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Facing elimination in a hostile venue, the Boston Bruins put forth a professional performance to claim a 5-1 victory over the St. Louis Blues in Game 6 of the 2019 Stanley Cup Final on Sunday. It wasn’t easy, though. The Bruins grabbed an early lead through Brad Marchand and then held on as the Blues poured on the offense in an attempt to equalize. Boston netminder Tukkaa Rask stood tall as he turned aside a barrage of shots in the second period, keeping his team in the lead until the Bruins could open the floodgates in a decisive third period....

Brut@l is a throwback to old-school ASCII dungeon crawlers, which is most evident from its visual style. The game uses a black and white aesthetic, and functions like a 3D version of the old 2D ASCII games. Items, enemies, and the player character all appear to be made up of symbols on a keyboard, but while Brut@l looks like an ASCII title, it plays more like a modern dungeon crawler than anything else....

Jennings had spent the past couple of years working his way back up the ladder after suffering back-to-back losses to Wladimir Klitschko and Luis Ortiz in 2015. After taking 18 months off, Jennings began his trek with four consecutive victories. The 6-7 Dimitrenko stood in his way for a future title opportunity; the Philadelphia fighter knocked down that door in emphatic fashion. ORTEGA: Jennings vs. Dimitrenko signals return of big-time boxing in Atlantic City...

Kobe spent part of his postgame time lamenting that European basketball players are taught how to better use their skill set at a younger age, putting their development ahead of stateside players (some of whom don’t even play with a shot clock until college). “I just think European players are just way more skillful,” Bryant told ESPN LA on Friday night. “They are just taught the game the right way at an early age....

Whatever the motivation, the returns were strong. Harper launched a three-run homer in the fifth inning off the Pirates’ Chad Kuhl that broke open a Nationals win. He also walked once. Rizzo homered on the first pitch he saw from the Rockies’ Jon Gray for what turned out to be the Cubs’ only run in a loss. This wasn’t the first time these players had hit at the top of the order: Harper batted leadoff in 16 games in 2013; Rizzo occupied the 1-hole for a week-plus last June, when he went on a tear....

Atkins gave Canadian fans (and baseball watchers in general) an unexpected parting gift with his response: He made it sound as though the retooling/rebuilding club had an interest in signing the 26-year-old outfielder. With so few teams having been reported as serious suitors for Harper, a GM going on the record with this qualifies as news. Don’t run too far with this, though: Atkins didn’t say anything close to “We’re ready to go toe to toe with the Phillies and Nationals and Dodgers,” just that the Jays have “spent time and energy” considering signing the outfielder, have “contemplated” adding him, and will “continue to” do so as they look at a lot of other “alternatives....

ARMYs have taken to Twitter to criticize the Busan government’s lack of farsight. From the location of the concert to the washroom facilities to the road that leads to the concert location, BTS fans have taken over Twitter. BTS fans are worried that the authorities don’t have the basic blueprint in place for a concert of this global scale, and the concert is a month and a half away....

A hiatus can mean a number of things for a music group. It can mean a break is necessary for the health and happiness of the group members, which would make sense in the case of BTS, who seemingly hasn’t stopped creating music since they first began. In other cases, a hiatus may mean a band is struggling with internal issues and doesn’t know which direction to go. That seemed to be the case with British boy band One Direction, who announced their break in August 2015....

As a way of connecting with and offering more content to its fans, BTS hosts an online variety show known as Run BTS! A comedic behind-the-scenes of sorts, Run tasks the members of the hit Korean boy band to go against each other in fun challenges and quirky activities. The show goes on even when BTS is busy touring the world in concert series and the production team will often use their new locations as elements in the lighthearted games....

The Masters champion surprised the audience when he arrived just in time to help Fallon with his new segment: Pie Golf. It’s exactly what it sounds like. Watson golfs and then Watson gets hit in the face by pie, despite the fact he’s a world-class golfer. MORE: PGA Tour preview | How is par determined on golf course? | Sports pioneers Hopefully it made him feel a bit better knowing it was Mad Men star January Jones doing the pieing....

Line: Lions -9.5, Total: 41.5 Line movement: The game opened between Detroit -9.5 and -10, and the spread has hovered around those two numbers throughout the week. Totals have ranged from 40.5 to 42. Visit our live odds page for updated lines and totals. Trends that matter: The Lions are 2-8 ATS in their last 10 games following an ATS win. … The Buccaneers are 18-8 ATS in their last 26 games on Fieldturf....

Among them is a game in his birthplace of Atlanta, where the Hawks will take the floor to host the Bucks in a rematch of the 2021 Eastern Conference Finals. The Bucks, who would win the series and ultimately take home their first NBA title in 50 years, look primed to win yet another title this season behind the play of two-time MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo. Despite dealing with various injuries to key players, the Bucks’ championship DNA is on full display when the team adopts a next-man-up mentality....

What began in the offseason as a simple disagreement over a contract extension beyond this season -- and the just-as-simple decline in Freeman's productivity the last two seasons -- has turned poisonous. The poison, though, is coming almost exclusively from the Bucs toward Freeman, and as it worsens it seems they're the only ones who don't realize that they're the ones getting killed by it. UPDATE: Bucs release Josh Freeman...

Sometimes just the gut move is the right one, and the 2012 Camping World Truck Series champion is confident a multiyear deal to run Nationwide for RAB is the right thing at the right time. He has sponsorship — the sponsorship has not been announced — to drive for a team that has significant manufacturer support in Toyota. He’ll race against the team owned by his father-in-law, Steve Turner, who has fielded cars for Buescher long before Buescher married his daughter, Kris, a couple of years ago....

Builders began construction on 16,000 single-family homes slated to become rentals in the third quarter this year, the highest quarterly since at least 1990, according to the National Association of Home Builders’ analysis of U.S. Census data. The analysis includes only homes that builders will keep and rent out to tenants and excludes any that were built to be sold to real estate investment trusts or investors planning to put the properties up for rent, AP reported....

So why not make it brazenly bizarre? That was Lane Kiffin, who still hadn’t even coached a down at USC, offering a scholarship to a seventh-grade quarterback from Delaware. Earlier this month, David Sills, that very dirty-blonde, mop-headed child of years past, signed with West Virginia. MORE: SN Top 50 players | Best non-conference matchups | Top QB recruits for 2016 No fanfare. No ESPN cameras. No three hats and a cloud of dust....

But even if players aren’t publicly defending Kaepernick, plenty appreciate what he’s doing. MORE: Worst of bad Kaepernick takes “Colin Kaepernick, know that we see you, man,” Broncos tackle Russell Okung wrote in The Players’ Tribune. “Thank you for reigniting the conversation and the movement for change.” Okung’s entire piece is worth reading, as he describes, in his eyes, the importance of Kaepernick’s protest. The lineman says it reminds him of Tommie Smith and John Carlos’ black power salutes at the 1968 Olympics....

Joseph, who served as Miami’s offensive coordinator in 2016, accepted the offer. MORE: Will Mike McCoy come with Joseph? “He brings a leadership quality that you really love about him,” said Miami coach Adam Gase, via the Broncos’ release. “He has such a great personality and such a strong personality – that alpha-type personality where he demands a lot from players and they give him everything he has.” Joseph had been contacted by every team with a coaching vacancy except the Jaguars, who took the interim tag off of Doug Marrone....

Nail-biters are almost a prerequisite for a quarterback in Denver, where John Elway set the standard with 31 fourth-quarter comebacks and Peyton Manning added 11 of his league-best 43 while wearing navy and orange. Keenum, the architect of the “Minnesota Miracle” in the playoffs last year, followed his comeback win in his Denver debut by leading the Broncos to a 20-19 come-from-behind win against Oakland on Sunday. Brandon McManus kicked a 36-yard field goal just inside the right upright with 6 seconds left, capping a comeback from a 12-point second-half deficit....

Latonia Stewart, 27, was indicted Wednesday on 22 counts of robbery and motor vehicle violations, stemming from a series of break-ins between the fall of 2017 and the spring of 2018. According to police, Stewart would scan recent newspapers’ obituary sections and target the homes of grieving families. When the mourners would return home, they’d discover jewelry and other valuable property gone, said District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino Jr....