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Serena wins in return: Serena Williams was victorious in her first professional tennis match since 2022, teaming up with Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko for a doubles win at the Queen's Club Championships. The 44-year-old plays again tomorrow in the quarterfinals.
Postgame violence: Knicks fans turned violent across New York City following Monday's loss, with 21 people arrested after a watch party in Bryant Park and several instances of Spurs fans being attacked. Players on both teams condemned the violence as "unacceptable."
️ USA 1, Brazil 0: The USWNT exacted some revenge after Saturday's loss, earning a scrappy victory over a Brazilian side that saw eight red cards. The Americans won't take the field again until November, when they face El Salvador in the CONCACAF W Championship quarterfinals.
Mr. Merch: No NFL player sold more merchandise last season than Bills QB Josh Allen, who claimed the No. 1 spot on the NFLPA's year-end top 50 player sales list. Patriots QB Drake Maye, Eagles RB Saquon Barkley, Seahawks WR Jaxon Smith-Njigba and Commanders QB Jayden Daniels rounded out the top five.
️ Freeman reaches milestone: Dodgers slugger Freddie Freeman recorded his 2,500th career hit on Tuesday, making him the 102nd MLB player to reach that milestone. Next among active players is Jose Altuve (2,430 hits), who could join Freeman by season's end.
See what else is trending on Yahoo Sports.
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The Stanley Cup Final delivered yet another thriller on Tuesday night in Las Vegas, where the Hurricanes beat the Golden Knights, 5-3, to draw even as the series heads back to Raleigh.
Series rewind: There's still a long way to go before a champion is crowned, but this series already has the feel of an all-time classic. Every game has been electric, with both teams taking turns mounting furious comebacks.
Best Cup Final ever? It's too early to answer that question, but the fact that we can even ask it is telling. To borrow from The Athletic's Sean McIndoe, being in the "best series ever" conversation at this point is like a baseball pitcher having a perfect game through six innings. Nothing historic has happened quite yet, but we're far enough along to recognize that something special might be brewing. And if you haven't been watching, it's time to tune in.
Speaking of tuning in… There was a lot of talk about this series being a "ratings disaster" due to the lack of major markets. Boy, was that wrong. The first three games averaged 4.9 million viewers on ABC (+101% YoY), and Saturday's clash averaged 5 million viewers and peaked at 6.1 million, making it the most-watched Cup Final Game 3 since 2002.
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Argentina blanked Iceland, 3-0, on Tuesday night at Auburn's Jordan-Hare Stadium in a World Cup tuneup match that became a surreal collision of global soccer and college football culture. And yes, Lionel Messi scored. Lionel Messi always scores.
Jay Busbee, Yahoo Sports:
Leo Messi has dazzled audiences around the world with his loping, graceful brilliance, inspiring and thrilling literally billions of soccer fans with feats that might never be equaled. But rarely has he ever entered a stadium where any magic spell he could possibly cast would be, at best, the field's second-most-legendary kick.
Right there on the same Jordan-Hare field where Bo Jackson and Cam Newton led the Tigers to glory, where Chris Davis ran past 11 Alabama defenders and into history, Messi and Argentina challenged Iceland in a World Cup friendly.
College football has always been the closest American equivalent to international soccer — football and fútbol, you might say — since both boast tribal, borderline fanatical fanbases that stretch back generations. Sure, there are some superficial differences — Argentina fans chant, Auburn fans tailgate — but the same basic sense of devotion and community runs through the bloodstreams of both.
Plus, America's top football universities possess mammoth stadiums tailor-made to host massive crowds. College football stadiums may not have all the FIFA-required amenities and infrastructure to host an actual World Cup event, but for a friendly like this one, they present an ideal opportunity to introduce two disparate sporting crowds to each other's traditions.
Keep reading.
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Chicago, Illinois — Braden Montgomery's first career big league game ended with a bang, as he launched a walk-off home run in his MLB debut to lift the surging White Sox past the Braves in the 10th inning. Doesn't get much sweeter than that.
On the rise: The South Siders (35-31) have won 17 of their last 20 home games to move within a half-game of the Guardians (37-32) for the AL Central lead. Quite the vibe shift for a team that went a combined 162-324 (.333) over the past three seasons.
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Minneapolis, Minnesota — The Lynx blew out the Wings, 100-76, to win their eighth straight game and improve to a WNBA-best 10-2. Leading the way was No. 2 pick Olivia Miles (24 pts, 7 reb, 6 ast), who far outplayed No. 1 pick Azzi Fudd (6 pts, 2-12 FG) and already looks like one of the best players in the league.
Meanwhile, in Chicago: Angel Reese led the Dream past the Sky, 82-75, in her first regular-season game against her former team. Her 17 rebounds tied a season high and were more than Chicago's entire starting lineup combined (16).
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Berea, Ohio — With NFL mandatory minicamps underway, all eyes are on the league's QB battles. One that's sure to generate headlines is Deshaun Watson vs. Shedeur Sanders, which first-year Browns head coach Todd Monken says will likely bleed into training camp next month.
What he's saying: "I would have hoped [to name a starter], but I like both of them," Monken said Tuesday. "I don't know what to say. It's really as simple as that. They've both played well enough to earn the right to compete to start."
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LeBron James has been named "Athlete of the Century" by TIME, which released its inaugural list of the 100 most influential people in sports on Tuesday.
Who made the cut? James led a list of athletes, owners, media members and more who represent a cross-section of a sports industry that "remains one of the last realms in which massive global audiences gather together in real time."
Plus: Other figures include golfers like Rory McIlroy and Nelly Korda, tennis stars like Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, media moguls like Bill Simmons and Pat McAfee, business owners like Michael Rubin (Fanatics) and Will Ahmed (WHOOP), and even Prince Harry, who founded the Invictus Games for wounded military personnel.
Explore the full list.
On Monday night, the Garden belonged to Wemby. (Dustin Satloff/Getty Images)
NBA Finals, Game 4
The Knicks host the Spurs tonight at Madison Square Garden (8:30pm ET, ABC), looking to rebound after seeing their 13-game winning streak snapped on Monday. Will New York take a commanding 3-1 lead? Or will San Antonio tie things up before heading back home?
Road warriors: The away team has won the first three games of the NBA Finals for just the second time ever. The first time was in 1993 between the Bulls and Suns, when Chicago broke the streak with a Game 4 victory at home before ultimately winning the series in six.
More to watch:
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Messi and Mbappé during the 2022 World Cup final. (Zhizhao Wu/Getty Images)
Lionel Messi (13 goals) and Kylian Mbappé (12) are both within striking distance of breaking the record for most goals scored in World Cup history (16).
Question: Who holds that record?
Hint: German.
Answer at the bottom.
The world's biggest soccer tournament kicks off tomorrow! Pick your group stage winners now in 2026 Soccer Pick 'Em from Yahoo Sports and FOX One.
How to play: Make picks each round, earn points for correct predictions and climb the leaderboard. You can play solo against the field, create a private group with friends to compete for bragging rights, or join a public group to play with other fans.
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HEADLINES
Serena wins in return: Serena Williams was victorious in her first professional tennis match since 2022, teaming up with Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko for a doubles win at the Queen's Club Championships. The 44-year-old plays again tomorrow in the quarterfinals.
Postgame violence: Knicks fans turned violent across New York City following Monday's loss, with 21 people arrested after a watch party in Bryant Park and several instances of Spurs fans being attacked. Players on both teams condemned the violence as "unacceptable."
️ USA 1, Brazil 0: The USWNT exacted some revenge after Saturday's loss, earning a scrappy victory over a Brazilian side that saw eight red cards. The Americans won't take the field again until November, when they face El Salvador in the CONCACAF W Championship quarterfinals.Mr. Merch: No NFL player sold more merchandise last season than Bills QB Josh Allen, who claimed the No. 1 spot on the NFLPA's year-end top 50 player sales list. Patriots QB Drake Maye, Eagles RB Saquon Barkley, Seahawks WR Jaxon Smith-Njigba and Commanders QB Jayden Daniels rounded out the top five.
️ Freeman reaches milestone: Dodgers slugger Freddie Freeman recorded his 2,500th career hit on Tuesday, making him the 102nd MLB player to reach that milestone. Next among active players is Jose Altuve (2,430 hits), who could join Freeman by season's end.See what else is trending on Yahoo Sports.
ANOTHER NIGHT, ANOTHER THRILLER
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The Stanley Cup Final delivered yet another thriller on Tuesday night in Las Vegas, where the Hurricanes beat the Golden Knights, 5-3, to draw even as the series heads back to Raleigh.
Series rewind: There's still a long way to go before a champion is crowned, but this series already has the feel of an all-time classic. Every game has been electric, with both teams taking turns mounting furious comebacks.
- Game 1:Vegas 5, Carolina 4 … Entering the night, road teams were 0-55 when trailing by multiple goals in Game 1 of the Cup Final. By night's end, they were 1-55.
- Game 2:Carolina 4, Vegas 3 (OT) … The Canes became the first team since 1944 to win a Cup Final game after trailing by multiple goals in the final 10 minutes of regulation.
- Game 3:Vegas 5, Carolina 4 (2OT) … One of the wildest comebacks ever (Canes down 4-0 in the third, scored three goals in 39 seconds) was thwarted by another sudden-death goal.
- Game 4:Carolina 5, Vegas 3 … The Knights erased a 3-1 first-period deficit to tie the game heading into the third, but the Canes regained the lead on Jordan Staal's diving goal.
Best Cup Final ever? It's too early to answer that question, but the fact that we can even ask it is telling. To borrow from The Athletic's Sean McIndoe, being in the "best series ever" conversation at this point is like a baseball pitcher having a perfect game through six innings. Nothing historic has happened quite yet, but we're far enough along to recognize that something special might be brewing. And if you haven't been watching, it's time to tune in.
Speaking of tuning in… There was a lot of talk about this series being a "ratings disaster" due to the lack of major markets. Boy, was that wrong. The first three games averaged 4.9 million viewers on ABC (+101% YoY), and Saturday's clash averaged 5 million viewers and peaked at 6.1 million, making it the most-watched Cup Final Game 3 since 2002.
️ FÚTBOL MEETS FOOTBALL
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Argentina blanked Iceland, 3-0, on Tuesday night at Auburn's Jordan-Hare Stadium in a World Cup tuneup match that became a surreal collision of global soccer and college football culture. And yes, Lionel Messi scored. Lionel Messi always scores.
Jay Busbee, Yahoo Sports:
Leo Messi has dazzled audiences around the world with his loping, graceful brilliance, inspiring and thrilling literally billions of soccer fans with feats that might never be equaled. But rarely has he ever entered a stadium where any magic spell he could possibly cast would be, at best, the field's second-most-legendary kick.
Right there on the same Jordan-Hare field where Bo Jackson and Cam Newton led the Tigers to glory, where Chris Davis ran past 11 Alabama defenders and into history, Messi and Argentina challenged Iceland in a World Cup friendly.
College football has always been the closest American equivalent to international soccer — football and fútbol, you might say — since both boast tribal, borderline fanatical fanbases that stretch back generations. Sure, there are some superficial differences — Argentina fans chant, Auburn fans tailgate — but the same basic sense of devotion and community runs through the bloodstreams of both.
Plus, America's top football universities possess mammoth stadiums tailor-made to host massive crowds. College football stadiums may not have all the FIFA-required amenities and infrastructure to host an actual World Cup event, but for a friendly like this one, they present an ideal opportunity to introduce two disparate sporting crowds to each other's traditions.
Keep reading.
PHOTOS ACROSS AMERICA
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Chicago, Illinois — Braden Montgomery's first career big league game ended with a bang, as he launched a walk-off home run in his MLB debut to lift the surging White Sox past the Braves in the 10th inning. Doesn't get much sweeter than that.
On the rise: The South Siders (35-31) have won 17 of their last 20 home games to move within a half-game of the Guardians (37-32) for the AL Central lead. Quite the vibe shift for a team that went a combined 162-324 (.333) over the past three seasons.
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Minneapolis, Minnesota — The Lynx blew out the Wings, 100-76, to win their eighth straight game and improve to a WNBA-best 10-2. Leading the way was No. 2 pick Olivia Miles (24 pts, 7 reb, 6 ast), who far outplayed No. 1 pick Azzi Fudd (6 pts, 2-12 FG) and already looks like one of the best players in the league.
Meanwhile, in Chicago: Angel Reese led the Dream past the Sky, 82-75, in her first regular-season game against her former team. Her 17 rebounds tied a season high and were more than Chicago's entire starting lineup combined (16).
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Berea, Ohio — With NFL mandatory minicamps underway, all eyes are on the league's QB battles. One that's sure to generate headlines is Deshaun Watson vs. Shedeur Sanders, which first-year Browns head coach Todd Monken says will likely bleed into training camp next month.
What he's saying: "I would have hoped [to name a starter], but I like both of them," Monken said Tuesday. "I don't know what to say. It's really as simple as that. They've both played well enough to earn the right to compete to start."
TIME 100: SPORTS FIGURES
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LeBron James has been named "Athlete of the Century" by TIME, which released its inaugural list of the 100 most influential people in sports on Tuesday.
Who made the cut? James led a list of athletes, owners, media members and more who represent a cross-section of a sports industry that "remains one of the last realms in which massive global audiences gather together in real time."
- Basketball was the most well-represented sport, with 14 people including James, Stephen Curry, Victor Wembanyama, A'ja Wilson, Caitlin Clark, Mavericks president Masai Ujiri and ESPN insider Shams Charania.
- Soccer was a clear second, with Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Erling Haaland and Trinity Rodman leading a group of eight players, alongside FIFA president Gianni Infantino.
- The other "Big Four" leagues were represented by four NFL players (Saquon Barkley, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Myles Garrett, Fernando Mendoza) and commissioner Roger Goodell, two MLB players (Shohei Ohtani, Aaron Judge) and one NHL player (Jack Hughes).
Plus: Other figures include golfers like Rory McIlroy and Nelly Korda, tennis stars like Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, media moguls like Bill Simmons and Pat McAfee, business owners like Michael Rubin (Fanatics) and Will Ahmed (WHOOP), and even Prince Harry, who founded the Invictus Games for wounded military personnel.
Explore the full list.
WATCHLIST: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11
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On Monday night, the Garden belonged to Wemby. (Dustin Satloff/Getty Images)
NBA Finals, Game 4
The Knicks host the Spurs tonight at Madison Square Garden (8:30pm ET, ABC), looking to rebound after seeing their 13-game winning streak snapped on Monday. Will New York take a commanding 3-1 lead? Or will San Antonio tie things up before heading back home?
Road warriors: The away team has won the first three games of the NBA Finals for just the second time ever. The first time was in 1993 between the Bulls and Suns, when Chicago broke the streak with a Game 4 victory at home before ultimately winning the series in six.
More to watch:
- WNBA: Sparks at Storm (10pm, USA) … Sparks star Kelsey Plum (25.5 ppg) trails only A'ja Wilson (25.9 ppg) on the scoring leaderboard.
- NCAA Track & Field: Championships (8pm, ESPN/ESPN2) … The four-day event begins at historic Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.
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️ WORLD CUP TRIVIA
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Messi and Mbappé during the 2022 World Cup final. (Zhizhao Wu/Getty Images)
Lionel Messi (13 goals) and Kylian Mbappé (12) are both within striking distance of breaking the record for most goals scored in World Cup history (16).
Question: Who holds that record?
Hint: German.
Answer at the bottom.
️ MAKE YOUR PICKS
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The world's biggest soccer tournament kicks off tomorrow! Pick your group stage winners now in 2026 Soccer Pick 'Em from Yahoo Sports and FOX One.
How to play: Make picks each round, earn points for correct predictions and climb the leaderboard. You can play solo against the field, create a private group with friends to compete for bragging rights, or join a public group to play with other fans.
Get your picks in now.
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