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Kylian Mbappé arrived at Real Madrid as the marquee signing of the era, but Friday night in La Liga handed him a brutal welcome. Real Betis shut out Los Blancos one-nil, and the gut punch came in the ninety-fourth minute when the Betis keeper stone-walled Mbappé's penalty and made sure the whole world knew about it. First La Liga loss under Mourinho, and the French superstar wears it hardest.
Shifting to the gridiron, Braden Baker put on a performance worth remembering in Texas high school football Friday night. The University of Houston commit threw four touchdown passes and delivered a clutch late scramble to drag Cypress Ranch past third-ranked C.E. King in a genuine thriller. Baker walked off looking like he'd survived a war, and honestly, he had.
And on the administrative front, the Indian Olympic Association is drawing a hard line with the BCCI ahead of the Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya. If cricket's board wants its players housed outside official Games hotels, that's entirely on them — transportation, meals, logistics, all of it. The IOA isn't making exceptions, and they're not asking twice.
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