"Bear Bets" are real wagers that Chris "The Bear" Fallica is actually making. The USA appears to be for real, having outscored its first two group opponents 6-1.Who saw that coming?Moving forward, here is what Im eyeing ahead of Match Day 10. 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. World Cup Best Bets Saturday, June 20 The Netherlands vs. Sweden The Dutch twice took a lead on Japan but couldnt hold it either time, while Sweden beat a poor Tunisia side in the opener. There might be a little bit of overrating Sweden as a result well see. Alexander Isak is also reportedly nicked up already, which could complicate things. The Netherlands is so hard to beat in 90 minutes, as has been out there this week. It should have opportunities against Sweden, and Ill look for plenty of corner chances against a team which wasnt under much pressure in the opener. Germany vs. Ivory Coast I love this Ivory Coast side. It sent out an odd starting XI against Ecuador, but the subs certainly had an impact, and they really grew into the match, ultimately resulting in a winner. The electric Yan Diomande has been the talk of the transfer market, and he will give Germany problems. The fact Germany put seven on the board against Curaao has made it a little overvalued here. One other thing to consider, and maybe I'm putting too much into this: Winning this group means a highly likely Round of 16 match with France. Does Germany really want that? Would it be the worst thing for it to draw here? I think the Ivory Coast doesn't care one bit and would savor the underdog role, but Id imagine the Germans would want to avoid France as long as possible. Ecuador vs. Curaao Ecuador is in need of all three points here after dropping one to Ivory Coast on a late goal, and having Germany on the horizon. Ecuador will not put seven on the board as Germany did against Curaao, but this should be as little of a sweat as possible against an overmatched side. Tunisia vs. Japan Tunisia was so poor in the opener that it sacked its manager. Enter the well-traveled Herve Denard. Japan was awesome in the opener and if it can bring the same level here, goals will surely follow against one of the weaker sides.

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SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. Harry Higgs forgetting to bring a pair of pants to the first round of the U.S. Open is about the third-craziest thing youll read in this story but lets start there.Higgs, who had the first tee time off the 10thhole at 6:35 a.m. ET, woke up at 3:30 a.m. ET, and left the house at 4. Normally, he sets aside shorts and pants but hes got an 8-month old child and he said he hadn't unpacked yet.I just grabbed a pair of gray shorts instead of gray pants yesterday. I had a five-minute freak-out, he said.He told his caddie to find him some pants and while searching for some rain pants that might fit, he bumped into Anthony Naylor, who works for the Darrell Survey and volunteered the ones he was wearing. Fortunately, Higgs reached his wife who rushed to the course and delivered two pair for him to pick from what a wife! by 6:15.I would have 100 percent ripped them. They fit, but not that great, Higgs said of the pair he borrowed to warm up on the range. It would have been real funny trying to get a ball out of the hole and teeing it up.Added Higgs: Maybe I should do stuff like that more often.He shot 1-over 71 and followed up with a 68 on Friday to sit T-7 at the midway point. Its all the more remarkable considering that Higgs nearly quit after nine holes at his 36-hole final qualifying site in Charlotte.It went the same way as it's always gone. I missed a bunch of putts from short range early for birdie and then made a terrible bogey on 6. Took my phone out, booked a flight back home to Kansas City from Charlotte. We were playing just outside Charlotte and was, like, 'I'm just going to go home. I'm going to walk off after the ninth hole,' he said, adding he wasnt even sure if he was going to head to Amarillo, Texas, for the next Korn Ferry Tour event. For some reason, I walked to that 10th tee, and then I just made a boatload of birdies in 27 holes. It wasn't quite good enough, but I birdied the playoff hole to get an alternate spot to get here.He got the good news that he was one of the last alternates to get in the field via a phone call as he was taxiing on the runway.I hadn't had a cocktail in a while, but I did have a cocktail to celebrate that, he said.Friday was one of those rounds that he wont soon forget.I let the day build and build and build, and man, I felt like a rock star out there. I felt like I could do anything, he said.For the first time in a while I truly thought that, like, yeah, I can do this.I haven't had that feeling in a while.The highlight reel shot was from off the green at the menacing par-3 11th and he used a putter and as if being controlled by a magnet his ball tracked into the hole for the most unlikely deuce.The golf gods, let's say, gave me a little nod and allowed that ball to not ride off to the right and hung in there left and somehow went in the hole, he said.THE BIG RIG! Spectacular birdie from well off the green for Harry Higgs! pic.twitter.com/w6QaSeqGd8 U.S. Open (@usopengolf) June 19, 2026Higgs has come to the realization that hes been too hard on himself and hes choosing to believe in himself this week. Hes contended in a major before five years ago at the PGA Championship at Kiawah he finished T-4 and hes adopted an attitude of why not me?I can just choose to be a factor. If the golf goes my way and the result goes my way, great, but I can choose to just, like, hey, you don't have to be a small, insignificant piece of the 156 that was playing here, even though I think I was 156 of 156, he said.But the only one who warmed up to play a major championship at Shinnecock in another mans pants.This article originally appeared on Golfweek: US Open: Harry Higgs goes from alternate to top 10 through 36 holes

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Scott Forbes had just wrapped up a College World Series news conference Friday when Skip Johnson walked into the room to pose with him for an annual picture of the head coaches next to the national championship trophy, a longtime tradition the day before the start of the finals.Hey, buddy, North Carolina's Forbes said, beaming and extending his hand to the Oklahoma coach.You thought we were going to fight? Johnson said, turning to reporters.The college baseball lifers have known each other for decades, since they spent long days and nights scouting the same talent showcases and engaging in recruiting battles during long runs as assistants.I always thought if we met up together," Forbes told Johnson, we'd be hunting.Oh, they're hunting together all right.North Carolina will be looking for its first national title in baseball and Oklahoma for its third when the schools square off in Game 1 of the best-of-three series at Charles Schwab Field on Saturday. The start of the game was moved up five hours to 3 p.m. EDT because of a forecast calling for storms at night.The Tar Heels and Sooners have taken different routes to reach the same destination.North Carolina (53-12-1) has lost consecutive games just once, in early March, and has been ranked no lower than No. 4 by D1Baseball.com the last two months.Oklahoma (41-22) was ranked as high as No. 8 and then lost six of nine series in Southeastern Conference play. The Sooners finished 11th in the SEC and were unranked when they entered the national tournament off losses in seven of nine games.I think the SEC just offers a great preparation, period, for this type of tournament, OU's Trey Gambill said. Theres no breaks. Just like in this tournament, youre not playing any bad teams. Youre not playing any mediocre teams. Youre playing the best of the best. So the SEC just prepared us for always being ready to put our best out there.Both teams went 3-0 in CWS bracket play. The Tar Heels have won five straight, and the Sooners are on a season-best eight-game streak.The Game 1 pitching matchup pits North Carolina ace Jason DeCaro (11-2) against 6-foot-6, 237-pound left-hander Cord Rager (6-3), one of three freshman starters for the Sooners. DeCaro went 6 2/3 innings and struck out nine in Carolina's 6-2 win over Mississippi last Friday. Rager walked none and struck out eight in seven innings of a 9-0 win over Alabama last Saturday.SEC streak on lineOklahoma will be going for the Southeastern Conference's seventh straight national title and 18th overall, which would tie the Pac-12 for most.The SEC is assured of having the champion, runner-up or both for the 20th time since 2000. The Sooners are the 10th different SEC team to reach the finals over that span.ACC's first finals since 2015North Carolina is the first Atlantic Coast Conference team to make the CWS finals since Virginia in 2015.The Tar Heels are trying to become the third ACC program to win a national title in baseball. Wake Forest won the first in 1955 and Virginia the second in 2015.North Carolina (2006-07, 2026) and Virginia (2014-15) are the only ACC programs to play in the finals since the best-of-three format started in 2003.Power surgeDeCaro will face a Sooners team that's averaging 10.4 runs per game with 22 homers during their eight-game win streak. They've gone deep eight times in the CWS, including five in an 11-4 win over Georgia on Wednesday. OU has 45 homers in its 20 games since May 1 after hitting 46 homers in its first 43.What Jasons going to do is what hes been doing, Forbes said. We dont care what the offense has been, what theyre doing, how hot they are. Hes going to go right after them with his stuff. You start being tentative, you start getting negative counts, then that offense gets even better.Call him K-denNorth Carolina is 28-0 when Caden Glauber pitches. The freshman leads the Tar Heels with 106 strikeouts and 13.76 per nine innings, and he has allowed one run in 5 1/3 innings over three CWS games.Another freshman reliever, lefty Jackson Rose, pitched 4 1/3 innings of shutout relief in a 12-7 win over West Virginia and has a 2.15 ERA over 50 2/3 innings this season.___AP college sports: https://apnews.com/hub/college-sports

Scott Forbes had just wrapped up a College World Series news conference Friday when Skip Johnson walked into the room to pose with him for an annual picture of the head coaches next to the national championship trophy, a longtime tradition the day before the start of the finals.Hey, buddy, North Carolina's Forbes said, beaming and extending his hand to the Oklahoma coach.You thought we were going to fight? Johnson said, turning to reporters.The college baseball lifers have known each other for decades, since they spent long days and nights scouting the same talent showcases and engaging in recruiting battles during long runs as assistants.I always thought if we met up together," Forbes told Johnson, we'd be hunting.Oh, they're hunting together all right.North Carolina will be looking for its first national title in baseball and Oklahoma for its third when the schools square off in Game 1 of the best-of-three series at Charles Schwab Field on Saturday. The start of the game was moved up five hours to 3 p.m. EDT because of a forecast calling for storms at night.The Tar Heels and Sooners have taken different routes to reach the same destination.North Carolina (53-12-1) has lost consecutive games just once, in early March, and has been ranked no lower than No. 4 by D1Baseball.com the last two months.Oklahoma (41-22) was ranked as high as No. 8 and then lost six of nine series in Southeastern Conference play. The Sooners finished 11th in the SEC and were unranked when they entered the national tournament off losses in seven of nine games.I think the SEC just offers a great preparation, period, for this type of tournament, OU's Trey Gambill said. Theres no breaks. Just like in this tournament, youre not playing any bad teams. Youre not playing any mediocre teams. Youre playing the best of the best. So the SEC just prepared us for always being ready to put our best out there.Both teams went 3-0 in CWS bracket play. The Tar Heels have won five straight, and the Sooners are on a season-best eight-game streak.The Game 1 pitching matchup pits North Carolina ace Jason DeCaro (11-2) against 6-foot-6, 237-pound left-hander Cord Rager (6-3), one of three freshman starters for the Sooners. DeCaro went 6 2/3 innings and struck out nine in Carolina's 6-2 win over Mississippi last Friday. Rager walked none and struck out eight in seven innings of a 9-0 win over Alabama last Saturday.SEC streak on lineOklahoma will be going for the Southeastern Conference's seventh straight national title and 18th overall, which would tie the Pac-12 for most.The SEC is assured of having the champion, runner-up or both for the 20th time since 2000. The Sooners are the 10th different SEC team to reach the finals over that span.ACC's first finals since 2015North Carolina is the first Atlantic Coast Conference team to make the CWS finals since Virginia in 2015.The Tar Heels are trying to become the third ACC program to win a national title in baseball. Wake Forest won the first in 1955 and Virginia the second in 2015.North Carolina (2006-07, 2026) and Virginia (2014-15) are the only ACC programs to play in the finals since the best-of-three format started in 2003.Power surgeDeCaro will face a Sooners team that's averaging 10.4 runs per game with 22 homers during their eight-game win streak. They've gone deep eight times in the CWS, including five in an 11-4 win over Georgia on Wednesday. OU has 45 homers in its 20 games since May 1 after hitting 46 homers in its first 43.What Jasons going to do is what hes been doing, Forbes said. We dont care what the offense has been, what theyre doing, how hot they are. Hes going to go right after them with his stuff. You start being tentative, you start getting negative counts, then that offense gets even better.Call him K-denNorth Carolina is 28-0 when Caden Glauber pitches. The freshman leads the Tar Heels with 106 strikeouts and 13.76 per nine innings, and he has allowed one run in 5 1/3 innings over three CWS games.Another freshman reliever, lefty Jackson Rose, pitched 4 1/3 innings of shutout relief in a 12-7 win over West Virginia and has a 2.15 ERA over 50 2/3 innings this season.___AP college sports: https://apnews.com/hub/college-sports