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June 2 -- Tampa Bay's Fred McGriff hit his 400th career home run, but the Devil Rays lost to the Mets 5-3.

June 2 -- Rick Aguilera of the Chicago Cubs became the 13th pitcher with 300 saves in a 2-0 win over Detroit. Aguilera reached the mark in 614 career appearances, third quickest.

June 3 -- Stanford won the NCAA outdoor track and field championship, ending an eight-year streak by Arkansas. It was the first title in 66 years for the Cardinal. LSU, the women's champion for 11 straight years beginning in 1987, regained the title, stopping Texas' two-year run.

June 4 -- Tampa Bay's Esteban Yan became the 77th major league player to homer in his first at-bat, but just the fourth American League pitcher and the first since California's Don Rose in 1972, the year before the DH rule took the bat out of AL pitchers' hands. He is the 14th batter to homer on the first pitch of his first at-bat. The Devil Rays beat the New York Mets 15-5.

June 5 -- Shigeki Maruyama of Japan took golf's magic number one notch lower by shooting a 58 during qualifying for the U.S. Open. The score will not be recognized as a PGA Tour record because it happened in a qualifying round. Maruyama had 11 birdies and an eagle on the par-71 South course at Woodmont Country Club, one of 12 qualifying sites for the U.S. Open. He carded 29 on both nines.

June 5 -- Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count under an agreement that dropped murder charges in the stabbing deaths of two men outside a Super Bowl party in Atlanta.

June 8 -- Mike Modano deflected in Brett Hull's shot at 6:21 of the third overtime, ending the longest scoreless overtime game in Stanley Cup finals history as the Dallas Stars staved off elimination by beating the New Jersey Devils 1-0 in Game 5. It was the fourth-longest Stanley Cup finals game ever. Dallas goalie Ed Belfour tied an NHL record with his fourth shutout of the playoffs.

June 9 -- The Indiana Pacers used the Hack-a-Shaq defense to no avail. Shaquille O'Neal took so many foul shots -- 39 of them -- he knocked Wilt Chamberlain and Bob Cousy out of the record books. O'Neal had 40 points and 24 rebounds, going 18-for-39 at the line, as the Los Angeles Lakers overcame an injury to Kobe Bryant to defeat the foul-happy Indiana Pacers 111-104 in Game 2 of the NBA Finals. Chamberlain set the overall record of 34 free throws in 1962, and Cousy set the finals record of 32 in 1953.

June 10 -- Frenchwoman Mary Pierce beat Conchita Martinez 6-2, 7-5 to win the French Open women's singles title. Pierce captured the doubles crown as well the next day, teaming with Martina Hingis for a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Virginia Ruano Pascual and Paola Suarez. Pierce equaled the 1967 performance of Francoise Durr, the last Frenchwoman to win the singles title. Durr also won the doubles title that year with Gail Sheriff.

June 10 -- Commendable, trained by D. Wayne Lukas and ridden by Pat Day, won the Belmont Stakes. Commendable paid $39.60 as an 18-1 long shot. Aptitude finished second by 1 1/2 lengths.

June 10 -- Jason Arnott scored in double overtime as the New Jersey Devils won their second Stanley Cup in six seasons with a 2-1 victory over the Dallas Stars in Game 6 of the finals. Devils defenseman Scott Stevens won the Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoff MVP.

June 10 -- Darin Erstad hit a double in the Anaheim Angels' 10-3 win over Arizona to give him a major league-leading 100 hits in 61 games. He became the fastest to reach the 100-hit mark since Heinie Manush had 100 hits in 60 games for the 1934 Washington Senators.

June 11 -- St. Louis' Mark McGwire homered in the 37 major league ballpark after hitting a home run in a 7-3 win over Detroit, surpassing Fred McGriff, who had connected in 36. McGwire homered in all three new parks opened this season.

June 11 -- Gustavo Kuerten won his second French Open title, beating Magnus Norman 6-2, 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (6). Kuerten, the 1997 champion, let 10 championship points slip away before finally capturing the title. Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde won their record 58th career doubles title, beating Sandon Stolle and Paul Haarhuis 7-6 (7), 6-4.

June 14 -- U.S. District Judge James R. Nowlin ruled that JaRo Jones, a disabled golfer with a progressive muscle disease, must be allowed to use a cart in U.S. Senior Open qualifying. Jones, 53, filed a lawsuit against the United States Golf Association, saying denying him a cart violates the Americans with Disabilities Act. Nowlin agreed and issued a preliminary injunction ordering Jones be allowed a cart during a qualifying round in San Antonio.

June 15 -- St. Louis Blues captain Chris Pronger took home NHL awards as the most valuable player and top defenseman. Pronger is the first defenseman since Bobby Orr in 1972 to win the Hart Memorial Trophy. He got the MVP honors by just one point in the closest balloting in the award's history, beating out scoring champion Jaromir Jagr and top goal scorer Pavel Bure.

June 15 -- Denis Savard and Joe Mullen were selected to the Hockey Hall of Fame. Walter L. Bush Jr., president of USA Hockey and a vice-president of the International Ice Hockey Federation, will also be inducted in the builders' category. Savard scored 473 goals and added 865 assists in a 17-year career spent mostly with Chicago. Mullen had 502 goals and 561 assists in 17 seasons with St. Louis, Calgary, Pittsburgh and Boston.

June 18 -- Tiger Woods turned the 100th U.S. Open into a one-man show, winning by 15 strokes over Ernie Els and Miguel Angel Jimenez for the biggest victory margin in the history of major championship golf. Woods tied the Open record with a score of 12-under 272 while no one else in the field could break par. It was just the fifth wire-to-wire victory in a U.S. Open. Woods' 15-stroke margin not only shattered the Open mark of 11 set by Willie Smith in 1899, but was the largest in any major championship -- surpassing the 13-stroke victory by Old Tom Morris in the 1862 British Open.

June 18 -- Audi swept to its first victory in the Le Mans 24-Hour race, taking the top three places after leading almost from beginning to end. This was the first 1-2-3 finish in the endurance classic since Peugeot's victory in 1993.

June 18 -- Louisiana State won its fifth national title in the last 10 seasons, rallying for a 6-5 victory over Stanford in the College World Series championship game.

June 18 -- Colorado's Mike Lansing hit for the cycle with a run-scoring triple in the first inning, a two-run homer in the second, a two-run double in the third and a single in the fourth as the Rockies defeated Arizona 19-2.

June 18 -- Ramon Hernandez had four hits and three RBIs to lead Oakland in a 21-3 rout of Kansas City. It was the largest margin of victory for the Athletics, breaking the previous mark set at Milwaukee in 1985. The 21 runs matched the most scored by the A's since leaving Philadelphia after the 1954 season, accomplished against Boston on July 14, 1969.

June 19 -- Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant led the Los Angeles Lakers to a 116-111 victory over the Indiana Pacers in Game 6 of the NBA Finals for the franchise's first title since 1988. O'Neal scored 41 points, marking the third time he scored 40 or more in the series. Bryant had 26, including four free throws that clinched it in the final 13 seconds. O'Neal was the unanimous choice for MVP of the series, adding to his MVP awards from the regular season and All-Star game. The victory gave Lakers coach Phil Jackson his seventh title -- his first without Michael Jordan -- in just his first season coaching the team.

June 19 -- Australia's Michael Klim set a world short course record in the 50-meter butterfly. Klim was timed at 23.11 seconds in a special time trial at the Australian Institute of Sport. Klim bettered the 50-meter short course mark of Sweden's Lars Frolander by .08 seconds.

June 20 -- Josh Evans of the Tennessee Titans was suspended for the 2000 season following a third violation of the NFL's substance-abuse policy. Evans was a defensive lineman who started for the Titans in the Super Bowl.

June 21 -- Eric Chavez hit for the cycle in Oakland's 10-3 win over Baltimore. Chavez doubled in the second inning, singled in fourth, tripled in the fifth and finished off the cycle with a homer in the seventh.

June 23 -- Bret Boone hit three home runs along with six RBIs in San Diego's 10-7, 10 inning victory over Cincinnati.

June 23 -- Oakland's Randy Velarde, Jason Giambi and Ben Grieve hit consecutive homers in the second inning of the Athletics' 10-6 win over Kansas City.

June 24 -- Anaheim's Garret Anderson, Troy Glaus and Scott Spiezio hit consecutive home runs in the second inning off Minnesota's Eric Milton, but the Twins held on to win 11-5 over the Angels.

June 24 -- Rick DiPietro became the first goalie to be drafted No. 1 when the New York Islanders selected the 18-year-old star from Boston University at the NHL Draft.

June 24 -- Bobby Higginson's third two-run homer of the game ignited Detroit's six-run seventh inning as the Tigers rallied from seven runs down to split their day-night doubleheader with Cleveland a 14-8 win.

June 25 -- Juli Inkster became the first player in 16 years to successfully defend the LPGA Championship as she beat Stefania Croce on the second playoff hole. It was Inkster's 24th career victory and sixth major, as many as any other active player on tour.

June 26 -- Vince Spadea snapped an ATP-record 21-match losing streak with a four-hour upset of 14th-seeded Greg Rusedski of Britain, 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-7 (8), 9-7 at Wimbledon. Spadea last won in Lyon, France, in October of 1999.

June 26 -- Minor league sensation Alex Cabrera hit a two-run homer in his first major league at-bat for Arizona as the Diamondbacks beat the Houston Astros 6-1.

June 27 -- Lee Stevens went 4-for-4 with a homer and three doubles in Montreal's 6-4 victory over Atlanta.

June 27 -- Oakland's Tim Hudson became the seventh pitcher in major league history to start his career with 20 wins in his first 24 decisions with a 7-6 victory over Texas.

June 28 -- Kenyon Martin of Cincinnati was selected first overall by the New Jersey Nets in the NBA draft.

June 28 -- Colorado's Jeff Cirillo hit three home runs and matched a team record with five runs scored in a 17-13 victory over San Francisco.

June 29 -- The New York Yankees scored eight runs in the fourth inning, including three sacrifice flies, in an 8-0 win over Detroit. There had been three sacrifice flies in an inning once before. The Chicago White Sox did it on July 1, 1962 against Cleveland.

June 30 -- Trine Solberg-Hattestad of Norway set a world record of 223 feet, 10 inches in the women's javelin at the IAAF Golden Gala track and field meet in Rome. She smashed the old mark of 220-1, set by Greece's Mirela Manjani-Tzelili at last year's World Championships.

Files from AP