The
Chicago Bulls defeat the defending world champions
Miami Heat 92–79 to sweep their first round series 4 games to none, assuring the NBA of a new owner of the championship trophy for the 2006–07 season.
Dutch Eredivisie: The season entered its final day with three teams level on points.
Excelsior 3–2
AZ — The visitors, with a 6-goal edge in goal difference over their nearest competition, would have essentially secured the title with a win, but lost after being reduced to 10 men.
Willem II 0–2
Ajax — Ajax, in second entering the final day, take their goal difference to +49.
PSV 5–1
Vitesse — PSV's rout takes their goal difference to +50, pipping Ajax for the title.
Kevin Davies' equalizer for Bolton denies Chelsea the full three points as the Red Devils erect a 5-point lead for the championship with their come-from-behind win
away from home.
Cristiano Ronaldo gives United the lead in the 5th minute, before
Kaká scores in the 22nd and 37th minutes to give Milan the half-time lead.
Wayne Rooney scores in the 59th minute and 1st minute of added time to give United the lead before the second leg.
Alex Rodriguez hits his 13th and 14th home runs of the season in the
New York Yankees' 10–8 loss to the
Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The 14th homer ties the record
Albert Pujols set last year for home runs in the month of April. A-Rod has six more games this month to try to reach the major-league record of home runs in any month, set by
Sammy Sosa with 20 homers in May 1998. (
AP via Yahoo)
Zaragoza's win puts Celta level with
Levante for the final relegation berth. Although Celta currently lead on
goal difference, Celta and Levante have a match remaining at Celta—and in Spain, the first tiebreaker is head-to-head result, not goal difference (Celta and Levante drew previously).
After previous leaders PSV fail to win, the Eredivisie enters its final weekend with Ajax, AZ and PSV level on points atop the league. AZ are first on goal difference (+53), with Ajax second (+47) and PSV third (+46).
Flames goaltender
Jamie McLennan was suspended for five games, coach
Jim Playfair fined $25,000 (
US) and the team fined $100,000 (US) after an incident where McLennan slashed the Red Wings'
Johan Franzén late in Game Five of their series. With the Flames' elimination, McLennan's suspension will extend into the Flames' first four games of the
2007–08 season.
MLB:
Mark Buehrle became the first
Chicago White Sox pitcher in sixteen seasons to throw a
no-hitter as the Pale Hose defeated the
Texas Rangers, 6–0. Only a
walk of
Sammy Sosa in the fifth inning, who was immediately thrown out when caught off of first base, kept Buehrle from a
perfect game, as he faced the minimum of 27 batters. He also got eight
strikeouts.
The Red Devils erect a six-point lead ahead of
Chelsea for the race for the title, but Sheffield United doesn't increase their lead against
Charlton Athletic avoiding the relegation zone, which remained at 2 points.
NBA commissioner
David Stern suspends referee
Joey Crawford indefinitely after Crawford ejects
San Antonio Spurs player
Tim Duncan for laughing on the bench; Duncan himself was fined $25,000 for verbally abusing Crawford.
Jackie Robinson Day: To honor Jackie Robinson on the 60th anniversary of his first appearance with the
Brooklyn Dodgers, many Major League players, and several entire teams, wear Robinson's number 42. No player had worn the number since it was retired league-wide in 1997. The number-42 jerseys worn today will be auctioned off to benefit the Jackie Robinson Foundation. (
mlb.com)
Manny Pacquiao knocked out Jorge Solís at the eighth round to retain the WBC international super featherweight championship. Solis was knocked down thrice.
Cristian Mijares defeated Jorge Arce via unanimous decision to keep the WBC super flyweight championship.
Edgar Soza defeated Brian Viloria via majority decision to win the vacant WBC light flyweight championship.
With two matches left for all teams, Australia are now sure of progressing to the knockout stage, while Ireland are sure of being eliminated after the Super Eights stage.
In the first game affected by Major League Baseball's new ban on tie games, the
Milwaukee Brewers defeat the
Florida Marlins, 3–2, in 13 innings. The game had been suspended due to rain Tuesday night in the 10th inning and resumed Wednesday. Under the old rules, Tuesday's game would have been declared a tie, wiped from the standings and replayed in its entirety. (
AP via Yahoo).
New Zealand freediver
William Trubridge breaks his own world record in unassisted freediving in
Dean's Blue HoleBahamas. In a time of 3:09 he dove to 82 m (269 ft), breaking the old record of 81m set on 9 April. (
Vertical Blue)
This marks the first time Manchester United have ever scored more than 5 goals in a European match, and the highest score in a quarter-final or later stage European Cup or Champions League match since the 1960 final.
Team Canada defeats Team USA 5–1 reclaiming the championship after a 1–0 shootout loss at the
2005 Championship to Team USA. This marks Team Canada's 9th gold medal in 10 tournaments.
New Zealand freediver
William Trubridge breaks world record in unassisted freediving in
Dean's Blue HoleBahamas. In a time of 3:02 he dove to 81 m (265 ft), breaking the old record of 80m set exactly 2 years ago. (
Dominion Post)
American
Zach Johnson (+1) wins by 2 strokes over
Rory Sabbatini,
Retief Goosen and
Tiger Woods. It is the first time in 50 years, and the third time ever, that a golfer has won The Masters with an over-par score.
Michigan State 3,
Boston College 1 — The Spartans break a 1–1 tie with 18.9 seconds left, and seal the win and the national title with an empty-net goal.
The clubs in the
Guinness Premiership, the top level of the sport in England, announce that they will join in the boycott of the 2007–08
Heineken Cup and
European Challenge Cup previously announced by
French clubs. This move places the future of both competitions in serious doubt.
(BBC)
The
Carolina Hurricanes were mathematically eliminated from the
Stanley Cup Playoffs, losing to the
Tampa Bay Lightning 3–2. The Canes become the first team since the
New Jersey Devils (
in 1996) to fail to make the Stanley Cup playoffs in the season after winning the Cup. This also marks the first time in NHL history that both Stanley Cup finalists from the
previous season, the Hurricanes and the
Edmonton Oilers, were unable to make the playoffs the following year.
After accepting an $8.2 billion (
US) offer by real estate magnate
Sam Zell, The
Tribune Company announces that the Chicago Cubs will be sold following the 2007 season.
The basketball Gators repeat their football team's performance in the
BCS Title Game thirteen weeks earlier, and in the process, became the first back-to-back national champions since
Duke won in
1991 and
1992, and also the first Division I men's team in history to repeat as national champions with the same starting lineup.
Corey Brewer is named the tournament's
Most Outstanding Player for his performance.
(ESPN)