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Conference final: SGA (40 points) and Thunder defeated Timberwells, 128–126 to move above 3–1; The storm emptied the panthers 3–0, so that to avoid elimination and lose the streak to end the final of the 15-game conference.
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Last eight standing: Number 2 is led by Oklahoma, No. 3 Florida, Number 6 Texas, Number 7 Tennessee, Number 9 UCLA, No. 12 Texas Tech, No. 16 Oregan and Ole Miss Women’s College World Series.
Racing roundup: Alex Palu won the Indi 500 for his fifth win in the first six races of the season; Lando Noris (McLaren) won Monaco GP; Ross Chastain won the Coca-Cola 600 despite finalizing.
Selection Sunday: A record 13 SEC teams created NCAA baseball tournamentEarned the number 1 overall seed in the 64-Team area with venders.
Lax champs: Cornell won his fourth male title (and first since 1977); UNC won its fourth female title; Buffalo bandit Completed three beats In NLL (indoor).
🏀 Step on one side, Millennials: General Z is taking
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NBA used to be playoff domain Among the older, the lover is deeply in its thirty decade, but the league has become smaller, and the best team starts aging more rapidly in that direction. Is there a young person’s game for a title?
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Yahoo Sports’ Tom Habbartrooh:
When Lebron James made his NBA debut in 2003, Anthony Edwards was the only child who took his first step on Earth. When Cobe Bryant thrown the prestigious ‘Oop in Shakeel O’ Nill in the final of the 2000s, Tieres Heliberton was a few months old.
Jalen Brunson is quite young to ask his father, Rick, preferred to play against Cleveland Lebron. Oh, and when Michael Jordan hit a clinning shot on Utah in the 1998 NBA final? Shai Gilgeous-Aexander was also not born. Looks old yet? Millennials definitely do.
By numbers: With Thunder, the way, the average age of the four conference finalists is 26.5 years old. This is the lowest on record and guarantees that NBA will be crowned its first Jean Z Champion this year.
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This continues a surprising tendency that has seen the NBA young and small in the final stages of the season. A Jean Z Champion was only a matter of time, but if the roster trends are held in the late 1990s, we will be about 2-3 years away from reaching that point. With these four teams, we are ahead of the schedule.
Although it is true that the league, in general, has become under decades, the last four were also far older than the night. Nowadays, the age difference is narrowing to the point where, especially in this season, there is not a lot.
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📸 World in pictures
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Liverpool, England – According to police, about 50 liverpool fans were injured on Monday after a 53 -year -old British man took a car into a crowd during the club’s Premier League Championship parade.
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Paris – Rafael Nadal was honored at Holland Garos on Sunday, where “King of Clay” won a record 14 French Open and now will get now will get now His footprints became immortal forever On the center court.
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St. Paul, Minnesota – Minnesota Frost has repeated as PWHL Champion, receiving its second straight Walter Cup with one on Monday Overtime winner Against Ottawa’s charge.
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Lisbon – The only English club to win the Women’s Champions League is now only twice to do so, as Arsenal defeated Barcelona, a 1-0 defending champion on Saturday for its first title since 2007.
🏒 US wins the first world title since 1933
Team USA caught Johnny Gaudru’s jersey, celebrating its championship. (Through Jonathan Necastrand/AFP Getty Image)
92 years later, American is once again world hockey champion,
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Win in Stockholm: US defeated Switzerland, thanks to 1-0 (OT), Sunday Golden goal From Sabers Center Tage Thompson, USA Hockey was given its first on-Ice Trophy in this tournament since 1933.
What are they saying: “We knew that there was something special in this room, but the biggest thing was that there was also Johnny Gaudru in our room,” Said about late NHL Star Who are the all-time point leaders of Americans in the world. “This gold goes to him and is inherited that he is paved for all USA hockey players.”
A long time is coming: The 1933 title was returned when only enthusiasts were allowed to compete. Massachusetts Rangers (US representing) defeated Toronto National C Fellas (Representation of Canada) In the seventh edition of the tournamentAnd first did not win by Canada.
In 1960, including Olympic gold, Americans tasted success in the coming decades (Technically a world title) And in 1980, 1996 Plus World Cup Gold. But he mostly struggled in the Standalone World Championships.
Canada (28 Golds), Russia/Soviet Union (27), Chechia (13) and Sweden (11) have won 79 out of 88 worlds; This was the first year when the US reached the title game in the modern era of the tournament (since 1992).
between the lines: Team USA showed its depth in Stockholm, claiming a young but talented roster that shared only two players with the team, which took the house silver (Swain and Blue Jacket Defenseman Zach Verenki) in 4 nations.
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looking ahead: Next year’s Winter Olympics will feature NHL players for the first time since 2014. And unlike the world, the 2026 games are during the NHL break, which means that all top players will be available. Can Americans run it back to a true best-best-best tournament? We will find out in eight months.
⚾ Ohtani throws live BP, to return close to inch
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Shohei Ohtani faced live batsmen He works back from the reconstruction elbow surgery at the end of this week for the first time since 2023.
From Yahoo Sports’ Jake Mintz:
At 2:30 pm on Sunday, Shohi Ohtani climbed a big league hill for the first time in 614 days. Officially, it was just a live batting practice session, which was a low-set environment, which was to relax back into the competition for an overcrowded pitcher. But because it was Ohtani, the session was converted into a one-way event.
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As a three -time MVP read to throw away, a group of its peers gathered together behind a protective net set near the house plate. Dozens of more dodger players, coaches and team employees looked at the dirt track at Foul Territory below the third-base line.
Across diamonds, Met’s manager Carlos Mendoza and some of his players with home dugout. Media members, television cameras and photographers otherwise doted empty stands, which jorious for the best possible view of the show. The worldly feels so important only with Ohitani.
Scouting Report: Ohtani threw 22 pitches in five et-bats and called his entire arsenal: fastball, ciner, cutter, sweeper, splitter. According to the pitching coach Mark Pire, the velocity was at a distance of 94–95 mph, although it reached 97. , Material There is, “East was ensured.
Meanwhile, on crime … A few hours after his live BP session, Ohthani exchange of his gloves for a bat and crank the second 411 feet pitch for his 18th home run in the evening. The next day, they crank First Night pitch 378 feet for her MLB-Agni 19,
📺 Wrachalist: Tuesday, May 27
Kat scored 20 out of 24 points on Sunday in the fourth quarter. (Nathanial S Butler/NBAE through Getty Image)
PAC Pacors, 🏀 nicks on game 4 (8PM ET, TNT)
New York on Sunday gave Indiana a taste of her medicine, with a return of 20 points behind the explosion in the fourth quarter from Carl-Antony Town. Can Naxalite tie the series before going home tonight?
Stars in Oil Allrs, Game 4 (8PM, ESPN)
Edmonton is on a roll since leaving game 1, winning the game 2 and 3 from a joint score of 9–1, including 6–1 thrashing on Sunday.
🎾 French Open, First Round (5 pm, TNT)
Number 2 coco gaff (7:10 pm)Number 3 Jessica Pegula (7:50 pm) And number 6 Novak Djokovic (8:20 pm) Put the last day of the first round in the lords Garos.
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Plus:
MLB: Brave in phillies (6:45 pm, TBS) … Ronald Ekuna Junior has run home twice in three matches since returning from torn ACL.
NCAA Male Golf: Team match play (Golf) … quarter finals (1pm) After the semi -finals (6pm),
🏀 NBA Trivia
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All-NBA Selection: Sga, Jokiok, Giannis, Tatum, Mitchell (First) | Edwards, James, Curry, Brunson, Moblay (Second) | Town, Harden, Cunningham, Haliberton, Jalan Williams (third).
Lebron James This season earned his 21st all-NBA selection, six more than any other player in the history of NBA.
Question: Every three players are tied for each, 15 sequences for the other?
prompt: One guard, two big.
Answer at the bottom.
📸 best game photo ever gets 60
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When Muhammad Ali On May 25, 1965, Sunny Liston knocked, photographer Neil Leeler captured that many people consider the biggest sports photos ever.
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What he is saying: “What happened that night, I was very lucky, and I didn’t remember,” Leafer, now 82, Told New York Times On the 60th anniversary of his prestigious shot, took 1 minute and 44 seconds in the notorious title bout held at a small young-centenary hockey rink.
Place: Leviston, main
equipment: Rolephlex camera
Behind the lens: This photo has two different features (1) clean frame and (2) blurred backgrounds. Here both have leifer:
Clean Frame: “There was no professionalism. The mat was a plain of-white canvas. There was nothing on the tights. There was nothing on the glove. The background would be different today, with all types of rubbish: advertisements for light beer, a hotel.”
Staining background: “In those days, the crowd was going to be 90% of men, and many of them were smoking cigarettes or cigars. Strobe lights were filtering through smoke and you get a little bit of a blue fog, as the opposite of a jet black, and made the picture a little more dramatic.”
Watch: Full fight (YouTube)
Answer to general knowledge: Cobe Bryant, Karim Abdul-Jabbar, Tim Duncan
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