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The Mets are in full crisis mode after parting ways with manager Carlos Mendoza, and the questions are piling up fast. Is GM David Stearns next? Does New York blow it all up at the trade deadline? Steve Cohen's franchise is burning, and nobody in Queens has answers right now.
Shifting to the heavyweight division, Oleksandr Usyk is making a move that's sending shockwaves through boxing. The undisputed champion says he's vacating all his belts, but he's not walking away from the sport. That distinction matters enormously — it reshapes the entire heavyweight landscape overnight, and every contender on the planet just sat up a little straighter.
And over at the World Cup, we've got a genuinely strange situation developing in Group J. Austria and Algeria meet Saturday night in Kansas City in a match where winning might actually hurt both sides. Both clubs sit on three points and are fighting for second place, meaning a draw could be the most strategically sound result either team plays for all tournament.
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