Posted on June 30, 2025

Weekly Update June 30, 2025

Weekly Update

Baseball: This week’s games.

Basketball – NBA: Draft day.

Golf: 2 playoffs.

Hockey: NHL draft.

Olympic Sports: Gut-Behrami to retire. Kipyegon fails 4 min mile.

Tennis: Wimbledon starts today!

Quick Headlines: Parker’s number retired. Aaron Rodgers is likley retiring.

Baseball – MLB:

This week’s headlines:
- The Dbacks beat the White Sox 10-0 on Monday with Pavin Smith having himself a day. He hit 2 HRs and had 4 RBIs. Pirates player Nick Gonzales went 5 for 5 during their narrow win over the Brewers 5-4, despite having 14 hits on the night. Cal Raleigh hit 1 of the 4 HRs by the Mariners. He now leads the league with 32 and is on pace to break the HR record before the All-Star Break. Oh and Seattle won 11-2 over the twins.
- The Mariners would win the next night too but only by 1 and it was in the 9^th off a sac fly to do it! They have now won 8 of the last 11 games. The Orioles had 3 straight HRs in the 7^th inning so they won right? Nope! They would still lose to the Rangers in the 10^th inning by 1.
- Rangers P Jacob deGrom was so close but no cigar to a no hitter. He would lose it in the 8^th inning with 1 hit to the Orioles. Texas would still win 7-0. Speaking of good pitching, Yankees P Max Fried was the first to hit double digit wins with his win over the Reds 7-1 on Wed. His record for the season is 10-2.

- The Marlins get the big upset over the Giants, winning 12-5 on Thursday. Not only that but they also swept the series! The Giants sit at 44-37 for the season compared to the marlins who are more than 10 games below .500. The Pirates outscore the Mets 30-4 in their sweep.
- The Phillies put up 13 on Friday to beat the Braves. In the last 3 games, they hadn’t put up 4 combined. But they weren’t the highest scorers of the night. The Nationals set their season high with 15 runs and 19 hits in their 6 run win over the Angels. Oh but they still didn’t win it. The Orioles put up 22 runs on the Rays! The only inning without a run by either team was the first. Only 7 HRs by both teams though in the 30 runs scored!
- The Mets held a players only meeting after their loss to the Pirates 9-2 on Saturday. TBD what comes from that. The Cardinals came back from a 5-run deficit to beat the Guardians 9-6. The Royals finally won at home, breaking their 11 game losing streak in KC. They beat the Dodgers of all teams 9-5.
- The Mariners made a lot of headlines this week in this podcast. One more on Sunday with a game that went into the 12^th inning before they would win out 6-4 with a HR in the 3^rd extra inning.

It was the NBA draft this week and to no one’s surprise, Cooper Flagg went #1 to the Mavericks. But there was plenty to talk about. Rutgers Ace Bailey went to Utah which wasn’t even on the radar. The Pelicans made big moves to get #7 Jeremiah Fears (Oklahoma) and Derik Queen (Maryland). The Nets had the most picks in the first round with 5 and they didn’t trade any!

Signing:
- LeBron is staying put in LA for a cool $52.6MM for 1 year. This is his 23^rd season and is just 50 games shy of the regular season record set by Robert Parish.
- LA is keeping all the talent. James Harden opted to stay with the Clippers for $81.5MM for 2 years.
- Dallas shelled out for Kyrie to stay as well. He signed a $119MM contract for 3 years.

Aldrich Potgieter started off hot at the Rocket Mortgage, tying the course record through 18 holes with Kevin Roy who both put up 62 on day 1. Min Woo Lee got a 63 the next day to tie the course record as well. After the weekend, we ended up tied with Max Greyserman and Potgieter and Chris Kirk after 18. Both Max and Aldrich had a chance to end it but missed their birdie putts. All 3 headed to a playoff. Kirk was the first to fall, on the 2^nd playoff hole after he missed a 4 foot putt. Each had a chance in the 5 playoff holes they played and it kinda looked like ‘you have it’ ‘no you have it’ but finally on the fifth, Potgieter wins his first PGA Tour title, making an 18 foot putt. He is the 9^th player to get his first PGA Tour title of the season.

LIV was in Dallas this weekend and it was also an entertaining ending. Patrick Reed who is from Texas started with a 5-shot lead but ended with a 75. He would be one of the 4 men playing in a sudden death playoff at -6. The other 3 men all missed big time. Louis Oosthuizen hit the water – he’s out. Paul Casey hit a bunker and Jinchiro Kozuma missed the green in regulation. Reed nailed a 20 foot birdie putt to win. Bryson DeChambeau’s, a Dallas native, team the Crushers won the team event which is their 3^rd tourney in a row.
Colin Morikawa is now seeking his 2^nd new caddie of 2025!

The NHL Draft was this weekend and Matthew Schaefer went #1 from Canada. The Islanders got to pick him. 20 players picked in the first round were from CAN, while 6 were USA.

Lara Gut-Behrami is retiring after this ski season. She is a 2x World Cup champion and plans to join her husband in London who is the sporting director of the English club Watford. She won the gold medal in the Super G and the Bronze in the Giant Slalom at the 2022 Beijing Olympics.
In other disappointing news, Faith Kipyegon fell short of breaking the 4 minute mile mark. She ran 4:06.42 but that was with a body suit and pacers. She did break her own WR time but is still a ways off from the feat. Al

The Wimbledon has begun. Coco Gauff has not advanced past the 4^th round on grass, her weakest court. Barbora Krejcikova and Carlos Alcaraz are the defending champs.

Aaron Rodgers looks set to retire after he told the Pat McAfee show that it looked inevitable.

Mon 6/30
- Giants at Dbacks @ 8:40pm on FS1
Tues 7/1
- Guardians at Cubs @ 7:05pm on TBS
Wed 7/2
- Yankees at Blue Jays @ 6:07pm on Prime
- Guardians at Cubs @ 7pm on ESPN
Fri 7/4
- Cardinals at Cubs @ 1:20pm on Apple TV+
- Angels at Blue Jays @ 6:07pm on Apple TV_
Sat 7/5
- Yankees at Mets @ 3:10pm on FS1
- Tigers at Guardians – or – Astros at Dodgers @ 6:15pm on FOX
- Pirates at Mariners @ 9:10pm on FS1
Sun 7/6
- Cardinals at Cubs @ 5:10pm on ESPN
- Rangers at Padres @ 8:10pm on ESPN

Thurs 7/3
- John Deere Classic – Round 1 @ 3pm on Golf Channel
Fri 7/4
- John Deere Classic – Round 2 @ 3pm on Golf Channel
Sat 7/5
- John Deere Classic – Round 3
  - @ 12pm on Golf Channel
  - @ 2pm on CBS
Sun 7/6
- John Deere Classic – Final Round
  - @ 12pm on Golf Channel
  - @ 2pm on CBS

Wed 7/2
- UEFA Nations League Final @ 2am on FS1
- CONCACAF Gold Cup Semifinal: USA vs GAT @ 6pm on FS1
- CONCACAF Gold Cup Semifinal: MEX vs HON @ 9pm on FS1
Thurs 7/3
- UEFA Womens Euro: BEL vs ITA @ 11am on FS1
- UEFA Womens Euro: ESP vs POR @ 6pm on FS1
Fri 7/4
- UEFA Womens Euro: DEN vs SWE @ 11am on FS1
- MLS: FC Dallas vs MinnestoaU @ 7:30pm on FS1
- UEFA Womens Euro: GER vs POL @ 11pm on FS1
Sat 7/5
- MLS: Charlotte vs Orlando @ 6pm on FS1
Sun 7/6
- UEFA Womens Euro: FRA vs ENG @ 1am on FS1
- UEFA Womens Euro: Wales vs NED @ 3am on FS1
- UEFA Womens Euro: NOR vs FIN @ 11am on FS1
- CONCACAF Gold Cup Final: Teams TBA @ 6pm

Mon 6/30
- Wimbledon – Round 1 @ 5am on ESPN
Tues 7/1
- Wimbledon – Round 1 @ 5am on ESPN
Wed 7/2
- Wimbledon – Round 2 @ 5am on ESPN
Thurs 7/3
- Wimbledon – Round 2 @ 5am on ESPN
Fri 7/4
- Wimbledon – Round 3 @ 5am on ESPN
Sat 7/5
- Wimbledon – Round 3 @ 5am on ESPN
- Wimbledon Round 3 @ 12pm on ABC
Sun 7/6
- Wimbledon – Round of 16 @ 5am on ESPN
- Wimbledon – Round of 16 @ 12pm on ABC