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At Royal Birkdale, the Open Championship has its first round leader, and nobody saw this coming. Jackson Suber, a man who had never set foot on European soil before this week, is sitting alone at the top of the leaderboard. First major trip abroad, first time at Birkdale, and he's running the place. Golf loves a story, and this one's got legs.
Meanwhile, the New York Mets are entering full sell-off mode. Sixteen games back in the division heading into the second half, the front office is ready to move nearly everyone not named among five untouchable cornerstones. It's a painful but honest reckoning, and deals could come fast before the trade deadline hits.
And the Jets are betting big on a complete defensive reinvention. After the jaw-dropping embarrassment of going an entire season without a single interception, New York gutted the unit and rebuilt it from scratch. Eight potential new starters, fresh draft capital, and veteran presence — the Jets are done being a pushover, or at least that's the plan heading into two thousand twenty six.
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