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At the US Open, Rory McIlroy is staring down a seven-shot deficit to leader Wyndham Clark with thirty-six holes left at Shinnecock Hills. McIlroy's second round looked promising through the front nine, but a back-nine thirty-eight unraveled the momentum. He's outside the top ten, though he's not ruling anything out.
Meanwhile at the World Cup, Morocco delivered a statement performance against Scotland, and it took them all of seventy-one seconds to do it. Ismael Saibari buried the opening goal almost immediately, and that was all Morocco needed. Scotland fall one-nil but still control their own knockout destiny heading into their final group match.
And a genuinely beautiful moment on the international stage — US defender Alex Freeman scored in America's two-nil win over Australia, on the very ground where his father Antonio Freeman Junior once starred for the Green Bay Packers. Freeman called it a full circle family moment, and honestly, it's hard to argue with that.
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