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The World Cup is already drawing blood, and Haiti felt it first. Brazil dismantled them three to nothing on Friday, making Haiti the first nation officially eliminated from two thousand twenty six contention. Matheus Cunha bagged a brace in the first half, with Vinicius Junior adding a third, both of Cunha's goals born from Haitian turnovers at midfield. Clinical, ruthless, vintage Brazil.
Speaking of the World Cup, the USMNT conversation is heating up. Zlatan Ibrahimovic floated the idea that the United States can actually win this thing, and Chris Richards isn't laughing it off. With the tournament on home soil and a squad building real momentum, the belief inside that locker room is genuine, not manufactured hype.
And shifting to the hardwood, Marina Mabrey put on an absolute show for the Toronto Tempo Friday night. She finished with a career-high thirty seven points, twenty one of them in the fourth quarter alone, tying an all-time WNBA record in the process. Connecticut had no answer. Mabrey did it without Brittney Sykes in the lineup, which makes the performance even more staggering.
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