The Sports Report: Vegas wins the Stanley Cup

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From Helene Elliott: Too much to imbibe, but not too much to cherish.

Members of the Golden Knights hugged, cried and lifted the gleaming Stanley Cup to the sky on Tuesday, knowing their names would soon be on the table after beating Florida 9-3 and wrapping up the cup final in five games. Be inscribed on hockey’s biggest prize. At that moment, the details of how they got there didn’t matter. Emotions do.

“I don’t know how much I’ll remember about hockey itself, but I’ll definitely remember the team and the memories we’ve shared throughout the year and the ones we’ll be making later this week,” the Las Vegas defense Player Alec Martinez, a two-time Cup champion for the Kings, said as he was surrounded by friends and family on the crushed ice at T-Mobile Arena.

“Honestly, I think we really love each other. I know it sounds cliché, but this team is very close. Our fun on the ice translates to the ice. When you have a team like that, you inevitably Facing adversity. It’s just part of the game. There will be injuries, there will be setbacks, ups and downs. But I really think it’s the intangibles off the court that make the difference.”

Maybe so. Perhaps it’s the Golden Knights’ ability to build a big team with a preternaturally mobile defense and deeper goalie depth than they think they need, and their ability to be a Stanley Cup champion, a team that bills itself as ” The Golden Misfit” was in its first season, as players were considered expendable and could remain in the expansion draft for new teams’ rosters.

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NHL playoffs

results, schedule
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stanley cup final

Vegas (P1) vs. Florida (WC2)
Game 1: 5 in Las Vegas, 2 in Florida
Game 2: 7 in Las Vegas, 2 in Florida
Game 3: Florida 3, Vegas 2 (overtime)
Game 4: Las Vegas 3, Florida 2
Game 5: Las Vegas 9, Florida 3

Elliott: Ex-Kings and Ducks close to lifting Stanley Cup with Golden Knights

dodgers

From Mike DiGiovanna: Less fastball doesn’t equal less returns Dodgers right-hander Tony Gonsolinin front of a crowd of 45,561 in Chavez Canyon, the Chicago White Sox had two hits in a six-inning 5-1 victory Tuesday night.

Gonsolin, who took six days off from pitching — two more than usual — as the Dodgers felt he needed more recovery time between games, struck out six, walked two and allowed just one The runner reaches second base.

Relying heavily on his split-finger changes and four-seam fastball, and mixing up his curveball and slider, Gonsolin gave up just one left fielder Andrew Vaughn on the fourth and an infield single Jan Moncada in sixth. He threw the swing on 9 of 90 pitches.

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Trevor Bauer denies he sexually assaulted fourth woman who sued him

Angel

Hunter Renfroe’s two-run homer capped a sixth-inning three-run homer as the surging Angels beat the AL West-leading Texas Rangers 7-3 on Tuesday night.

Renfroe’s home run marred the major league debut of Owen White (0-1), who was recalled from Double-A Frisco. White came in with one out in the fifth and gave up three runs and four hits with two strikeouts and a walk.

The Angels have won three straight and eight of their past nine. They’re 38-31, seven games over .500 for the first time since May 27, 2022, and within 4.5 games of Texas.

NBA

From Dan Walker: The Coming Pinnacle NBA draft It’s been settled for years in some circles, but it seemed cemented in Las Vegas on Oct. 5 when league scouts and executives took to the Strip after seeing Victor Wembanyama play. As they toss money at the blackjack table and sip their drinks, they smile to see a 7-foot-4 ball-handling, beautiful-shooting teenager better than any 7-7-7 slot machine.

The return of the No. 1 pick was as dramatic as any chase this season, with the San Antonio Spurs earning the right to sign a player who could change their future and perhaps the entire league.

stress free.

It was deemed a very strong draft by the evaluators, who graded it. No. 1 is Wembanyama, 19, from France; Brandon Miller of Alabama; Scoot Henderson, another 19-year-old in the G League; and maybe Amen Thompson, a 20-year-old , is participating in the Overtime Elite Pro League. Then there are five or six other players ahead of a large group of players with similar talent.

According to conversations with NBA scouts and executives, this is the first time The New York Times will attempt a mock draft until June 22, when it will actually lose the draft.

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golf

From Steve Henson: The news is so jarring to professional golfers that they will always remember where they were when they heard the PGA Tour and LIV Golf had reached a partnership agreement.

Jon Rahm said he was making breakfast at his home in Arizona with his wife Kelly and their two young sons.

“Texts are just starting to flow in,” he said. “I thought at one point my phone was going to catch fire. … I told Kelly, ‘I’m just going to throw my phone in a drawer and not look at it for the next four hours because I can’t handle it anymore This one.”

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random access memory

From Gary Klein: The Rams began a two-day minicamp Tuesday, the last for coach Sean McVay and his players before training camp begins at UC Irvine in late July.

Observations from the Rams’ penultimate practice:

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charger

From Jeff Miller: JC Jackson said Tuesday he wants to be ready for the start of Chargers training camp as he continues to work on his recovery from a ruptured patellar tendon.

That’s not all the veteran cornerback had to say. Jackson was blunt about how tough the 2022 season is for him.

“I feel [expletive],” he explained. “I didn’t do anything. Injuried. I just got paid. I mean, I still have to prove to my teammates and myself that I’m still “Mr.” int.i didn’t do it [expletive] last year. “

Jackson was the Chargers’ largest free agent signing in March 2022, when he received a five-year deal that guaranteed him $40 million and was worth as much as $82.5 million.

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this date in sports

1922 – Gene Sarazen defeats Bobby Jones and John Black to win the US Open.

1934 – Max Baer defeats Primo Carnera in the 11th round in New York to win the World Heavyweight Championship.

1952 – Jim Peters runs the marathon world record (2:20:42.2).

1952 – Julius Boros shoots a 281 to win the U.S. Open by four shots over Ed Oliver at Northwood Club in Dallas.

1958 – Tommy Bolt beats Gary Player by four strokes to win the U.S. Open.

1981 – Donna Caponi Young beats Jerilyn Britz and Pat Meyers by one stroke to win the LPGA Championship.

1987 – The Lakers win their 10th NBA Championship by beating the Boston Celtics 106-93 in Game 6 at the Forum.

1990 – Vinnie Johnson scores 15 points in the fourth quarter, including a 15-footer with seven-tenths of a second left, to give Detroit a 92-90 win and beat Portland in five games The team won the NBA championship.

1991 – Leroy Burrell sets a men’s 100-meter dash world record of 9.90 seconds at the US Championships in New York. Carl Lewis, who has held the 9.92 record since the 1988 Olympics, finished second.

1992 – NBA Finals: Chicago Bulls defeat Portland Trail Blazers 97-93 in Game 6 to defend title.

1994 – The New York Rangers win their first Stanley Cup in 54 years by defeating the Vancouver Canucks 3-2 in Game 7. MVPs Brian Leetch, Adam Graves and Mark Messier scored goals and Mike Richter made 28 saves for New York.

1995 – The Houston Rockets complete the most incredible title defense in NBA history by sweeping the Orlando Magic 113-101. MVP Hakeem Olajuwon had 35 points and 15 rebounds.

1998 – Michael Jordan scores 45 points, steals the ball from Karl Malone and hits a jumper with 5.2 seconds left, Chicago wins 87-86 and takes sixth in a 4-2 series win over Utah NBA championship.

2005 – Michelle Wie becomes the first female player to qualify for the Senior Men’s Golf Association of America. champion and tied for first in the 36-hole U.S. Amateur Public Links section qualifying event in Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania.

2007 – The San Antonio Spurs recover from the ABA in 1976, sweeping Cleveland 83-82 and becoming one of the NBA’s greatest teams. With their fourth championship since 1999, the Spurs join the Lakers, Boston Celtics and Chicago Bulls as the only teams in NBA history to win four titles.

2009 – The Lakers win their 15th championship by defeating the Orlando Magic 99-86 in Game 5 of the NBA Finals. MVP Kobe Bryant scored 30 points as he won his fourth title, the first without Shaquille O’Neal. This is Phil Jackson’s 10th championship, making him surpass Boston’s Red Auerbach as the player with the most championships in history.

2015 – In-bee Park shot 68 in the final round and scored 19 under par. She won the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship for the third consecutive year and regained the No. 1 ranking in women’s golf. South Korea’s Park Ji-sung finished ahead of compatriot Kim Se-young, 22, for his second Grand Slam of the season.

—Compiled by the Associated Press

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