NHL:
Advantage Penguins. Pittsburgh rookie Jake Guentzel beat Nashville's Pekka Rinne with 3:17 left in regulation to put the Penguins ahead to stay in a 5-3 victory in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final. Guentzel snapped an eight-game goalless drought to help the defending champions escape after blowing a three-goal lead. Game 2 is Wednesday night in Pittsburgh.
Commissioner Gary Bettman said Tampa will host the 2018 All-Star weekend, the surest sign yet that the NHL will actually bypass the Olympics. The Lightning had been rumored to host the event, which will take place Jan. 27-28 at Amalie Arena, but the Olympics remained the elephant in the room. The league has said since early April that it won't be sending players to Pyeongchang and would be making its 2017-18 schedule as normal, but some held out hope. The previous time the NHL held an All-Star weekend and sent players to the Olympics was 1998, the first of five trips to the Games. Bettman also announced that the Washington Capitals and Toronto Maple Leafs' previously-reported outdoor game at the Naval Academy will be the start of a series of outdoor games at U.S. service academies.
MLB:
An enraged Bryce Harper charged the mound, fired his helmet and traded punches to the head with San Francisco reliever Hunter Strickland after getting hit by a fastball, setting off a wild brawl during the Washington Nationals' 3-0 win over the Giants. Both players were ejected. Tanner Roark (5-2) struck out six and allowed six hits in seven innings. The NL East leaders opened a nine-game West Coast trip with their sixth win in eight games.
Boston Red Sox lefty David Price had an uneven season debut while Melky Cabrera homered and drove in four runs, helping the Chicago White Sox rally past Boston 5-4 on Monday. Price missed the first part of the year with a left elbow strain and threw 88 pitches in five innings. The former AL Cy Young Award winner gave up two hits, including Cabrera's three-run homer, walked two and hit two batters while striking out four.
The Red Sox's Pablo Sandoval has a sprained right knee and remains on a rehab assignment at Triple-A Pawtucket. Manager John Farrell says the team will take a look "where things are" with the third baseman after the series against the White Sox. Boston Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia has left their game against the Chicago White Sox with a sprained left wrist. Pedroia was replaced by Josh Rutledge before the White Sox batted in the second on Monday. Pedroia took a nasty tumble after he grounded to first in the first inning.
Hours after the New York Mets ticketed rookie Robert Gsellman for the bullpen, he pitched seven innings of three-hit ball and had two RBIs to lead them past the Milwaukee Brewers 4-2 on Monday. Rene Rivera and Michael Conforto each hit an RBI double during a three-run fifth against starter Matt Garza. Sandwiched in between, Gsellman drove in the go-ahead run with a sacrifice fly.
The Baltimore Orioles beat the New York Yankees 3-2 Monday to snap a seven-game losing streak. Aaron Judge hit his major league-leading 17th home run for the first-place Yankees in the AL East matchup. Yankees rookie Jordan Montgomery allowed three runs in 4 1-3 innings.
Troy Tulowitzki hit his fourth career grand slam, Marcus Stroman won his fifth straight decision to help the Toronto Blue Jays rout the Cincinnati Reds 17-2.
PGA:
Tiger Woods says he takes full responsibility for his arrest on a DUI charge in Florida but that prescription drugs, not alcohol, caused the issue. Woods spent nearly four hours in the Palm Beach County Jail after being arrested early Monday on suspicion of DUI. The 14-time major champion says in a statement that alcohol wasn't involved. Woods says he didn't realize the mix of medications affected him that strongly.
Tennis:
Rafael Nadal's search for an unprecedented 10th title at the French Open got off on the right foot as he beat Benoit Paire of France in straight sets. Novak Djokovic has shown no sign of the crisis of confidence that affected his game since he won the French Open last year. With his new coach, Andre Agassi, watching from the stands, the second-seeded Serb defeated Marcel Granollers. Defending women's champion Garbine Muguruza of Spain is through to the second round.
Two of the four seeded U.S. women have lost their first-round matches. No. 19 CoCo Vandeweghe was beaten by Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia 6-1, 6-4, while No. 25 Lauren Davis was eliminated by Carina Witthoeft of Germany 2-6, 6-3, 6-3. They joined the top American man, 14th-seeded Jack Sock, on the way out.
Sports Media:
A tweet has cost a veteran sports writer his job at the Denver Post. Terry Frei posted on Twitter that he was "uncomfortable" with a Japanese driver winning the Indianapolis 500 during Memorial Day weekend. Takuma Sato on Sunday became the first Japanese driver to win the race. Frei sent a follow-up tweet apologizing to Sato and the paper, saying he "fouled up."
Award-winning sports writer and commentator Frank Deford has died. He was 78. His family says he died Sunday in Key West, Florida. Deford was a six-time Sports Writer of the Year and a member of the National Association of Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame. He wrote with a lyrical elegance and was best known for his work at Sports Illustrated and on National Public Radio. He retired this month from NPR's "Morning Edition" after 37 years as a contributor. He was the first sports writer awarded the National Humanities Medal. In 2013, President Barack Obama honored him for "transforming how we think about sports." Deford called the award the one he is most proud of. Deford was a prolific book author and contributed commentaries to HBO's "Real Sports" program.
NCAA:
Dylan Maltz had two goals and an assist and top-seeded Maryland beat Ohio State 9-6 on Monday in the NCAA men's lacrosse championship in Foxborough, Massachusetts, ending a 42-year title drought for the Terrapins. Playing in the championship game for the third straight year, Maryland avoided another heartbreaking finish when Ohio State ran out of time after rallying with three straight goals in the fourth period to pull within 8-6.
Russian Doping:
Race-walker Pyotr Trofimov has been given a four-year doping ban, becoming the latest in a string of Russians in the discipline to face punishment. Track and field's governing body, the IAAF, says the case was based on evidence from Trofimov's biological passport, which tracks changes in athletes' blood over time for signs of drug use. Trofimov was the Russian national champion over 20 kilometers last year and previously competed at the world championships. More than 25 Russian walkers have been given doping bans in recent years, including Olympic champions. The Russian track federation says Trofimov's four-year ban is backdated to November 2016 and his results from August 2009 through May 2013 have been wiped out.
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