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OKC's Mark Daigneault knows what it takes to win championships.

His wife has won a ton of them Oklahoma Citys Mark Daigneault has the best record of any coach in the NBA this season.

And he has the second-best record of any coach in his house.

Daigneault is a coach, and a coachs husband, too.

His wife is Oklahoma assistant womens gymnastics coach Ashley Kerr.

She and the Sooners went 33-2 this season and won another national championship, their third in the last four years.

So, as Daigneault chases his first NBA title, his wife has now been part of seven national championships over her career on the staffs at Florida and Oklahoma.

Pacers' 25-year Finals drought is over.

Now they're looking to overcome their snake-bitten history INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Tyrese Haliburton and Myles Turner beamed as they carried the Indiana Pacers shiny, new Eastern Conference championship trophy into their postgame news conferences Saturday night.

Pascal Siakam needed help because he was also bringing the series MVP trophy.

The Pacers have finally ended their 25-year NBA Finals drought.

They enjoyed it with a fitting celebration for the team that plays in a state where basketball is treated like religion.

These Pacers have managed to achieve the unthinkable after starting 10-15 and looking less like anything but a title contender.

But now Indiana will try to exorcise the demons of its decades-long snake-bitten history when the Pacers take on the Oklahoma City .

French Open: Coco Gauff reaches quarterfinals and jokes with Frances Tiafoe about forgetting rackets PARIS (AP) Coco Gauff has earned her fifth consecutive trip to the French Open quarterfinals with a straight-set victory but still is catching flak because she forgot to bring her rackets to an earlier match.

The No.

2-seeded Gauff has been engaging in a bit of back-and-forth with another American and Roland-Garros quarterfinalist, Frances Tiafoe, over the equipment blunder.

Gauff won the 2023 U.S.

Open and was the runner-up in Paris in 2022.

She beat No.

20 Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-0, 7-5 on Monday.

Tiafoe teasingly called the 21-year-old Gauff Mrs.

Mature.

French Open: No.

1 Jannik Sinner dominates Andrey Rublev to reach the quarterfinals PARIS (AP) Top-ranked Jannik Sinners latest dominant performance at the French Open is a 6-1, 6-3, 6-4 victory over No.

17 Andrey Rublev.

The result on Monday night put Sinner back in the quarterfinals in Paris and extended his Grand Slam winning streak to 18 matches.

Sinner won the U.S.

Open last September and the Australian Open this January.

Now hell try to get to the semifinals at Roland-Garros for the second consecutive year and faces 62nd-ranked Alexander Bublik on Wednesday.

Sinner hasn't lost a set through the fourth round and has dropped just 30 games.

Surprise! NHL, with the help of kids, gives Barkov the Selke and King Clancy awards FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.

(AP) Floridas Aleksander Barkov thought the team meeting was over.

He found it odd that the Panthers hadnt been told they could leave.

Turns out, there was a good reason.

Two of them, actually.

The Panthers hadnt had an opportunity to spend any time at Joe DiMaggio Childrens Hospital during their playoff run, so the team decided to bring some of the patients into the team facility for a visit instead.

And the kids came bearing gifts for Barkov: the Selke Trophy as the league's top defensive forward, and the King Clancy trophy for leadership and humanitarian work.

French Open: 361st-ranked Frenchwoman Boisson upsets No.

3 Pegula.

Gauff, Djokovic and Sinner win PARIS (AP) Lois Boisson had never even played at the French Open before, let alone on the biggest court at Roland-Garros.

Now the 361st-ranked Frenchwoman is in the quarterfinals after beating No.

3 Jessica Pegula of the United States 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the fourth round.

Quite some victory, considering Pegula was the U.S.

Open runner-up last year.

Boisson won on her first match point with a forehand winner.

She joined second-seeded Coco Gauff, No.

6 Mirra Andreeva and No.

7 Madison Keys in the women's quarterfinals.

No.

3 Alexander Zverev, last year's runner-up in the men's tournament, also reached the last eight.

Journalism opens as the Belmont favorite.

Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty is the 2nd choice SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.

(AP) Kentucky Derby runner-up and Preakness winner Journalism has opened as the 8-5 favorite in the Belmont Stakes to close out the Triple Crown.

Derby winner Sovereignty was set as the second choice at odds of 2-1 on Monday.

Baeza, who finished third in Kentucky in early May, opened at 4-1 with Bob Baffert-trained Rodriguez next at 6-1.

Journalism drew the No.

7 post in the field of eight horses for the second Belmont at Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York.

Sovereignty will leave the starting gate from the No.

2 post.

NASCAR's new $1M In-season Challenge starts with drivers focused more on winning races LEBANON, Tenn.

(AP) Bubba Wallace sees NASCAR as having all the momentum possible right now with different media partners.

Perfect timing then for NASCARs In-season Challenge to debut, right? Well, Wallace forgot that was about to debut even as he thinks this will be a way to get fans even more invested.

Kyle Larson also didnt realize NASCARs new in-season competition had its field set after the Cup Series race at the Nashville Superspeedway.

Larson said he hadn't seen any promotion of the competition.

NASCAR announced this new in-season competition in May 2024.

The next three races will seed 32 drivers for the competition starting at Atlanta on June 28.

Jacpot! The Royals call up top prospect Jac Caglianone in the hopes of jump-starting their offense KANSAS CITY, Mo.

(AP) The Kansas City Royals have called up top prospect Jac Caglianone, and he could make his big league debut on Tuesday night in St.

Louis.

They announced the move on Monday, one day after a second straight 1-0 game against Detroit.

Kansas City has hit the fewest homers and scored the second-fewest runs in baseball, and the Royals hope that Caglianone can help to jump-start that anemic offense.

In 50 games between Double-A and Triple-A this season, Caglianone has hit 15 homers and 56 RBIs with a .322 batting average.

He was the sixth overall pick in last year's first-year player draft.

Trial for Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco begins in Dominican Republic PUERTO PLATA, Dominican Republic (AP) The trial of Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco started Monday in the Dominican Republic in a sexual abuse case involving a 14-year-old girl.

Franco told judges he wants justice to be done.

Franco has been charged in the northern province of Puerto Plata with sexually abusing a minor, sexual and commercial exploitation against a minor, and human trafficking.

Prosecutors introduced documents as pieces of evidence against the 24-year-old Franco during the first hearing, and added they will call at least seven witnesses in a trial that is expected to proceed on Thursday, Friday and next Monday..

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