June 19, 2025 6:00 am EDT
Is it trade season already? It certainly seems to be.
Baseball’s trade deadline isn’t until July 31, but the Boston Red Sox got ahead of things early, shipping Rafael Devers — the last remaining prominent figure from their 2018 World Series championship squad — to the San Francisco Giants.
The NBA got in on the trade action as well, even while the hard-fought finals between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Indiana Pacers continued to rage on. On Sunday, the Memphis Grizzlies signaled their intention to jump into rebuild mode by shipping off 26-year-old guard Desmond Bane.
We’ll have more on both of these surprising moves in this week’s news quiz, but that’s not all. We’ll touch on several other topics as well, from hot dog eating contests to “Ted Lasso” to the College World Series and beyond.
Good luck, and if you have a moment, you should play our daily Connections: Sports Edition, too!
Top stories mentioned in this week’s quiz
- Joey Chestnut announces he’ll return to Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest
- Memphis trades guard Desmond Bane in shocking NBA deal
- Jalen Williams’ huge Game 5 pushes OKC to brink of NBA title
- How a text exchange helped inspire “Ted Lasso” gameday attire
- Ex-Red Sox star said he knew team’s relationship with Rafael Devers was broken
- WNBA star files to trademark the term “mebounds”
- Arkansas’ Gage Wood pitched perhaps the greatest game in College World Series history
- Soccer team rolls 10-0 in the mismatch of all mismatches
- U.S. Open winner is last man standing on a course that was “borderline unplayable”
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Bob Harkins is a senior editor on the news team at The Athletic. Before joining The Athletic, Bob held multiple roles at FOX Sports, including editorial manager of live events and senior editor for colleges. He also spent 13 years at NBC Sports, where he was senior editor for MLB.
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