The Sports Page with Mike Bianchi July 9, 2026: FIFA WC Quarterfinals Begin Today

Sports: FIFA World Cup Quarterfinals begin with France vs Morocco, Orlando Olympic Qualifier Series dates announced for beachvolleyball, sport climbing, skateboarding and The Olympic debut of flag football, more in today's Sports Page

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Time to crack open the sports page with The Orlando
Sentinel and FM ninety six nine the Games. Mike the
Bulldog Beyond You j all right, Bulldog is also on
vacation this week, so I'll be handling the sports again
this morning on Pat Lynch. Good Morning Sports Pages, brought
you by our next michelob Ultra FIFA World Cup Watch

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party quarterfinal matchup between Norway and England on Saturday afternoon.
Taco and I will be at jack Smith Avenue in
Lake Mary. There on Lake Emma Road from four to six.
The match starts at five. If you want to come
on and buy well, have surprises, hang out watch Norway
in England. All right. That's at jack Smith Avenue, Lake

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Mary on Saturday afternoon, four to six. Speaking of the
feeful World Cup. After a breather yesterday, no action, the
quarterfinals do get underway today with one matchup France and
Morocco kicks at four from Foxborough. So that'll get the
final eighteen teams underway as the World Cup starts to

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come down to the home stretch. Now, we found out
about this a while back, but we now have specifics.
Orlando will host the final stop of the expanded twenty
twenty eight Olympic Q Series, the qualifying series at Camping
World Stadium for the twenty twenty eight Summer Olympics. The
dates now have been locked in June eighth to the eleventh.

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The US stop will feature elite qualifiers for beach volleyball,
sport climbing, skateboarding, and the Olympic debut of flag football.
The Orlando event acts as the direct pathway to the
LA twenty twenty eight Games, determining the final participating teams
and athletes mere weeks before the actual Olympics start. So

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again June eighth to the eleventh, twenty twenty eighth, Camping
World Stadium will be hosting that. That's a big get
for Central Florida, as elite athletes from all over the
country we'll be here trying to make the final cut
for those Olympic squads. Baseball action yesterday in the state,
the Tampa Bay Rays got the better of the Yankees again.
Good for them, three zip, shutting out the Yankees. They'll

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go again today at one ten. Meanwhile, down in Miami,
the Marlins took care of business over the Mariners two
to oh, and they will play again this evening at
six forty a change of hearts down in Miami, where
Tim Hardaway Junior is now a member of the Heat.

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Of course, his father, Tim Hardaway Senior, his number was
retired and was a key member of the Heat for
many many years. Once Junior found his way via free
agency to dad's old team and city, he was like,
can I wear your number, Dad, which is retired and

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hanging in the rafters in the arena down there. Hardaway
Senior at first was like, Nope, nope, not gonna happen.
You got to cut your own legacy. And then yesterday
it was announced that he is indeed going to free
up that retired number for his son to now wear.
He has a one year deal with the Heats. He's

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kind of in the latter portion of his career, so
we'll see how the one year works out, and he'll
be wearing that number ten there for the Heat this
upcoming season. Wimbledon Women's Semifinals today we got two matches.
The first one is going to be at eight thirty
our time. Carolina Mukova, the tenth ranked player against Cocoa Goff,

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seventh ranked again. That match is at eight thirty and
then The second matchup in the semifinals will be Marta
Kostyak versus Linda Noskova. That will be at ten am,
both of those on ESPN if you're heavily into tennis.
And then finally, because there's just not a whole ton
of sports these last few days here to go over

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over nine thousand players shooting for the World Series of
Pokers top prize just getting underway in Las Vegas, with
the massive field chasing a huge payday. Registration is closed
within two hundred and eight players entered into the ten
thousand dollars by In tournament, the fourth largest field in

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the event's history, and they are of course competing for
a top prize of ten million dollars out of an
eighty five point six million dollar pool. There you go
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