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The revamped Club World Cup starting on Saturday brings together some of the most celebrated teams and players in global football. And Auckland City. In a tournament boasting $1 billion in prize money and featuring superstar multi-millionaire players including Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe, the New Zealand side are a striking anomaly.Auckland City are an amateur …

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Oakmont’s fiendish layout provided a rain-softened preview Monday of what the world’s top golfers will face when the 125th US Open starts Thursday.Thick rough was damp and dense for the first official practice round while greens and fairways were far more receptive than they are expected to be when the major billed as the toughest …

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Two-time major winners Xander Schauffele and Justin Thomas say keeping a positive attitude is crucial to coping with difficult conditions at Oakmont in this week’s 125th US Open.Schauffele, last year’s British Open and PGA Championship winner, and Thomas, a two-time PGA champion, spoke Monday as players had their first official practice session ahead of Thursday’s …

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Nine years after capturing his first major victory at Oakmont, Dustin Johnson returns to the formidable layout trying to recapture the form that made him so special back in 2016.The 40-year-old American, who also won the 2020 Masters, called Oakmont the hardest course he has played on Monday but says his 2016 US Open victory …

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Former Oakmont caddie Matt Vogt, a 34-year-old Indianapolis dentist, was destined for an emotional Father’s Day weekend after his father Jim died at 65 of colon cancer two months ago.And that was before Vogt became an unlikely qualifier for this week’s US Open at Oakmont, where he carried clubs for six years as a youth.”Although …

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Tyrese Haliburton vowed to improve his first-half scoring struggles on Sunday after the Indiana Pacers stumbled to a series-leveling defeat to the Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA Finals.Haliburton has repeatedly rescued the Pacers throughout this year’s playoff campaign with a series of late clutch baskets, including a last-second winner in game one of the …

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The Oklahoma City Thunder, fueled by an efficient 34 points from Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, thumped the Indiana Pacers 123-107 on Sunday, punching back hard to level the NBA Finals at one game apiece.NBA Most Valuable Player Gilgeous-Alexander connected on 11 of 21 shots and added five rebounds, eight assists and four of Oklahoma City’s 10 steals …

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New Zealand’s Ryan Fox birdied the fourth playoff hole to defeat American Sam Burns on Sunday and win the US PGA Tour’s Canadian Open for his second triumph in five weeks.The 38-year-old Kiwi hit a 3-wood from the fairway to eight feet and two-putted for victory when Burns lipped out an 11-foot birdie putt on their fifth …

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Jennifer Kupcho rolled in a birdie putt at the final hole for a one-shot victory over Lee Il-hee at the Shoprite Classic, capturing her first LPGA title since 2022.”It feels amazing,” said Kupcho, a stellar amateur whose three LPGA titles in 2022 included a major at the Chevron Championship.”I think I struggled a lot early …

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Chile’s Joaquin Niemann fired an eight-under par 63 in Sunday’s final round to win LIV Golf Virginia in his final tuneup for next week’s US Open at Oakmont.The 26-year-old South American birdied four of the last five holes to finish on 15-under 198 after 54 holes at rainy par-71 Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in …

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