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Juan Soto is back in a Mets uniform after more than a month on the shelf. The slugger has been activated off the injured list following a left calf strain, and New York will be counting on him to provide that middle-of-the-order punch as they push through the second half of the season. Big return for a team that needs him healthy.
Across the globe in Shanghai, Song Yadong just rewrote the script in dramatic fashion. The Chinese fighter knocked out Umar Nurmagomedov in the bantamweight main event of UFC Fight Night, stunning a crowd that fully expected the heavily favored Nurmagomedov to cruise. This is the kind of upset that shakes up an entire division overnight, and Song's stock just skyrocketed.
And some genuinely painful news out of the cycling world. Tadej Pogacar, five-time Tour de France champion and the race leader, has withdrawn from La Vuelta a España after going down hard in a crash during stage eight. Losing the leader under those circumstances is a gut punch for the sport, and now the entire complexion of the race changes heading into the mountains.
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