Box Score 6/6: Rinne comes alive
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Good morning and welcome to the YB Box Score, what we're reading while waiting on this sad dark day between NHL and NBA championship games. Oh, Nats-Dodgers is tonight? Well, if we must.
Happy birthday today to Cam Neely, Björn Borg and Matt Belisle. On this date in in 1944, baseball, horse racing and fighting all went dark in honor of the D-Day invasion.
Daily brain workout
Name every member of the 500 home run club in the 'Keeping it 600' quiz.
YB ICYMI
- Always good for a laugh, the NBA Weekend Awards: Who will win the Billy Joel Trophy?
- It's never too late for the weekly heat check of the Three Up, Three Down. And this week it was a big week for being petty.
- And catch up on ever team with the Getaway Day: The Astros are officially a cheat code.
- Which colleges came out winners and losers in the NBA Draft?
Around the league
- Alex Honnold casually climbed a rock higher than the world's tallest building. With no safety gear.[SB Nation]
- Lifetime is betting big on professional women’s soccer. [Think Progress]
- How one rule change altered competitive balance in the NFL. [FanRag Sports]
That's the spirit (and pretty honest) for most sports fans
And the play of the night
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