👋 Good Morning Stump Nation!

And we’re off! Game 1 of the NBA Finals was last night and it was a Boston ONSLAUGHT! The lid off of TD Garden almost blew off in just the first quarter! We’ve got a whole lot more in the sports world today. One last thing for you, the STUMP is all in on the T20 Cricket World Cup! Massive STUMPSET from Team USA yesterday! Read all about it in our STUMP STORY of the Day!

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LETS. GET. INTO. IT.  

THE DAILY STUMPED🔮

Charlie Condon of Georgia baseball leads the NCAA in Home Runs in 2024 with 34, how many did the single season record holder, Pete Incaviglia, hit in his record-breaking 1985 season?

• A. 56

• B. 42

• C. 36

• D. 48

• E. 65

Answer at the bottom of The Stump!

ON THIS DAY🗓️ 

On this day in 1989…

“The Great One”, Wayne Gretzky, wins his 9th Hart Trophy (NHL MVP) in 10 years. I guess he was before my time but man is this impressive. No wonder everyone calls him “the great one”.

The player with the second-most Hart trophies is Gordie Howe, who ended his career with 9!

The moment he won his 9th MVP: LINK

YESTERDAY IN SPORTS📰 

Breaking News…

• 🏀UConn Head Coach and two-time National Champion Dan Hurley to meet with Los Angeles Lakers front office brass and discuss a possible marriage

• 🏈Chiefs defensive lineman BJ Thompson in stable condition following a seizure and cardiac arrest yesterday

• 🏀Former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg joins the investment group trying to purchase the Minnesota Timberwolves

  • The same group that includes Yankees legend Alex Rodriguez

• 🏒 The Utah Hockey Team has released it’s final six naming options

  • Blizzard, Hockey Club, Mammoth, Outlaws, Venom, Yeti

  • For the love of god give me mammoth or yeti!!!!

• 🎾Coco Gauff is last American to fall in Women’s French Open

Top Final Scores💯 

• 🏀Celtics embarrass Mavs in Finals Game One, 107-89

  • *Kristaps Porzingis was all over the court in his return, 20 points, 6 rebounds, and 3 blocks

• ⚾️Red Sox roll over White Sox in battle of colored sox, 14-2

  • *Ceddanne Rafaela with 4 hits and 4 RBIs

  • *White Sox lose 14-straight

• ⚾️Dodgers outduel Pirates, 11-7, in Pittsburgh

  • *Freeman and Betts were apart of 9 of 11 LA runs💪 

• ⚾️Reds handle Cubbies behind big day from Elly De La Cruz, 8-4

  • *Reds win their 5th straight🔥 

• ⚽️Gibraltar and Wales end in scoreless draw, Netherlands THROTTLES Canada, 4-0, more results here: FULL RESULTS

• 🏀Sky handle Mystics and Liberty go on road and defeat the Dream

  • *Mystics continue their winless start to the season😶 

• ⛳️Adam Hadwin leads after one round at the Memorial Golf Tournament

  • *Scottie Scheffler one back of lead, with Xander, Morikawa, Aberg, and Hovland all in close striking distance

  • *Full leaderboard: LINK

What Caught Our Eye👀 

• The TOP 50 restaurants in the WORLD for 2024 were released yesterday👨‍🍳

  • Shockingly only TWO are in the US🤯 

• After ELEVEN years in the MLB, Red Sox’s Jamie Westbrook hit his FIRST career home run😲

  • barely got out but…

• Jaylen Brown put the Mavericks on a POSTER💪

• A fan tried to catch this home run MISSLE with… a COLD BREWSKI🍺 

STUMP STORY OF THE DAY✍️ 

Principal Engineer to the Rescue for America!

The Americans Pull Off a SHOCKING STUMPSET thanks to the heroics of a Engineer living in the Bay Area!

There was a lot to go down yesterday in the sports world, a shocking game one of the NBA finals, Dan Hurley potentially going to the NBA, and even the first round from one of the most entertaining tournaments on the PGA circuit. The normal newsletter would highlight all of those, but you’re going to form your own opinion on it anyways, so why waste all of our times.

Instead, I’m gonna let you in on a MAJOR STUMPSET that went under the radar in the sporting world. Not because the match wasn’t a big deal, that’s far from the truth, but because it comes from a sport that us Americans aren’t as informed on.

That’s right, I’m heading to the world of Cricket. Not only is it Cricket, it’s the biggest dang tournament in the world, and it’s happening right under our noses. Remember the iconic line from when a gritty team of young Americans went against a traditional powerhouse in a sport in a world tournament? The one that goes: “do you believe in miracles?!”? Are you catching my drift? It’s happened again.

The Cricket T20 World Cup is taking place in America, and the red, white, and blue boys pulled of an epic STUMPSET yesterday. In a super over match (overtime in Cricket) the Americans defeated the #2 ranked country in the world, Pakistan. To make it even more special, it took place in Dallas in front of some red-blooded Americans.

After American put up 19 in their half of the super over, the Americans sent Saurabh Netravalker out as their final bowler (pitcher equivalent in cricket) to try and hold off Pakistan. Netravalker held Pakistan to 13 runs, and the Americans, the 18th best in the world, were victorious.

This is the USA’s second win EVER in the T20 World Cup, while Pakistan has one of the richest Cricket histories in the world, including a runner-up finish in the last World Cup. Netravalker, the newest American Hero, hasn’t quite YET quit his day job, as his LinkedIn shows he’s a Principle Engineer at Oracle.

I’m not sure what sort of wealth an American Cricket Hero can accumulate, but I sure hope this guy never has to buy a drink in a cricket-friendly bar ever again.

JUICE STATION🧃 

Quote of the Day

Song of the Day

Glue Guy of the Day

Defined: Glue Guy (Noun, Verb, Adj., etc.) - a person, thing, idea, or thought that holds together the larger group. Not the star, not the main character, but a hard hat and lunch pale type who knows its role. The GLUE of the group.

WHAT TO WATCH📺️ 

MLB⚾️: Dodgers @ Yankees (7:05 PM ET), Giants @ Rangers (8:05 PM ET), Red Sox @ White Sox (8:10 PM ET)

Cricket 🏏 : If there was ever a time to get into a new sport. It’s right now and that sport is Cricket! The T20 World Cup is fully underway and it’s awesome. Today we’ve got…

• Canada vs Ireland (10:30 AM ET)

• New Zealand vs Afghanistan (7:30 PM ET)

• Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh (8:30 PM ET)

Soccer⚽️:

• World Cup Qualifiers: Morocco vs Zambia (3:00 PM ET), Nigeria vs South Africa (3:00 PM ET)

• Soccer Friendlies: Scotland vs Finland (2:45 PM ET), England vs Iceland (2:45 PM ET), Germany vs Greece (2:45 PM ET)

• Full Schedule

NCAA Baseball⚾️:

• UConn @ Florida State (12:00 PM on ESPN)., Evansville @ Tennessee (3:00 PM on ESPN2), West Virginia @ North Carolina (6:00 PM on ESPN2), Kansas State @ Virginia (7:00 PM ET on ESPNU)

• Full Schedule - LINK

WNBA🏀:

• Fever @ Mystics (7:30 PM), Storm @ Aces (10:00 PM), Wings @ Sparks (10:00 PM), Lynx @ Mercury (10:00)

French Open🎾: Men’s Semifinals in the Early AM

• We’ve got (3) Alcaraz vs (2) Sinner) (8:30 AM ET)

• And then (7) Ruud vs (4) Zverev (11:30 AM ET)

Golf⛳️: Day 2 of the PGA Memorial Tournament held at Jack Nicklaus’ (🐐) golf club in Dublin, Ohio, the renowned Muirfield Village Golf Club!