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At Madison Square Garden last night, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce made it official in one of the most star-studded ceremonies this city has ever seen. Adam Sandler officiated, no wedding party, just the two of them — and a marquee outside MSG that said it all: just and T married. The off-field story of the decade, closed.
Meanwhile at Angel Stadium, Aroldis Chapman etched his name into baseball history. The Boston Red Sox closer struck out Denzer Guzman in the ninth inning against Los Angeles, giving him one thousand three hundred sixty-four career strikeouts and the all-time MLB record among relievers, breaking a tie with Hall of Famer Hoyt Wilhelm. Fourteen years of pure triple-digit heat, and the record finally belongs to Chapman.
On the World Cup front, Africa's historic nine-team knockout run has nearly been wiped out. Ghana fell one-nil to Colombia on Friday night, and just like that, seven of nine African nations are heading home. Morocco and Egypt are the last ones standing, carrying an entire continent's hopes into the next round. The pressure on those two squads just got significantly heavier.
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