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Jose Mourinho is back in the biggest arena in European football, and the storyline writes itself. The Special One begins his second Real Madrid spell in the Champions League against Inter Milan, the very club where he lifted the trophy sixteen years ago at the Bernabeu. Madrid's fanbase has been waiting a long time for that European crown, and now the man who delivered it once before gets another shot at making history in the Spanish capital.
Shifting to New England, the Patriots just reset the cornerback market in a major way. Christian Gonzalez has agreed to a four-year, one hundred thirty five million dollar extension, with one hundred two million fully guaranteed, making him the highest-paid player in Patriots history. New England is signaling loud and clear that building around elite defensive talent is the foundation of whatever comes next in Foxborough.
And at the US Open, heartbreak in five brutal sets. Frenchman Arthur Gea had match point in hand, a moment that would have made him the first lucky loser ever to reach the quarterfinals in tournament history. Instead Botic van de Zandschulp survived the scare, grinding through three hours of pressure tennis to send the twenty-one-year-old home without that piece of history.
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