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Italy recovers to beat Albania 2-1 at Euro 2024 after conceding goal after 23 seconds

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By conceding a goal after just 23 seconds, Italy made the worst possible start to its European Championship title defense.

Thankfully for the Azzurri, it soon got much better.

Italy recovered from letting in the quickest goal in the tournament’s 64-year history to beat Albania 2-1 in Dortmund on Saturday in an atmospheric Adriatic derby that immediately threatened an upset.

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Scheffler has another tough day fighting the Pinehurst No. 2 greens at the US Open

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Scottie Scheffler didn’t expect 5-over par through two days at the U.S. Open would be enough to play the weekend.

Yet the world’s top-ranked player was back on Saturday. And the reward? Another chance to tussle with Pinehurst No. 2’s tricky, domed greens, which continued to befuddle him during a 1-over 71 in the third round that left him 6 over for the championship.

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Tiki-taka no more: Spain’s remarkable ball possession streak ends at Euro 2024 against Croatia

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BERLIN (AP) — Greedy for the ball no more, Spain has won a game by playing unlike Spain.

After La Roja’s 3-0 victory over Croatia 3-0 at Euro 2024 on Friday, the match statistics showed something extremely rare: Spain had only 46% possession.

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Mbappé wants to erase bad memory of decisive penalty miss and leave Euro 2024 as a champion

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The last time Kylian Mbappé kicked a ball at the European Championship, it sent France out of the competition.

He was the only player to miss in a penalty shootout against Switzerland, and France was eliminated from Euro 2020 in the round of 16 in a game where they led 3-1.

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Katie Ledecky off to a strong start at US Olympic swimming trials, leads prelims of 400 free

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Katie Ledecky got off to a rousing start Saturday at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials.

Competing in the home stadium of the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts, Ledecky blew away the field in the preliminaries of the 400-meter freestyle, touching the wall with a time of 3 minutes, 59.99 seconds.

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Kyrie Irving ends his personal Celtics skid, so now the Mavs will try to win in Boston in NBA Finals

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Kyrie Irving’s personal 13-game losing streak against the Celtics is over.

Now it’s back to the parquet floor in Boston to face his former team again, the Dallas Mavericks still alive in the NBA Finals after avoiding a sweep with a 122-84 blowout in Game 4 on Friday night.

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