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Night Moves....Those Medaling Kids

Last night’s 2:00am ET editions of ESPN’s “SportsCenter” and FS1’s “Fox Sports Live” both led with Cavaliers-Warriors NBA Finals Game 1 and Cardinals-Dodgers. ESPN followed with Mets-D’Backs and French Open highlights. FS1 followed with Cubs-Nationals and highlights from the PGA Tour’s Memorial tournament.

ESPN’s Keith Olbermann called out his “world’s worst” person in sports: A fan who asked the IOC to “revoke the Gold Medal” Bruce Jenner won in the ’76 Olympic Games due to his recent gender transformation. Olbermann also put on notice Wikipedia, which has taken “all kinds of hits for an apparent error on one of its Chicago Blackhawks pages” by listing the team as the '15 Stanley Cup champions, and Univ. of Wisconsin K Rafael Gaglianone, “who joined the ‘anything for the Internet’ era” by kicking a field goal with the holder using his nose to place the ball for the kick.

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