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Matt Hudson-Smith takes 400m silver in dramatic final

Matthew Hudson-Smith stormed to silver within the males’s 400m last and smashed his personal private greatest in an Olympic basic on the Stade de France.

Hudson-Smith (Gary Evans, Birchfield Harriers) was main into the house straight however was overhauled by a charging Quincy Corridor of the USA within the last 15 metres.

The 29-year-old stopped the clock in 43.44 seconds, shaving an enormous 0.30s off his earlier mark, which can also be a nationwide and European document.

“Generally the journey is best than the end result and it’s been a hell of a journey,” he mentioned.

“I’m simply grateful. I’ve obtained an Olympic silver medal and the way many individuals can say that.

“I’ve been the bridesmaid a few occasions now however my time is coming.”

Beginning in lane six, Hudson-Smith made a robust begin and sat third after the primary 100m behind a fast-starting Jereem Richards and Kirani James.

Nonetheless, Hudson-Smith made his transfer down the again straight and labored his approach into second, earlier than grabbing the lead across the last bend.

He motored away from the sphere on the high of the house straight however Corridor reeled him in and beat him along with his personal private greatest time of 43.40s.

“I ran it precisely the best way my coach instructed me to,” he added.

“We knew it was going to come back all the way down to the final 50 and I assumed I had it however [Hall] had an additional gear.

“I hit the gear a bit of bit too late, as we got here up he had one step on me and that was it.

“I assumed I’d cleared the sphere. I knew somebody was going to come back, I wasn’t making an attempt to ease up, I used to be operating to the road.

“However that is simply the beginning and time to construct. My time goes to come back.”

Elsewhere on an exhilarating evening on the Stade de France, Amber Anning reached the ultimate of the ladies’s 400m with a brand new private greatest.

Anning (Chris Johnson, Brighton & Hove) completed second within the third semi-final, sufficient for automated qualification, and set the fourth quickest time of anybody with a 49.47s.

And after profitable bronze as a part of the blended 4x400m relay on the opening evening of motion, she famous her starvation to achieve the rostrum once more in Paris.

“I’ve labored so onerous for this, I used to be third within the heats so I knew what time I’d should run to make this last. So I simply executed my race,” she mentioned.

“I positively have loads of confidence going into Friday. That was a slight private greatest. I’m so proud that I’ve given myself an opportunity for a medal.

“I’m going again to the drafting board and get my restoration completed tomorrow. That medal has given me a lot motivation to win one other one. I need it extra for myself and simply go once more.

“I like operating in entrance of that crowd. The help, particularly the British help, propels me around the monitor. I’m loving each second of it.”

There was disappointment for Laviai Nielsen (Tony Lester, Enfield & Haringey) and Victoria Ohuruogu (Newham and Essex Beagles), who each missed the ultimate.

Nielsen completed third within the second semi-final and her time was not sufficient to progress, whereas Ohuruogu was fifth within the first.

“It felt like a courageous run from me, I can actually say that I gave it every part on the market,” Nielsen mentioned.

“I can’t be too disillusioned, I’m actually pleased with myself.”

In the meantime, Alastair Chalmers (Matt Elias, Guernsey) completed eighth within the semi-finals of the boys’s 400m hurdles semi-finals after tripping across the last bend.

“I’m joyful to make the semi-final. I had a very good warmth the opposite day, and to be out in entrance of this crowd and to race some of these athletes is a dream of mine,” he mentioned.

Within the first monitor occasion of the night, Tade Ojora (Joanna Hayes, Windsor Slough Eton & Hounslow) completed seventh in his males’s 110m hurdles warmth and didn’t progress to the ultimate.

 

Tim Walz isn’t complicated. America is. • Kansas Reflector

I’ve watched with some amusement as coastal, very on-line lefties have crushed on Gov. Tim Walz, who can ably voice progressive concepts whereas (authentically) sporting Carhartt. You’d assume he have been a cat who all of the sudden began enjoying a blues guitar.

And I get the thrill: A presidential ticket pairing Walz with Vice President Kamala Harris, the completely California lawyer, showcases the range of America, the broad recognition of liberal beliefs and the large tent of the Democratic Social gathering.

Stereotypes can be self-fulfilling; as a distinguished Democrat, Walz provides individuals who appear like him a motive to analyze his concepts additional.

I coated Walz’s first marketing campaign for governor starting in 2017 and used to assume there was one thing complicated and contradictory about him — the navy profession and A+ NRA ranking, the congressional votes in opposition to the Nice Recession financial institution bailouts, the highschool soccer coach who was an early supporter of homosexual marriage rights.

I’d fallen into the entice of political evaluation that’s guided by the facile sociological commentary that individuals who dwell in cities like fancy espresso and bike lanes and are Democrats and individuals who dwell in rural areas are into weapons and church and vote Republican.

As a result of Walz lived within the comparatively small faculty metropolis of Mankato — inhabitants: 45,000 — and was within the Nationwide Guard, there have to be one thing sophisticated occurring, I assumed.

I used to be most likely flawed.

I’ve been pondering these days about this scene in “Discipline of Desires,” which has a terrific subplot about how the spouse of the Kevin Costner character is at battle with a bunch of ebook banners of their small Iowa city.

Throughout a city assembly, Annie Kinsella pleads with the townsfolk to not ban books by the J.D. Salinger stand-in, Terence Mann.

She’s shouted down by a neighborhood “Mothers for Liberty” sort, who mocks the Kinsella household: “Your husband plowed beneath his corn and constructed a baseball discipline. The weirdo!”

Annie replies: “At the least he’s not a ebook burner, you Nazi cow!”

There’s nothing sophisticated about the truth that a girl who lives in a small city is in opposition to ebook banning.

My father was a Naval aviator who however put an indication on our home each Christmas that learn, in block lettering, “PEACE.” When the trainer of the “gifted and proficient” youngsters in my hometown of 10,000 noticed it, she requested if he’d wish to be part of her anti-nuke efforts. To which he replied, “I feel we want extra ICBMs.” However they have been allies on different points, like much less emphasis on sports activities and extra on teachers.

What’s really sophisticated is America, a spot the place loads of Republicans dwell in large cities and hippies dwell in small cities, that are the unique supply of quite a lot of peace and justice actions. Walz’s 2022 margin of victory was a bit greater than 200,000. Guess what number of votes he obtained in rural Minnesota? Almost 200,000.  In the meantime, former President Donald Trump scored greater than 200,000 votes in Minneapolis’ house county, the alleged seven-headed beast, Hennepin.

Walz — and his spouse, First Girl Gwen Walz — are liberals who lived with (or extra precisely, close to) rural individuals.

That Walz is aware of his means round weapons and hung out within the Nationwide Guard — to serve, positive, but in addition for easy monetary causes — is all associated to the place he was raised in rural Nebraska. It’s sheer circumstance.

And because it seems, none of those markers — “conservative coded” in as we speak’s parlance — reveal something about his politics. He’s not really a “average” — no matter that’s — and he by no means was.

(And so what? What was the “average” place on civil rights or Vietnam or Iraq or homosexual marriage or the Trump rebellion?)

Sadly, this nice pluralism and multiplicity and complexity seem like waning, and we’re more and more trapping ourselves within the binary they’ve constructed us — “crimson zip codes are getting redder, and blue zip codes have gotten bluer,” as NPR reported in 2022.

Walz has his faults — you’ll be listening to so much about them if he’s the vice presidential nominee, together with on this area — however I like that he’s taught us (or reminded us) that there aren’t two Americas, because the nationwide media has drummed into us for many years. In case you’re far sufficient away, the canvas and its broad brush strokes appear to convey a bifurcated panorama, a chilly civil battle. Up shut, nevertheless, there’s 10,000 Americas. Mankato is house to homosexual rights advocates who’re additionally soccer coaches, simply as I welcome the F-150s peeling away from my intersection in St. Paul.

I don’t imply to attenuate our variations or neglect what’s scary concerning the upcoming election or the stakes. Paradoxically, MAGA’s apocalyptic framing — we’re all the time in a “Flight 93 election” — is what makes it so scary.

They obsess that they’re dropping their nation to the “childless cat women” and “unlawful aliens” and stay-home dads and trans youngsters and whoever else is simply making an attempt to dwell their very own lives nowadays.

The phrases have modified however the sinister notes stay the identical. They picked up the (tiki) torch of an extended and ugly historical past that tries to dictate who’s and isn’t a “actual” American and who subsequently will get to have a say in our future.

In 1835, Samuel F.B. Morse revealed “Imminent Risks to the Free Establishments of the USA by way of International Immigration” and warned of a Catholic plot to take over the USA, as historian Jill Lepore relays in “These Truths.” Jim Crow legal guidelines remained in place 130 years later.

Sufficient already. We don’t have to like one another or like one another. However we have now no alternative however to dwell collectively.

J. Patrick Coolican is editor-in-chief of Minnesota Reformer, a States Newsroom affiliate. By its opinion part, Kansas Reflector works to amplify the voices of people who find themselves affected by public insurance policies or excluded from public debate. Discover data, together with the right way to submit your personal commentary, right here.

UK riots: Met Police issues Walthamstow dispersal order

The Metropolitan Police have confirmed {that a} part of the city has been positioned beneath the order. 

The order has been issued from 2pm this night (August 7) till 4am on August 8. 

The order means officers current have the ability to disperse teams or people inflicting or who’re more likely to trigger harassment or misery to others. 

These ordered to go away the world should achieve this for as much as 48 hours or be liable to arrest.

It would have an effect on Woodford New Highway to Walthamstow Marshes and Forest Highway Junction with the A406 to A12.

Some companies have boarded their shopfronts in case of riots (Picture: @goldie_sub (X)) Walthamstow MP Stella Creasy wrote on X: “Please be aware part 60 now issued for our space and bus station shall be closed from 6pm.

“Please get dwelling safely and please look out for one another – it’s what we do greatest and why they gained’t win!”

The order grants officers the ability to cease and search anybody inside a selected space while not having to have cheap grounds with which to take action. 

Companies in Walthamstow have been making ready for the reason that early afternoon, with some taking precautionary measures to board their shopfronts. 

A number of police vans have been seen in Walthamstow (Picture: Nameless) Residents have been warned to keep away from Walthamstow Central Station, particularly from Selborne Highway, and Hoe Avenue from Queens Highway to Church Hill.

READ MORE: Store home windows boarded up in case of riot as folks warned to maintain away

Cllr Clyde Loakes, deputy chief of Waltham Forest Council, stated: “The council’s message is evident: anybody who’s considering of coming to Walthamstow city centre immediately or anytime to incite or undertake any type of violence, racism, or hatred is just not welcome right here.

“No matter involves cross this night, we are going to stay united and collectively. 

“We’re properly ready for any potential dysfunction. Please keep secure and let’s keep true to our values. Fellowship is life.”

UK Riots: Stand Up To Racism gather in Walthamstow

Teams had been chanting “whose streets? our streets!” and “free Palestine”.

Close by, one individual carrying a cranium balaclava has been stopped and is being searched by police.

Presently, no protesters have assembled half an hour previous the deliberate begin time for an illustration outdoors an immigration centre in Walthamstow.

The realm earmarked for the protest has been taken over by hundreds of counter-demonstrators who could be seen not less than a mile again.

Walthamstow MP Stella Creasy has stated there’s a “three-figure” police presence within the London borough.

Walthamstow Central bus station has additionally been closed since 6pm, Ms Creasy added.

It comes as police put together for greater than 100 deliberate protests throughout the nation on Wednesday evening.

The Metropolitan Police have confirmed {that a} part of the city has been positioned beneath a dispersal order in Walthamstow forward of the potential riots.

The order was issued from 2pm this night (August 7) till 4am on August 8.

The order means officers current have the facility to disperse teams or people inflicting or who’re prone to trigger harassment or misery to others.

These ordered to go away the world should achieve this for as much as 48 hours or be liable to arrest.

It is going to have an effect on Woodford New Highway to Walthamstow Marshes and Forest Highway Junction with the A406 to A12.

Walthamstow MP Stella Creasy wrote on X: “Please observe part 60 now issued for our space and bus station might be closed from 6pm.

“Please get dwelling safely and please look out for one another – it’s what we do greatest and why they received’t win!”

Companies in Walthamstow have been making ready for the reason that early afternoon, with some taking precautionary measures to board their shopfronts.

Residents have been warned to keep away from Walthamstow Central Station, specifically from Selborne Highway, and Hoe Avenue from Queens Highway to Church Hill.

Billy Bean, openly gay former Dodger who worked for MLB, dies at 60

Billy Bean, who in 1999 grew to become the second former Main League Baseball participant to come back out as homosexual and later grew to become the game’s senior vice chairman for variety, fairness and inclusion, has died. He was 60.

MLB launched an announcement confirming his dying. Bean died at dwelling on Tuesday practically a 12 months after he was recognized with acute myeloid leukemia.

The California native performed in six large league seasons from 1987 to 1995, making his debut with the Detroit Tigers in a four-hit efficiency that tied a document for a participant in his first sport. He additionally performed for the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres. He was a two-time All-American outfielder at Loyola Marymount, main the group to the Males’s School World Sequence in 1986.

Bean wrote a e book titled “Going the Different Method” and was typically a keynote speaker at occasions. He publicly got here out as homosexual in 1999, the second former main leaguer to take action. Glenn Burke was the primary, popping out to most people in 1982.

Bean joined the commissioner’s workplace in 2014, when he was employed by former commissioner Bud Selig to be MLB’s first ambassador for inclusion. He spent greater than 10 years working for MLB and was ultimately promoted to senior vice chairman.

Bean labored with MLB golf equipment to “advance equality for all gamers, coaches, managers, umpires, staff, and stakeholders all through baseball to make sure an equitable, inclusive, and supportive office for everybody.”

“Our hearts are damaged right this moment as we mourn our expensive pal and colleague, Billy Bean, one of many kindest and most revered people I’ve ever recognized,” MLB commissioner Rob Manfred mentioned in an announcement. “Billy was a pal to numerous folks throughout our sport, and he made a distinction via his fixed dedication to others.”

Data from The Related Press was used on this report.

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Arsenal 4 – 1 Bayer 04 Leverkusen – Match Report

Our first sport again at Emirates Stadium in 2024/25 was one to recollect as we recorded a powerful win over Bayer Leverkusen.

Oleksandr Zinchenko and Leandro Trossard netted throughout the opening eight minutes with a pair of superb objectives, earlier than Gabriel Jesus ran 40 yards to dispatch our third towards the German Invincibles on 38 minutes.

Kai Havertz then added a fourth halfway by means of the second half, and regardless of Adam Hlozek pulling one again, Mikel Arteta would have been delighted with the consequence, ruthlessness in entrance of aim and having the ability to hand first minutes of pre-season to David Raya, William Saliba, Bukayo Saka and Declan Rice.

Sensational begin

We burst out of the traps enjoying some scintillating soccer, and located ourselves two objectives forward after eight minutes due to a pair of brilliantly-worked strikes.

The primary celebrations inside Emirates Stadium got here when Zinchenko discovered Havertz down the left flank and burst in the direction of the field. After the German’s cutback was dummied by Trossard, our new quantity 17 was rewarded for his vitality by drilling an inch-perfect shot into the underside nook.

Then 60 seconds later, Leverkusen tried to play out from the again, and their looseness was punished when Trossard gained again possession on the sting of the field. That instigated some intricate one-touch passing between Martin Odegaard, Jesus and Havertz which bamboozled the defence, permitting Trossard to trick his well beyond a sliding Piero Hincapie and coolly tuck previous Matej Kovar.

Gabby’s solo strike

We bossed the opening 45 and Trossard almost grabbed a second when he was given an excessive amount of time to progress with the ball and discover himself 20 yards out, so he let fly and Kovar did nicely to push the ball away for a nook, however whereas our first two objectives have been nice group efforts, particular person brilliance paved the way in which for our third.

Eight minutes earlier than the break, a unfastened throw-in from Odilon Kossounou on a uncommon Leverkusen assault noticed Jesus seize possession 10 yards inside his personal half, and he galloped ahead. Allowed to proceed his run, he bought to the sting of the D and hammered a low effort previous Kovar to register his second strike of pre-season.

Targets galore

With a wholesome lead within the financial institution, Mikel opted to make 4 adjustments on the break together with introducing Saka and Rice, and within the 66th minute the previous made his first impression of the summer season to assist create our fourth.

Ethan Nwaneri fed the England winger who burst to the byline in typical fashion and centred, and with hesitation rampant contained in the opposition field, Granit Xhaka merely prodded it straight to Havertz to rapidly snatch up the chance to attain in successive friendlies.

Nevertheless Raya wouldn’t mark his first look of the marketing campaign with a clear sheet as Xavi Alonso’s group pulled one again on 75 minutes. Former Gunners junior Nathan Tella was picked out on the appropriate flank and he discovered Hlozek who when confronted one-on-one with our Euro 2024 winner neatly clipped the ball previous him into the web.

It wasn’t the return to north London Xhaka had wished for however he acquired heat applause from the house supporters when he was changed late on, however the largest raptures got here at full-time as 60,000 Gooners cheered their aspect off the pitch, and left the bottom with a spring of their step and much more pleasure for the marketing campaign to return.
 

Up subsequent

Our pre-season marketing campaign involves an in depth once we host Lyon within the Emirates Cup on Sunday in a 2pm kick-off. Six days later, the Premier League marketing campaign will get underway when Wolves head to north London for a 3pm begin on Saturday, August 17.

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Arsenal 4 – 1 Leverkusen

Gabriel Jesus scored an outstanding solo objective as Arsenal stepped up their preparations for the brand new marketing campaign with a powerful 4-1 win over Bundesliga champions Bayer Leverkusen.

Jesus, reinvigorated following an injury-hit marketing campaign final time period, pounced on a poor Leverkusen throw deep in Arsenal territory within the first half earlier than carrying the ball ahead and dispatching a low end from outdoors the field to thrill the Emirates Stadium crowd.

The rampant hosts had been already two objectives up at that time, with Oleksandr Zinchenko and Leandro Trossard having completed neatly from Kai Havertz passes within the area of a minute early on.

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Mikel Arteta stated he did not need to take any dangers with Jurrien Timber or Riccardo Calafiori in Arsenal’s pleasant in opposition to Bayer Leverkusen

Havertz moved up entrance after Jesus was substituted at half-time and the German scored Arsenal’s fourth objective when Bukayo Saka’s cut-back bounced into his path off Leverkusen’s Granit Xhaka, who acquired a standing ovation on his return to north London.

Leverkusen scored a comfort objective by substitute Adam Hlozek but it surely didn’t dampen the spirits of the house followers, with Declan Rice given his first outing of pre-season as a second-half substitute in addition to fellow Euro 2024 finalist Saka. William Saliba was given the primary half.

Arsenal followers had been denied an opportunity to see new signing Riccardo Calafiori, who was not within the squad, however Mikel Arteta used the event to present extra minutes to a few of the children who featured through the membership’s US tour, with Miles Lewis-Skelly, Ethan Nwaneri, Ayden Heaven and Josh Nichols showing as substitutes.

Arsenal spherical off their pre-season marketing campaign with a second Emirates Cup sport in opposition to Lyon on Sunday earlier than commencing their Premier League season at dwelling to Wolves on Saturday August 17 at 3pm.

Jesus impressing Arteta with ‘completely different vitality’

There was a distinctly pre-season really feel to the ambiance inside the bottom within the opening exchanges however noise ranges elevated each time the ball entered the orbit of Jesus.

The Brazilian, main the road as he has all through Arsenal’s pre-season marketing campaign, was a bundle of vitality out and in of possession, making runs, snapping into challenges and searching much more just like the participant Arsenal purchased from Manchester Metropolis again in 2022.

He seems to have benefitted from an uninterrupted low season after a string of damage setbacks over the course of the final marketing campaign impacted his performances. However Arteta was desirous to level out afterwards that his enchancment is right down to his personal software.

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Gabriel Jesus celebrates after scoring the third objective

“The primary feeling after I noticed him on the finish of the season was one thing completely different,” stated Arteta in his press convention.

“I may really feel it. His vitality was completely different. His look, his motion was completely different. And he actually needed it.”

The problem for him now, in accordance with Arteta, is to switch his pre-season type into the marketing campaign itself.

“Now it is about discovering that consistency, and doing it in any context, in opposition to any opponent, any formation, on daily basis, each three days, for 90 minutes, for half-hour, for 70 minutes, no matter you’ll be able to produce in these circumstances.”

Arteta: Plenty of positives to take

On Arsenal’s general efficiency, Mikel Arteta stated: “We will take a variety of positives from the sport in addition to the outcome.

“The way in which we carried out, there have been a number of optimistic features, collectively and individually. I believe we’ll take loads from it. Plenty of issues to be taught from it as properly.

“I believe we are able to enhance, particularly within the second half once we made seven adjustments. However once more, a extremely good take a look at, a extremely good crew who’re very well coached and it was a very good efficiency.”

Zinchenko shines in absence of Calafiori, Timber

Arteta allayed any issues over Calafiori’s absence from the squad afterwards, insisting Arsenal are merely managing him as he adapts to his new environment and including that the £42m signing is more likely to play some half in Sunday’s sport in opposition to Lyon.

He additionally defined that Jurrien Timber was absent on account of foot ache linked to his rehabilitation from an ACL damage. “He has had a little bit of a nasty foot the previous couple of days,” stated Arteta. “After he has been away loads, we did not need to take any dangers with him.”

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Kai Havertz dispatches Arsenal’s fourth objective

Within the absence of that pair, it was Zinchenko who began at left-back and the previous Manchester Metropolis defender, who has swapped from the No 35 shirt to No 17, appeared keen to supply a reminder of his high quality having misplaced his place within the aspect final season.

His opening objective was beautifully taken as he swept dwelling Havertz’s cut-back first-time following a intelligent dummy by Trossard and that trio continued to mix successfully within the first half, making certain Arsenal carried an elevated menace on their left flank.

“He is aware of the standard that he has and he is aware of the issues he wants to enhance,” Arteta stated of Zinchenko afterwards, earlier than praising his software. “He’s one other who may be very at it. You possibly can see his physique language that there’s something there.”

Nwaneri, Lewis-Skelly earn reward

Arteta was additionally requested whether or not he sees Arsenal children Nwaneri and Lewis-Skelly, each 17, taking part in first-team roles subsequent season.

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Ethan Nwaneri was a second-half substitute on the Emirates Stadium

“In the event that they proceed as they’re doing now, it is going to make no distinction whether or not they come from the academy or are signed from Argentina, Germany or Italy,” he stated.

“They’re displaying the standard they’ve, and particularly the persona they must play at this stage. In the event that they deserve minutes, they are going to get minutes.”

Arsenal’s pre-season schedule: Lyon subsequent

July 20: Arsenal 2-0 Leyton Orient
July 25: Arsenal 1-1 Bournemouth
July 28: Arsenal 2-1 Man Utd
August 1: Arsenal 1-2 Liverpool
August 7: Arsenal 4-1 Bayer Leverkusen
August 11: Arsenal vs Lyon, Emirates Stadium, kick-off 2pm

Arsenal’s 2024/25 fixtures

Arsenal will begin their 2024/25 Premier League season at dwelling to Wolves on Saturday August 17.

The Gunners then face a visit to Unai Emery’s Aston Villa and a house conflict with Brighton earlier than visiting Tottenham on September 14 for the primary north London derby of the season. The return fixture with Spurs on the Emirates is on January 14.

Mikel Arteta’s aspect’s first sport with final season’s title rivals and champions Manchester Metropolis comes inside the first 5 video games of the marketing campaign on September 21 on the Etihad, with the reverse fixture on the Emirates on February 1.

Over Christmas, the Gunners are at dwelling to newly-promoted Ipswich on Boxing Day earlier than travelling throughout London to face Brentford on December 29. In March, the Gunners face a visit to Man Utd earlier than a house sport in opposition to Chelsea.

The Gunners finish the season away at Southampton on Might 25, after visiting Anfield on Might 10 and internet hosting Newcastle for his or her remaining dwelling sport on Might 18.

Billy Bean, second openly gay ex-MLB player, dies at 60

Billy Bean, who turned the second former Main League Baseball participant to return out as homosexual in 1999 earlier than turning into the game’s senior vp for range, fairness and inclusion, has died. He was 60.

MLB launched an announcement confirming his loss of life. Bean died at house on Tuesday after a yearlong struggle with acute myeloid leukemia.

Gamers pause for a second of silence in reminiscence of Billy Bean in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday.Lachlan Cunningham / Getty Photos

The California native performed in six massive league seasons from 1987 to 1995, making his debut with the Detroit Tigers in a four-hit efficiency that tied a file for a participant in his first sport. He additionally performed for the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres. He was a two-time All-American outfielder at Loyola Marymount, main the staff to the NCAA Males’s School World Collection in 1986.

Bean wrote a guide titled “Going the Different Manner” and was additionally a keynote speaker at many occasions. He publicly got here out as homosexual in 1999, the second former main leaguer to take action after Glenn Burke.

Bean joined the commissioner’s workplace in 2014, when he was employed by former Commissioner Bud Selig to be MLB’s first Ambassador for Inclusion. He spent greater than 10 years working for MLB, finally being promoted to senior vp.

The Chicago Cubs and their followers noticed a second of silence in honor of former MLB participant Billy Bean at Wrigley Area on Tuesday.Nuccio DiNuzzo / Getty Photos

Bean labored with MLB golf equipment to “advance equality for all gamers, coaches, managers, umpires, workers, and stakeholders all through baseball to make sure an equitable, inclusive, and supportive office for everybody.”

“Our hearts are damaged right now as we mourn our expensive good friend and colleague, Billy Bean, one of many kindest and most revered people I’ve ever recognized,” MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred mentioned in an announcement. “Billy was a good friend to numerous folks throughout our sport, and he made a distinction by his fixed dedication to others.”

Burnley: Peaceful message left at Thompson Park amid protest rumour

Thompson Park in Burnley was mentioned to be the situation of a protest just like ones which have taken place throughout the UK previously week after a publish unfold via social media.

The publish, which was seen on each Twitter/X and Fb, mentioned: “Burnley stand up! Sufficient is sufficient.

The doorway to Thompson Park (Picture: NQ)

“Burnley protest and communicate our voices.

“Meet at Thompson Park August 7, 1pm.”

At the moment, there was no signal of any protest within the park – simply households going about their day throughout the college holidays and the odd walker or runner braving the rain.

There was a small police presence, with uniformed officers patrolling the park and police vans being pushed across the roads near the park.

A couple of graffitied messages had been left outdoors entrances to the park although after the unique commercial of the protest.

A peaceable message left outdoors the park (Picture: NQ)

The primary one, on the entrance on Ormerod Highway, mentioned: “Love thy neighbour. No room 4 racism.”

Additional down Ormerod Highway, the identical phrases had been repeated in orange chalk.”

 

 

Why Republicans are calling Walz ‘Tampon Tim’ : NPR

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, pictured at a marketing campaign rally in Philadelphia on Tuesday, is getting consideration for a regulation he signed final yr requiring public colleges to offer free interval merchandise.

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Republican critics of Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz have given him a brand new nickname: “Tampon Tim.”

After Vice President Harris introduced her choose, Stephen Miller, a former adviser to former President Donald Trump, tweeted, “She truly selected Tampon Tim.” Chaya Raichik, who runs the far-right social media account Libs of TikTok, photoshopped Walz’s face onto a Tampax field.

“Tampon Tim is arms down one of the best political nickname ever,” tweeted conservative commentator Liz Wheeler. “It’s so… savagely efficient. In a single phrase tells you EVERYTHING you must find out about Tim Walz’s harmful radicalism.”

The moniker refers to a regulation that Walz, the governor of Minnesota, signed final yr, requiring public colleges to offer menstrual merchandise — together with pads and tampons — to college students in 4th by way of twelfth grades.

The merchandise are free for college students, with the state paying about $2 per pupil to maintain them stocked all through the varsity yr.

The regulation, which was the results of years of advocacy by college students and their allies, took impact on Jan. 1, although college students say the rollout has thus far been smoother in some faculty districts than others.

It makes Minnesota certainly one of 28 states (and Washington D.C.) which have handed legal guidelines geared toward giving college students entry to menstrual merchandise in colleges, in response to the Alliance for Interval Provides.

The problem enjoys broad in style help: 30 states have eradicated state gross sales tax on menstrual merchandise, and Trump himself signed a 2018 bundle that requires federal prisons to offer them.

However Republicans seem like taking difficulty with the wording of the laws, which says the merchandise have to be out there “to all menstruating college students in restrooms repeatedly utilized by college students.”

Some Minnesota Republicans initially tried to restrict the initiative to female-assigned and gender-neutral loos, however had been unsuccessful. Even the writer of that modification finally voted for the ultimate model of the invoice, saying his relations “felt prefer it was an vital difficulty I ought to help.”

The invoice’s inclusive language displays that not all individuals who menstruate are ladies, and never all ladies get intervals, which was vital to those that lobbied for the laws.

“It would make it extra snug for everybody … then folks can use no matter restroom they need with out worrying,” Bramwell Lundquist, then 15, informed MPR Information final yr.

However some within the Republican Social gathering — which has more and more promoted anti-transgender insurance policies and rhetoric — see that facet of the invoice as a cause to assault Walz.

“Tim Walz is a bizarre radical liberal,” the MAGA Conflict Room account posted on X, previously Twitter. “What might be weirder than signing a invoice requiring colleges to inventory tampons in boys’ loos?”

Trump marketing campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt made an analogous argument in a Tuesday look on Fox Information.

“As a girl, I believe there isn’t any larger risk to our well being than leaders who help gender-transition surgical procedures for younger minors, who help placing tampons in males’s loos in public colleges,” she stated. “These are radical insurance policies that Tim Walz helps. He truly signed a invoice to do this.”

LGBTQ rights teams have cheered Walz’s choice and praised his observe file, which features a 2023 government order making Minnesota one of many first states to safeguard entry to gender-affirming well being care, as dozens of states search to ban it.

Walz, who as soon as earned the title “most inspiring instructor” at the highschool the place he taught and coached soccer, hasn’t responded publicly to the “Tampon Tim” taunts. However he had robust phrases for his Republican opponents on Tuesday night time.

“I am going to simply say it: Donald Trump and JD Vance are creepy and, sure, bizarre,” he tweeted, repeating the put-down he helped popularize in current days. “We aren’t going again.”

Many on the left see “Tampon Tim” as a praise

Democratic Minnesota Rep. Sandra Feist, the chief sponsor of the invoice within the state Home, offered it as a “sensible funding”, explaining to her colleagues final yr that “one out of each 10 menstruating youth miss faculty” as a result of an absence of entry to menstrual merchandise and assets.

She defended it once more in a tweet on Wednesday morning, saying she was grateful to have partnered with Walz to deal with interval poverty.

“This regulation exemplifies what we will accomplish once we take heed to college students to deal with their wants,” she wrote. “Excited to see MN illustration on the high of the ticket!”

Feist ended the tweet with the hashtag #TamponTim.

Different Democratic figures have embraced each the hashtag and the coverage behind it.

Many social media customers responded that offering tampons in colleges isn’t the unhealthy factor that Republicans are making it out to be — and in reality, they see it as the other.

Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton stated it was “good of the Trump camp to assist publicize Gov. Tim Walz’s compassionate and commonsense coverage,” including, “Let’s do that all over the place.”

Former Georgia State Rep. Bee Nguyen stated Walz, as a former instructor, understands how the dearth of entry to menstrual merchandise impacts academic outcomes.

“This makes me a fair larger fan of Tampon Tim,” she added.

Practically 1 in 4 college students have struggled to afford interval merchandise in the USA, in response to a 2023 examine commissioned by Thinx and PERIOD. Consultants say interval poverty is greater than only a problem: It’s a difficulty of public and private well being, dignity and extra.

The Minnesota college students who lobbied for the invoice testified final yr about having to overlook class as a result of they had been unable to afford menstrual merchandise, being distracted from schoolwork and checks and feeling that adults didn’t take their concern severely.

“We can’t be taught whereas we’re leaking,” highschool pupil Elif Ozturk, then 16, informed a legislative listening to in 2023. “How can we count on our college students to hold this burden with them through the faculty day and nonetheless carry out effectively? The primary precedence needs to be to be taught, to not discover a pad.”