Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper, in the season finale vs. Florida, started three Black forwards Monday night, a rarity in NHL history and “a pretty cool moment for all those guys.”
Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit is headed to Baltimore for the Preakness Stakes, while trainer Bob Baffert said Monday that he won’t attend the race to avoid being a distraction.
Rapper J. Cole, who was briefly a walk-on at St. John’s, will play for Rwanda Patriots BBC in the inaugural season of the Basketball Africa League, sources told The Undefeated’s Marc J. Spears.
Disappointed a day after his team made headlines for a tunnel dust-up in what was a winning effort, New York Mets acting general manager Zack Scott told reporters on Saturday that the controversy became a “bigger story than it needs to be.”
The Heat outlasted the Celtics on Sunday ahead of their massive rematch later in the week. The Lakers got a needed win that could help them avoid the play-in tournament.