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Will hordes of influencers, weed smokers and mid-point talkers bring down the US Open?
This year, the noise at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center has officially become A Problem. But changing it would mean changing society mchezo.life
The first thing you notice while sitting in the upper tiers of Arthur Ashe Stadium is the noise. A persistent exterior hum filters up from ground level, fed by the massive ventilation and cooling units that sit outside the stadium, the clack of the Long Island Rail Road to the north, and the forklifts receiving goods from the refrigerator trucks that keep the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center flush with its essential supplies of Evian, champagne, and premium IPA. Overhead, planes descending toward LaGuardia airport ensure the auditory assault takes place by land and air simultaneously. In the lower rakes of the stadium, the babble of the spectators is incessant; it’s not unusual to overhear full-volume conversations on various non-tennis topics – work, family, romance, last night’s dinner – that continue without interruption for the duration of an entire match.
New York is famously noisy, and the US Open, as the most glamorous annual sporting event in town, has always been loud in sympathy with its environment. Indeed, the brashness of the American grand slam has historically been its major selling point, the signature that distinguishes it from the Australian Open (the “happy slam”), Wimbledon (strawberries and cream, all-white attire, the home of tennis), and the French Open (French). People have been complaining about the volume of the New York crowd for decades. But this year the noise at the US Open feels different. This year noise at the noisy slam has become A Problem.
Continue reading...Ole Miss QB Trinidad Chambliss passes for 336 yards, runs for 60 in 41-38 win in opener
Ole Miss quarterback Trinidad Chambliss, who may prove to be among the most polarizing prospects in the 2027 NFL draft, is off to a good start to his final season of college football.
Chambliss completed 21 of 36 passes for 336 yards, with three touchdowns and one interception, and also added nine carries for 60 yards and a rushing touchdown, as No. 9 Ole Miss beat No. 24 Louisville 41-38.
A year ago, Chambliss was a little-known transfer from Division II Ferris State who wasn't even expected to start at Ole Miss, but he became more than just a starter. He became one of the best players in the country, leading Ole Miss to the College Football Playoff.
So why is Chambliss polarizing as a prospect? He's on the smaller side (listed at 6-foot-1, possibly shorter) and is already 24 years old and in his sixth year of college football, so he may have less less upside and room for growth than some of the younger, less experienced quarterback projects.
Will Chambliss be a first-round pick? A Day Three pick? There's a wide range of potential outcomes, but he can help his case by continuing to play like he did against Louisville.
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Belgia vender også Infantino ryggen
Belgias fotballforbund har besluttet å ikke støtte Gianni Infantinos jakt på en ny periode som Fifa-president.
Det kommer fram i en uttalelse. Forbundet peker på særlig to forhold som det mener synliggjør at Fifa «ikke viser tilstrekkelig åpenhet»:
* Infantinos forsøk på å la private aktører kjøpe eierandeler i Fifas turneringer, deriblant fotball-VM. Motstanden ble så voldsom at prosjektet raskt havarerte.
* Suspensjonen til USAs Folarin Balogun ble likevel ikke gjeldende i sommrens VM-sluttspill. Amerikaneren fikk rødt kort i 16-delsfinalen mot Bosnia-Hercegovina, men straffen ble i etterkant brått gjort betinget. Mange har pekt på innflytelsen til USAs president Donald Trump.
Belgias fotballforbund har bedt Fifa om å sette Balogun-saken på agendaen på neste styremøte 15. oktober. Der er KBVB-president Pascale Van Damme medlem.
– To måneder etter hendelsen konstaterer vi at spørsmålene våre fortsatt står ubesvart, sier Van Damme.
Det europeiske fotballforbundet (Uefa) vedtok kort tid senere mistillit mot Fifa-sjefen og har siden jobbet for å presse fram hans avgang.
En rekke Uefa-land har de siste ukene trukket støtten til Infantino. Tidligere i måneden gikk Norges Fotballforbund et steg lenger og ba ham om å trekke seg.
Foreløpig er det ikke fremmet en motkandidat til Infantino før Fifa-kongressen i mars neste år. Fristen for å nominere noen er 18. november. (NTB)
For baseball’s Black and Latino players, it’s always 1926 somewhere
From home-run celebrations to tilted caps, players embracing joy continue to collide with an old guard devoted to Dust Bowl grimness
Over the last several years, simultaneously lauded and paralyzed by its ironclad traditions, baseball has undergone various forays into reinvention, trying to free itself from its unwritten rules of retaliation, its seeming aversion to joy, its demand that every generation of player of every culture and background play the game with the grimness of a Dust Bowl farmer.
The sport even attempted to change those customs by promoting a cultural shift with an industry-wide motto: Let the Kids Play. But in a time of intense division within the aggressive backdrop of Trumpism, the result is a racial clash that is actually a generational and cultural one that predates current politics by a century.
Howard Bryant is the author of 11 books, including Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field, and Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America. He writes at Substack.