Box Score 6/16: It was a week for winning

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Good morning and welcome to the YB Box Score, what we're reading while waiting for crash for the weekend. It's. Been. A. Week. In. Sports. 

Happy birthday today to Rick Nash, Petros Papadakis, Kerry Wood, Chris Gomez, Phil Mickelson and Roberto Duran. On this date in 1909 Jim Thorpe would play in a professional baseball game which years later would force him to give up the medals he earned in the 1912 Olympics. 

Daily brain workout

Name every U.S. Open golf champion in the 'Oh baby! Dustin Johnson is back' quiz. 

YB ICYMI

• Sell or not sell? Charting a path for struggling MLB teams. 
• Whose continued success is worse for their league: Pats or Warriors?
• Three Up, Three Down: Don't spend $200 on Wrigley Field ivy.
• And finally, this week's Sports & Politics Intersect: White House invites dominate championship talk

Around the league

• The Seattle Storm will host a rally in support of Planned Parenthood. [Excelle Sports]
• Giving a knockout blow to the idea Mayweather vs. McGregor will be worth watching. [LAT]
• Will Rickie Fowler finally win his first major at the U.S. Open? [Fox Sports]

Why have one championship parade this week when you can have two?