📰🏟️ Baseball bi-cycle
Plus: Sorsby saga’s swan song…
1) Texas Tech QB Sorsby enters NFL Supplemental Draft
Brendan Sorsby, the incoming Red Raiders transfer who was locked in a massive eligibility battle with the NCAA and Big 12, will leave school and enter the NFL.
- Sorsby, who admitted to wagering on his own team, had sought—and received—a legal injunction allowing him to play this season despite an NCAA ban.
- But Sorsby now plans to withdraw his lawsuit against the NCAA, making him eligible for the NFL’s Supplemental Draft (which hasn’t seen a player selected since 2019).
- Texas Tech board chairman Cody Campbell, a major football booster, said the school won’t seek the return of any NIL money paid to Sorsby.
2) Cape Verde stuns Spain on World Cup Day 5
Cape Verde—a tiny island nation of ~500,000 people off West Africa, ranked #67 in soccer—held world #2 Spain to a 0-0 draw in “one of the biggest shocks in World Cup history," per The Athletic (share link).
- It was a day of draws all around, with Belgium v. Egypt (1-1), Saudi Arabia v. Uruguay (1-1), and Iran v. New Zealand (2-2) all ending with the score tied.
- It’s tied for the most draws in a single day at the World Cup, with the other instance occurring exactly 68 years ago.
3) Cubs’ Pete Crow-Armstrong hits for the cycle
Chicago OF Pete Crow-Armstrong became the 13th player in Cubs history to hit for the cycle in last night’s walk-off win over the Rockies, with PCA also lifting a key sac fly in the 8th inning.
- He’s the first player in franchise history to complete a cycle in reverse order—homer, triple, double, single—per Cubs historian Ed Hartig.
- Meanwhile, Texas SS Adrian Rodriguez became the 3rd player in College World Series history to hit for the cycle, knocking in 7 RBI as Texas staved off elimination vs. Alabama.
A day of cycles in college and MLB
4) Serena, Venus Williams to play doubles at Wimbledon
Serena Williams, who came out of a 4-year retirement this month, will play Wimbledon with her sister, Venus, via a wild card entry, the tournament announced.
- The legendary duo has won 6 Wimbledon doubles titles together (14 doubles Grand Slams overall), in addition to a combined 12 singles titles at the All England Club.
- Serena, 44, hasn’t ruled out a return to Wimbledon singles as well, with 1 of 8 wild card spots left “to be announced.”
Venus and Serena are back together
5) Ohtani leads initial MLB All-Star voting totals
Dodgers DH/P Shohei Ohtani and Astros DH Yordan Alvarez are the leading vote-getters for the NL and AL, respectively, in the first update of the MLB All-Star ballot.
- Ohtani, who’s never finished #1 in All-Star voting, currently leads all players with 1.16M votes, while Alvarez ranks second with 1.02M.
- Phase 1 of All-Star voting ends June 25, when the field is narrowed to two finalists at each position for both leagues—outside of the top vote-getters, who are named starters.
- You can vote up to 5x/day on MLB.com.
Explore the MLB’s potential All-Stars
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