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At Royal Birkdale, Australia's Lucas Herbert did something only five men in major championship history had done before him — he carded an eight-under sixty-two in the second round of the one hundred fifty-fourth Open Championship, instantly thrusting himself into contention and into the record books at the same time.
Shifting to the pitch, the World Cup final is set for Sunday at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, with Spain and Argentina ready to settle it — but wildfire smoke drifting down from Canada has the region dealing with an Air Quality Index reading around one hundred sixty, classified as unhealthy. It's an open-air venue, and conditions could be a genuine factor come kickoff.
And over in Las Vegas summer league, Houston Rockets rookie Bruce Thornton is turning heads in a serious way. Thornton dropped a game-high twenty-three points to lead the Rockets past the Brooklyn Nets one hundred to eighty-three, pushing Houston to three and one and punching their ticket into the NBA's four-team summer league playoff field.
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