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Dallas won 123-90. Americans usually have all the stats so I presume this will be right up there in the biggest home losses in Game 7 ever I guess Doncic + a bunch of guys was good enough to make a Conference final after all East finals: Heat vs Celtics, West finals: Warriors vs Mavericks.

Defending champions Bucks are out in East SF in seven games vs Celtics. Half-time in Game 7 of Suns vs Mavericks and Luka Doncic is single-handedly kicking the best regular season team out of it. 57-27 Mavs.

No way 8 shots is the record? I've seen NHL games where teams had single digit shots on goal before?

Consolation prize for the Arab world - Mayar Sherif has won WTA 125 in Karlsruhe and is set to enter Top 50 in the rankings.

Iga Swiatek defends the WTA 1000 title in Rome. 6-2 6-2 over Ons Jabeur. Roland Garros could be a no-contest as this rate.

Elina Svitolina is pregnant

In Polish Ekstraklasa a reserve goalkeeper for Pogon Szczecin picked up his 4th yellow card yesterday and will be suspended for the last game of the season. It's only unusual since he played 0 minutes the entire season

might be the only country in the world where anything below 95m is considered meh

It seems like the high winds that postponed the pole vault actually helped the javelin results? Niyonsaba back to her old testosterone tricks

Maria Sakkari led 61 52 vs Ons Jabeur in Rome QF and lost 61 57 16

[hide] Preliminary Round May 13th - May 24th, 2022 16 Nations, Top 4 from both Group A and Group B will qualify for the Quarterfinals Group A Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 May 13th 2022, h. 16:20 France 4 Slovakia May 13th 2022, h. 20:20 Germany 2 Canada May 14th 2022, h. 12:20 Denmark 1 Kazakhstan May 14th 2022, h. 16:20 Switzerland 4 Italy May 14th 2022, h. 20:20 Slovakia 1 Germany May 15th 2022, h. 12:20 Italy 5 Canada May 15th 2022, h. 16:20 France 2 Kazakhstan May 15th 2022, h. 20:20 Denmark 1 Switzerland May 16th 2022, h. 16:20 Slovakia 2 Canada May 16th 2022, h. 20:20 France 3 Germany May 17th 2022, h. 16:20 Italy 2 Denmark May 17th 2022, h. 20:20 Switzerland 2 Kazakhstan May 18th 2022, h. 16:20 France 1 Italy May 18th 2022, h. 20:20 Switzerland 2 Slovakia May 19th 2022, h. 16:20 Germany 2 Denmark May 19th 2022, h. 20:20 Canada 3 Kazakhstan May 20th 2021, h. 16:20 Germany 5 Italy May 20th 2022, h. 20:20 Kazakhstan 2 Slovakia May 21st 2022, h. 12:20 Denmark 3 France May 21st 2022, h. 16:20 Canada 1 Switzerland May 21st 2022, h. 20:20 Italy 3 Slovakia May 22nd 2022, h. 16:20 Kazakhstan 2 Germany May 22nd 2022, h. 20:20 Switzerland 4 France May 23rd 2022, h. 16:20 Kazakhstan 3 Italy May 23rd 2022, h. 20:20 Canada 2 Denmark May 24th 2022, h. 12:20 Germany 1 Switzerland May 24th 2022, h. 16:20 Slovakia 2 Denmark May 24th 2022, h. 20:20 Canada 6 France Group B Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 May 13th 2022, h. 16:20 United States 2 Latvia May 13th 2022, h. 20:20 Finland 4 Norway May 14th 2022, h. 12:20 Sweden 5 Austria May 14th 2022, h. 16:20 Czech Republic 6 Great Britain May 14th 2022, h. 20:20 Latvia 3 Finland May 15th 2022, h. 12:20 Norway 1 Great Britain May 15th 2022, h. 16:20 Austria 4 United States May 15th 2022, h. 20:20 Czech Republic 2 Sweden May 16th 2022, h. 16:20 Latvia 3 Norway May 16th 2022, h. 20:20 Finland 1 United States May 17th 2022, h. 16:20 Czech Republic 5 Austria May 17th 2022, h. 20:20 Sweden 5 Great Britain May 18th 2022, h. 16:20 Norway 1 Austria May 18th 2022, h. 20:20 Finland 1 Sweden May 19th 2022, h. 16:20 Great Britain 4 United States May 19th 2022, h. 20:20 Czech Republic 2 Latvia May 20th 2022, h. 16:20 Great Britain 5 Finland May 20th 2022, h. 20:20 Latvia 2 Austria May 21st 2022, h. 12:20 United States 2 Sweden May 21st 2022, h. 16:20 Austria 4 Finland May 21st 2022, h. 20:20 Norway 4 Czech Republic May 22nd 2022, h. 16:20 Great Britain 2 Latvia May 22nd 2022, h. 20:20 Sweden 4 Norway May 23rd 2022, h. 16:20 United States 2 Czech Republic May 23rd 2022, h. 20:20 Austria 1 Great Britain May 24th 2022, h. 12:20 Sweden 2 Latvia May 24th 2022, h. 16:20 United States 4 Norway May 24th 2022, h. 20:20 Finland 1 Czech Republic Top 3 Place 1st 2nd 3rd Nation [/hide]

Coyotes & Kraken are the graveyard. Are the former still up for relocation? Seattle has zero hockey presence I imagine, if only that city wants the SuperSonics back? It would be better if Slafkovsky goes to Canadiens (did they have an international star since Saku Koivu?) or Devils.

Rookie Reid Detmers threw a no-hitter yesterday. That's one way to keep a 12-0 game interesting. The Angels might finally not waste whatever Mike Trout has left to give while in the NL the Mets are also looking suspiciously above par so far. Granted, it can all change come the summer.

One of the most reliable tennis insiders claims ATP will not recognize any ranking points for the British events:

Naomi Osaka pulled out of Rome after she drew Sorribes Tormo who destroyed her in Madrid last week Same happened with Clara Tauson who won only three games vs Marta Kostyuk in Madrid and drew her in R1 again.

There will be no Alcaraz news this week - he's withdrawn from Rome

Gatorade bath gone wrong.

Verstappen wins ahead of LeClerc & Sainz. The race brought some action after the safety car but it seems like TV director missed most of that anyway.

Carlos Alcaraz - remember him? - won WTA 1000 in Madrid smoking Zverev 63 61 in the final. He also beat Nadal in QF & Djokovic in SF I wonder if Nadal for once won't be a favorite to win Roland Garros now?

Yeah, I remember when Slovakia broke though in the 90s with Palffy, Petrovicky & Satan. Also Sekeras in defense and Svehla whom I remember still playing for Czechoslovakia (before the stereo era, TV antenna of my parents could reach CT1 & CT2 which had football & hockey all the time ). I believe Dragan was the first choice goalie but that was over 25 years ago so my memory might be blurred

Yeah, Stastny is more like Navratilova, I'm unsure what his legacy is given he played during the communism era and changed nationality. I'm old enough not to consider Hossa as as icon tbh, he did have a knack for playing for good NHL teams. It's maybe the same conversation the Swedes have with Borje Salming & Peter Forsberg (and some odd votes for Mats Sundin, well, Hossa is Sundin for me).

So who is considered the best non-goalie player in Slovakian history? Bondra or Satan? I assume Slafkovsky will be compared to either of them soon

Yeah, but a Muslim raised in France still has a much better background to start in a sport like tennis than someone coming from Africa.

Ons Jabeur wins the WTA 1000 in Madrid which is the biggest trophy a Muslim woman has ever won in tennis.

Sinn Fein has won majority in the Ulster parliament - for the first time ever. I kinda lost track whether that makes any difference these days? Does anyone still care about the nationalists vs unionists old flame? https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-61355419