SUNDAY SPORTS

Overtime continues to be kind to the Los Angeles Kings. Dustin Brown scored in double-OT as the Kings rallied to beat the New York Rangers 5-4 for a 2-0 series lead in the Stanley Cup final. L-A won Game 1 in overtime as well. The series now moves to the Big Apple for Game 3 and 4.

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There’s labour peace in the CFL. The league and Players’ Association averted a possible strike by agreeing to a tentative deal on a new collective bargaining agreement. A source tells The Canadian Press the new deal calls for a 5 million dollar salary cap. That’s far less than the union’s original 6.24 million cap demand.

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California Chrome came up short like so many before him at the Belmont Stakes. The horse failed to win the Triple Crown with a fourth-place finish behind winner Tonalist. A crowd of 102,000 was silenced when it became clear California Chrome wouldn’t win the first Crown in 36 years.

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Mark Buehrle had another great outing but he wasn’t as good as Shelby Miller. Buehrle allowed one run through seven innings as the Blue Jays fell 5-0 to St. Louis. Miller meanwhile pitched a complete-game three-hit shutout for the Cardinals.

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Toronto is still well ahead atop the A-L East. The Jays are five-and-a-half games ahead of Baltimore after the Orioles beat Oakland 6-3. The New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays each lost to fall further behind Toronto.

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When George Kottaras’s major-league career ends he should be able to find work on a dairy farm. The Canadian catcher for the Cleveland Indians beat Rangers reliever Robbie Ross in a cow-milking contest for the second straight year. The event at the game was held to recognize Texas dairy farmers.

(Canadian Press)