NHL:
The Chicago Blackhawks are drinking from the Stanley Cup for the third time in six seasons. Duncan Keith scored the game-winner and Corey Crawford finished with 25 saves as the Hawks closed out the finals in six games, beating Tampa Bay 2-0.
MLB:
In an all interleague schedule in baseball last night, Miami beat the Yankees 2-1, Atlanta doubled up Boston 4-2, the Mets edged Toronto 4-3 in 13 innings, Pittsburgh shut out the White Sox 11-0, Baltimore blanked Philadelphia 4-0, Detroit shut out Cincinnati 6-0, Tampa Bay bested Washington 6-1, Texas topped the Dodgers 4-1, Houston doubled up Colorado 6-3, Kansas City won against Milwaukee 8-5, St. Louis edged Minnesota 3-2, Arizona defeated the Angels 7-3, Oakland toppled San Diego 9-1, and it was Seattle over San Francisco 5-1.
The Cleveland at Chicago Cubs game was postponed due to rain.
NBA:
Michael Malone has agreed to a deal to be the new head coach of the Denver Nuggets. He won the job over Melvin Hunt, who had served as interim coach after Brian Shaw was fired on March 3. Malone was let go by Sacramento in December after going 39-67 in parts of two seasons with the Kings.
The Charlotte Hornets have given up on Lance Stephenson, sending the guard to the Los Angeles Clippers for center Spencer Hawes and forward Matt Barnes.
NCAA:
The defending NCAA baseball champs have opened their College World Series schedule with a victory.
Freshman Jeren Kendall's two-run homer off Tyler Peitzmeier in the bottom of the ninth inning gave Vanderbilt a 4-3, come-from-behind victory over Cal State Fullerton. The Commodores were down 3-0 in the bottom of the sixth inning when heavy thunderstorms Sunday night forced the suspension of the game.
Virginia is 2-0 after Brandon Waddell limited Florida to a pair of hits in seven innings of a 1-0 verdict over the Gators. Robbie Coman supplied the game's lone run with a sacrifice fly in the sixth.
Arkansas was eliminated from the series when Jacob Heyward singled in the bottom of the ninth to give Miami a 4-3 win over the Razorbacks. Heyward opened the scoring with a two-run homer in the fifth, scored the go-ahead run in the seventh and delivered the walk-off hit after Willie Abreu doubled off the center-field wall.
NFL:
A limited number of New England Patriots individual game tickets will go on sale July 15th. When those tickets are sold, it will mark the 22nd straight season that the Pats have sold out every game prior to the start of the season. The streak began in 1994, the year Robert Kraft and his family purchased the franchise.
A lawyer for Aaron Hernandez says he's concerned one of the jurors who convicted the former New England Patriots player of murder may have been "untruthful" during jury selection. In redacted court documents released yesterday, lawyer James Sultan says he spoke four times with an anonymous caller, starting the day after Hernandez was convicted in April of first-degree murder in the 2013 killing of Odin Lloyd.
Former New Orleans Saints player Darren Sharper is headed to jail after pleading guilty to rape in a Louisiana drug-and-sexual-assault case, completing a series of pleas in four states that will see him serve at least nine years in prison. Each case arose from allegations that the former player drugged and sexually assaulted women. Formal sentencing is still pending but the deal calls for Sharper to spend nine more years behind bars.
FIFA:
Former FIFA executive committee member Chuck Blazer agreed to act undercover for U.S. prosecutors and has been cooperating since at least 2011 in the government's investigation of soccer corruption. His plea agreement from Nov. 2013 was unsealed today after a federal judge agreed to a request by media organizations. In exchange for Blazer's cooperation and guilty pleas to 10 counts, the government agreed not to recommend a specific sentence for his crimes and also accepted that a reduction of up to three levels be warranted under sentencing guidelines.
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