🗞 Nerve-shredding tension

G'day sports fans,

“Nerves, insecurity, fear, it will give way to courage and bravery. It will give way to the commitment you have to your teammates and your state. It will give way to the commitment you have to do whatever is necessary to win. Why? Because that’s what Origin players do.”

🇦🇺 Aussie Sport

🎙 Australia's former one-day international and T20 captain Aaron Finch has joined Nine's commentary line-up for its coverage of the upcoming Ashes series.

👕 News Corp reports that the NRL has asked the New South Wales Rugby League to revert to the Blues’ traditional sky-blue from the navy, for the first game of the series in Adelaide on Wednesday. - Word is the NSWRL will push ahead with plans to wear the controversial navy blue jersey.

🏉 NSW giant Payne Haas ran freely and completed Sunday's training session, allaying fears after suffering an ankle injury in a training mishap on Friday.

Haas spent much of Friday morning in the grandstand overlooking Coogee Oval, lying on his back with his ankle elevated.

NSW advisor Greg Alexander explained the rampaging front-rower had trod on someone's boot as he was running backwards, suffering a slight sprain.

⚽️ Ange Postecoglou has the ultimate ambition to see Celtic in the Champions League knock-out stage, which may rule him out of Tottenham's manager search.

His speech will leave you ready to run through walls. After he lifted a second successive premiership title with Celtic FC, sit back and enjoy 78 seconds of Ange at his inspirational best. (Twitter)

⚽️ Congrats, Scott Jamieson, on a stellar career (375 A-League games) he announced his retirement: The stage is set for the ultimate farewell if Melbourne City can defeat Central Coast in the Isuzu UTE A-League Grand Final on Saturday night.

🇦🇺 Richmond fans paid tribute to former coach Damien Hardwick after the three-time premiership winner resigned in a shock move earlier this week.

At the 17-minute mark of the first quarter of their clash against Port Adelaide, who adopted the indigenous name Yartapuulti for Sir Doug Nicholls Round, the Richmond fans in attendance gave a round of applause to Hardwick to recognise his enormous contribution to the club.

🎾 Australia's Thanasi Kokkinakis overcame a disgruntled British rival to break an eight-year Roland-Garros drought on Sunday night (AEST).

Heading into his clash with Dan Evans, Kokkinakis hadn't won a singles match in the main draw of a Roland-Garros tournament since 2015, but he defeated the Englishman 6-4, 6-4, 6-4.

💰 Tom Trbojevic has scored at least one try in five of his six previous Origin appearances outside of New South Wales. And, 9 in 9 games for NSW. $3.0 anytime seems too big!?! (Back him on Dabble)

🌎 World Sport

⚽️ EPL final day: Everton secured the win they required against Bournemouth (1-0) to secure Premier League safety on an afternoon of nerve-shredding tension at Goodison Park.

Leicester City's nine-year stay in the Premier League came to an end as they were relegated in agonising fashion despite beating West Ham 2-1.

Brentford missed out on a place in next season's Europa Conference League despite Ethan Pinnock's late goal earning the Bees a narrow 1-0 victory that ended Premier League champions Manchester City's 25-match unbeaten run.

• Everton beat Bournemouth to survive, Leicester down despite beating West Ham

• Leeds relegated after defeat by Tottenham (4-1).

• Aston Villa guarantee seventh and Europa Conference League place with 2-1 win over Brighton.

🏎 Red Bull's Max Verstappen survived a mid-race downpour to win the Monaco Grand Prix from Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso.

Verstappen appeared to be cruising at the front but his race was given added jeopardy by his team delaying his pit stop in an attempt to coincide it with the rain.

And Aston Martin appeared to miss a chance to beat Verstappen by pitting Alonso for a set of dry tyres as the rain was intensifying.

• Several cars spun off; as Russell hits Perez rejoining track

• Contact between Hulkenberg, Stroll and Sargeant on first lap - Hulkenberg penalised

• Sainz and Perez damaged front wings

🐴 Tahiyra went one place better than her Newmarket second to secure a dominant win in the Irish 1,000 Guineas.

The Dermot Weld-trained Tahiyra was pipped by Mawj in the 1,000 Guinness earlier this month but proved her quality at the Curragh ($1.30).

⚽️ Mauricio Pochettino has signed a contract to become the next Chelsea manager.

🚴🏼‍♀️ Primoz Roglic secured his first Giro title: Sunday's final stage was a processional 135km route around Rome during which, by precedent, the general classification leader was not challenged for the overall victory.

Britain’s Mark Cavendish sprinted to victory in his final Giro d'Italia stage.

🏉 Israel Folau was booed after scoring a try for a World XV as former England coach Eddie Jones won on his return to Twickenham with the Barbarians.

Folau was jeered by parts of the 32,500 crowd when he crossed for one of the 14 tries in a thrilling contest that ended 48-42 to the Baa-Baas.

⚽️ Luton Town are the first team to go from non-league to the Premier League (here is their incredible story Twitter)

🏀 The Boston Celtics were a tenth of a second away from elimination. The Miami Heat were a tenth of a second from the NBA finals.

Derrick White owned that final moment.

White scored on a putback as time expired and the Boston Celtics moved to the brink of the greatest comeback in NBA playoffs history, holding off the Miami Heat 104-103 to force a game seven in the Eastern Conference finals.

🎾 Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk said "people should be embarrassed" after she was booed off court following her first-round defeat by Aryna Sabalenka at the French Open.

Kostyuk avoided shaking hands with second seed Sabalenka after the Belarusian's 6-3 6-2 win.

Belarus is an ally of Russia and allowed troops to use its territory to launch last year's invasion of Ukraine.

⚽️ Chelsea continued their WSL supremacy as a final day win over Reading sealed a fourth consecutive league title and completed a third double in three seasons. Manchester United remained in the hunt on the last day, but the Blues were ruthless against already-relegated Reading, with Sam Kerr scoring a double on the big occasion as she always seems to do.

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TODAY

09:10 MLB - Atlanta Braves v Philadelphia Phillies (ESPN)

00:00 - League One Play-Off Final - Barnsley v Sheffield Wednesday (beIN SPORTS 1)

TUESDAY

03:30 - T20 Blast - Durham v Notts Outlaws (Fox Cricket)

10:00 - NHL Conference Finals - Dallas Stars v Vegas Golden Knights (ESPN 2)

10:30 - NBA Conference Finals - Boston Celtics v Miami Heat (ESPN)

13:00 - MLB - Seattle Mariners v New York Yankees (ESPN)