1988 -- Edmonton Oilers sweep Boston Bruins to win Stanley Cup. 1985 -- Danny Sullivan wins Indianapolis 500 by 24 seconds after spinning out. 1959 -- Pirates' Harvey Haddix loses to Milwaukee Braves after pitching 12 perfect innings.*from si.com*
The NBA playoffs continue to impress. Denver evened things up last night beating the Lakers by 19pts in Colorado and will hopefully continue to outplay the Lakers as the series heads back to LA. The one thing that the Nuggets have going for them is that they are playing much better team basketball and moving the ball around to get an easy bucket or wide open shot. The Lakers have the "Cleveland Cavaliers syndrome" and just fall back on getting the ball to Kobe and making him force up a contested shot. Fortunately for them it's been working ok, with Kobe averaging 29.8 points per game. But if they have aspirations of the NBA Finals this needs to be remedied.
The Twins got things back on track a little bit this weekend sweeping the Milwaukee Brewers over the weekend and giving Boston a run for their money Monday. But the story of the weekend/story of the season thus far has been the dominance only known as Joe Mauer. After sitting out the first month of the season Joe debuted on May 1st hitting a home run on his first swing of the season. This set the tone for the rest of the month as Mauer has hit .444, with 11 HRs, and a .914 slugging percentage. WOW! With 31 RBI to this point in the month of May Mauer broke the MN Twins record for most RBI in the month of May leaping past Twins Great Harmon Killebrew with five more games in the month. It should be an exciting season if things continue to follow this line.
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