Pride expect stiffer test in rematch with Wave • Kristaps Porzingis returns to spark Celtics by blowing out Mavs to open NBA Finals
 Sentinel Sports Final Friday, June 7, 2024 | | |
| | | | | The Super Regionals are underway today (FSU plays) and UF is up Saturday. Both of a shot at the final 8 to make the College World Series. If either advances it would be a major about-face. ... The Pride had a week off. They're 3,000 miles away and can extend their record winning streak to nine. ... Dallas made it interesting in the third quarter, cutting the deficit to eight, but Boston owned the Mavs in Game 1 of NBA Finals. But win Game 2 and no one remembers. All the road team needs is the split. They can lose Game 1 by 50 and win Game 2 by 1. It's a tie series, but they're in control by stealing home court. ... The Lakers are grasping at straws to find a coach. Danny Hurley is phenomenal. In college. He develops players. In the pros, it's about managing them. Slight but major difference. | | | | UF sophomore Ashton Wilson of Orlando ended the NCAA Stillwater Regional as its MVP after going 9-for-21 (.429) with 3 doubles, a home run, 6 RBI, 5 runs and 2 steals in five games. | | | | | Orlando's Barbra Banda, a Zambian international who had to wait for her visa to play, made her debut in the 61st minute of the April 19 matchup with San Diego. She didn't score, but she has eight goals in her first seven matches for the league's hottest team. | | | | | The Latvian, who had been sidelined since April 29 with a strained right calf, came off the bench and provided an immediate spark Thursday night with 20 points, six rebounds and three blocks in 21 minutes. | | | | | Winter Park's 30-0 state title team is rewarded with Orlando Sentinel All-Area attention, including its Player of the Year setter, junior Jacob Little-Phillips. MaxPreps ranked the Wildcats No. 3 nationally and its top players all return. Florida No. 3 Lake Howell also had multiple All-Area players. | | | | | Florida State is in supers for a record 18th time, and the first since NCAA coaching wins leader Mike Martin's last team made it all the way to Omaha in 2019. Martin, who retired after that season, died in February. | | | | | Sergei Bobrovsky is the backbone of another run to the Stanley Cup Final. He wasn't always looked at that way, as his Florida Panthers time shows. | | | | | The Los Angeles Lakers' reported plan to offer a massive contract to UConn coach Dan Hurley is the latest twist in the monthlong race to replace Darvin Ham. Former NBA player J.J. Redick and ex-Charlotte coach James Borrego are also reported candidates. The 17-time NBA champion franchise was knocked out of the first round of the current playoffs, but the Lakers have nicely filled the void of hoops drama during the week before the NBA Finals with steady leaks about the progress of their quest for a coach who can entice LeBron James to finish his career in purple and gold. | | | | | Jasmine Paolini is struggling to believe she's into her first Grand Slam final. She had never previously been past the fourth round at a major tournament. She beat Mirra Andreeva 6-3, 6-1 in the French Open semifinals on Thursday. The 28-year-old Italian says "it seems something impossible, you know, but it's true." She faces two-time defending champion Iga Swiatek in Saturday's final, the day before the men's final. An Italian double is still on because the Australian Open champion Jannik Sinner can reach the men's final if he gets past Carlos Alcaraz on Friday. | | | | | Quarterbacks Olivia Cadiz (Dr. Phillips), Martha Edwards (Harmony) and Jarlene Duarte (Timber Creek) join standout receivers on the Orlando Sentinel 2024 All-Area flag football team. But the mind-boggling statistics belong to East River defensive stalwart Yariana Lugo-Perez with 29 interceptions. | | | | | Novak Djokovic, who was injured during the French Open, wrote in a post on social media on Thursday that he hopes to return to competition as soon as possible. | | | | | Collectively, the Dolphins' tight ends are better and more versatile than any tight end contingent that coach Mike McDaniel or quarterback Tua Tagovailoa has had with Miami. | | | | | When Major League Baseball banned San Diego Padres infielder Tucupita Marcano for life — following the NBA's permanent exile of Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter in April — it reinforced the message that the talk about gambling isn't just talk. | | | |
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