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Another week. Another FRIDAY. I don’t know about you but we’re absolutely JUICED today!!! We’ve got a Stanley Cup Finals game tonight, more from the EUROs and COPA, and Day 2 at the Travelers Championship! Let’s roll! If you haven’t yet check out Episode 6 of the POD! YOUTUBE LINK!

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THE DAILY STUMPED🔮

The lowest round of golf ever scored in PGA history took place in CT at the Travelers open… who was it?

• A. Jim Furyk

• B. Bubba Watson

• C. Patrick Reed

• D. Jordan Spieth

• E. Tom Watson

Answer at the bottom of The Stump!

ON THIS DAY🗓️ 

On this day in 1986…

A year after winning the Heisman Trophy (College Football’s MVP), Bo Jackson signed a 3-year contract with the Kansas City Royals to play professional baseball!

One of the greatest two-sport athletes to do it! They don’t make them like Bo anymore!

Bo’s famous BAT SNAP: LINK

YESTERDAY IN SPORTS📰 

Breaking News…

• 🏀 More NBA coaching news!! And it’s a BIG ONE!

  • Lakers have hired JJ Redick to a 4-year contract to be their next head coach! Valued at around $8 million a year

• 🏀 TRADE ALERT: Bulls trade Alex Caruso to the OKC Thunder for Josh Giddey in a one-for-one swap! Who won this trade?

• 🥊 Ryan Garcia banned for 1 year for use of PEDs! His fight against Haney has been ruled as a Haney win in a no-contest

• 🏈 Pats sign RB Rhamondre Stevenson to a 4-year extension worth $36 million! Of which $17 million is guaranteed!

  • The Pats are going to do their best in a tough AFC East

• ⚽️ England National Team Manager Gareth Southgate says team needs ‘more quality’ if they want to make a deep run in the EUROs

  • In other words he’s saying the boys need MORE JUICE!

Top Final Scores💯 

• ⛳️ Tom Kim is your Day 1 leader at the Travelers Championship at -8!

  • Zalatoris, Bhatia, Fowler, and Kitayama T2 at -6

  • Scottie, Finau, and Schauffele absolutely in striking distance at -5

• ⚽️EURO 2024

  • Spain def. Italy, 1-0

  • England draws Denmark, 1-1

  • Slovenia draws Serbia, 1-1

• ⚽️ COPA OPENER

  • Argentina def. Canada, 2-0

• ⚾️ Orioles def. Yankees, 17-5, absolute massacre in the Bronx!

  • More from the MLB: Dodgers def. Rockies, 5-3; Guardians def. Mariners, 6-3; Rays def. Twins in 10, 7-6

• 🏀 WNBA: Sky def. Wings, 83-72; Liberty def. Sparks, 93-80

  • Angel Reese sets record for most consecutive double-doubles by a rookie with 7!

What Caught Our Eye👀 

• ⛳️ Phil Mickelson has attacked Nashville! And it’s awesome!

• ⚾️ Broadcast goes back to 1954! This is what was on TV yesterday!

• 🏀 Angel Reese MAKES HISTORY!

• ⛳️ WILD stat out of the whole LIV/PGA debate! Bryson and Brooks are cooking!

STUMP STORY OF THE DAY✍️ 

MLB Honors Negro League and Willie Mays with Tribute Game in a Historical Venue

Live from Birmingham, Alabama, it seems as if the MLB finally got this one right.

A few weeks back I wrote a story about how the integration of Negro League statistics into the baseball record books changed some names at the top of long-standing records. While this was way overdue, it seem as if the MLB is working towards finally writing one of it’s historical wrongs.

In Birmingham, Alabama, stands the oldest standing baseball park in the United States, Rickwood Field. Players like Satchel Page, Josh Gibson, and Jackie Robinson played many games on this field. The late Willie Mays even got his pro start with the Birmingham Black Barons in 1948.

The MLB showcased some of the more historical facets of the Negro League, photos and artifacts filled the bowels of the stadium and the concourse, it even included a bat used by Mays in 1959 and an original bus from 1947 that negro league players would use for their road trips.

All across the stadium was memories of Willie, who passed just a few days ago. It’s almost as if this day in the MLB was meant to celebrate him. Celebrate, cry, laugh, cheer, and mourn. All emotions were seen across the stadium as murals and moments of silence among the famous song, “Say hey, Willie Mays” blasted over the PA system.

There was a statue released on Wednesday right outside the stadium, and what was supposed to be a celebration turned into a commemoration. Everyone in that stadium and around the baseball community felt this one, the effect he had on the game is everlasting.

Beyond this, it feels like the MLB got this one right. The telecast was great, and it even included some black and white moments. The montage of Willie’s career could not have been done much better by MLB network, and it Rickwood Field seemed to be the only logical place to celebrate the life of such an important man to the Birmingham community.

For baseball, especially black baseball, this was not only a night of rememberable or celebration, it was a night to look to the future. It was a very much church like feel in the stadium, and the crowd was as engaged as any. The future of baseball is depending on a new crop of fans to keep it alive. Events like this not only grow the game, it shows what the game was and what it should be moving forward.

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 BACK IN EDMONTON! Panthers @ Oilers (8:00 PM ET)

• Panthers lead series 3-2, Oilers are trying to do something heroic after being down 3-0!

Soccer⚽️: EURO 2024! Slovenia vs Ukraine (9:00 AM ET), Poland vs Austria (12:00 PM ET), Netherlands vs France (3:00 PM ET)

• COPA is also in full swing! We’ve got Peru vs Chile (8:00 PM ET)

Golf ⛳️: Day 2 of the Travelers Championship at TPC River Highlands in CT!

• Featured groups include…

  • Homa & Scheffler (1:40 PM ET)

  • Clark & Speith (10:40 AM ET)

  • Hovland & Morikawa (10:20 PM ET)

  • Cantlay & Finau (10:40 PM ET)

MLB⚾️: 14 game slate!!!

• Mets @ Cubs (2:20 PM ET), Braves @ Yanks (7:05 PM ET), Red Sox @ Reds (7:10 PM ET), Orioles @ Astros (8:10 PM ET)

NCAA Baseball⚾️: No ball until Saturday!

WNBA🏀: Fever @ Dream (7:30 PM ET), BIG TIME MATCHUP with the Sun @ Aces (10:00 PM ET)