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Lionel Messi stepped to the mic ahead of the World Cup final and delivered exactly what you'd expect from the greatest to ever do it — quiet conviction. Argentina will give it their all, he said, and when Messi says that, you believe every syllable. One more shot at glory on the biggest stage in football.
Meanwhile, the politics of the beautiful game are getting loud. FIFA president Gianni Infantino skipped his own fan event at Fanatics Fest to toast the World Cup at Trump Tower alongside President Donald Trump. The two traded compliments, with Trump making clear he wants the United States to host another World Cup down the road. Whether that's vision or positioning, it's a relationship FIFA seems very comfortable building in public.
And shifting to the hardwood, Caitlin Clark just rewrote the record books again. The Indiana Fever star reached two hundred career three-pointers in just seventy-four games, the fastest any player in WNBA history has ever done it. At this pace, the question isn't what record she'll break next — it's which ones she'll leave standing.
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