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Real Madrid's summer rebuild is in full swing, with Bernardo Silva now officially registered in La Liga as the club's fourth new signing of the window alongside Dumfries, Konate, and Cucurella. But not everything is running smoothly at the Bernabeu — their most anticipated move, for Yan Diomande, has hit a wall over an agent conflict, leaving what could be their biggest transfer of the summer stuck in limbo just as the season approaches.
Shifting to baseball, the Pittsburgh Pirates absorbed a serious blow in Cincinnati when first baseman Ryan O'Hearn was helped off the field in the ninth inning of a seven to eight loss to the Reds. O'Hearn is now facing six to eight weeks on the shelf, a brutal setback for a Pittsburgh side that can ill afford to lose a key bat at this stage of the season.
And in football, Celtic now know their path back into the Champions League group stage runs through Austrian champions LASK in the play-off round. It's a winnable tie, but nothing about European knockout football is ever straightforward, and the Hoops will need to be sharp to punch through.
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