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The TEN

(“The TEN” is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in “The TEN”)

1—The Los Angeles Kings beat the Seattle Kraken, 5-3, Monday night in Seattle to qualify for the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the fifth consecutive season. The win was also their fifth in a row.

2—Dodgers beat the Mets, 4-0, on Monday night. Justin Wrobleski went eight innings for Los Angeles, threw 90 pitches, and allowed only two hits.

3—“I don’t think 65 games is a lot to ask. Shut the hell up. Y’all voted on that in the collective bargaining [agreement], now y’all want to complain. If y’all weren’t sitting on your ass half the time sipping margaritas and stuff, they wouldn’t have put the 65-game threshold in there. Shut the hell up.”—Charles Barkley

4—Five UCLA Bruins go in the first round of the WNBA Draft.
Lauren Betts, Gabriela Jaquez, Kiki Rice went 4th-6th overall. Angela Dugalic went 9th, and Gianna Kneepkens went 15th.
Note: Charlisse Leger-Walker was taken in the second round.

5—Read Big George Hernandez’s in “MVS Q&A.”

6—“Hold the presses…this has got to be shocking news to every reader of the site. Put another way, most of us are barfing up our toenails hearing this La Serna superiority stuff.”—MVS commentator “@Del Rio”.

7—On this day in 1996 Nick Faldo takes advantage of a Greg Norman collapse to win the Masters.

8—“Don’t confuse moral and ethical.”—Colin Cowherd on Russini & Vrabel.

9—Garrett Nussmeier or Drew Allar?

10—“Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.”—Pete Rose, who was born on this day in 1941. Rose carried a career .303 batting average and a .375 OBP.