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Hey, they won the Gold Cup soccer tournament:
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Jamaica
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Mexico
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United States
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Cuba
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And hey, a freak of nature and/or science, who hails from this country, won the Tour de France:
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Colombia
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France
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Italy
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Great Britain
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While we're talking about European things, the rare Monday finish to the Open Championship was decided in a four-hole playoff, which involved each of the following, except:
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Dustin Johnson
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Jason Day
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Louis Oosthuizen
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Marc Leishman
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Meanwhile, in our contractually-obligated NASCAR question, we note that this left-hand turn specialist has been positively tearing it up lately, continuing his torrid performance with a win at the Brickyard 400 Sunday:
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Jimmie Johnson
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Clint Boyer
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Matt Kenseth
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Kyle Busch
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Philadelphia's Cole Hamels no-hit the Cubbies Saturday, the first no-hitter thrown against Chicago for a long, long, long, long time. In fact, the last guy to record this feat was non other than:
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Sandy Koufax
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Don Larson
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Walter Johnson
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Babe Ruth
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While we are talking about baseball excellence, please pick out the fellow below who was not inducted into the Hall of Fame over the weekend:
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Randy Johnson
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Pedro Martinez
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Curt Schilling
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John Smoltz
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And somebody finallllly scored on the Dodgers' Zach Greinke, who saw his scoreless streak end at this many innings:
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52
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37
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45
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49
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Here, have some hockey news: Stealing away in the dead of night, the GM for __________ bolted to take the same position with ____________
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Washington / Pittsburgh
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Philadelphia / Montreal
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New Jersey / Toronto
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Minnesota / Los Angeles
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In Tales from the Association, this basketball team won the Summer League title, thanks in large part to its coach, one Becky Hammon:
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Clippers
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Spurs
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Mavs
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Warriors
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And let us close with a tale of love forlorn, as men's tennis pro Grigor Dimitrov said "So long, sweet baby" as he split with this female tennis star:
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Serena Williams
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Caroline Wozniaki
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Eugenie Bouchard
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Maria Sharapova
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