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"Bear Bets" are real wagers that Chris "The Bear" Fallica is actually making. The 2026 FIFA World Cup is just a few weeks away, and I cant wait to cover, watch and wager on this event. There will be more in the coming weeks, but here are a few bets I recently put in my pocket. This page may contain affiliate links to legal sports betting partners. If you sign up or place a wager, FOX Sports may be compensated. Read more about Sports Betting on FOX Sports. Jrmy Doku (+8000) to win Golden BootBelgium (+200) to reach quarterfinal Doku has been very dangerous late in the season with Manchester City, scoring four goals in his last seven games. Belgium is a massive favorite to win its group with Egypt, Iran and Saudi Arabia. That would create a path which should have it in the quarterfinals, as it would face a third-place team in the first knockout round game and then either a third-place team or the winner of the group which features the United States in the Round of 16. Doku probably won't take penalties, which does hurt, but weve been waiting for Romelu Lukaku to have an impact in the World Cup or Euros forever. Maybe this is Dokus time to shine for his country. Spain (-145) to reach the quarterfinal Spain has some injuries but its first two group matches are walkovers against Saudi Arabia and Cape Verde. It should have Lamine Yamal back for the final group stage match against Uruguay, which will determine the group winner. Spains path to the quarters likely includes Austria and Colombia. Its not impossible Colombia could be a tricky Round of 16 opponent, but if Spain is the side we all think it is, not reaching the quarterfinal would be a massive shock and disappointment. Portugal (+125) to reach the quarterfinal Assuming Portugal wins the group and it does have Colombia in it it could have a super easy path to the quarterfinals. Winning Group K is potentially the biggest prize a squad could have in the World Cup. It would mean a match against a third-place team and then someone like Switzerland in the Round of 16. I think we all fear a game in which the fantastic Portugal midfield controls the game, has like 25 shots and is scoreless late. But the price sure is right here. Morocco (+325) to win Group C The group opener against Brazil will potentially determine the winner of Group C. Beat Brazil, and it's a likely formality. Draw, and the group turns into which of the two sides beats up more on Haiti and Scotland. I give Morocco a good shot here. The Brazil squad announced the other day seems to be lacking, especially in the midfield, and Neymar probably shouldnt be on the team. Its not a Brazil side were historically used to. Morocco will give them all they can handle.

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Howard Fendrich, a national sports writer for The Associated Press whose persistent reporting and detail-rich prose brought readers inside dozens of taut Grand Slam tennis finals, record-breaking Olympic moments and harrowing trips down Alpine ski slopes, has died. He was 55.Fendrich died Thursday at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, his wife Rosanna Maietta said. He was diagnosed with cancer in February shortly after returning from Milan, where he covered his 11th Olympics.Tennis great Roger Federer, who estimated he'd had more than 100 interactions with Fendrich over the decades, called the journalist one of those constant and reassuring presences in the tennis world for many years.He started covering tennis in 2002, right around the time I was starting to have my breakthrough in the sport, and over time he truly became part of the fabric of tennis, Federer said. Tennis lost a wonderful journalist and a great person.Fendrich is survived by his wife; his mother, Rene; his brother, Alex; and two sons, Stefano and Jordan, each of whom are pursuing careers in sports journalism just like their dad. Howard was a gifted journalist who brought such skill, expertise and enthusiasm to his work, said AP Executive Editor and Senior Vice President Julie Pace. His stories were a joy to read, combining lively writing with insightful reporting. He was also a generous and beloved colleague whose warmth and passion touched so many across the AP.A veteran of AP across three decadesA graduate of Haverford College near Philadelphia, Fendrich worked at AP for 33 years, starting as an unpaid intern in Rome. There, he became fluent in his beloved citys language, mostly by watching Italian karaoke videos, and that helped him get a foot in the door to the news agencys European sports coverage, focusing on soccer. That, in turn, landed him on the radar of the AP sports editor at the time, Terry R. Taylor, who helped him get back to the United States. In the United States, Fendrich started as an editor on the AP sports desk at the New York headquarters, where he also wrote a sports media column. He moved to the Washington area in 2005 and became a steady presence on sports beats in the region where he had grown up. But his true passion was tennis. He chronicled the careers of Venus and Serena Williams, Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and others. He covered some 70 Grand Slam tournaments over nearly a quarter century on the beat. It was at those events where his brilliance shone brightest.Fendrich's writing honors included two Grimsley Awards for best overall body of work among AP sports writers and a handful of deadline-writing citations. One was for a piece from Andre Agassis last match, which came at the 2006 U.S. Open:Crouched alone in the silence of the locker room, a pro tennis player no more, a red-eyed Andre Agassi twisted his torso in an attempt to conquer the seemingly mundane task of pulling a white shirt over his head. Never more than at that moment did Agassi seem so vulnerable, looking far older than his 36 years.The passage highlighted Fendrich at his best watching, rewatching, taking notes, going beyond the courts and painstakingly sifting through details of events that millions of people witnessed to tell them something the guy sitting right next to him might not have noticed.Fendrich captured Federers heartfelt meeting with Bjorn Borg in the hallway after a history-making win at Wimbledon. He detailed the gritty realities of playing on red clay at Roland Garros, then having to wash it out of shorts and socks when the match was over. At his last big assignment in Milan, he followed speedskater Jutta Leerdams famous fianc, fighter Jake Paul, down the hallway leading to the parking lot all just to unearth a detail, just to get a quote. He got them, then Paul proclaimed: OK, were done. Bodyguards moved in and, as Fendrich said at a dinner later: I decided, Yes, I guess we are.An unerring instinct for how to get the newsHe had a knack for knowing where to go, who to ask and, just as importantly, what to ask and how. For days during the steamy Washington summer in 2011, he sat on a folding chair on a sidewalk, perched a laptop on his lap and wrote, all while waiting for principals to emerge from tense negotiations during the protracted NFL labor lockout. Though he wasnt what would be known today as an NFL insider, Fendrich worked the room, the phones and the sidewalk and helped AP stay as competitive as anyone in delivering developments and detailing the eventual end of the standoff.There was that doggedness, said Mary Byrne, the APs deputy sports editor at the time of the lockout. He was annoyed by it, and by all the time he spent out there waiting for people to come out and say nothing. But that situation wasnt going to get the best of him, and he wasnt going to get beat on the story.When Washington quarterback Alex Smith broke his leg in the most gruesome of fashions in 2018, Fendrich immediately got on the phone with the one person who could understand: retired star quarterback Joe Theismann. Sometimes, however, the phone would ring for him and, even if he was in the middle of a World Series game, Fendrich would pick up. If he started speaking Italian, it was undoubtedly Rosanna, his wife. Or sometimes the kids called and had a school question or a story from that days soccer game. For them, he had endless patience and time. Then: Straight back to work, and he didnt miss a thing. Nothing got past him, said Stephen Wilson, AP's former European sports editor, who worked with Fendrich for more than 20 years. Every story even a three-paragraph brief had to be iron-clad.It wasnt just the written word where Fendrich was a master. He had a snappy, razor-sharp sense of humor. No colleague could turn him down when he raised his eyebrows, motioned his head toward the door and asked them to join him in his office -- usually a quiet courtyard or hallway outside a press room to hash out coverage plans for the day or compare notes about people and things seen around the courts. Chris Lehourites, an editor at AP who guided tennis coverage in Europe for decades, spent many a long day fretting over punctuation, syntax and word choice with Fendrich, whom he called a perfectionist when it came to his job.Howard was also a friend, Lehourites said, whose dry humor, along with his bags of Blow Pop lollipops, made long days go by quick.___https://apnews.com/sports

Howard Fendrich, a national sports writer for The Associated Press whose persistent reporting and detail-rich prose brought readers inside dozens of taut Grand Slam tennis finals, record-breaking Olympic moments and harrowing trips down Alpine ski slopes, has died. He was 55.Fendrich died Thursday at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, his wife Rosanna Maietta said. He was diagnosed with cancer in February shortly after returning from Milan, where he covered his 11th Olympics.Tennis great Roger Federer, who estimated he'd had more than 100 interactions with Fendrich over the decades, called the journalist one of those constant and reassuring presences in the tennis world for many years.He started covering tennis in 2002, right around the time I was starting to have my breakthrough in the sport, and over time he truly became part of the fabric of tennis, Federer said. Tennis lost a wonderful journalist and a great person.Fendrich is survived by his wife; his mother, Rene; his brother, Alex; and two sons, Stefano and Jordan, each of whom are pursuing careers in sports journalism just like their dad. Howard was a gifted journalist who brought such skill, expertise and enthusiasm to his work, said AP Executive Editor and Senior Vice President Julie Pace. His stories were a joy to read, combining lively writing with insightful reporting. He was also a generous and beloved colleague whose warmth and passion touched so many across the AP.A veteran of AP across three decadesA graduate of Haverford College near Philadelphia, Fendrich worked at AP for 33 years, starting as an unpaid intern in Rome. There, he became fluent in his beloved citys language, mostly by watching Italian karaoke videos, and that helped him get a foot in the door to the news agencys European sports coverage, focusing on soccer. That, in turn, landed him on the radar of the AP sports editor at the time, Terry R. Taylor, who helped him get back to the United States. In the United States, Fendrich started as an editor on the AP sports desk at the New York headquarters, where he also wrote a sports media column. He moved to the Washington area in 2005 and became a steady presence on sports beats in the region where he had grown up. But his true passion was tennis. He chronicled the careers of Venus and Serena Williams, Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and others. He covered some 70 Grand Slam tournaments over nearly a quarter century on the beat. It was at those events where his brilliance shone brightest.Fendrich's writing honors included two Grimsley Awards for best overall body of work among AP sports writers and a handful of deadline-writing citations. One was for a piece from Andre Agassis last match, which came at the 2006 U.S. Open:Crouched alone in the silence of the locker room, a pro tennis player no more, a red-eyed Andre Agassi twisted his torso in an attempt to conquer the seemingly mundane task of pulling a white shirt over his head. Never more than at that moment did Agassi seem so vulnerable, looking far older than his 36 years.The passage highlighted Fendrich at his best watching, rewatching, taking notes, going beyond the courts and painstakingly sifting through details of events that millions of people witnessed to tell them something the guy sitting right next to him might not have noticed.Fendrich captured Federers heartfelt meeting with Bjorn Borg in the hallway after a history-making win at Wimbledon. He detailed the gritty realities of playing on red clay at Roland Garros, then having to wash it out of shorts and socks when the match was over. At his last big assignment in Milan, he followed speedskater Jutta Leerdams famous fianc, fighter Jake Paul, down the hallway leading to the parking lot all just to unearth a detail, just to get a quote. He got them, then Paul proclaimed: OK, were done. Bodyguards moved in and, as Fendrich said at a dinner later: I decided, Yes, I guess we are.An unerring instinct for how to get the newsHe had a knack for knowing where to go, who to ask and, just as importantly, what to ask and how. For days during the steamy Washington summer in 2011, he sat on a folding chair on a sidewalk, perched a laptop on his lap and wrote, all while waiting for principals to emerge from tense negotiations during the protracted NFL labor lockout. Though he wasnt what would be known today as an NFL insider, Fendrich worked the room, the phones and the sidewalk and helped AP stay as competitive as anyone in delivering developments and detailing the eventual end of the standoff.There was that doggedness, said Mary Byrne, the APs deputy sports editor at the time of the lockout. He was annoyed by it, and by all the time he spent out there waiting for people to come out and say nothing. But that situation wasnt going to get the best of him, and he wasnt going to get beat on the story.When Washington quarterback Alex Smith broke his leg in the most gruesome of fashions in 2018, Fendrich immediately got on the phone with the one person who could understand: retired star quarterback Joe Theismann. Sometimes, however, the phone would ring for him and, even if he was in the middle of a World Series game, Fendrich would pick up. If he started speaking Italian, it was undoubtedly Rosanna, his wife. Or sometimes the kids called and had a school question or a story from that days soccer game. For them, he had endless patience and time. Then: Straight back to work, and he didnt miss a thing. Nothing got past him, said Stephen Wilson, AP's former European sports editor, who worked with Fendrich for more than 20 years. Every story even a three-paragraph brief had to be iron-clad.It wasnt just the written word where Fendrich was a master. He had a snappy, razor-sharp sense of humor. No colleague could turn him down when he raised his eyebrows, motioned his head toward the door and asked them to join him in his office -- usually a quiet courtyard or hallway outside a press room to hash out coverage plans for the day or compare notes about people and things seen around the courts. Chris Lehourites, an editor at AP who guided tennis coverage in Europe for decades, spent many a long day fretting over punctuation, syntax and word choice with Fendrich, whom he called a perfectionist when it came to his job.Howard was also a friend, Lehourites said, whose dry humor, along with his bags of Blow Pop lollipops, made long days go by quick.___https://apnews.com/sports