👋 Good Morning Stump Nation!

MONDAYYY! Celtics win again at home, go up 2-0 in the NBA Finals. Could this really be the year? The PGA Memorial Tournament is over, and you could guess who won. Two words and rhymes with Pottie Peffler. A great day of sports yesterday! In for a great week!

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THE DAILY STUMPED🔮

Who was the first athlete to be featured on a Wheaties cereal box?

• A. Jim Brown

• B. Jerry West

• C. Ted Williams

• D. Walter Payton

• E. Lou Gehrig

Answer at the bottom of The Stump!

ON THIS DAY🗓️ 

On this day in 2023…

Man City outlasts Inter Milan, 1-0, in the UEFA Champions League to complete historic English Soccer Triple Crown.

Man City won the Premier League (England’s top soccer league), the FA Cup (a knockout style English soccer tournament), and the UEFA Champions League (Europe’s Top Soccer Tournament).

YESTERDAY IN SPORTS📰 

Breaking News…

• 🏀 UConn Head Coach Dan Hurley says he was ‘impressed’ by the Lakers (I mean makes sense it’s the Lakers!!!) Says that he will be making his decision TODAY on what his next step is.

• 🏈 NY Giants TE Darren Waller retires from football. Waller was a sixth-round pick in the 2015 NFL Draft and established himself as one of the best TE’s in the league when he was with the Raiders

• 🏎️ Jamie Chadwick becomes 1st woman to win Indy NXT race since 2010

Top Final Scores💯 

• 🏀 NBA FINALS! Celtics continue to look strong with another win over Dallas, 105-98

  • Celtics take a 2-0 series lead as the Finals heads to Dallas

• ⛳️ Scottie Scheffler WINS AGAIN! Wins the PGA Memorial Tournament! Holds off Collin Morikawa for his fifth win of the year, the first player to win 5 tournaments in a year before the U.S. Open since 1980

• ⚾️ Mets get one back on the Phillies in the MLB London Tour, final score, 6-5

• 🏀 The Phoenix Mercury def. the Dallas Wings, 97-90, in 2 OT!

  • Near triple-double for STUMP STAR Arike Ogunbowale, 25 points, 10 assists, 7 rebounds!

• 🏏 India beats Pakistan (119 runs to 113 runs) in low scoring affair in the latest installment of one of the biggest rivalries in all of cricket!

What Caught Our Eye👀 

• Unreal SEASON-SAVING (at the time) Catch for Clemson!⚾️ 

• “BLOCKED BY JAMES WHITE” 🏀 

• We’ve got Royalty in the Boston Suite! 🐐 🏀 

STUMP STORY OF THE DAY✍️ 

Sunday Stumpsets!

A big day of sports action around the world, we wanted to take today’s story and focus on the underdogs who managed to take home some big wins!

Linnea Storm: LPGA Love!

• Linnea Storm, the 27-year-old Swede, entered the final day of the LPGA ShopRite Classic down 7-strokes. The day before she had made the cut on the number and managed to stay alive for a final push. She teed off at 8:20 AM yesterday, just about 4 hours before the leaders and was tied for 52nd. She had nine birdies and an eagle to pull ahead of the pack at -14, the score that eventually was the winner. Let’s take a look at her performance, by the numbers:

  • She had the lowest final-round score by a winner in LPGA Tour history (The previous best final round for a winner was a 61 by Inbee Park in the 2014 Manulife Financial LPGA Classic)

  • She had the second lowest scoring round in LPGA history (Annika Sorenstam set the record with a 59 in the second round of the 2001 Standard Register PING)

  • By far the biggest comeback by position on the tour since 1984 (The previous largest comeback by position since 1984 was Ayako Okamoto from a tie for 23rd at the 1987 Lady Keystone Open)

• One thing I haven’t mentioned about Linnea, this was her first win on tour. She had missed the cut in five of her last six events. She never gave up this weekend. Miracles can happen! Congrats, Linnea!

Florida Baseball: A Pulse!

• The #6 team in the country, the Clemson Tigers, headed into this weekend with home field advantage and one of the hotter lineups in baseball. That was until they met the Gators. The unranked Gators squad had a unusually tough year, but the boys got hot late into the season and SQUEAKED their way into the NCAA Tournament.

• The Tigers and Gators went into an absolute marathon today in South Carolina, with the game lasting 13 innings and clocking in at over 5 hours of gametime. Woof. The game was back in fourth and the Tigers threw everything they could at the Gators, including some heroics from their Centerfielder Cam Cannarella, who had a game-tying homer in the 9th and made a over the shoulder basket catch to save the game winning run from scoring in the 10th innings.

• After Clemson took the lead with a huge homer in the 13th, things got chippy and two of Clemson’s managers were thrown from the ball game. Florida brought in two runs in the bottom of the 13th to win the ballgame. Not many gave the Gators a fighting chance in this series, but the boys kept Chomping. Florida has now went to nine straight College World Series’, an unprecedented record.

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📺️ 

NHL🏒: Stanley Cup Finals Game 2 - Oilers @ Panthers (8:00 PM ET on ABC)

• Panthers lead the series, 1-0

MLB⚾️: Some of the key games on the slate today are Orioles @ Rays (6:50 PM ET on FS1), Yanks @ Royals (8:10 PM ET), and Astros @ Giants (9:45 PM ET)

Soccer⚽️: International Friendlies - Netherlands vs Iceland (2:45 PM ET), Poland vs Turkey (2:45 PM ET) ; FIFA Qualifying - Uganda vs Algeria (12:00 PM ET), Ghana vs Central African Republic (3:00 PM ET)

NCAA Baseball⚾️: Super Regionals Continue!

• NC State vs Georgia, win or go home!

WNBA🏀: Fever @ Sun (7:00 PM ET on NBA TV)