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🚨 HEADLINES
🏀🏒 Playoffs recap: Victor Wembanyama (27 factors, 17 rebounds, 5 assists) and the Spurs crushed the Timberwolves, 126-97, to take a 3-2 collection lead; the Golden Knights beat the Ducks, 3-2 (OT), to take a 3-2 lead; the Sabres beat the Canadiens, 3-2, to even the collection at two video games apiece.
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💔 A tragic day within the NBA: Jason Collins, the primary lively overtly homosexual participant in NBA historical past, died Tuesday at age 47 after a battle with mind most cancers. Grizzlies ahead Brandon Clarke, a first-round select of Gonzaga in 2019, additionally passed away at age 29.
⚾️ CBA talks start: MLB and the MLBPA met Tuesday for his or her first official talks on a brand new collective bargaining settlement. The present deal, signed after a 99-day lockout in 2022, will expire on Dec. 1. Unless a brand new deal is in place by then, the league is predicted to once more lock out the gamers.
🏀 Morey out in Philly: The 76ers have parted ways with Daryl Morey, ending his six-year tenure as president of basketball operations. The Sixers are retaining head coach Nick Nurse, whereas former Warriors GM Bob Myers will act as interim GM and lead the seek for Morey’s alternative.
⚽️ “Ted Lasso” star indicators professional deal: Cristo Fernández, who performs Dani Rojas on Apple TV’s “Ted Lasso,” has signed a contract with USL aspect El Paso Locomotive FC. The 35-year-old grew up enjoying earlier than a knee harm derailed his profession and pushed him towards performing.
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⚾️ MLB POWER RANKINGS
(Bruno Rouby/Yahoo Sports)
We’re about one-quarter of the best way via the MLB season, which presents a chance to view groups via the lens of expectation vs. actuality.
Now vs. then: Here’s the place every workforce landed in our latest power rankings, in comparison with their spot in our preseason rankings in March. No workforce has risen fairly just like the Rays and Cardinals (up 17 spots), and no workforce has fallen fairly just like the Mets (down 22 spots).
Top 10:
(Bruno Rouby/Yahoo Sports)
11-20: Mariners (+9); Reds (+9); Athletics (+9); Guardians (+5); Diamondbacks (+2); Rangers (+4); Blue Jays (-11); Royals (-6); Tigers (-8); Orioles (-12)
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21-30: Red Sox (-14); White Sox (+7); Marlins (+1); Nationals (+3); Twins (+1); Astros (-12); Mets (-22); Giants (-10); Rockies (+1); Angels (-2)
Dive in: Full rankings
⛳️ IN PHOTOS: ARONIMINK GOLF CLUB
The Wanamaker Trophy in entrance of the Aronimink clubhouse. (Scott Taetsch/PGA of America)
The 108th PGA Championship tees off tomorrow at Aronimink Golf Club outdoors Philadelphia, the place 156 golfers will compete for the Wanamaker Trophy within the season’s second main.
It’s been some time: This is the primary males’s main within the Philadelphia space because the 2013 U.S. Open at Merion Golf Club, and simply the second PGA Championship ever held at Aronimink. The first was held in 1962, and gained by Gary Player.
The seventh gap. (Dave Evenson/PGA of America)
Origin story: Aronimink, initially based because the Belmont Golf Club in 1896, bounced round varied areas for 3 a long time earlier than touchdown in Newtown Square in 1928, when legendary architect Donald Ross was introduced in to work his Scotland links-inspired magic on the observe.
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Notable quotable: “I intended to make this my masterpiece,” Ross mentioned in a 1948 quote you are prone to hear usually throughout this week’s protection. “But not until today did I realize I built it better than I knew.”
The twelfth and thirteenth holes. (Scott Taetsch/PGA of America)
Timely restoration: It’s no mistake that Aronimink is internet hosting this 12 months’s match, on the 250th anniversary of America’s founding in Philadelphia. To put together for the milestone, the membership enlisted famed architect Gil Hanse in 2018 to restore the course primarily based on Ross’ authentic imaginative and prescient.
What modified? Hanse’s restoration centered on subdividing the bunkers (there are actually almost 200), eradicating timber and re-contouring and considerably increasing the greens, which now common 8,200 sq. toes. That’s roughly 25% bigger than the typical PGA Tour greens.
The fifth inexperienced. (Scott Taetsch/PGA of America)
The greens are the important thing: “You want to know the secret to Aronimink Golf Club? Look no further than the greens,” writes Yahoo Sports’ Jay Busbee. “Turtlebacked, sloping, with vicious swales and card-killing breaks, the greens will test the best.”
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The final phrase: Players perceive this week’s match shall be gained or misplaced on these devilish dance flooring, and that all the pieces else is truthful recreation. “Strategy off the tee is pretty nonexistent,” Rory McIlroy mentioned candidly on Tuesday. “It’s, basically, bash driver down there and then figure it out from there.”
🎓 OLE MISS CATCHING STRAYS
(Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire by way of Getty Images)
In a Vanity Fair piece printed on Monday, Lane Kiffin indicated {that a} stronger sense of “campus diversity” factored into him leaving Ole Miss for LSU.
When he was teaching there, Kiffin says, prime recruits would inform him, ‘Hey, coach, we actually such as you. But my grandparents aren’t letting me transfer to Oxford, Mississippi.’
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“That doesn’t come up when you say Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Parents were sitting here this weekend saying the campus’ diversity feels so great: ‘It feels like there’s no segregation. And we want that for our kid because that’s the real world.'”
The very subsequent day, Texas coach Steve Sarkisian took a shot at Ole Miss’ academic standards in an interview with USA Today.
“At Texas, we will only take 50% of a player’s academic credit hours. You may be a semester from graduating, but you’re going all the way back to 50% if you play here and want a degree. But at Ole Miss, they can take you. All you have to do is take basket weaving, and you can get an Ole Miss degree.”
The fallout: Kiffin has since apologized for his comments, nevertheless it’s protected to say that the Rebels fan base that already hated him hates him much more now. An ideal time for ABC to announce that this 12 months’s LSU-Ole Miss recreation (Sept. 19) shall be in primetime!
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Watch: The problem with Kiffin’s comments (Yahoo Sports)
📺 WATCHLIST: WEDNESDAY, MAY 13
🏀 NBA Playoffs
The Pistons host the Cavaliers in a essential Game 5 (8pm ET, ESPN), with their collection tied at two video games apiece after each groups held serve at residence.
Cleveland‘s excessive splits: The Cavs are 6-0 at residence in these playoffs, and 0-5 on the highway. Can they flip the script tonight and take a 3-2 lead? Or will the pattern proceed?
🏒 NHL Playoffs
The top-seeded Avalanche (up 3-1) will look to shut out the Wild at residence (8pm, TNT) and e-book their spot within the West Final.
Conn Smythe watch: Colorado‘s Nathan MacKinnon is the betting favourite (+250 at BetMGM) to win the Conn Smythe Trophy (postseason MVP), and teammate Cale Makar has the third-best odds (+900).
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More to observe:
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⚾️ MLB: Yankees at Orioles (6:35pm, Prime) … New York (27-16) has misplaced 4 of 5 to fall out of first place.
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🏀 WNBA: Aces at Sun (8pm, USA); Fever at Sparks (10:30pm, USA) … Connecticut, Indiana and Los Angeles are all looking for their first win.
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🎾 Tennis: Italian Open (7am, Tennis) … Men’s and ladies’s quarterfinal motion in Rome.
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⚽️ Premier League: Manchester City vs. Crystal Palace (3pm, USA) … A win would put City two factors behind first-place Arsenal with two matches left.
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⚽️ MLS: New England vs. Nashville (7:30pm, Apple) … The prime two groups within the East face off in Foxborough.
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⛳️ GOLF TRIVIA
(Carl Recine/Getty Images)
Six lively golfers have gained a number of PGA Championships, however with Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Vijay Singh not on this week’s area, simply three are teeing it up.
Question: Can you title all three?
Hint: Two Americans, one European.
Answer on the backside.
👑 CHARTED: LEBRON’S 4 HOF CAREERS
(Tom Haberstroh/Yahoo Sports)
If Monday was LeBron James’ last recreation as a Laker, he’ll stroll away understanding he had a Hall of Fame profession primarily based solely on his eight seasons in purple and gold.
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But wait, there’s extra: If we are able to set up that James had a Hall of Fame worthy profession as a Laker, it means one thing even greater. It means he has stacked 4 separate Hall of Fame careers on prime of one another, demarcated by the three offseasons during which he switched groups.
Here are the numbers to prove it.
Trivia reply: Brooks Koepka (2018, 2019, 2023); Rory McIlroy (2012, 2014); Justin Thomas (2017, 2022)
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