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England survived playing 13 men for long stretches and held off Argentina 31-24 in a Nations Championship thriller, with a last-play Argentina try chalked off after a TMO review. Seven yellow cards and a shaky discipline record follow Steve Borthwick's team into November.
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Days before the 2026 World Cup final, President Trump told a crowd at a FIFA event in Trump Tower that the US shouldn't have to share future hosting duties with Canada or Mexico. FIFA President Gianni Infantino stood next to him and called the tournament a symbol of the American Dream.
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San Diego is reportedly open to packaging its dominant closer Mason Miller with Xander Bogaerts' bloated deal just to get a team to take the money off the books. It's a sign of how badly the Bogaerts contract has aged, and how much the Padres are willing to pay to escape it.
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Josh Kerr became the first man in history to run a mile under 3:43, clocking 3:42.66 at the London Diamond League on Saturday to break Hicham El Guerrouj's mark from 1999. The Scot called his own shot months ago and delivered in front of 60,000 fans at London Stadium.
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Atlanta Dream's Angel Reese and fans online accused Toronto Tempo coach Sandy Brondello of a racist remark after she called Reese a "protected species" during a heated exchange with officials. The term is common sports slang for a player who gets favorable calls, and this isn't the first time a racism claim tied to Reese's rivalry with Caitlin Clark has failed to hold up: the WNBA's own investigation into alleged fan slurs during a May 2025 Fever-Sky game found no supporting evidence.
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Smoke from Canadian wildfires pushed the Pirates-Guardians game to a Saturday split doubleheader and forced roof closures, ticket exchanges, and an earlier first pitch in Philadelphia. Air Quality Index readings hit 287 in Milwaukee and 211 in Cleveland, both in the "very unhealthy" range. This is happening because a stalled high-pressure system is trapping smoke over the Great Lakes and Northeast, not because anyone mismanaged anything.
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The NFL indefinitely suspended Arizona Cardinals director of college scouting Ryan Gold after finding he leaked confidential 2026 draft pick information and placed parlay bets on NFL and college games. The league says no game's integrity was affected, but a 13-year team employee just lost his job over exactly the kind of insider leak that betting markets exist to punish.
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FIFA has named Slovenian referee Slavko Vincic to officiate Sunday's World Cup final between Argentina and Spain at MetLife Stadium. Vincic was questioned as a witness, not charged, after a 2020 police raid in Bosnia that netted cocaine, guns and a prostitution ring operator. FIFA is standing by one of the sport's most credentialed officials for a reason: nobody ever charged him with anything.
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John Manly, who won the $380 million Larry Nassar settlement for Simone Biles and other gymnasts, is now blasting San Jose State's handling of assault allegations against volleyball coach Todd Kress. SJSU already faces scrutiny for stonewalling public records requests on the coach, and Manly says the school's Title IX process protects the institution, not the athletes.
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MLB released its full 2027 schedule Thursday: earliest Opening Day ever, a Netflix-streamed opener, and Wrigley Field's fourth All-Star Game. None of it means anything if owners and players can't agree on a new labor deal before the current one expires December 1.
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Argentina beat England 2-1 and Spain beat France 2-0 to set up Sunday's World Cup final at MetLife Stadium, pitting Lionel Scaloni against Luis de la Fuente, the man who taught him during Spain's coaching program back in 2017. Argentina goes for back-to-back titles Spain hasn't managed since Brazil in 1962; Spain goes for its second-ever title.
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Wander Franco, convicted in May of sexually abusing a minor, is pushing to play for the Dominican Republic in the Central American and Caribbean Games starting July 31. The Dominican Olympic Committee says he missed the roster deadline and isn't eligible, though the Dominican Baseball Federation is still lobbying to get him cleared.
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The Mets are working the phones as sellers heading into MLB's trade deadline, according to league sources cited by the New York Post. With more known buyers than sellers in the market this year, New York may be positioned to extract overpays for its trade chips.
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While the second half of the season opens with fresh rotations and Giancarlo Stanton jokes, the sport's biggest story is a looming labor war. Owners want a salary cap for the first time since the 1994-95 strike wiped out a World Series, and stars like Juan Soto, Bryce Harper and Mike Trout are already saying no.
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Major League Baseball shut down custom apps that let teams run AI-assisted in-game strategy on dugout iPads, after some clubs pushed the tech well past its intended scouting-and-video use. The ban took full effect Wednesday, July 15, as the league drew a hard line between data tools and decisions humans are supposed to make.
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Karoline Leavitt confirmed Thursday that Trump will attend Sunday's Spain-Argentina final and hand the trophy to the winners alongside FIFA's Gianni Infantino. It's Trump's first appearance at a tournament match, capping a run that included him personally pressuring FIFA over a red card call on U.S. player Folarin Balogun.
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DeChambeau has missed the cut at the Masters, PGA Championship and U.S. Open this year and now heads into the British Open at Royal Birkdale trying to avoid an 0-for-4 major season. Golf Channel's Brandel Chamblee says DeChambeau cares more about beating YouTuber Grant Horvat than beating Scottie Scheffler, a jab that's gone viral but doesn't hold up cleanly against the numbers.
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Laura Viktoria Härtig, a 30-year-old German Instagram influencer, died 19 days after a head-on bike collision with former Olympic skier Peter Runggaldier near Italy's Sella Pass, two days into her honeymoon. Her bike snapped in half on impact and she suffered life-threatening injuries despite being resuscitated at the scene.
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Argentina scored twice in the final ten minutes to knock out England 2-1 in the World Cup semifinal on Wednesday in Atlanta, with Lionel Messi assisting both goals. England's Thomas Tuchel took heat for defensive substitutions after his team took a 1-0 lead, and Argentina now faces Spain Sunday at MetLife Stadium.
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Tom Brady, now a Las Vegas Raiders minority owner, told FOX Business he won't hand rookie quarterback Fernando Mendoza anything, meaningful NFL snaps have to be earned like every other rookie. Mendoza is currently ticketed to sit behind veteran Kirk Cousins while he learns the job.