— April 6th, only 11 weeks ago, Michigan Wolverines won the college basketball national title. Now, 78 days later, they’re looking for a new coach.
Monday, Dusty May bolted Michigan for the Dallas Mavericks; May was a student manager in his college days at Indiana. Mark Cuban also went to Indiana; he doesn’t run the Mavericks anymore, but he is still a minority owner in Dallas.
Another blow for semi-pro/college basketball. Guys don’t enjoy winning a national title, then have to recruit a whole new roster for next year, starting the day after you win the title.
NBA coaches get some time off after the season.
— No idea where Michigan turns for their next coach; right now, it is a bad job; obviously, the expectations will be unreasonable. You don’t want to be the guy who follows the guy, and May is definitely the guy in Ann Arbor these days.
— NBA Draft is tonight (Tuesday); lot of stuff is going on……..
— Milwaukee Bucks are trading star Giannis Antetokounmpo and Bobby Portis to Miami; in return, Milwaukee gets four players, three first round picks, and a second round pick.
After the trade was announced, Miami’s odds to win NBA next year when from 30-1 to 18-1.
— There was a three-team trade:
Brooklyn Nets get:
F Julius Randle
Minnesota 28th pick Tuesday night
Minnesota gets:
F Mo Gueye
Nets 33rd pick Tuesday
Chicago gets:
C Nic Claxton
Nets/Bulls are two of the teams with the most available salary cap space, which is a big part of why this trade happened.
— Guy that owns the NHL’s Vegas Golden Knights starting his bid to land an NBA franchise for Las Vegas. NBA is expected to add two expansion teams fairly soon, with Las Vegas, Seattle the favorites to get those teams.
— G Trae Young is signing a four-year deal with Washington for $53M/year.
— Free agent G Ayo Dosunmu is going to sign a 5-year contract with Minnesota for $23M/year
— Oklahoma 13, North Carolina 2
Sooners win their first College World Series since 1994.
Kid who batted 9th for Oklahoma had three hits, knocked in six runs.
Since 2019, SEC teams have won all seven College World Series, with LSU the only one of those teams to win it twice.
— Famous birthdays, June 23rd:
Bryan Brown, 79
Jim Deshaies, 66
LaSalle Thompson, 65
Brandon Stokley, 50
Shaun O’Hara, 49
OJ Atogwe, 45
— Word of the Day: Muffel— It is a German word that means “grumpy person”
— Last week, the Phillies started seven lefty hitters in a game; that’s the first time they did that since 2015, only the ninth time since 1947.
— Only one of the 11 major league games Monday night had more than eight runs scored; eight games were decided by one run.
— Rockies 3, Red Sox 2
Colorado scored three runs in the bottom of the 9th; Jake McCarthy hit a bases loaded triple to walk it off.
Weird game; Colorado’s last eight batters in this game got hits; they ran the bases like drunken teenagers in the 8th inning, when they didn’t score.
This was the first game since at least 1961 that a team got eight hits in its last eight at-bats in a game.
Red Sox rookie Jake Bennett threw six shutout IP, with nine strikeouts.
— Brewers 2, Reds 1 (10)
Not many games in Cincinnati are scoreless after nine innings.
Woodruff/Singer had quite a pitching duel.
There were a total of only five hits in this game.
— White Sox 6, Guardians 5
Sam Antonacci had a two-run, walk-off single for Chicago.
Anthony Kay threw six shutout IP, left with a 3-0 lead.
It took Chicago’s bullpen 7 batters/30 pitches to blow the 3-0 lead.
— Nationals 4, Phillies 1
Foster Griffin allowed four hits, one run in 7.1 IP.
Curtis Mead hit his 12th hone run of the season.
— Orioles 6, Angels 1
Kyle Bradish gave up six hits in 8 shutout IP.
Taylor Ward led the game off with a homer against his old team.
OF Leody Taveras played six innings at 3B, his first 3B stint since 2019.
— Cubs-Mets were rained out, will play a doubleheader Wednesday; second day in a row the Cubs got rained out, in two different cities.
— If the baseball playoffs started today (they don’t):
NL: Braves, Brewers, Dodgers. Wild Cards: Cardinals-Phillies-Chi/SD/Wash
AL: Bronx, White Sox, Mariners. Wild Cards: Rays-Guardians-Blue Jays
