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At the U.S. Open, seventeen-year-old Miles Russell delivered one of the most memorable moments of the tournament on the eighteenth hole, surprising his father by having the caddie hand over his bag and bib so dad could walk his son home. Pure, unscripted sport at its finest.
Shifting to the World Cup, group play is tightening up fast at the two thousand twenty-six FIFA tournament, and the USMNT's knockout bracket picture is getting complicated. Belgium's stumble to a draw against Iran has thrown Group G into chaos, and American fans are now watching a genuine scenario where the U.S. could face Iran in the knockout round — a matchup carrying serious political weight well beyond ninety minutes of football.
And in the Octagon, Manel Kape put on a statement performance at UFC Fight Night two hundred seventy-nine in Las Vegas, finishing former Bellator and Rizin champion Kyoji Horiguchi to become the flyweight knockout record holder in UFC history. Seven of twelve fights ended before the final bell, but it was Kape who made the loudest noise, and the flyweight title picture just got a lot clearer.
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