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Kansas tennis eliminated from NCAA tourney | KUsports.com
Notre Dame’s Allison Miller defeated Kansas’ Janet Koch, 7-5, 1-6, 7-5, in a decisive match at No. 3 singles and the Irish topped the Jayhawks, 4-3, in an NCAA first-round women’s tennis match Saturday in Columbus, Ohio.

Rivalry rally: Jayhawks take series with big 7th inning | KUsports.com
“There’s a reason we’re hitting in the middle of the order,” McLaughlin said, after Kansas sealed a Sunflower Showdown series victory. “Times come around. We’ve hit some balls hard that have held up in the wind or got caught this weekend.”

Conley wins long jump title to pace KU track on Day Two of Big 12 meet | KUsports.com
Conley set the tone with a mark of 22 feet, 2.25 inches on her first attempt, and it proved to be the winning jump. While the jump moved her to No. 3 overall in the NCAA rankings, it did not count as a personal or school record because it was wind-aided.

Conley wins long jump title to pace KU track on Day Two of Big 12 meet | KUsports.com
Conley set the tone with a mark of 22 feet, 2.25 inches on her first attempt, and it proved to be the winning jump. While the jump moved her to No. 3 overall in the NCAA rankings, it did not count as a personal or school record because it was wind-aided.

Jayhawks Mason, Coleby and a blast from the past set to graduate Sunday | KUsports.com
“Yeah, I think it is nice,” said KU coach Bill Self of his players’ ability to blend in with the rest of the student body on the biggest single day of the academic calendar. “It’s a little strange being on Mother’s Day this year, obviously, but it’s great. Winning and losing and all that stuff’s important, but in the big scheme of things, you know, you’re coming here for dual reasons. You don’t come here just to play ball, and our guys have had such a good track record of taking care of their business in the classroom, as well. So I’m real proud of those guys.”

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2017 NBA Playoffs Preview: San Antonio Spurs vs. Golden State Warriors - SportsLine.com
Even so, this is the most resistance top-seeded Golden State will have yet seen in the playoffs. The Warriors have coasted to sweeps of the overmatched Trail Blazers and Jazz and have enjoyed a long layoff waiting for the winner of the San Antonio-Houston series.

Jon Lester is 'over this damn slide rule' after Cubs lose a run Saturday - CBSSports.com
In the fifth inning Saturday the Cubs lost a run when rookie Ian Happ, who hit his first career home run later in the game , was ruled to have committed an illegal takeout slide at second base on a potential double play ball. The Cubs had runners on the corners with one out when Anthony Rizzo hit the ball back to Cardinals ace Carlos Martinez. Martinez threw to second for the force out, and Happ's slide prevented the throw to first to complete the double play.

Steph Curry: 'I was always chasing KD's numbers' in college - CBSSports.com
In college, few players were as entertaining to watch as Kevin Durant at Texas and Stephen Curry at Davidson. Obviously their paths differed greatly with Durant being a one-and-done while Curry spent three years in college. However, the entertainment value behind both of them was off the charts with Durant's scoring capturing the nation and Curry being practically unguardable by his junior year.

Cavs await Celtics or Wizards, getting anxious with long break between games - CBSSports.com
The Cavaliers last played May 7 when they completed a sweep of the Raptors. Since then they've been basketball free with the Celtics and Wizards series going a full seven games. Surely Cleveland enjoys the extra rest that comes with dominating the playoffs, but at some point it's tiresome sitting around waiting to play.

NBA says error cost Celtics valuable time in final seconds of Game 6 loss to Wizards - CBSSports.com
The NBA released its Last Two Minute Report for Game 6 of Celtics-Wizards. Nothing truly egregious happened, but there was one situation late in the game that cost the Celtics precious time.

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A Theory Shows ‘Predator’ And ‘Terminator’ Connecting Via Major Dutch
The Predator, Aliens, and Terminator universes are connected in more ways than one. They’ve shared antagonists, and sometimes characters like Ripley in the spinoff comics. but Cracked writer David Israel Nunez takes the overlapping franchises to a new level with his theory which connects the origin of Terminator‘s T-800 killing machine to Major Dutch Schaefer — the musclebound U.S. government killing machine in Predator. Basically, Dutch was the basis for the T-800.

FCC Chairman Is Laughing at Americans Who Don't Want to Kill the Open Internet
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s profile rose a notch last week when John Oliver mercilessly mocked his ridiculous personal habits and his egregious intention to kill net neutrality. Now, Pai’s firing back by making horrible jokes about the Americans who like their internet just the way it is.

Guess Who Comes Up When You Google The President of the United States?
For some odd reason, Vladimir Putin features prominently in the search. In fact, if you only glanced at it quickly, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the search result was that Vladimir Putin was the President of the United States.

Trump Expected to Pick Former Business Professor to Serve as the USDA's 'Chief Scientist'
Naturally, President Trump is expected to appoint a man with literally no science education, much less a career in the discipline, to head the USDA’s research section, a position officially known as the department’s “undersecretary.” Instead, Trump’s projected pick, Sam Clovis, is a former tenured business and public policy professor at Morning Side college who has hardly even published any work in his field, and has never taken a graduate-level science class, according to a ProPublica article that came out Friday evening. Obviously Clovis is also very skeptical about global warming—after all, he studies business, not science.