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Marketa Vondrousova, the reigning Wimbledon champion, has been handed a four-year ban after refusing an anti-doping test. That's a devastating fall for one of tennis's most beloved champions — a suspension that effectively ends her career at its peak if it holds on appeal.
Shifting to the pitch, Lionel Messi and Argentina are in action at the twenty twenty six FIFA World Cup in Group J against Austria, and the football world is watching every single touch. Messi continues to defy time itself, and the question isn't whether he'll produce — it's just how spectacular the moment will be when he does.
And in the dugout moves worth watching, a Colorado Rockies reliever carrying a two point two three ERA is drawing serious trade deadline interest, and he's considered the most likely player on that roster to be dealt before the summer cutoff. On a Rockies team that's been struggling, a reliever pitching that well is an asset almost too good to hold onto.
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