Welcome to Monday’s Morning Mashup. For the latest news, start at our WEEI.com home page or click here for the top stories from our news wire.

WHAT’S HAPPENING LOCALLY MONDAY:
MLB: White Sox at Red Sox, 7:10 p.m. (NESN; WEEI)

AROUND THE WEB:

♦ A ticket scalper in Texas filed suit against the Rangers because the team refused to sell him 100 tickets to a Rangers-Yankees game. Michael Melendrez said the team regularly sold him blocks of 100 tickets for $10 apiece, and he resold the tickets for much as $75 each. He is seeking compensatory and punitive damages for fraud and deceptive trade practices.

♦ Jeremy Shockey, the controversial former Giants and Saints tight end who signed with the Panthers in March, recently competed in a 100-mile adventure race in the Scottish Highlands. In the Charlotte Observer, Joseph Person writes about Shockey’s passion and competitive spirit, which the Panthers hope will show through when the 30-year-old takes the field.

♦ British Formula One race car driver Lewis Hamilton apologized for joking that he was being penalized by stewards because he’s black. Hamilton received two penalties in Sunday’s Monaco Grand Prix. “I’ll just try and keep my mouth shut and try to enjoy the rest of the season,” he said.

ON THIS DAY TRIVIA: On May 30, 1979, one week after he was dismissed by the Bruins, Don Cherry was named coach of which team?

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Looking back on it, we should have contacted Kobe. Kobe said it was management’s job to pick a coach. He just said, ‘Defense first.’ That’s what we were doing, but we should have reached out to him.” — Lakers executive vice president of player personnel Jim Buss, on the hiring of coach Mike Brown without input from Kobe Bryant

STAT OF THE DAY: 8 — Years since David Ortiz hit a pinch-hit home run, which he did in the top of the ninth inning Sunday afternoon to give the Red Sox a 4-3 victory over the Tigers

‘NET RESULTS: BMX rider Jed Mildon does a record triple backflip.

Brazilian soccer star Roberto Carlos displays some impressive creativity for the camera.

TRIVIA ANSWER: The Colorado Rockies (now the New Jersey Devils)

SOOTHING SOUNDS: Benny Goodman, who died in 1986, was born on this date in 1909.

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