Incredibly excited to finally get to my #ParisBasketball home opener tomorrow! Hype’s been building up, the team is playing faster than ever, and while this promises to be a challenging season, our roster is overall more balanced than the past 2 seasons. #Euroleague and #BetclicElite, here we come!
Boos during practice swings and the sing-song βYEW-ESS-AY! YEW-ESS-AY!β after a European miss were tiresome, but survivable. What crept in on Saturday was different: insults aimed at playersβ wives, homophobic slurs, cheap shots at McIlroyβs nationality dripping with tiresome stereotypes, gleeful reminders of Pinehurst the moment McIlroy crouched over anything inside five feet.
What happened here didnβt invent the tone of American life so much as reflect whatβs been an incremental breakdown in public behavior. The country now lives in all-caps, from school-board meetings that sound like street rallies and comment sections that have spilled into the street.
In Nuremberg for work for the week, and decided to go check out the local football team with some of my colleagues.
We were seated next to the Berlin fans, and unfortunately, the stadium has a running track around it, which I generally really dislike. But other than that fun atmosphere and frustrating experience to watch the home team lose 0-3. Good experience if they were playing better, I would try to go see that more regularly considering I am visiting this town four times a year.