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Sports, Entertainment & Culture — June 20, 2026

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Wyndham Clark leads U.S. Open after record-setting Round 2. Clark set a Shinnecock Hills scoring record and holds a multi-shot lead heading into the weekend. Rory McIlroy sits seven back; Bryson DeChambeau missed the cut.

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James Burrows, TV comedy legend, dies at 85. The Cheers co-creator directed over 1,000 episodes across Cheers, Friends, and Will & Grace — more than any multi-camera director in TV history. He died in his sleep Friday after a brief illness.

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Producer Tay Keith found dead at 29. The Memphis-born hitmaker behind Travis Scott’s ‘Sicko Mode,’ multiple Beyoncé tracks, and Sexyy Red’s ‘Pound Town’ was found dead in his Nashville apartment on June 18.

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