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College Baseball
College World Series, Omaha, NE
Elimination Game
Indiana vs. Oregon State -- ESPN, 8 p.m.

College World Series Postgame -- ESPNU, 11 p.m.

College Basketball
Inside College Basketball: Draft Special: The Backcourt -- CBS Sports Network, 8 p.m.
Inside College Basketball: Draft Special: Boom, Bust, Blah -- CBS Sports Network, 9 p.m.

College Football
College Football Live -- ESPN2, 3:30 p.m.

The Lone Ranger doesn't release in the theaters for another couple of weeks, but Rich Rodriguez and his coaching staff look ready for a grand premiere if a new video is any indication. Rodriguez and members of his coaching staff dressed up as cowboys that no thief weaker than Buford Tannen would want to cross paths with. Not only did they look the part, but Rich Rod shows off an intimidating look with a scowl and a cigar, and then moments later is seen showing off  a lighter side as he and his cowboy pals yuck it up in the saloon.

The pictures are great...

... but the video is a must see.

This is a real thing that was "debated" on First Take this morning.  Whether or not the San Antonio Spurs... in GAME 6 OF THE NBA FINALS... should rest their best players and concede victory in a game that could win them the NBA title.  This is a thing Skip Bayless advocated San Antonio doing "if they could get away with it."  Whatever that means.

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While News Corp. Chairman and Global Media Titan Rupert Murdoch plans his next move in his impending divorce, he's also thinking about his worldwide empire and how he can create a new sporting event. The Guardian in the UK reports that Murdoch who owns channels in Italy, Germany, the UK, Asia and of course, the US, wants to start a new "Super League" soccer tournament that would involve teams from the English Premier League, Germany's Bundesliga and Spain's La Liga.

The Chicago Blackhawks fell to the Boston Bruins 2-0 in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Finals, giving the Bruins a 2-1 series lead. As the Blackhawks were getting dominated by the Bruins, a Chicago area radio station Q101 said the team was "raped basically" on Twitter, setting off a brief firestorm for their poor choice of words.

@BrianYarvual it was in reference to a bruin man handling a blackhawk against his will, move on

— Q101 The Alternative (@Q101Chicago) June 18, 2013

The fact that this station thought that comment was at all appropriate and initiall responded by saying "move on" is mind-boggling. Their apology for saying the game was rape was the typical "sorry you were offended" junk that is par for the course in incidents like this.

We included a word in our tweets this evening during the game that offended some ppl. That was NOT intended.Pls accept our apology.

— Q101 The Alternative (@Q101Chicago) June 18, 2013

It was removed but we realize words matter & truly apologize for any offense or anger it may have caused.

— Q101 The Alternative (@Q101Chicago) June 18, 2013

Q101 used to be one of the most popular radio stations in the Chicago market before it was sold. The intellectual property of the station was purchased by Broadcast Barter Radio Networks, who turned the station into an internet-only format. Many Chicagoans feel that the new station is nothing but a shadow of its terrestrial self and have distanced themselves from the new station. 

But to get back to the original point, I don't think Q101 really attempted to antagonze anyone. They just have no awareness or common sense. That's obviousty not an excuse or a justification, but it does explain how something like this is able to happen so routinely.

[h/t to Matt Lindner for the tip]

The island nation of Tahiti qualified for the 2013 Confederations Cup by winning their first ever Oceania Nations Cup last year.  They became the first country either than Australia or New Zealand to win the competition in a historic upset.  Tahiti is ranked 138th in the FIFA World Rankings, tied with Syria and just ahead of Afghanistan.  They rank behind countries like Burundi, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Turkmenistan, and Belize.  Tahiti are 5000/1 odds to win the Confederations Cup with Japan the next closest team at 40/1.  They have one, yes, one professional soccer player.

Tahiti also has the best official Twitter account of any national soccer team in the world.  Just observe their tweets from the opening 6-1 loss to Nigeria in which Marama Vahiruau is compared to Lionel Messi and the optimistic, exuberant hashtags are aplenty...

Fox 5 Atlanta had a ridiculously clumsy, blooper infested beginning to their 12 PM noon newscast on Monday.  Anchor Buck Lanford comes on the air with no idea what he's doing.  Buck attempts to go to a weather report, but instead attempts the worst segue in local newscast history by going to a reporter on site covering a murder trial.

Smooth.  Real smooth.  Let's just hope they just stay away from the firing of the local sports shock jocks for tomorrow's newscast.

H/T Hot Clicks

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College Baseball
College World Series, Omaha, NE
Losers Bracket Game: North Carolina vs. LSU -- ESPN, 3 p.m.
Winners Bracket Game: North Carolina State vs. UCLA -- ESPN, 8 p.m.

College World Series Postgame -- ESPNU, 11 p.m.

College Football
College Football Live -- ESPN2, 3:30 p.m.

Cycling
2013 Tour de France Preview -- NBC Sports Network, 7 p.m.

Yesterday @NBAonTNT tweeted something bizarre. The tweet has since been taking down, but Deadspin got a screen shot of it:

One person, in response to Deadspin's tweet, suggested it might be an obscure Father's Day reference seeing that the Thunder and Grizzlies are the newest NBA teams.

However, if that were the case, why has the tweet been taken down? What's even weirder is that the account does not show any tweets since June 11th and we're in the throes of the NBA Finals. Perhaps TNT needs to have the small child taking pictures of his or her feet give up their access to the social media account.

Thanks to 106.1 The Ticket in New Orleans, we now have full audio of the embarrassing and shameful attempt at a joke that was aired on Atlanta sports radio station 790 The Zone this morning. The segment mocked Steve Gleason, who was a safety for the Saints but now suffers from ALS. 

Gleason can no longer eat, speak or walk on his own, and that was apparently enough for the guys at "Mayhem in the AM" to run with. Who in their right mind would find this funny, let alone appropriate? Those involved have been suspended, and that might only be the tip of the iceberg now that we have the despicable audio. 

UPDATE: All three hosts have been fired, per The Zone.

The transcript of the fake knock-knock jokes "Gleason" told during the interview:

Gleason: Knock, knock.

Host: Steve, we do knock-knocks on Thursdays. We don't do it on Mondays. 

Gleason: I may not be here on Thursday.

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Gleason: Knock, knock.

Host: Who's here?

Gleason: I

Host: I who?

Gleason: I blame Gregg Williams.

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Gleason: Knock, knock.

Host: Who's there?

Gleason: Smother.

Host: Smother who?

Gleason: Smother me. Do me a favor.

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Gleason: Knock, knock.

Host: Who's there, Steve?

Gleason: I'm

Host: I'm who?

Gleason: I'm going to hell

Host: Yes you are.

[The Ticket]