Rain delay: Thunderstorms delayed the start of the LSU-Arkansas College World Series game by more than 2 1/2 hours today. The NCAA says the first pitch will be thrown at 3:38 p.m., the Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald reports. If LSU wins today, its plays the winner of the Arizona State-Texas series in the best-of-three CWS championship, starting Monday. If the Tigers lose to the Razorbacks today, then the teams play again Saturday, and the winner of that game advances to the championship series.
Ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence? A special screening of A Clockwork Orange will be at the Manship Theatre at 10 p.m. tonight. Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 classic the first in a series of cult movies that will be shown at the Shaw Center this summer. Admission is $8, or $20 to see the other movies, which include Purple Rain on July 17 and The Road Warrior on Aug. 14. For more information, click here.
En fuego: When the sun finally came out Friday afternoon, Bethpage Black was there for the taking. No one took advantage like Mike Weir. Taking a swing at becoming only the fifth player to ever shoot 63 at a U.S. Open—or the first to go even lower—Weir was at 6 under through 14 holes in his opening round of the rain-delayed second major of the year. Only four players have ever shot 63 at the U.S. Open: Vijay Singh in 2003, Jack Nicklaus and Tom Weiskopf on the same day in 1980 and Johnny Miller in 1973. No one, man or woman, has ever shot better than 63 in one of golf’s major championships. Weir, who simply kept firing at pins on Bethpage’s receptive, spongy greens, had six birdies without a bogey through 14 holes. At that point, he was three shots ahead of Sean O’Hair and Peter Hanson, and an eye-popping 10 shots in front of Tiger Woods, who struggled late in his morning round and shot 74.
