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Canada made history at the World Cup on Sunday, and it happened the hard way. Stephen Eustáquio found the net in the second minute of stoppage time to give the co-hosts a one-nothing win over South Africa, booking Canada's very first knockout stage berth in World Cup history. A nation exhales.
Shifting to the diamond, Kyle Schwarber is doing things nobody in Philadelphia has ever seen. The Phillies slugger became the first player in Major League Baseball to reach thirty home runs this season, and he got there faster than any Phillie in franchise history. The man is locked in, and the rest of the league is on notice.
And out at Sonoma, Shane van Gisbergen put on a road course clinic. The New Zealander led seventy-four of one hundred ten laps to claim his second win of two thousand twenty six and eighth of his career, all eight coming on road courses. That ties Tony Stewart for second all time in NASCAR Cup history, with only Jeff Gordon's nine ahead of him.
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