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SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Sergei Bobrovsky backstopped the Florida Panthers to a 3-0 victory over the Edmonton Oilers in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final. The goalie everyone simply calls “Bob” made 32 saves for his second shutout of this postseason and third in the playoffs in his stellar 14-year NHL career. Bobrovsky is the biggest reason Florida has a lead of any kind in the final for the first time in franchise history. Carter Verhaeghe and Evan Rodrigues supplied the offense by scoring on two of the Panthers’ first five shots. Reigning MVP Connor McDavid and the Oilers dominated at times but could not crack Bobrovsky.

Mavericks’ plan to stop Celtics in NBA Finals: Get them to fight among themselves

BOSTON (AP) — Jason Kidd couldn’t figure out how to stop the Boston Celtics in Game 1 of the NBA Finals. Now he’s hoping they will get in their own way. The Mavericks coach seemed eager to sow dissension in the Boston locker room on Saturday when he singled out Jaylen Brown as the Celtics’ best player. The comments were transparently designed to irk Jayson Tatum, an actual NBA first-teamer who was sixth in the voting for the league’s MVP. Tatum said it won’t work. And on that Brown agrees. The Boston Big Two say they are happy to share the ball if it leads them to an NBA title.

Coco Gauff is a Grand Slam champion in singles and doubles, exceeding her own expectations

PARIS (AP) — Coco Gauff is a Grand Slam champion in singles and doubles. She did not expect it to happen so soon. The 20-year-old American won her first major doubles title on Sunday by teaming with Katerina Siniakova for the French Open trophy. They defeated Jasmine Paolini and Sara Errani 7-6 (5), 6-3 to give Gauff her second major after winning the U.S. Open singles last year. Gauff was playing in her third women’s doubles final. After she lost championship matches at Roland Garros in 2022 and the U.S. Open in 2021 Gauff thought “maybe I should focus on singles.” Yet Gauff hadn’t expected to win the U.S. Open. last year either because “I was having a really bad year.”

Carlos Alcaraz wins the first set against Alexander Zverev in the French Open men’s final

PARIS (AP) — Carlos Alcaraz has won the first set 6-3 against Alexander Zverev in the French Open final. Both players are looking to win the title for the first time on the red clay at Court Philippe Chatrier. Alcaraz owns two Grand Slam trophies already. He won the U.S. Open on hard courts in 2022 and Wimbledon on grass last year. The 21-year-old from Spain can become the youngest man to claim a major title on all three surfaces. Zverev is a 27-year-old from Germany who is trying to win his first Slam title. He was the runner-up at the 2020 U.S. Open and bowed out in the semifinals in Paris each of the past three years.

For the Slovenian school where Mavericks star Luka Doncic got his start, he’s still a hometown hero

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — At the primary school in Slovenia’s capital where Dallas Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic got his start, he’s still the hometown hero. The phenom point guard has led his franchise to just its third appearance in the NBA Finals, where the Mavericks trail the Boston Celtics 1-0 heading into Game 2 on Sunday night. At 25 years old, he has already racked up a raft of accolades that have him on track to be one of the greatest Europeans — or anyone else — to play the game. But his road to a shot at an NBA championship started two decades and 5,500 miles from Dallas at the Miran Jarc primary school in Ljubljana, a city of around 300,000 nestled in a green valley of the Slovenian Alps.

Dornoch pulls off an upset to win the first Belmont Stakes run at Saratoga Race Course at 17-1

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — Dornoch has won the Belmont Stakes at Saratoga Race Course. His victory made it the sixth consecutive year a different horse won each of the three Triple Crown races. Dornoch was the best in a field of 10 that included Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan and Preakness winner Seize the Grey. Despite there not being a Triple Crown on the line, it’s a historic Belmont because the race was run at Saratoga for the first time in the venue’s 161-year history.

Scheffler builds a 4-shot lead at Memorial even with a triple bogey

DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — Scottie Scheffler had a four-shot lead going into the final round of the Memorial. He stretched his lead after hitting a bunker shot into a creek, a tee shot out-of-bounds for triple bogey and a three-putt bogey on his last hole. Muirfield Village was tough for everyone. Scheffler managed a 71 and leads by four shots over Collin Morikawa and Adam Hadwin. Morikawa had a clean card for a 68. Hadwin made his biggest mistakes on the same hole and squeezed out a 72. Scheffler is going for his fifth win of the year going into the U.S. Open.

Teoscar Hernández powers Dodgers to 11-3 win over Yankees

NEW YORK (AP) — Teoscar Hernández homered twice and drove in six runs, including a grand slam that helped power the Los Angeles Dodgers past the New York Yankees 11-3 for their second consecutive victory in this marquee matchup. Kiké Hernández also went deep and Shohei Ohtani had an RBI single to back rookie Gavin Stone, who has won three straight starts and five of his last six. After handing New York just its third series loss of the season, the Dodgers will go for a three-game sweep Sunday night. Aaron Judge hit two homers for the Yankees, giving him a major league-high 23, but they’ve managed only four runs in 23 innings at the plate since slugger Juan Soto exited Thursday night’s win over Minnesota with a forearm injury.

Iga Swiatek reigns at the French Open again with ‘The One Where She Wins Her Fifth Grand Slam’

PARIS (AP) — Iga Swiatek has made clear that she is a big fan of the TV series “Friends.” She even got a chance to hit some tennis balls with actress Courteney Cox — who played Monica Geller on the show — shortly before the start of the French Open. So on Saturday evening, a few hours after winning her fourth championship at Roland Garros and major trophy No. 5 overall, Swiatek was wearing custom-made white sneakers that her shoe sponsor stenciled with the words, “The One Where She Wins Her Fifth Grand Slam” in all capital letters, a nod to the names given to the sitcom’s episodes. Swiatek is only 23 and everyone figures she will add to her total.

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts gives 3B Kiké Hernández a pass on fielding error during TV interview

NEW YORK (AP) — During his playing days, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts says, he would not have volunteered to be interviewed on live television in the middle of a major league game. But he doesn’t fault Los Angeles third baseman Kiké Hernández for making an error Friday night as he was speaking with broadcasters on the Apple TV+ telecast in the second inning at Yankee Stadium. Roberts says he understands in-game interviews are part of sports now, so he picks his battles and has no plans to talk to Hernández about it. He says he knows Hernández likes the limelight and social media and wants to build his brand, but Hernández prepares well and plays hard so he’s OK with it.