Good morning, New York/New Jersey sports fans! Let's get right to our first look at the regional sports scene.
2011 AL MLB All-Star Voting: Six Yankees Lead At Their Positions: Major league players might think New York Yankees like Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter are overrated. Maybe it's because fans seem to love them. In the early balloting for the American League All-Star team six Yankees, A-Rod, Jeter, Robinson Cano, Mark Teixeira, Russell Martin and Curtis Granderson, are among the starters.
Yankees Sweep Athletics Thanks To Home Run By Swisher: New York's power was too much for Oakland's pitching for the third straight game.
Nightmare Seventh Inning Dooms Bumbling Mets, Fall To Pirates 9-3: The Mets had a 2-0 lead through six innings, but then fell apart. Bad defense, bad pitching and in the end a bad loss.
Stanley Cup Finals 2011: Canucks Defeat Bruins In Game 1: Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals appeared headed to overtime, but the Canucks scored with less than 20 seconds to play in regulation for a 1-0 victory.
NBA Finals, Game 2: Mavericks Try To Even Series: Game 2 of the NBA Finals is set for Thursday night with the Miami Heat holding a 1-0 advantage over the Dallas Mavericks. The Mavs will be looking for a huge night from Dirk Nowitzki despite the torn tendon on the middle finger of Nowitzki's left hand.
Rangers Acquire Tim Erixon: The New York Rangers took advantage of Calgary's inability to sign Tim Erixon to jump in and acquire the 20-year-old defenseman, son of former Ranger Jan Erixon.