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 orlando-books.blog

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.

Promoted side’s thrilling win may be overturned after they used four substitutions windows while Georgia Stanway show the way for Gunners

Kirsty Howat’s 60-second cameo deep into injury time could ruin what was a memorable day for Crystal Palace on their return to the top flight. An impressive 1-0 victory over Everton was celebrated emphatically by Jo Potter and her players but that joy would have been replaced by concern and frustration not long after. On Sunday evening WSL Football revealed that there had been a breach of the rules – the Eagles used four different substitute windows rather than the regulated three – which had not been picked up by either the coaching staff or the match officials. An investigation has now been launched with punishment to be decided (there is a potential for the result to be overturned). The needless error has put a dampener on what should have been a positive afternoon thanks to England Under-23s forward Lexi Lloyd-Smith’s winner on her WSL debut. Sophie Downey

Skiskytterlegenden Ole Einar Bjørndalen og fotballandslagstrener Ståle Solbakken er begge invitert i kong Haralds gravferd.
Det melder VG. Seremonien skjer fra Oslo domkirke onsdag.
– Håper det blir en fin og verdig seremoni for den største, sier Bjørndalen til VG.
Solbakken var blant de siste fra idretten som hilste på kong Harald. Bildet av ham sammen med kongen på Slottet etter hjemkomsten fra fotball-VM i USA er allerede blitt ikonisk.
Langrennsikonet Therese Johaug er også invitert i kong Haralds gravferd. Det får TV 2 opplyst av hennes manager Jørn Ernst.
Fra før er det kjent at fotballpresident Lise Klaveness og skipresident Roger Finjord deltar i gravferden.
Det er ventet stor pågang til domkirken i hovedstaden, der familie, utenlandske statsoverhoder, politikere og nære venner blir prioritert. Men et knippe idrettspersonligheter får slippe til.