies and three bogeys in addition to the eagle. Hull, 30, continued her close calls at majors. She has never won one and this marks her fourth tie for second. She also has a solo second and a tie for third. “It’s just frustrating,” Hull said. “Another second place. I think that’s five second-place finishes I’ve had in majors now. So, yeah, it’s pretty annoying, but I played really well the last day. Obviously missed a couple putts on the back nine, but it was quite windy and I hit the ball fantastic.” Lopez, 32, was experiencing a much different set of emotions after her best showing at a major. “I feel amazing, honestly. I mean I’m not disappointed at all,” Lopez said. “I am so happy. I realize that I can win a major championship. I realize that I can put myself in a position (and) that down the stretch on the back nine of a major championship I can still deliver. There’s not one thing that I regret.” Kiara Romero, a collegiate star at Oregon, fired a 68 to take low amateur honors and finish in a tie for sixth with Japan’s Nasa Hataoka (72) at 3-under 281. Romero had five birdies and two bogeys while Hataoka registered three birdies and four bogeys. Defending champion Maja Stark of Sweden shot 71 to finish in a sixth-way tie for eighth at 2-under 282. Colombian amateur Maria Jose Marin (71), who plays at Arkansas, also was at 2 under. The others at 2 under were Allisen Corpuz (71), China’s Ruoning Yin (73), Thailand’s Pajaree Anannarukarn (67) and Jennifer Kupcho (74), who was tied for third entering the day. Kupcho fell out of the race with three bogeys in the first seven holes. She had five overall to go with two birdies. ===== J.T. POSTON CAPS LONG DAY AT MEMORIAL WITH PLAYOFF WIN J.T. Poston wasn’t at his best during the final day of the Memorial Tournament, but there was no better feeling for him when it ended. Poston salvaged a par after his tee shot went into the rough on the second playoff hole, and that was good enough to beat Ryan Gerard and win the tournament Sunday at Dublin, Ohio. “Obviously didn’t play my best first 12, 13 holes, but I told myself I wanted to — I knew I was going to shake Jack’s hand walking off 18,” Poston said, referring to golf legend Jack Nicklaus, the tournament’s host. “And I wanted to be proud of that handshake regardless of how it turned out. So I’m thrilled it happened this way.” Poston shot even-par 72 in the fourth round as part of a long day of play Sunday at Muirfield Village Golf Club. Gerard’s birdie putt from about 37 feet away on the 17th hole gave him the lead as he went on to shoot a 68. Poston made a 7 1/2-foot birdie putt on the final hole to extend the tournament. “Just hard to believe, honestly,” Poston, 33, said of the result. “I haven’t played my best, but I felt like it was trending and just to do it this way, birdieing 18.” Poston and Gerard were both at 12-under 276. They played 32-plus holes Sunday after Saturday’s weather-related suspension. “I’m tired,” said Gerard, 26. “I think that’s an obvious one. There’s a lot of stress out on this golf course. There’s not a lot of golf shots that you can kind of breathe.” Poston, who won for the fourth time on the PGA Tour, was the second- and third-round leader in what became a five-way race across the closing holes of the final round. Gerard, whose only PGA Tour victory came in last year’s Barracuda Championship, wasn’t as sharp in the playoff. Both players missed birdie putts on the first playoff hole. Wyndham Clark shot 67 in the fourth round to finish third at 11 under. Sam Burns (69) and England’s Tommy Fleetwood (68), who briefly held the lead during the final round, tied for fourth place at 10 under. With a few holes to play, there was a five-way tie for first. “I know there were a lot of people kind of tied for the lead at one point coming down the stretch, and I felt like I stepped up and executed golf shots that I wanted to execute,” Gerard said. Fleetwood dropped back with a bogey on the 17th hole. Fleetwood’s eagle on No. 15 with a putt from inside 5 feet had put him among the co-leaders. “Overall, I felt like I played great and really enjoyed it,” Fleetwood said. Burns lost his place among the leaders when trouble around the green resulted with a bogey on No. 17. “I think I played a really good round of golf and unfortunately just got beat,” Burns said. Poston’s third and fourth bogeys of the round came on Nos. 12 and 13 before he recovered for birdies on the next two holes to put him in position to force a playoff a few holes later. Two-time defending champion Scottie Scheffler followed his third-round 68 with a 71 in the final round. That left the World No. 1 at 4 under and tied for 12th place, and his bid to match Tiger Woods, the only golfer to win three consecutive Memorial titles, didn’t pan out. “Just little things, little mistakes that I don’t typically make, I felt like I was making this week,” Scheffler said. England’s Alex Fitzpatrick and Norway’s Kristoffer Reitan both shot 65s in the final round to tie for sixth place at 8 under. Poston stayed steady when the third round resumed Sunday morning, racking up five birdies in a nine-hole stretch. His 69 gave him a four-shot edge on Gerard, who slumped to a 72 for the round after sitting even with Poston when play was suspended late Saturday afternoon as the duo was on the sixth hole. Burns joined Poston and Gerard in the final grouping for the fourth round, which was conducted in threesomes with golfers beginning on the first and 10th tees. Only 21 golfers completed the third round Saturday. ===== DARREN CLARKE WINS 2ND AMFAM TITLE WITH NEW PARTNER BEN CRANE Darren Clarke surely relishes the American Family Insurance Championship’s new format. In the tournament’s two years as the PGA Tour Champions’ only team event, the Northern Irishman has won the title both times — with two different partners. Clarke and Ben Crane posted a 4-under-par 67 Sunday and held on for a one-stroke win over Kenny Perry and George McNeill at TPC Wisconsin in Madison, Wis. The tournament saw 38 two-man teams play four ball (best ball) on Friday and Sunday and a scramble format Saturday. Clarke and Crane made the most of that scramble, compiling a tournament record 17-under 54 to take the lead. The duo didn’t put a birdie on their card Sunday until the par-5 seventh, but they added three birdies on the back nine to grind out the victory at 30-under 183. “You can see why this guy’s won Ryder Cup after Ryder Cup,” Crane said. “It’s just elite golf, elite mentally. We didn’t have our best stuff. … As fun as yesterday was, is as tough as today was.” Clarke won the 2025 edition of the event with Denmark’s Thomas Bjorn, who could not play this season after undergoing back surgery. On Saturday, Clarke commented that he picks good partners — “there’s no other reason apart from that” — but the 2011 Open champion also was a key part of four victorious European Ryder Cup teams. “It was a hard day for us both and we both stepped up and made some clutch putts and clutch shots when we really had to down the stretch,” Clarke said Sunday. “We said at the start of the week, our goal was to get ourselves in the mix on the back nine on Sunday and that’s what we did.” “He said to me on Tuesday, ‘There’s nothing like being in the mix on the back nine on Sunday,’” Crane added. “He said, ‘We’re good enough to be there if we play our game, keep two balls in play.’ We didn’t play good today, but we were right here.” It is Clarke’s sixth win on the PGA Tour Champions and Crane’s first. Crane turned 50 earlier this year and is in his first year on the seniors’ circuit. Perry and McNeill got in contention with a round of 62 that included six birdies between Nos. 11-17 to shoot up the leaderboard. Perry was responsible for four of those birdies as well as three straight on the opening three holes. “I remember when I was a rookie on (the PGA Tour) in ‘07, I mean, he was in his prime winning everything,” McNeill said of Perry. “I didn’t really know Kenny that well back then, so to pair up with him this week and actually watch it firsthand to see three full days … just to learn a little bit, especially today. He played unbelievable today. It was so much fun to watch, to be a part of.” Tied for third at 28 under were Australians Cameron Percy and Greg Chalmers (66) and Brian Gay and Slovakia’s Rory Sabbatini (65). =================================== INDIANA SPORTS NEWS AND HEADLINES INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL Lawrence North running back Izayveon Moore is staying in Indiana after all. Moore flipped his commitment from Miami OH to Purdue. Moore is a three-time 1,000 yard rusher at LN. ================================== INDIANAPOLIS INDIANS Pirates No. 7 prospect Antwone Kelly threw his second consecutive scoreless relief appearance this season, but the Indianapolis Indians were shut out by the St. Paul Saints, 3-0, to conclude the series on Sunday afternoon at CHS Field. The Indians (25-38) batters put traffic on the bases early, getting six base runners in the first three innings, but could not capitalize. Isaac Mattson and Hunter Barco (L, 2-5) held the Saints (34-28) hitless until the fourth inning, when three singles resulted in the first run of the game and put the Saints up, 1-0. St. Paul kept the momentum moving with a two-run fifth inning, as Aaron Sabato hit a bases-loaded single to extend the lead, 3-0. Kelly allowed a pair of hits and a walk to load the bases in the seventh inning, but punched out Sabato and Tanner Schobel to strand the runners. Justin Meis followed with a quick eighth inning to log his fifth consecutive shutout appearance. For the Saints, Ty Langenberg (W, 2-2) picked up his second win of the season after throwing 2.1 scoreless frames. Trailing 3-0 in the ninth inning, Rafael Flores Jr. gave the Indians some hope with a one-out single. But C.J. Culpepper (S, 1) induced a ground out for a double play to end the contest. After an off day on Monday, the Indians will return to Victory Field to face the Columbus Clippers, the Triple-A affiliate of the Cleveland Guardians, for a six-game series. Game one will be on Tuesday, June 9 with first pitch at 7:05 PM ET. No starting pitchers have been named at this time. ================================== INDIANA FEVER Indiana Fever at Washington Mystics (Commissioner’s Cup)Monday, June 8, 2026CareFirst Arena | 7:00 p.m. ET BROADCAST INFO TV: Peacock/NBC Sports Network/WTHR/Fever DirectRadio: 93.5/107.5 The Fan – John Nolan (play-by-play), Bria Goss (analyst) PROBABLE STARTERS Indiana Fever (5-5) Guard – Caitlin ClarkGuard – Kelsey MitchellForward – Lexie HullForward – Monique BillingsCenter – Aliyah Boston Washington Mystics (4-5) Guard – Georgia AmooreGuard – Sonia CitronForward – Michaela OnyenwereForward – Kiki IriafenCenter – Shakira Austin GAME PREVIEW The Fever will wrap up a two-game road trip on Monday night in D.C. against the Mystics. It is the third of six Commissioner’s Cup games for Indiana. The defending Commissioner’s Cup champions fell to 1-1 in this year’s edition of the WNBA’s in-season tournament with an 83-75 loss to the Liberty in New York on Saturday night. The Fever led by 12 midway through the third quarter, but saw the margin whittled down to three by the end of the the frame and then were outscored 29-18 in the fourth quarter. Indiana held New York to just 36.4 percent shooting, including 2-for-18 (11.1 percent) from 3-point range, but sent the Liberty to the free throw line a whopping 40 times. New York converted 33 free throws (82.5 percent). It was a rough shooting night for all of Indiana’s three All-Stars, as Kelsey Mitchell, Aliyah Boston, and Caitlin Clark combined to go 17-for-50 (34 percent) from the field. The Mystics are also 1-1 in Commissioner’s Cup play and coming off a 109-77 loss in Atlanta on Saturday. Washington previously beat Chicago in its Commissioner’s Cup opener. Second-year guard Sonia Citron leads the Mystics in scoring at 17.8 points per game. Washington also has an imposing frontcourt with Shakira Austin (16 points and 8.2 rebounds per game) and Kiki Iriafen (16 points and 9.7 boards per contest). =================================== INDIANA COLLEGE SPORTS WEB SITES UINDY ATHLETICS: https://athletics.uindy.edu/ MARIAN ATHLETICS: https://muknights.com/ INDIANA WESLEYAN ATHLETICS: https://iwuwildcats.com/ EARLHAM ATHLETICS: https://goearlham.com/ WABASH ATHLETICS: https://sports.wabash.edu/ FRANKLIN ATHLETICS: https://franklingrizzlies.com/ ROSE-HULMAN ATHLETICS: https://athletics.rose-hulman.edu/ ANDERSON ATHLETICS: https://athletics.anderson.edu/landing/index TRINE ATHLETICS: https://trinethunder.com/landing/index BETHEL ATHLETICS: https://bupilots.com/ DEPAUW ATHLETICS: https://depauwtigers.com/ HANOVER ATHLETICS: https://athletics.hanover.edu/ MANCHESTER ATHLETICS: https://muspartans.com/ HUNTINGTON ATHLETICS: https://www.huathletics.com/ OAKLAND CITY ATHLETICS: https://gomightyoaks.com/index.aspx ST. FRANCIS ATHLETICS: https://www.saintfranciscougars.com/landing/index IU KOKOMO ATHLETICS: https://iukcougars.com/ IU EAST ATHLETICS: https://www.iueredwolves.com/ IU SOUTH BEND ATHLETICS: https://iusbtitans.com/ PURDUE NORTHWEST ATHLETICS: https://pnwathletics.com/ INDIANA TECH ATHLETICS: https://indianatechwarriors.com/index.aspx GRACE COLLEGE ATHLETICS: https://gclancers.com/ ST. MARY OF THE WOODS ATHLETICS: https://smwcathletics.com/ GOSHEN COLLEGE ATHLETICS: https://goleafs.net/ HOLY CROSS ATHLETICS: https://www.hcsaints.com/index.php TAYLOR ATHLETICS: https://www.taylortrojans.com/ VINCENNES ATHLETICS: https://govutrailblazers.com/landing/index ========================================================= “SPORTS EXTRA” TODAY IN BASEBALL HISTORY 1894 – The St. Louis Browns are playing the Beaneaters in Boston, and the home team elects to bat first. In the bottom of the 1st, the lead-off batter, Tommy Dowd, walks. The next batter due up is Frank Shugart, but the number three hitter, Charlie Frank, comes up instead and strikes out. Shugart then hits into a fielder’s choice with Dowd being put out. Boston now points out that Frank has batted out of order, and the umpire, Bob Emslie, incorrectly calls Frank out, ending the inning. The original 1876 rule, was poorly written and incomplete, but it did not allow for a batter to be out twice when batting out of order. More importantly, Frank was not the proper batter when he hit, so it was the proper batter then who should have been called out. 1909 – Clarence “Cack” Henley of the San Francisco Seals (Pacific Coast League) throws the longest complete game shutout in professional baseball history. Henley throws 24 scoreless innings against the Oakland Oaks before finally winning, 1 – 0. 1920 – Edd Roush of the Cincinnati Reds falls asleep in center field during a long argument in the infield. Heinie Groh goes out to wake him, but the chief umpire ejects Roush for delaying the game. 1923 – Pat Collins of the St. Louis Browns appears as a pinch-runner and again as a pinch-hitter later in the same game. Collins is allowed as a courtesy to briefly pinch-run for teammate Homer Ezzell in the 3rd inning when Ezzell needs to use the restroom. In the 9th, Philadelphia Athletics manager Connie Mack allows the Browns to pinch-hit Collins for pitcher Ray Kolp, drawing a walk. 1933 – Jimmie Foxx hits three home runs in his first three at-bats as the Philadelphia Athletics outscore the New York Yankees, 14 – 10. Foxx had homered his last time up the previous day to give him four consecutive home runs. 1935 – Lou Gehrig collides with Carl Reynolds on a play at first base and leaves the game with arm and shoulder injuries. His consecutive games streak is preserved, in part, by a rainout of the next day’s game and an open date. 1940 – Harry Craft of the Cincinnati Reds hits for the cycle, connecting for a home run, a triple, a double and two singles in seven at-bats, to lead a 27-hit attack as the Reds pound the host Brooklyn Dodgers, 23 – 2. 1944 – Red Barrett retires the first 22 batters he faces before his bid for a perfect game is broken up with an 8th-inning single by Del Ennis. The Cardinals right-hander gains his first victory of the season with his 7 – 0 whitewashing of Philadelphia at Sportsman’s Park. 1945 – With the help of a security guard, Brooklyn manager Leo Durocher ambushes a fan, John Christian, who is heckling him at Ebbets Field. The guard escorts the fan to the Dodgers’ clubhouse, where Durocher punches him, allegedly using brass knuckles. The fan will file charges, leading to Durocher and the guard’s arrest two days later. The two will be indicted on assault charges in September. The case will come to trial the following April and the all-male jury will take just 38 minutes to find the guard and Durocher not guilty. In a separate settlement of a civil suit before the trial‚ Durocher paid Christian $6‚750. 1950: The Boston Red Sox beat the St. Louis Browns, 29 – 4, at Fenway Park, and set major league records for runs scored; most long hits, 17 (9 doubles, 1 triple and 7 home runs); most total bases, 60; most extra bases on long hits, 32; most runs over two games, 49; most hits in two games, 51, including 28 this game. 1955 – The Los Angeles Dodgers option left-handed pitcher Tommy Lasorda to the Montreal Royals to make room on their roster for “bonus baby” Sandy Koufax, who had been on the disabled list. 1961: The Milwaukee Braves set a major-league record with four consecutive home runs in the 7th inning against Cincinnati. Eddie Mathews and Hank Aaron hit back-to-back home runs off starter Jim Maloney; Joe Adcock greets reliever Marshall Bridges with another home run, and Frank Thomas sets the record. When these four teammates end their major-league careers, they will have hit a combined total of 1,889 homers. For all the bombardment, the Braves lose, 10 – 8. The Kansas City A’s sign pitcher Lew Krausse to a $125,000 bonus, the largest in major league history. 1964 – The A’s ink Jim Hunter for $75,000 after other teams backed off in their pursuit of the outstanding North Carolina high schooler when his little toe was blown off in a hunting accident a few months earlier. 1965 – Arizona State star sophomore Rick Monday, selected by the Kansas City Athletics, is the first player chosen in the initial major league free-agent draft of high school, college, and sandlot players. Picking second, the Mets take pitcher Les Rohr. In the 10th round, they finally take Nolan Ryan. Cincinnati picks Johnny Bench in the second round. 1968: Howie Bedell’s sacrifice fly in the 5th inning ends Don Drysdale’s record streak of 58 consecutive scoreless innings. The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 5 – 3. Bat Day at Candlestick Park is postponed when the Mets refuse to play their scheduled game in San Francisco, CA, out of respect for recently assassinated New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy, whose funeral is being held today. Prompted by baseball commissioner William Eckert’s edict to cancel games only taking place in New York, NY and Washington, DC, the team, led by first baseman Ed Kranepool, votes to take this action, even under the threat of forfeiting the contest, a decision that is fully supported by manager Gil Hodges and the organization. 1969 – The New York Yankees’ uniform number 7 is retired on Mickey Mantle Day. A crowd of 60,096 comes to Yankee Stadium to honor Mantle and watches New York sweep the Chicago White Sox, 3 – 1 and 11 – 2. 1971: At Municipal Stadium, Paul Splittorff earns his first major league victory when Kansas City defeats the visiting Senators, 4 – 2. In 1969, the 23-year-old left-hander became the first player signed by the Royals to appear on the expansion team’s major-league roster. Danny Goodwin is chosen as the first player in the June draft but will turn down a reported $50‚000 offer from the White Sox to attend Southern University. He will be picked first overall again in 1975. 1976 – With the first overall pick in the draft, Houston chooses lefthanded pitcher Floyd Bannister of Arizona State University. Rushed to the majors the next year, Bannister will go 11-18 in two seasons with the Astros, but will find success after that. Other prominent players drafted today include the Red Sox taking Dixie High School (St. George, UT) standout southpaw Bruce Hurst with the twenty-second pick. Of the dozen hurlers selected in the first round, the southpaw from Utah will retire with the most career victories (145). 1977 – Nolan Ryan notches his fourth career 19-strikeout game, pitching the first ten innings of a game against Toronto. 1978 – Bob Horner, the College Player of the Year, is selected first in the amateur draft by the Atlanta Braves. He will go straight to the major leagues, the first number one overall pick to do so. Horner will be joined in skipping the minors by high school pitcher Mike Morgan, taken with the fourth pick by the Athletics, and a couple other players taken in later rounds, Tim Conroy and Brian Milner. 1981 – Seattle takes Mike Moore with the first pick overall in the annual amateur draft. The Cubs take Joe Carter with the second pick while the Angels take Dick Schofield third. 1982: Hall of Famer Satchel Paige passes away at the reported age of 76. Sid Fernandez pitches his second no-hitter of the season for Vero Beach of the Florida State League. 1986 – In the longest nine-inning game by time in American League history, Baltimore beats the Yankees, 18 – 9. The game features nine pitchers, 36 hits, and 16 walks, and takes 4:16 to complete. 1989 – The Pittsburgh Pirates send 16 batters to the plate in the 1st inning against the Philadelphia Phillies, taking a 10 – 0 lead in Pittsburgh’s best inning since September 1942 on ten hits, including a three-run home run by Barry Bonds. Pittsburgh leaves the bases loaded. Announcer Jim Rooker crows that if the Pirates lose this game, he’ll walk back to Pittsburgh. Von Hayes and Steve Jeltz answer Rooker with a pair of home runs each and ten RBI. After six innings the game is 11 – 10. The Phillies explode for five runs in the 8th to make the final, 15 – 11. Rooker will make good on his promise after the season, when he conducts a charity walk from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, raising money for a children’s hospital. 1990 – Glenn Wilson’s three-run pinch-hit homer in the 10th inning off Randy Myers stuns the Reds, 3 – 1, at the Astrodome. Mike Scott and Tom Browning trade nine shutout innings before the Reds break the tie with a single by Todd Benzinger, only their third hit of the night off Scott, who fans fifteen. Myers comes in to close only to see Wilson launch the game-winner for Houston. 1993 – After serving as Milwaukee’s mascot from 1973 to 1984, Bernie Brewer comes out of retirement after an eight-year absence. The mustachioed costumed character, once renowned for sliding into a mug of beer after hometown homers, is brought back by popular demand when the fans vote for his reinstatement by an overwhelming 21,751 to 1,389 margin. 1996 – Warren Morris hits a two-run home run with two outs in the bottom of the 9th inning to give Louisiana State a 9 – 8 victory over Miami in the championship game of the College World Series. 2001: For the first time in major league history, two Texan teams play one another during the regular season. The Astros beat their interstate rivals, the Rangers, 5 – 4, in the first game of the Lone Star series played in Arlington Stadium. In front of a record-setting crowd of 45,936 at the new Comiskey Park, the White Sox beat their North Side rivals in ten innings as Carlos Lee hits a two-out walk-off grand slam to give the Sox a dramatic victory over the Cubs, 7 – 3. Damion Easley becomes the ninth Detroit Tigers player to hit for the cycle, and the first since 1993 when Travis Fryman accomplished the feat. Detroit beats Milwaukee, 9 – 4. 2005 – New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez becomes the youngest member of the 400-home run club when he hits a solo homer in the 8th inning of New York’s 12 – 3 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers. 2008 – Rich Harden begins the game by striking out the side on nine pitches in the A’s 7 – 3 victory over the Angels at Oakland’s McAfee Coliseum. Maicer Izturis, Howie Kendrick and Garret Anderson all go down swinging in the 33-year-old right-hander’s immaculate inning. 2010: Pitcher Stephen Strasburg makes the most eagerly anticipated debut in decades before a sell-out crowd in Washington, DC. The recipient of the largest signing bonus in history lives up to his advance billing, striking out 14 while walking none in seven innings; the only batter to reach him is Delwyn Young, who connects for a two-run homer. The Nationals defeat Pittsburgh, 4 – 2, for Strasburg’s first major league win. Another ballyhooed rookie makes his debut today – Florida outfielder Mike Stanton is 3 for 5 with two runs scored as the Marlins lose to the Phillies, 10 – 8. Stanton earned the call-up by belting 21 homers and driving in 52 runs in as many games for AA Jacksonville. Jeff Niemann pitches a two-hit complete game shutout against the Blue Jays. Tampa Bay wins, 9 – 0, as Carlos Pena leads the attack with two homers, including a grand slam. Old Man River, otherwise known as Tim Wakefield, rolls along to another milestone, passing Roger Clemens for most innings pitched in Boston Red Sox team history with 2,777. He gives up only four hits in 7 1/3 innings in beating Cleveland, 3 – 2, retiring 15 consecutive batters at one point. 2011: The Red Sox take over first place in the AL East by dropping the Yankees, 11 – 6, at New Yankee Stadium. Tim Wakefield continues to do well in filling for injured members of the starting rotation, picking up his third win after being staked an early 7 – 0 lead. David Ortiz, Carl Crawford and J.D. Drew all homer as A.J. Burnett takes the loss. But not all is rosy for Boston: 2B Dustin Pedroia heads home after the game to have his ailing right knee examined, but the problem turns out to be only a bone bruise. The Yanks are not so lucky as they place P Joba Chamberlain on the disabled list before the game with what turns out to be a torn ligament in his pitching elbow, requiring season-ending Tommy John surgery; Boston P Bobby Jenks also goes on the D.L., but his outlook is not as dire as Joba’s. Two hitting coaches lose their jobs today. The Rangers replace Thad Bosley with Scott Coolbaugh before their game with Detroit, while the Marlins fire John Mallee following a 3 – 2, ten-inning loss to Atlanta, replacing him with Eduardo Perez. 2012 – Six pitchers combine for a no-hitter as the Seattle Mariners down the Los Angeles Dodgers, 1 – 0. Kevin Millwood goes the first six innings before leaving with a groin injury. He is followed by Charlie Furbush, Stephen Pryor, Lucas Luetge, Brandon League, and Tom Wilhelmsen. Pryor gets the win in only his fourth major league appearance and Wilhelmsen the save. The only run scores in the top of the 7th, when Kyle Seager drives in Ichiro Suzuki with a two-out single. 2013: For only the second time in major league history, two games go 18 innings on the same day. First, the Blue Jays defeat the Rangers, 4 – 3, when Rajai Davis drives in Emilio Bonifacio with a two-out single in the 18th inning. Ross Wolf is the unlucky loser after 6 2/3 innings of work. It’s the longest game in both teams’ history, but it’s not even the longest on the day, as the Marlins need 20 innings to defeat the Mets, 2 – 1, tying for the longest game in their history, and the longest played at Citi Field. Adeiny Hechevarria drives in the go-ahead run and Steve Cishek gets the final out after 6 hours and 20 minutes. The game almost ends in the 12th, but Marlins RF Marcell Ozuna throws out Daniel Murphy at the plate to prolong the game. Starters Shaun Marcum and Kevin Slowey then come in to pitch in the 13th, and both hurl scoreless ball until the 20th. Marcum falls to 0-7 in spite of his tremendous effort. On the day when his son Josh is picked by the Yankees in the 37th round of the amateur draft, Andy Pettitte wins the 250th game of his career over the Mariners, 3 – 1. Also in the 2013 draft, Federico Castagnini is picked by the Baltimore Orioles in the 30th round. Castagnini, a Creighton University infielder, becomes the first player to be drafted who was born and raised in Italy, though he came to the United States to play high school and college ball. Castagnini had been MVP of the 2009 European Junior Championship, which Italy won. The Solingen Alligators pound the Berlin Sluggers, 21 – 0, in a seven-inning game. Nick Renault, a long-time independent league hurler in the US, tosses a perfect game and fans 13 of the 21 batters he faces. 2014 – The Astros hit their first two grand slams of the season, courtesy of Chris Carter and Jon Singleton, in defeating the Twins, 14 – 5. Dexter Fowler and George Springer add solo shots as it is only the second time Houston has ever hit two slams in one game, the other coming in 1969. Darin Downs is the beneficiary of the outburst, picking up his first win of the year after starter Collin McHugh has to leave early because of a blister. 2015 – Shortstops are the flavor of the day in the 2015 amateur draft, as players who man the position are taken in the first three slots, and eight are selected within the first 36 picks. The number 1 overall pick is Dansby Swanson of Vanderbilt University, taken by the Diamondbacks. He is followed by Alex Bregman of LSU, by Houston, and Brendan Rodgers, the first high schooler selected, by the Rockies. The Astros are the first team to have two of the top five picks in a draft, the result of failing come to terms with number one pick Brady Aiken last year; they take OF Kyle Tucker, the brother of their own Preston Tucker, fifth overall, while Aiken is selected again, this time with pick #17, by the Indians. Two other Vanderbilt players are taken in the first round, P Carson Fulmer by the White Sox at #8 and P Walker Buehler by the Dodgers at #24. 2017 – At the 2017 European Champions Cup, Matteo Bocchi of Unipol Bologna throws a no-hitter (seven innings due to a mercy rule win) over the French champion Rouen Huskies. Bocchi walks only one, Larry Infante, in the gem, while Francesco Fuzzi lends strong offensive support with five RBI. 2019: In the 2019 CWS Super Regionals played in Nashville, TN, Vanderbilt University freshman pitcher Kumar Rocker strikes out 19 Duke University batters while pitching a no-hitter in a 3 – 0 win, putting on one of the most dominant pitching performances ever seen at that level of competition. UnipolSai Bologna wins the 2019 European Champions Cup. The hosts avenge their lone loss, beating the L&D Amsterdam Pirates, 8 – 0, in the finale as Raúl Rivero and Alex Bassani strike out 16 while allowing only five hits and a walk and Bologna roughs up Kevin Heijstek, who had beaten them previously. Jose Ferrini scores two for Bologna while John Polonius and Francesco Fuzzi drive in two each. Bologna backstop Osman Marval wins the Cup MVP. The defending champion Curacao Neptunus cruises to third by routing Parmaclima, 9 – 0, on a combined four-hitter by Orlando Yntema and Misja Harcksen. Stijn van der Meer goes 3 for 4 with three RBI for Neptunus. 2020 – MLB owners present their counter-proposal to get the season started. They propose playing 76 games, with a postseason involving 16 teams, drop the proposed sliding scale for reducing salaries – although they still seek further cuts -, and also propose dropping all forms of compensation for signing free agents. The ball is now back in the MLBPA’s court. 2021 – Pirates rookie 3B Ke’Bryan Hayes, swinging a red hot bat after coming back from a two-month stay on the injured list, makes a very embarrassing mistake when he has a home run taken away for missing first base. His apparent solo shot off Walker Buehler is nullified when the Dodgers successfully appeal that he did not touch the bag while rounding the bases. 2023 – José Ramírez has the first three-homer game of his career, with the second of the three long balls being his 200th, as he leads Cleveland to a 10 – 3 win over the Red Sox. 2024: In the first game of the annual “London Series” played at London Olympic Stadium, the Phillies defeat the Mets, 7 – 2, behind the pitching of Ranger Suárez, who becomes the first to record ten wins in the majors this season. The Phils do it with the long ball, with homers by Bryce Harper – who celebrates with a local flavor by sliding on his knees and screaming “I love soccer” – Whit Merrifield and Nick Castellanos. The Blue Jays finally end an embarrassing streak in which they had failed to score in the 1st inning in 29 consecutive games – the second longest such streak in major league history – when three walks and a sacrifice fly lead to a run against Luis Medina of the Athletics. They add another five runs in the 5th, but the story of the day is Kevin Gausman, who records the first shutout of his 12-season career in the 7 – 0 win. His only previous complete game had been a rain-shortened five-inning affair back in 2014. Births[edit] 1861 – Ben Tuthill, umpire (d. 1937) 1862 – Tom Lee, pitcher (d. 1886) 1868 – George Goodhart, minor league catcher (d. 1927) 1870 – Tim Donahue, catcher (d. 1902) 1871 – Julius Fleischmann, owner (d. 1925) 1877 – Tex Neuer, pitcher (d. 1966) 1887 – Del Paddock, infielder (d. 1952) 1891 – Buck Danner, infielder (d. 1949) 1892 – Chance Cummings, infielder (d. 1974) 1895 – Bill Drake, pitcher (b. 1977) 1895 – Sam McConnell, infielder (d. 1981) 1899 – Jack Crangle, college coach (d. 1944) 1899 – Lou Maguolo, scout (d. 1977) 1901 – Leo Tankersley, catcher (d. 1980) 1911 – Van Mungo, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1985) 1911 – Roy Partlow, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1987) 1912 – Lew Krausse, pitcher (d. 1988) 1913 – Art Mahan, infielder (d. 2010) 1913 – Earl Reid, pitcher (d. 1984) 1914 – Tom Johnson, owner (d. 2000) 1919 – Damon Phillips, infielder (d. 2004) 1919 – Charley Schanz, pitcher (d. 1992) 1922 – Richard Bixby, minor league infielder (d. 2014) 1922 – Salvador Taormina, minor league outfielder and manager (d. 1979) 1923 – Hal Kleine, pitcher (d. 1957) 1925 – Del Ennis, outfielder; All-Star (d. 1996) 1925 – Eddie Gaedel, pinch hitter (d. 1961) 1927 – José Pereira, pitcher (d. 2001) 1928 – Webbo Clarke, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1970) 1928 – Alex Konikowski, pitcher (d. 1997) 1929 – Fausto Camusi, Serie A1 infielder and manager (d. 1993) 1929 – Jerry Dahlke, pitcher (d. 2006) 1929 – Lionel Evelyn, Negro League pitcher (d. 2022) 1930 – Phil Paine, pitcher (d. 1978) 1931 – Herb Tassin, minor league player (d. 2014) 1932 – Takashi Kawashima, NPB outfielder 1934 – Ryoichi Sato, NPB pitcher (d. 2016) 1934 – Bill Smith, pitcher (d. 1997) 1935 – George Brunet, pitcher (d. 1991) 1937 – Joe Grzenda, pitcher (d. 2019) 1942 – Larry Colton, pitcher 1942 – Pete Magrini, pitcher (d. 2022) 1944 – Mark Belanger, infielder; All-Star (d. 1998) 1944 – Nobuji Oikawa, NPB pitcher 1946 – Jack Lind, infielder 1947 – Makoto Yamamoto, NPB pitcher 1948 – Akio Takahashi, Japanese national team coach (d. 2022) 1952 – Toru Sugiura, NPB outfielder 1953 – Jack Kucek, pitcher 1954 – Lenn Sakata, infielder 1957 – Don Robinson, pitcher 1958 – Carmen Castillo, outfielder (d. 2015) 1959 – Britt Burns, pitcher; All-Star 1959 – Chu-Ming Lee, CPBL outfielder and manager 1961 – Kevin Gross, pitcher; All-Star 1962 – Brian Gibbons, umpire 1962 – John Gibbons, catcher, manager 1962 – Sébastien Valazza, Division Elite infielder 1963 – Scott Ruskin, pitcher 1964 – Cesar Jimenez, minor league pitcher 1965 – Mike Anderson, college coach 1965 – Kevin Ritz, pitcher 1965 – Hiroshi Yagi, NPB infielder 1967 – Steve Chitren, pitcher 1968 – Dave Mlicki, pitcher 1969 – Peter Estrada, minor league pitcher 1970 – Jun Inoue, NPB outfielder 1970 – Kiki Jones, minor league pitcher 1971 – Matt Whisenant, pitcher 1973 – Hidetaka Kawagoe, NPB pitcher 1974 – Koichi Misawa, NPB pitcher 1974 – Jung-min Seo, minor league pitcher 1975 – Matt Perisho, pitcher 1975 – Yoichi Sasayama, NPB pitcher 1975 – Dennis Twombley, scout 1976 – Kenji Johjima, catcher 1976 – Zach Murray, minor league pitcher 1976 – Ryutaro Tsuji, NPB outfielder 1978 – Takashi Miyoshi, minor league infielder and manager 1979 – Pete Orr, infielder 1979 – Chris Stowe, minor league pitcher 1981 – Tsuyoshi Jobe, NPB pitcher 1981 – Kevin Mahar, outfielder 1981 – Adam Morrissey, minor league infielder 1981 – Masafumi Suenaga, NPB outfielder 1982 – J.P. Martinez, coach 1982 – Brandon Young, drafted outfielder (d. 2014) 1984 – Shinya Yamamoto, Japanese national team infielder 1985 – Aaron Wideman, minor league pitcher 1986 – Derek Bondo, First Division pitcher 1986 – Keyter Collado, minor league catcher and manager 1986 – Angel Salome, catcher 1987 – Eui-ji Yang, KBO catcher 1988 – Lance Roenicke, minor league outfielder 1989 – T.J. McFarland, pitcher 1989 – Gerardo Sanchez, minor league pitcher 1990 – Yung-Hsin Cheng, Taiwan womens’ national team outfielder 1990 – Taishi Nakagawa, NPB infielder 1991 – R.J. Alvarez, pitcher 1991 – Terrance Gore, outfielder (d. 2026) 1991 – Kris Hall, minor league pitcher 1992 – Jill Barrett, US women’s national team infielder 1992 – Fernando Gonzalez, minor league pitcher 1993 – Ferdinand Liguayan, Philippines national team outfielder 1993 – Tim McKeithan, minor league coach 1993 – Ryan Sebra, minor league player 1993 – Kregg Snook, college coach 1993 – Kender Villegas, minor league pitcher 1994 – Jung-bin Kim, KBO pitcher 1994 – Chihaya Sasaki, NPB pitcher 1995 – Chad Smith, pitcher 1996 – Chi-Kit Kwong, Hong Kong national team pitcher 1996 – Gabe Mosser, minor league pitcher 1998 – Alex Hall, minor league catcher 1998 – Jake Polancic, minor league pitcher 1999 – Masashi Maruyama, Japanese national team infielder 1999 – Gytis Morkūnas, Lithuanian national team pitcher 2000 – Cheng-Yu Chang, CPBL infielder 2000 – Hernando Mejía, minor league pitcher 2000 – Connor Norby, infielder 2001 – Victor Mederos, pitcher 2001 – Blade Tidwell, pitcher 2002 – Brayan Buelvas, minor league outfielder 2002 – Wallace Clark, minor league infielder 2002 – Binbin Lu, Chinese national team catcher 2004 – Hidetoshi Ibaragi, NPB pitcher Deaths[edit] 1893 – Bill Collins, catcher (b. 1863) 1930 – Robert Poindexter, pitcher (b. 1897) 1931 – Ed Ford, infielder (b. 1862) 1935 – Jay Parker, pitcher (b. 1874) 1939 – Pat Paige, pitcher (b. 1882) 1945 – Bill Kemmer, infielder (b. 1873) 1950 – Cannonball Titcomb, pitcher (b. 1866) 1954 – Tom O’Hara, outfielder (b. 1880) 1963 – Earl Smith, catcher (b. 1897) 1965 – Pep Clark, infielder (b. 1883) 1966 – Jake Munch, outfielder (b. 1890) 1967 – Art Jacobs, pitcher (b. 1902) 1968 – Dusty Boggess, umpire (b. 1904) 1971 – William Prince, minor league pitcher and manager (b. 1909) 1971 – Ed Rile, pitcher/outfielder (b. 1900) 1974 – Fred Wiley, pitcher (b. 1895) 1975 – Ownie Carroll, pitcher (b. 1902) 1982 – Irv Jeffries, infielder (b. 1905) 1982 – Satchel Paige, pitcher; All-Star, Hall of Famer (b. 1906) 1988 – Walt Chipple, outfielder (b. 1918) 1989 – Bibb Falk, outfielder, manager (b. 1899) 1989 – Emil Verban, infielder; All-Star (b. 1915) 1990 – Rafael Cabrera, outfielder (b. 1924) 1990 – Neb Stewart, outfielder (b. 1918) 1993 – Roy Henshaw, pitcher (b. 1911) 1993 – Rudy Laskowski, minor league catcher and manager (b. 1915) 1996 – C. Arnholt Smith, owner (b. 1899) 1997 – Yasuya Hondo, NPB player and manager (b. 1918) 1997 – Ken Hunt, outfielder (b. 1934) 1998 – Pauline Oravets, AAGPBL pitcher (b. 1918) 2000 – Isao Odate, NPB infielder (b. 1917) 2000 – Kazuo Usami, NPB catcher (b. 1914) 2001 – Katsuji Kojima, NPB outfielder (b. 1923) 2004 – Mack Jones, outfielder (b. 1938) 2008 – Mick Sharkey, umpire (b. 1949) 2009 – Clarence Russell, minor league outfielder (b. 1925) 2009 – Frank Dasso, pitcher (b. 1917) 2010 – Tomoharu Kai, NPB outfielder (b. 1923) 2011 – Jim Northrup, outfielder (b. 1939) 2012 – Jimmy Francoline, minor league infielder and manager (b. 1927) 2013 – Howard Boles, minor league outfielder (b. 1927) 2013 – Jim Higgins, minor league infielder (b. 1928) 2013 – Cliff Shanks, minor league infielder (b. 1971) 2013 – Jose Sosa, pitcher (b. 1952) 2014 – Jean Geissinger, AAGPBL infielder (b. 1934) 2014 – Billy McCool, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1944) 2016 – Bill Marchant, college coach (b. 1947) 2019 – Frank Lucchesi, manager (b. 1927) ============================================== TV SPORTS TODAY (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Monday, June 8 COLLEGE BASEBALL 11 a.m. ACCN — NCAA Tournament: TBD, Super Regional Noon ESPN2 — NCAA Tournament: TBD, Super Regional 3 p.m. ESPN2 — NCAA Tournament: TBD, Super Regional 6 p.m. ESPN2 — NCAA Tournament: TBD, Super Regional 8 p.m. ESPN — NCAA Tournament: TBD, Super Regional MLB BASEBALL 6:30 p.m. FS1 — N.Y. Yankees at Cleveland (6:40 p.m.) 9:30 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: Washington at San Francisco (9:45 p.m.) OR Houston at L.A. Angels (9:38 p.m.) NBA BASKETBALL 8:30 p.m. ABC — NBA Finals: San Antonio at New York, Game 3 WNBA BASKETBALL 7 p.m. NBCSN — Indiana at Washington PEACOCK — Indiana at Washington 10 p.m. USA — Seattle at Las Vegas _____ Tuesday, June 9 MLB BASEBALL 6:30 p.m. TBS — N.Y. Yankees at Cleveland (6:40 p.m.) 6:40 p.m. PRIME VIDEO — N.Y. Yankees at Cleveland 9:30 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: Milwaukee at Athletics (10:05 p.m.) OR Cincinnati at San Diego (9:40 p.m.) NHL HOCKEY 8 p.m. ABC — Stanley Cup Final: Carolina at Vegas, Game 4 SOCCER (MEN’S) 9 p.m. ESPN — Argentina vs. Iceland SOFTBALL 5 p.m. CBSSN — Athletes Unlimited: Cascade at Blaze 7 p.m. ESPN2 — Athletes Unlimited: Volts at Spark 9 p.m. ESPN2 — Athletes Unlimited: Bandits at Talons WNBA BASKETBALL 7 p.m. ESPN — Atlanta at Chicago _____ Wednesday, June 10 COLLEGE TRACK AND FIELD (MEN’S) 8 p.m. ESPN — NCAA Tournament: Championships – Day 1, Eugene, Ore. MLB BASEBALL 1 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: N.Y. Yankees at Cleveland (1:10 p.m.) OR Boston at Tampa Bay (1:10 p.m.) 4 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: Cincinnati at San Diego (4:10 p.m.) OR L.A. Dodgers at Pittsburgh (6:40 p.m.) 7 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: Philadelphia at Toronto (7:07 p.m.) OR L.A. Dodgers at Pittsburgh (6:40 p.m.) 10 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: Houston at L.A. Angels (joined in progress) (9:38 p.m.) OR Milwaukee at Athletics (joined in progress) (9:05 p.m.) NBA BASKETBALL 8:30 p.m. ABC — NBA Finals: San Antonio at New York, Game 4 SOFTBALL 8 p.m. ESPN2 — Athletes Unlimited: Cascade at Blaze 10 p.m. ESPNU — Athletes Unlimited: Bandits at Talons WNBA BASKETBALL 10 p.m. USA — Los Angeles at Seattle _____ Thursday, June 11 COLLEGE TRACK AND FIELD (WOMEN’S) 8 p.m. ESPN — NCAA Tournament: Championships – Day 1, Eugene, Ore. GOLF 11 a.m. GOLF — LPGA Tour: Dow Championship, First Round, Midland Country Club, Midland, Mich. 3 p.m. GOLF — PGA Tour: RBC Canadian Open, First Round, TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley (North Course), Caledon, Ontario MLB BASEBALL 1 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: Arizona at Miami (1:10 p.m.) OR Minnesota at Detroit (1:10 p.m.) 7 p.m. ESPN — Seattle at Baltimore NHL HOCKEY 8 p.m. ABC — Stanley Cup Final: Vegas at Carolina, Game 5 (if necessary) RUGBY (MEN’S) 9 p.m. ESPN2 — MLR: California at Seattle SOCCER (MEN’S) 3 p.m. FOX — 2026 FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Mexico vs. South Africa, Group A, Mexico City 10 p.m. FS1 — 2026 FIFA World Cup Group Stage: South Korea vs. Czechia, Group A, Monterrey, Mexico SOFTBALL 5 p.m. CBSSN — Athletes Unlimited: Cascade at Blaze 9 p.m. ESPNU — Athletes Unlimited: Bandits at Talons WNBA BASKETBALL 7 p.m. PRIME VIDEO — Chicago at Indiana 9 p.m. PRIME VIDEO — Phoenix at Dallas _____ Friday, June 12 AUTO RACING 7:30 a.m. APPLE TV — Formula 1: Practice, Circuit de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 11 a.m. APPLE TV — Formula 1: Practice, Circuit de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 6:30 a.m. (Saturday) APPLE TV — Formula 1: Practice, Circuit de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain COLLEGE BASEBALL 2 p.m. ESPN — Men’s College World Series: TBD, Game 1, Omaha, Neb. 7 p.m. ESPN — Men’s College World Series: TBD, Game 2, Omaha, Neb. COLLEGE TRACK AND FIELD (MEN’S) 8 p.m. ESPN — NCAA Tournament: Championships – Day 2, Eugene, Ore. GOLF 11 a.m. GOLF — LPGA Tour: Dow Championship, Second Round, Midland Country Club, Midland, Mich. 3 p.m. GOLF — PGA Tour: RBC Canadian Open, Second Round, TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley (North Course), Caledon, Ontario 6 p.m. GOLF — 2026 Curtis Cup: First Round, Bel-Air Country Club, Los Angeles 10 p.m. GOLF — PGA Tour Champions: Principal Charity Classic, First Round, Wakonda Club, Des Moines, Iowa (taped) MLB BASEBALL 7:10 p.m. APPLE TV — Arizona at Cincinnati APPLE TV — Atlanta at N.Y. Mets 7:30 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: N.Y. Yankees at Toronto (7:37 p.m.) OR L.A. Dodgers at Chicago White Sox (7:40 p.m.) 10:30 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: Chicago Cubs at San Francisco (joined in progress) (10:15 p.m.) OR Colorado at Athletics (joined in progress) (10:05 p.m.) SOCCER (MEN’S) 3 p.m. FOX — 2026 FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Canada vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Group B, Toronto 9 p.m. FOX — 2026 FIFA World Cup Group Stage: U.S. vs. Paraguay, Group D, Inglewood, Calif. WNBA BASKETBALL 7:30 p.m. ION — Toronto at Washington 10 p.m. ION — Golden State at Seattle _____ Saturday, June 13 AUTO RACING 6:30 a.m. APPLE TV — Formula 1: Practice, Circuit de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 10 a.m. APPLE TV — Formula 1: Qualifying, Circuit de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 3 p.m. NBCSN — Pro Motocross Championship: Thunder Valley National, Thunder Valley Motocross Park, Lakewood, Colo. 4 p.m. CW — NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series: MillerTech Battery 250 presented by KOA, Pocono Raceway, Long Pond, Pa. NBC — Pro Motocross Championship: Thunder Valley National, Thunder Valley Motocross Park, Lakewood, Colo. BOWLING 1 p.m. CBS — PBA Tour: From Allen Park, Mich. COLLEGE BASEBALL 3 p.m. ESPN — Men’s College World Series: TBD, Game 3, Omaha, Neb. 8 p.m. ESPN — Men’s College World Series: TBD, Game 4, Omaha, Neb. COLLEGE TRACK AND FIELD (WOMEN’S) 8 p.m. ESPN — NCAA Tournament: Championships – Day 2, Eugene, Ore. GOLF 1 p.m. GOLF — PGA Tour: RBC Canadian Open, Third Round, TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley (North Course), Caledon, Ontario 3 p.m. CBS — PGA Tour: RBC Canadian Open, Third Round, TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley (North Course), Caledon, Ontario GOLF — LPGA Tour: Dow Championship, Third Round, Midland Country Club, Midland, Mich. 5 p.m. GOLF — PGA Tour Champions: Principal Charity Classic, Second Round, Wakonda Club, Des Moines, Iowa 7 p.m. GOLF — 2026 Curtis Cup: Second Round, Bel-Air Country Club, Los Angeles MLB BASEBALL 2 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: St. Louis at Minnesota (2:10 p.m.) OR Atlanta at N.Y. Mets (4:10 p.m.) 5 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: L.A. Dodgers at Chicago White Sox (4:10 p.m.) OR Atlanta at N.Y. Mets (4:10 p.m.) 7 p.m. FOX — Regional Coverage: Houston at Kansas City (7:15 p.m.) OR Philadelphia at Milwaukee (7:15 p.m.) 10 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: Tampa Bay at L.A. Angels (10:07 p.m.) OR Chicago Cubs at San Francisco (10:05 p.m.) NBA BASKETBALL 8:30 p.m. ABC — NBA Finals: New York at San Antonio, Game 5 (if necessary) SOCCER (MEN’S) 3 p.m. FOX — 2026 FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Qatar vs. Switzerland, Group B, Santa Clara, Calif. 6 p.m. FS1 — 2026 FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Brazil vs. Morocco, Group C, East Rutherford, N.J. 9 p.m. FS1 — 2026 FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Haiti vs. Scotland, Group C, Foxborough, Mass. Midnight FS1 — 2026 FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Australia vs. Turkey, Group D, Vancouver, British Columbia SOFTBALL Noon ESPN — Athletes Unlimited: Volts at Blaze 2 p.m. ESPN2 — Athletes Unlimited: Spark at Bandits 4 p.m. CBSSN — Athletes Unlimited: Cascade at Talons UFL FOOTBALL 3 p.m. ABC — 2026 United Bowl: TBD, Championship WNBA BASKETBALL 6 p.m. NBCSN — Indiana at Connecticut PEACOCK — Indiana at Connecticut 8 p.m. CBS — Minnesota at Las Vegas _____ Sunday, June 14 AUTO RACING 9 a.m. APPLE TV — Formula 1: MSC Cruises Gran Premio de Barcelona-Catalunya, Circuit de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 3 p.m. PRIME VIDEO — NASCAR Cup Series: Great American Getaway 400 presented by VISITPA, Pocono Raceway, Long Pond, Pa. COLLEGE BASEBALL 2 p.m. ESPN — Men’s College World Series: TBD, Game 5, Omaha, Neb. 7 p.m. ESPN — Men’s College World Series: TBD, Game 6, Omaha, Neb. GOLF Noon GOLF — LPGA Tour: Dow Championship, Final Round, Midland Country Club, Midland, Mich. 1 p.m. CBS — LPGA Tour: Dow Championship, Final Round, Midland Country Club, Midland, Mich. GOLF — PGA Tour: RBC Canadian Open, Final Round, TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley (North Course), Caledon, Ontario 3 p.m. CBS — PGA Tour: RBC Canadian Open, Final Round, TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley (North Course), Caledon, Ontario GOLF — PGA Tour Champions: Principal Charity Classic, Final Round, Wakonda Club, Des Moines, Iowa 6 p.m. GOLF — 2026 Curtis Cup: Final Round, Bel-Air Country Club, Los Angeles MLB BASEBALL Noon NBCSN — Miami at Pittsburgh (12:15 p.m.) PEACOCK — Miami at Pittsburgh (12:15 p.m.) 1:30 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: N.Y. Yankees at Toronto (1:37 p.m.) OR San Diego at Baltimore (1:35 p.m.) 3 p.m. ABC — Chicago Cubs at San Francisco (3:10 p.m.) 7 p.m. NBC — Texas at Boston (7:20 p.m.) PEACOCK — Texas at Boston (7:20 p.m.) NHL HOCKEY 8 p.m. ABC — Stanley Cup Final: Carolina at Vegas, Game 6 (if necessary) SOCCER (MEN’S) 1 p.m. FOX — 2026 FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Germany vs. Curaçao, Group E, Houston 4 p.m. FOX — 2026 FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Netherlands vs. Japan, Group F, Arlington, Texas 7 p.m. FS1 — 2026 FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Ivory Coast vs. Ecuador, Group E, Philadelphia 10 p.m. FS1 — 2026 FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Sweden vs. Tunisia, Group F, Monterrey, Mexico SOFTBALL Noon ESPN2 — Athletes Unlimited: Spark at Bandits 8 p.m. MLBN — Athletes Unlimited: Cascade at Talons TRACK AND FIELD 4 p.m. NBC — USATF: From Los Angeles WNBA BASKETBALL 3 p.m. NBATV — Washington at New York About The Author troyderengowski61@gmail.com See author's posts Post navigation THE INDIANA SRN “SPORTSPAGE” SUNDAY JUNE 7, 2026
