Tannehill and wife are expecting a baby girl
AUTO RACING: Brad Keselowski became the first repeat winner on the Xfinity Series this season, taking the rain-delayed race Saturday at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Keselowski won in overtime after the yellow flag came out for debris on the track with two laps remaining in the scheduled 200-lap race. Cole Custer finished second, Christopher Bell was third, Ty Dillon fourth and points leader Elliott Sadler fifth.
COLLEGE BASEBALL: Patrick Fredrickson pitched six innings of one-run ball and top-seeded Minnesota routed Ohio State 8-1 in Omaha, Neb., to earn a spot in the Big Ten tournament title game. Jordan Kozicky, Toby Hanson and Cole McDevitt each had two RBIs for the Gophers, who’ll face Purdue on Sunday for the championship. The Boilermakers beat Illinois 11-5 as Nick Dalesandro and Harry Shipley each had two hits and scored three runs . ... Davion Downey hit a homer and scored three runs, helping Baylor defeat Oklahoma 10-3 in Oklahoma City to reach the Big 12 tournament championship game against TCU, which topped West Virginia 7-3 in the semifinals behind three hits from Coby Boulware.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Miami F Dewan Huell has pulled out of the NBA draft and will return to school for his junior season. The 6-foot-11 Huell averaged 11.4 points and 6.6 rebounds as a sophomore for the Hurricanes while starting all 32 games. ... The NCAA granted Florida State F Phil Cofer another year of eligibility. Cofer was the Seminoles’ top scorer.
GOLF: Justin Rose birdied the first three holes to quickly extend his lead at the Fort Worth Invitational and finished with a 4-under 66 to take a four-stroke advantage into the final round at Colonial. Rose is at 14 under. Emiliano Grillo, his playing partner, shot 69 and is at 10 under along with Brooks Koepka, who had a 67 . ... Francesco Molinari mastered the gusty conditions at Wentworth to shoot a 6-under 66 and share the lead with Rory McIlroy after three rounds of the BMW PGA Championship in Virginia Water, England. McIlroy started the day with a three-stroke lead, but Molinari played a bogey-free round that featured six birdies over the last 10 holes . ... Scott McCarron, seeking a second senior major title to go with his 2017 Senior Players Championship, made his only bogey of the third round on the final hole to slip into a tie for the lead with Tim Petrovic in the Senior PGA Championship in Benton Harbor, Mich. The two are at 13 under, two shots ahead of Paul Broadhurst.
TENNIS: Third-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova won the Strasbourg International after laboring to a 6-7 (5), 7-6 (3), 7-6 (6) win against Dominika Cibulkova in a match that lasted 3 hours, 35 minutes . ... Dominic Thiem warmed up for the French Open with a 3-6, 7-6 (1), 6-1 victory over Gilles Simon in the Lyon Open final . ... Johanna Larsson won her first WTA singles title in three years by beating Alison Riske 7-6 (4), 6-4 in the final of the Nuremberg Cup.
TRACK & FIELD: South Africa’s Caster Semenya ran a meet-record time of 1 minute, 55.92 seconds to win the 800 meters at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Ore.
The Tannehill family expanding by one.
On Saturday, Miami Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill and his wife Lauren announced that they are expecting their second child and their son Steel will be getting a sister.
The announcement was made on Lauren’s Instagram page, which featured a picture of the couple with Lauren showing off her baby bump.
These college sweethearts got married in 2012, shortly before the Dolphins drafted Ryan at No. 8 in 2012.
Last week Tannehill, who has started every game he’s played, credited his wife’s support for helping him during the rehab process for the left knee injury that has forced him to miss the Dolphins’ past 20 games.
“It was a long year. There were some dark times,” said Ryan, who owns a 37-40 record as an NFL starter. “I tried to stay positive and take it in stride as much as I could and just do the best is that I could in rehab and grow and get stronger each and every day, but it’s hard. It was a hard time for me just not being around the guys, not being out at practice. I was around in meetings but it’s just not the same.”
Last year, Ryan got a tattoo of laurel leaves placed on the inner part of his right biceps to represent his wife.
“Lauren means ‘by the laurel leaves,’ so that’s it,” Ryan explained.
Steel, their first child, was born in July 2016.
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