2001 at a glance

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June

 June 3 -- Karrie Webb returned to the spotlight by winning the U.S. Women's Open in a runaway for the second year in a row. Webb shot a 1-under 69 for an eight-stroke victory, the largest margin at a Women's Open in 21 years. The Webb, with a 7-under 273, was the only player to beat par. Annika Sorenstam finished at 287, 14 strokes behind. It was the biggest blowout in a Women's Open since 1980, when Amy Alcott finished nine strokes ahead of Hollis Stacy.

 June 4 -- Barry Bonds hit his 30th home run, reaching the mark faster than anyone in major league history. Bonds connected in the fourth inning for a solo shot in the San Francisco Giants' 3-1 win over San Diego. Bonds hit No. 30 in 57 games. Babe Ruth reached 30 homers in 63 games in 1928.

 June 5 -- Joe Mauer, a slugging high school catcher with a strong arm, was taken by the Minnesota Twins with the No. 1 pick in the baseball draft.

 June 5 -- Wayne Huizenga, CEO of Boca Resorts, sold the Florida Panthers for about $101 million to a group of Florida investors that included former NFL quarterback Bernie Kosar.

 June 5 -- Colorado pitcher Mike Hampton had two homers, three RBIs and recorded his eighth win as Colorado defeated Houston 9-4.

 June 5 -- Boston's Manny Ramirez was intentionally walked an AL-record tying four times in the Red Sox's 18-inning 4-3 win over the Tigers.

 June 9 -- Five years after winning the Stanley Cup in their first season in Denver, the Colorado Avalanche survived an emotional journey that culminated with a 3-1 victory over the New Jersey Devils that allowed defenseman Ray Bourque to lift, kiss and embrace the cup for first time in his 22-year career.

 June 8 -- Luis Gonzalez hit three homers and drove in four runs as Arizona beat the Royals 11-4.

 June 8 -- Damion Easley became the ninth Detroit player to hit for the cycle as the Tigers beat Milwaukee 9-4. Easley hit an RBI double in the third inning, a three-run homer in Detroit's six-run fifth, a single in the sixth and a triple in the eighth.

 June 9 -- Point Given, ridden by Gary Stevens, breezed to a 12 1/4-length win in the Belmont Stakes for the seventh biggest win in Belmont history. Point Given timed 2:26 2-5 for the 1 1/2 miles equaled the third fastest time in the 133-year history of the final race of the Triple Crown.

 June 9 -- Jennifer Capriati beat Kim Clijsters 1-6, 6-4, 12-10, to win the French Open, her second consecutive Grand Slam title. Capriati won her first major title in January at the Australian Open, almost 11 years after she made history as a 14-year-old semifinalist in Paris.

 June 10 -- Clay-court artist Gustavo Kuerten won his third French Open title by dismantling Alex Corretja 6-7 (3), 7-5, 6-2, 6-0. The top-seeded Kuerten became the sixth man to win three French championships and the first since Mats Wilander earned his third title in 1988.

 June 11 -- Tennis' Grand Slam tournaments doubled the number of seeded players to 32, with the order determined using a formula that assesses past performance on the event's playing surface. The new system ensures that the top 32 players in the ATP and WTA rankings will be seeded.

 June 12 -- Goran Ivanisevic of Croatia and Alexandra Stevenson of the United States were the only non-British players to receive wild cards for singles at Wimbledon.

 June 13 -- Texas' Ruben Sierra homered from both sides of the plate for the sixth time in his career, but the Rangers lost 5-3 to the Dodgers.

 June 14 -- Mike Gartner, ranked fifth in career scoring with 708 goals, and Wayne Gretzky's Edmonton linemate Jari Kurri were among four players elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame. Also elected were Russian great Vyacheslav Fetisov and Dale Hawerchuk, who is 13th on the career scoring list with 1,409 points. Pittsburgh general manager Craig Patrick, the architect of the Penguins' two Stanley Cup teams, was chosen from among the non-playing nominees.

 June 14 -- Joe Sakic won the Hart Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player. Earlier in the day, Sakic, the captain of the Colorado Avalanche, received the Lester B. Pearson Award as the league's top player as voted by his peers. He also collected the Lady Byng Trophy as the most gentlemanly player. Buffalo's Dominik Hasek won the Vezina Trophy as outstanding goaltender for the sixth time.

 June 15 -- Los Angeles defeated the Philadelphia 76ers 108-96 in Game 5 of the NBA Finals to complete the best playoff run in NBA history. With Shaquille O'Neal leading the way, the Lakers finished the playoffs with a record of 15-1, the best ever, and became the first team to go through the playoffs undefeated on the road. O'Neal was named MVP of the NBA Finals for the second straight year. Coach Phil Jackson won his eighth title -- six of them with the Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls -- one short of the NBA record for coaches held by Red Auerbach. Jackson has won his last 20 playoff series, also a record.

 June 16 -- John Olerud went 4-for-5 and hit for the cycle as Seattle beat the San Diego Padres 9-2. He hit a homer in the ninth to complete the cycle.

 June 16 -- Brad Penny and Ricky Bones combined on a one-hitter as the Marlins beat the Devil Rays 11-0. Penny allowed a two-out single to John Flaherty in the fifth inning and got two solid defensive plays from center fielder Eric Owens. Bones retired all six batters he faced.

 June 16 -- Miami routed Stanford 12-1 in the College World Series for its second national title in three years. Kevin Brown hit a home run and had five RBIs, and Kevin Mannix drove in three runs for the Hurricanes, who won their fourth national title, the others coming in 1982, 1985 and 1999.

 June 17 -- Retief Goosen and missed a two-foot putt on the 18th green that tied him with Mark Brooks and set up a playoff for the U.S. Open. Goosen, trying to go wire-to-wire for his first major championship, needed only two putts from 12 feet away. Instead, he rapped the first one 2 feet past the hole, and the par putt coming back missed badly to the right. Brooks earlier three-putted the 18th from 40 feet to make bogey and seemingly blow his chance to win the U.S. Open.

 June 18 -- Retief Goosen won the U.S. Open in an 18-hole playoff with Mark Brooks. Goosen took a lead so commanding that he could afford another three-putt on the 18th green to win. Goosen rolled in a 6-footer for bogey for a two-stroke victory.

 June 19 -- Tim Wakefield took a no-hitter into the ninth inning before giving up a single to Randy Winn as Boston held on to beat the Devil Rays 5-4.

 June 19 -- Ellis Burks hit three homers in a 10-9 Cleveland loss to the Twins.

 June 20 -- Barry Bonds broke two major league records with his 38th homer, including one set by Babe Ruth in 1928, as the Giants beat San Diego 8-3. Bonds hit a two-run shot in the eighth inning to break out of a tie with Reggie Jackson (1969) and Mark McGwire (1998) for the most homers before the All-Star break. And he became the quickest to 38, doing it in his team's 71st game. Ruth hit 38 in 88 games in 1928.

 June 22 -- Karrie Webb set two scoring records in the LPGA Championship in shooting a 7-under 64 for a three-stroke lead. Webb, at 11-under 131, broke the 36-hole scoring record at the LPGA Championship by two strokes. Se Ri Pak had a 133 at the halfway point when she went on to win in 1998. Webb had a 29 on the front nine -- she started the round on No. 10 -- for the lowest nine-hole score in the 47-year history of the championship.

 June 22 -- Al Clark, a major league umpire since 1977, was terminated by the commissioner's office this week for improperly using plane tickets in violation of his union's contract, baseball officials said.

 June 23 -- The Atlanta Thrashers made Ilya Kovalchuk the first Russian ever chosen No. 1 in the NHL entry draft.

 June 24 -- Karrie Webb ignored a late charge from Laura Diaz to win the LPGA Championship by two strokes and become the youngest woman to complete the Grand Slam. Webb, who finished at 270, has won her last four majors -- including consecutive U.S. Opens -- by a combined 25 strokes. The 26-year-old Australian became the fifth woman to win the LPGA's four majors. The others are Juli Inkster, Louise Suggs, Pat Bradley and Mickey Wright, who was 27 when she won the career Grand Slam in 1962. Webb has won five of the last eight majors, the most dominant stretch in women's golf since Wright won five of six from 1961-62.

 June 24 -- The Atlantic City Seagulls, the worst team in U.S. Basketball League history lost 126-99 to the Maryland Mustangs to finish 0-28. The team was the first in the 17-year history of the league to go winless for a whole season. The Seagulls won USBL championships in 1997, 1998 and 1999.

 June 25 -- Top-ranked Martina Hingis, hampered by an aching back, was eliminated on Wimbledon's opening day by an opponent ranked 83rd in the world. Virginia Ruano Pascual of Spain stunned Hingis 6-4, 6-2.

 June 27 -- Jerry Krause stole the spotlight from Michael Jordan at the NBA draft, dealing his best player -- Elton Brand -- to the Clippers for unproven 18-year-old center Tyson Chandler. Jordan made history, becoming the first NBA executive to select a high school player first overall as the Washington Wizards chose 19-year-old Kwame Brown of Glynn Academy in Brunswick, Ga. Chandler, a 7-foot-1 center from Dominguez H.S. in Compton, Calif., went second before Pau Gasol, a forward for F.C. Barcelona, went third to Atlanta.

 June 28 -- A 77-year-old golfer defied the odds by scoring a hole-in-one twice in four days. Gene Rogers, of suburban Dublin, Ohio, got his first hole-in-one on June 25 with a 7-wood on Shamrock Golf Club's 165-yard 14th hole. The second ace came with a 5-iron on the 175-yard 17th hole at Ohio State's Gray Course.

 June 29 -- Russian swimmer Roman Sludnov became the first person to swim the 100-meter breaststroke in under a minute, breaking a world record for the second time in two days at the national championships in Moscow. Sludnov finished in 00:59.97. The day before, he broke American Ed Moses' record by three-hundredths of a second by finishing in 1:00.26 in a championship semifinal.

 June 30 -- Miguel Tejada hit three homers -- a first-inning grand slam, a three-run blast in the second and a solo shot in the ninth -- and drove in a career-high eight runs to send the Athletics to a 15-4 victory over the Texas Rangers.

 June 30 -- Mike Sweeney and Carlos Beltran each hit two homers and Mike Sweeney chipped in another as the Royals held on to a 11-7 win over Cleveland. Juan Gonzalez went deep twice and Kenny Lofton and Jim Thome homered for the Indians. It was the fourth time this year that nine homers were hit in a major league game.