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Arthur Fery is the name on everyone's lips at Wimbledon right now. The twenty-three-year-old wildcard grew up less than two miles from the All England Club, and this week he made it to the semi-finals on the very courts he dreamed about as a kid. Britain has a new breakout star, and the story writes itself.
Meanwhile, Conor McGregor is still generating headlines, but the electricity that once made him a genuine cultural phenomenon feels like a different era entirely. The Irishman who packed Madison Square Garden and turned combat sports into appointment television is now a draw more out of nostalgia than anticipation. The question isn't whether people remember what he was — it's whether anyone believes he can get back there.
And in the NBA's Las Vegas Summer League, Cameron Carr is making the Lakers brass very happy. The number twenty-four pick is shooting the lights out from three, throwing down highlight dunks, and looking every bit like a player who could stick. Friday night against the Oklahoma City Thunder will be another chance to build on that momentum.
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