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The New York Mets have pulled the plug on Carlos Mendoza, firing their manager after a brutal thirty-four and forty-seven start to the season. That puts them among the worst records in baseball at this point in the year, and ownership clearly decided they'd seen enough. The search for his replacement begins immediately.
Shifting to a loss that hits differently — the sports world is mourning Kenny Klein, the legendary sports information director at the University of Louisville, who passed away at sixty-six years old. Klein was a fixture in Cardinals athletics for decades, the kind of behind-the-scenes force who shaped how a program tells its story. Louisville's community is feeling this one deeply.
And over at the World Cup, El Paso had its moment on the global stage as five hundred fans packed Cleveland Square downtown to watch the United States battle Turkiye to a two-two draw. Ricardo Pepi and Alejandro Zendejas, both products of that border city, gave the crowd something to rally around — Zendejas stepping onto the World Cup stage for the first time in the seventy-seventh minute. El Paso showed up loud.
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