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In the NHL, the Anaheim Ducks have matched the Philadelphia Flyers' offer sheet for Leo Carlsson, keeping their twenty-one-year-old center in orange and black. The deal is worth eighteen million dollars per season over five years, making it the richest contract in league history. Anaheim wasn't letting that one walk.
On the pitch, France's World Cup run has turned Bentley University in Massachusetts into one of the most talked-about campuses in the world. The French national team has set up full headquarters there, and Bentley's athletic director says the exposure has been nothing short of transformational for the school and the entire surrounding community. Not a bad summer for a Division Two program.
And in Waltham, the Bruins are getting all the attention, but out in Miami, Norway is quietly preparing for one of the biggest moments in their football history. They face England in the World Cup quarterfinal on Saturday, and their first order of business was actually relocating hotels after just one night in Fort Lauderdale, chasing better sleep before the biggest match Norwegian football has seen in a generation.
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