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The global football power struggle is heating up. Mexico has broken from its own regional governing body, Concacaf, to publicly back FIFA president Gianni Infantino, joining Argentina in supporting the embattled chief. That's a significant fracture in the Americas bloc, and it signals that Infantino still has serious political muscle despite the pressure mounting against him.
Closer to home, a Hall of Fame moment came with a painful shadow. Larry Fitzgerald's father, Larry Senior, passed away just months before his son's induction ceremony. The elder Fitzgerald was not only a journalist but a driving force behind one of the greatest receivers the game has ever seen. A tremendous loss for the Fitzgerald family at what should have been a purely celebratory moment.
And in New York, Keith Hernandez found himself walking back some sharp words. The retired Mets legend called departing players garbage after the club unloaded roughly one third of its active roster around the trade deadline. The Mets are sitting at the bottom of the National League East with fifty wins and sixty-six losses, and Hernandez later issued an apology, though the damage to the clubhouse vibe was already done.
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