Saturday is a busy day at South Beach on Miami Beach, Florida.
After coffee on our little balcony, we stroll over to the beach and immediately attracted by the activities there:
Some courts are league competition and a few are for lessons.
… more volleyball
Chess doesn’t make much news. But today the reign champ and current #1 Magnus Carlsen (1990-) who had won five times, said “I’m out, f— you” and quit the FiDE tournament in New York over … eeehhh … a pair of jeans.
He’s from Norway and won the championships five times.
Why the regulation? It seems so passé.
PS. New Yorker followed up with an article a week later, titled What Carlsen’s jeans have to do with chess.
In talking about chess, a Chinese male Ding Liren (丁立人, 1992-) from Wenzhou had won 17th (2023-4) world chess championship; and Hikaru Nakamura (中村 光, 1987-), is perhaps the wealthiest chess player.
Chess ♟️ 国际象棋
News: Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen quits championship tournament over a pair of jeans: ‘I’m out, f— you’
国际象棋大师马格努斯·卡尔森因一条牛仔裤退出锦标赛: “我退出,去你妈的” [偷笑]
大概没听说过 与时并进 [偷笑]
象棋本是没啥颜色的游戏. 如有人喜欢奇装异服来比赛 我会欢迎: 三点 牛仔 天女散花… 通通欢迎
… 不化
小喜欢郎朗多过李云迪 因为朗spunky虎头虎脑活泼些 有些眼前一亮的感觉 虽然很短暂
因为这个新闻 发现丁立人 (1992-) 以前都是ni🇨🇳女娃拿女子冠军
前不久有🇨🇳个男娃拿过冠军🏆 庆祝 … 不过他现在排名22 看来是burn out 倦怠 (?) 不知道’倦怠’啥意思 谷歌翻译给的 = 厌倦? 娃还年轻 希望他找到自己喜欢的路
🇺🇸 Hikaru Nakamura 应该是象棋界的富人. 可幸好的棋手不一定都需要睡汽车吃垃圾
There is Subway Series (Mets v Yankee) and down south, it’s the Citrus Series: Tampa Bay Rays v Miami Marlins.
Although the Marlins scored two runs in the first inning but Rays won 9-3.
Richie Palacios (1997-) is from Brooklyn, New York. A New Yorker in Florida -:)
The dinner at Bohemois is wonderful
4751 Main St,
Jupiter, FL 33458
… more pix & videos on Google Maps, TA
We’re here for the Mets vs Marlins game on March 20, 2024. We were here last year to visit but didn’t attend a game.
It’s the spring training camp for the Miami Marlins and St. Louis Cardinals, with 6,871 seats. This arena looks and feels slightly different from Mets’ training ground at Clover Park @ Port St. Lucie: compact and in the center of the town, Jupiter, where Tiger Woods and many other golfers live or lived.
Although it’s only a few steps away from the garage to the stadium, but they provide buggies to ferry us around. Bathroom doesn’t seem to have air conditioning. But I like this small scale events better than the full blown ones. Intimate and closer to the action.
Mets beat Marlins 6-3 @ Cardinals Roger Dean stadium in Jupiter.
They scored first, ends up with 2 runs in the 2nd inning.
Marlins is pretty busy to have summit meetings (on the mount). Mets has its summit meeting after the rookie pitcher gave up 8 balls, which resulted in two walks.
We left the game at top of 8th inning and finished watching it on tv at Coolinary.
… and the national anthem
New York Times: Transgender participation in women’s sports has been restricted in 24 states. Now, by executive order, it has been banned at more than 100 facilities in Nassau County, on Long Island.
Bruce Blakeman, the Nassau County executive and a Republican, signed an executive order barring girls’ and women’s teams that include transgender athletes from using county facilities. It was the latest effort in a nationwide push to limit transgender athletes from competing.
The order, which did not require the approval of the County Legislature, took effect immediately. It was not immediately clear whether Blakeman’s action was legal under the state’s human rights law.
His office said the ban would affect thousands of teams across all levels. Last year, the Big East Conference, which has 11 member universities, held its swimming championship in Nassau County. The Big East did not respond to a request for comment on the ban.
The reaction was immediate. Bobby Hodgson, the director of L.G.B.T.Q. Rights Litigation at the New York chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, said in a statement that Blakeman’s order was illegal and that the organization would “consider all options to stop it.”
Jami Taylor, a political science professor at the University of Toledo and an expert on L.G.B.T. politics, told my colleague Claire Fahy that Blakeman had ignored both state law and a Supreme Court ruling, a 1977 case that allowed Renée Richards (1934-) to compete in the women’s draw at the U.S. Open. Richards, now 89, was one of the first openly transgender athletes in professional sports.
Assemblywoman Gina Sillitti, a Democrat who represents parts of Nassau County, said that Blakeman had issued the order to score political points. Blakeman was elected in 2021 after campaigning against mask mandates, which had angered some suburban parents and businesses during the pandemic. He also focused on crime and bail reform.
Blakeman, who signed the order at a news conference, referred to transgender girls who competed on women’s teams outside New York, saying that he wanted to “get ahead of the curve here in Nassau County.” The order does not restrict transgender boys and men from competing on boys’ and men’s teams.
When he was asked how many transgender athletes compete in Nassau County, he said he did not know. He also said, without citing a source, that fewer than 1 percent of the county’s residents identify as transgender and that he was not sure how many, if any, competed at county facilities.
Juli Grey-Owens, the executive director of Gender Equality New York, a group that took part in a protest outside the building where Blakeman’s news conference took place, said there were about 17,000 transgender people in Nassau and Suffolk Counties, which have a combined population of about 2.9 million.
She said the question was how many transgender athletes were even involved in local women’s and girls’ sports.
“Every time that question is asked, they come back with no answer,” she said, referring to proponents of bans like Blakeman’s, “because they have a solution looking for a problem.”
Brazilian F-1 driver Ayrton Senna da Silva (1960-94) was a respected driver whom we followed for a while. His statue at Copacabana Beach is the first thing we visit once in Rio de Janeiro.
… more pix n videos on Google Maps, TA
He won the F-1 World Drivers’ Championship in 1988, 1990, and 1991. Michael Schumacher (1969-) won 7: 1994, 1995, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004. Senna’s death certainly made Schumacher’s win that much easier. Unfortunately, he died young, on the race track in Bologna, Italy, of skull fractures, brain injuries, and a ruptured temporal artery. Italian Air Force offered to fly his coffin home but his family chose the home airline. He received a state funeral. (Gisele Bündchen catwalked at 2016 Rio Olympic … it seems Brazil lacks talent, oh well.)
One item on top of our agenda in Rio de Janeiro is to visit his statue on the sidewalk to Copacabana Beach; facing the Copacabana Palace, reportedly the best hotel in town. It’s a live size, he stands on top of the podium that he had stood for more than 40 times in his short career. His left hand is holding a Brazilian flag.
His figure is slim, compare to his fellows we see in 2024. The inscription reads “O medo me fascina”, which Google translates to fear fascinates me.
RIP.
… the evening photo was taken at 7:52pm on Feb 12. Unlike the pristine condition in the morning, empty bottles are everywhere.
Brandsen 805
C1161, Buenos Aires
Club Atlético Boca Juniors is their top pro soccer club, founded in 1905. It’s based in La Boca, a neighborhood of Buenos Aires. La Bombonera (chocolate box) is the name of the stadium which was built in 1938-40. It has a museum and used as event venue: Elton John and James Blunt had performed there. CABJ plays at their new home
… more pix & video on Google Maps
We went there twice, happened to be in the neighborhood. The narrow street Brandsen @ Dr. del Valle Iberlucea is filled with fans and shops that rent the trophy, sell memorabilia or trinkets.
