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Christian Pulisic remained a question mark for the U.S. men's national team after training separately from the group Monday, still working through a calf injury he picked up last week. Head coach Mauricio Pochettino called him good, but the careful handling of America's most important attacking player ahead of the World Cup is something to watch closely.
Meanwhile, New York is still celebrating, and the stories coming out of that Knicks locker room are something else. James Dolan reportedly asked his players to make personal sacrifices — intimate ones included — before their championship run, and looking at the results, nobody's arguing with the approach. OG Anunoby's tip-in, Jalen Brunson dropping forty five in the clincher — the Knicks are champions for the first time since nineteen seventy three, and the legend-building has already begun.
And in the octagon, Ilia Topuria is speaking out after a brutal defeat to Justin Gaethje at UFC Freedom two fifty, held at the White House in Washington. Topuria absorbed serious punishment throughout the fight before Gaethje got the finish, handing the Georgian star the first loss of his professional career in one of the most stunning upsets the sport has seen in years.
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