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Gianni Infantino is backing down. FIFA's president has officially scrapped his plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup and other major competitions after a fierce wave of opposition, including a threatened boycott from European nations and pushback from inside the governing body itself. A rare retreat for a man who rarely retreats.
Shifting to the NFL, out in Las Vegas the quarterback competition is heating up fast. Kirk Cousins is pushing back hard against the notion that Fernando Mendoza is simply waiting to take his job, showing up to Raiders camp with sharp precision and a fired-up edge. Cousins isn't handing anything over quietly, and that tension is exactly what training camp drama is built on.
And on the golf course, something that was once considered almost mythical is starting to feel almost routine. Three rounds of fifty-nine have been recorded in PGA Tour-sanctioned events over the last eight days, from Scott Stevens to back-to-back performances that are making fans and analysts ask whether golf's most sacred number has finally lost its mystique after forty-nine years of reverence.
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