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New on Sports Illustrated: Tulane Relocates Season-Opener After Hurricane Ida Hits Louisiana

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Hurricane Ida forced Tulane to relocate its first game of the season in New Orleans to Norman, Oklahoma.
Tulane's season-opener against Oklahoma in New Orleans has been relocated to Norman, Okla. due to Hurricane Ida's impact, Tulane athletic director Troy Dannen announced in a statement. 
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"In light of the catastrophic damage sustained by the city of New Orleans and, after consulting with our emergency preparedness and response teams at the institutional, local and state levels, we will relocate our Sept. 4 football game against the University of Oklahoma to Norman, Oklahoma," he said. 
The Green Wave were scheduled to host the Sooners on Saturday at noon ET but will instead start their season on the road. The day and kick-off time remain the same but television information and other game-specific details will be announced by Oklahoma, according to the release.
The entire Tulane athletic department has also relocated to Birmingham, Ala. and is being hosted by the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Tulane's athletic department and all of their athletes will return to New Orleans when it's safe, Dannen said.  
Monday morning, <a href="https://twitter.com/RossDellenger/status/1432366233882615809?s=20">Tulane officials told Sports Illustrated</a> there was no chance the game would be played in New Orleans. Dannen then told SI that contingencies were being made and the game could possibly be played in Norman before the eventual decision. 
Ida made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane in Louisiana that left New Orleans without electricity. There was also widespread flooding, power outages and catastrophic damage throughout the state. 
The Saints were also displaced due to Ida and have been practicing at AT&T Stadium in Dallas. 
Tulane finished 6–6 last season while Oklahoma capped off its 9–2 season with a Cotton Bowl win against Florida in 2021. 
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New on Sports Illustrated: Tulane Relocates Season-Opener After Hurricane Ida Hits Louisiana

Hurricane Ida forced Tulane to relocate its first game of the season in New Orleans to Norman, Oklahoma. Tulane's season-opener agains...

New on Sports Illustrated: Good Vibes Only at Citi Field

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The Mets are booing their fans when they have success. Naturally, this means the fans are in for an earful.
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As is so often the case, there was booing at Citi Field this weekend. But finally it was directed at the people who deserve it: the fans.
Mets players have been celebrating big hits for the past week or so by flashing two thumbs down. On Sunday, new second baseman <a href="https://www.si.com/mlb/2021/08/29/javier-baez-gives-mets-fans-thumbs-down-to-boo-them">Javier Báez explained</a> the reasoning: “When we don’t get success, we’re going to get booed. So they’re going to get booed when we get success."
Which means the fans are in for an earful. New York has won two in a row, an especially impressive stretch for a team that had <a href="https://www.si.com/mlb/2021/08/11/mets-playoff-odds-the-opener">previously won two of their last 14</a>. But the Mets are all about progress. They have won 63 games this year. Last year they won only 26! And they’re in third place. There are two worse places! Ballplayers like to talk about how this is a game of failure, how if you succeed one out of three times you’re a Hall of Famer. Well, the Mets succeed almost one out of two times! Prepare the bunting in Cooperstown!
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Fans are being ungrateful. For years, they complained about the Wilpon family, who sometimes seemed more interested in strutting around the field during batting practice than in constructing a team that could win games. But in November, the Mets replaced an ownership group that had to cut payroll after learning it had been swindled by Bernie Madoff with an ownership group that once did its own swindling: Steve Cohen’s SAC Advisors agreed in 2014 to pay the largest insider-trading settlement ever: $1.8 billion. Now there’s a crooked number!
On Sunday night, Cohen weighed in with the kind of leadership you might hope for at a moment such as this, <a href="https://twitter.com/StevenACohen2/status/1432170083271446528">tweeting</a>, “I miss the days when the biggest controversy was the black jerseys.”
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Meanwhile, team president Sandy Anderson <a href="https://newyorkmets.medium.com/statement-from-mets-president-sandy-alderson-2f968039ee3b?sf150313863=1">wrote on Medium</a> that he would be convening a meeting to inform players and staff that they are not allowed to be mean to the fans. But what he doesn’t seem to understand is that the Mets already go out of their way to be nice to others. They treat opponents very kindly, grooving fastballs to hitters and laying off meatballs from pitchers. Aren’t they owed a little courtesy in return?
Báez, for example, clearly wanted to make a good impression on his new city. Until July 30, when New York gave up its 2020 first-round pick for him, he played for the Cubs, who have their own history of feuding with fans. So credit Báez for limiting himself to a thumbs-down when he could have echoed the comments of Lee Elia, who was managing the Cubs in 1983 when he spent some four minutes delivering a rant that included the lines, “What the f--- am I supposed to do, go out there and let my f------ players get destroyed every day and be quiet about it? For the f------ nickel-dime people who turn up? The mother------- don't even work. That's why they're out at the f------ game. They oughta go out and get a f------ job and find out what it's like to go out and earn a f------ living. Eighty-five percent of the f------ world is working. The other 15 percent come out here. A f------ playground for the c---suckers.”
But it’s good vibes only at Citi Field. Earlier this month, a few minutes after the Mets were shut out for their fourth straight loss, first baseman Pete Alonso, fresh off a 1-for-19 stretch, reminded the faithful: “Mets fans, believe in us. … And also smile. You get to watch baseball. … We’re all in this together. Just smile, and just know that we got this.”
The Mets do got this. Two days after Alonso spoke, GM Zack Scott addressed his team’s rash of injuries.
“These guys are professionals, and for the most part, they’re locked in on what they’re supposed to do, but sometimes it doesn’t take much to—maybe you’re not eating as well as you could, you’ve got to change some habits, or maybe you’re not hydrating enough, even though everyone’s on you to hydrate,” he said. “At some point, you’ve got to take responsibility.”
And they have. After reporters rudely transcribed what Báez had said, righty Marcus Stroman <a href="https://twitter.com/STR0/status/1432157709600792586">tweeted</a>, “Media always searching for anything to cause controversy.” It marked his third Twitter tiff with writers in two weeks.
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With any luck, this signals we are already on our way to the next phase of the Mets’ dream season. It’s time for players and fans to band together against the true villains: reporters.
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New on Sports Illustrated: Good Vibes Only at Citi Field

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New on Sports Illustrated: Reports: Real Madrid Withdraws Push to Sign Kylian Mbappé This Summer

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Kylian Mbappé will evidently be sticking around with PSG through the remainder of this season at the very least, with French reports saying Real Madrid has withdrawn its push.
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Kylian Mbappé has never been bashful about admitting that it was a childhood dream to play for Real Madrid, but it appears like that dream will be deferred, for 10 months at least. 
According to French outlets <a href="https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Actualites/Transferts-le-real-madrid-stoppe-les-discussions-avec-le-psg-pour-kylian-mbappe/1281777">L'Equipe</a>, <a href="https://rmcsport.bfmtv.com/football/transferts/mercato-en-direct-les-infos-et-rumeurs-du-30-aout_LN-202108300035.html#article_49464">RMC</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/JulienMaynard/status/1432389832756584450">Téléfoot</a>, Real Madrid’s push to sign Mbappé this summer, before Tuesday’s transfer deadline, is off. Madrid, according to multiple reports, had two bids last week rebuffed by PSG, <a href="https://www.si.com/soccer/2021/08/24/kylian-mbappe-real-madrid-bid-psg-summer-transfer-window">one of €160 million ($188 million)</a> and <a href="https://www.si.com/soccer/2021/08/27/real-madrid-improves-transfer-offer-kylian-mbappe-psg">another of €180 million ($212 million)</a>, in its attempt to pry the 22-year-old French star from the European club game's version of the Dream Team. Mbappé’s contract expires at the end of this season, however, and as a result, Madrid could agree to a pre-contract with him in January and sign him on a free transfer next summer.
The timing of everything has been wild, to say the least. Mere weeks after <a href="https://www.si.com/soccer/2021/08/10/lionel-messi-psg-transfer-signing-barcelona">PSG landed Lionel Messi</a> on a free transfer from Barcelona to team him with Mbappé and Neymar in one of the most formidable front trios of all time, the piece with the brightest future—and the one with the greatest connection to Paris—had expressed his desire to not be a part of it at all, according to PSG sporting director Leonardo. 
PSG's attempts to extend Mbappé have been fruitless, with the player neglecting to follow in Neymar's footsteps after the Brazilian <a href="https://www.si.com/soccer/2021/05/08/neymar-signs-four-year-contract-extension-psg">extended his stay to 2025</a> in May. Club president Nasser Al-Khelaifi had remained adamant that Mbappé would absolutely be staying for the long term and would most certainly not be sold, and it appears that the latter half will be true. Whether that is good business is another issue entirely. Being able to effectively earn back what PSG paid Monaco to sign Mbappé in the first place, all for a player who has made it clear he wants out and is willing to run out his contract, would seem like a no-brainer from a bottom-line standpoint. But from a prestige perspective and considering the club's Champions League–or-bust mentality, holding onto Mbappé for at least this season could prove worthwhile enough.
Despite all of the speculation swirling in recent days, <a href="https://www.si.com/soccer/2021/08/29/lionel-messi-psg-debut-reims-kylian-mbappe-transfer-real-madrid">Mbappé started for PSG on Sunday and scored both goals</a> in a 2–0 win, looking not at all like a player who had one foot in the Spanish capital. The vaunted trio never played together, though, with Messi making his debut off the bench as a substitute for Neymar. With Mbappé set to stay, barring another 180 in this saga before the deadline hits, they'll at least have the chance to show the world the possibilities when they do get the chance to all feature as a unit. Mbappé reported to France national team camp on Monday ahead of three World Cup qualifying matches, and in those games he’ll team with Karim Benzema. When camp is over, though, they’ll be going separate ways instead of sharing a trip back to Madrid.
If Mbappé is still 100% convinced that he’ll be making that trip to Madrid next summer instead, then all this development in the transfer soap opera does is delay the inevitable. But it does also give PSG four months to make its case to have Mbappé either extend his current deal or contemplate signing a new one next summer, and it also opens the door for other clubs to enter the sweepstakes. Regardless, Real Madrid can’t sign Mbappé to any pre-contract until the winter transfer window opens, so until then, the goalposts are moved a bit on a done deal for the star forward, who, along with Dortmund’s Erling Haaland, is considered to be one of the elite young talents in the world.
One <a href="https://www.si.com/soccer/2021/08/25/kylian-mbappe-transfer-psg-real-madrid-leonardo-perez">could certainly question why Madrid</a>, whose debt level and financial situation were used as reasoning by club president Florentino Pérez for his insistence on <a href="https://www.si.com/soccer/2021/04/22/super-league-failure-uefa-clubs-next-steps">attempting to launch the Super League</a>, would want to spend so much now (and precisely how it’s able to spend so much) for a player it could sign to a pre-contract and then add without a fee next summer—especially if the player was so solely focused on joining the club. Perhaps after two seasons without an incoming transfer and funds raised from the sales of Raphaël Varane, Martin Ødegaard, Achraf Hakimi and Sergio Reguilón, among others, Madrid felt it was positioned to pull off the blockbuster now and leave nothing to chance. Leonardo thought perhaps that the effort was a bit of a smokescreen, either to present the facade of a club whose financial woes aren’t so bad or as a show to Mbappé that the club gave its best attempt to add him when it never fully intended to.
“It seems like a strategy to try to get a ‘no’ from us, to show that they have tried everything and to wait for a year to get Mbappé for free,” <a href="https://www.si.com/soccer/2021/08/25/kylian-mbappe-transfer-psg-real-madrid-leonardo-perez">he told RMC</a> last week.
Real Madrid’s only other addition this summer was versatile defender David Alaba, who came from Bayern Munich on a free transfer (but <a href="https://www.spiegel.de/sport/fussball/david-alaba-soll-bei-real-madrid-in-fuenf-jahren-garantierte-115-millionen-euro-verdienen-a-18593646-0002-0001-0000-000178589913">whose leaked contract</a> shows it was still a very costly move), and the club also offloaded longtime captain Sergio Ramos’s wages. Ramos, like Messi, joined PSG as part of an all-time summer class that has included Hakimi, Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma and ex-Liverpool midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum.
The five signings, along with the permanent addition of Danilo Pereira following his loan spell, were made in hopes of securing the club's first Champions League title. Losing Mbappé wouldn't have necessarily derailed those hopes; PSG is plenty deep. But it certainly would have taken some of the shimmer off the summer as well as delivering a hit to the club’s collective ego, to have Madrid steal its shining light.
This summer has featured some of the most landscape-altering moves the sport has seen in some time, especially in such volume. But one involving Mbappé, the transcendent star who famously had his boyhood bedroom walls plastered with posters of Cristiano Ronaldo during his time at Real Madrid, evidently will not be transpiring. Whether he winds up going next summer remains to be seen.
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New on Sports Illustrated: Reports: Real Madrid Withdraws Push to Sign Kylian Mbappé This Summer

Kylian Mbappé will evidently be sticking around with PSG through the remainder of this season at the very least, with French reports saying...

New on Sports Illustrated: Forde-Yard Dash: Will These 10 Coordinator Changes Work Out?

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Examining the outlook for several key personnel moves in 2021, starting with the reigning national champs.
Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football (Big 12 remnants sold separately in Dallas liquidation; everything must go):
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<h2>SECOND QUARTER: HOW GOOD IS YOUR NEW COORDINATOR?</h2>
Change is constant in college football, and coordinator changes have become much-scrutinized, big-dollar transactions. Some schools are trying to replace star coordinators who moved on to head-coaching jobs or higher-profile opportunities, while others are trying to correct mistakes. The Dash looks at 10 schools that made at least one big coordinator change, and how those might turn out:
Alabama (11). Key staff turnover: offensive coordinator. Who’s in: Bill O’Brien, former NFL and college head coach. Who’s out: Steve Sarkisian, now the head coach at Texas. O’Brien is the latest to enter the Saban Rehabilitation Center For Fired Head Coaches. At age 51 and having led both Penn State and the Houston Texans, he is one of the most experienced residents. O’Brien might not call games as aggressively as predecessors Sarkisian and Mike Locksley, but that probably would have more to do with the youth of his offense and the potential for this to be a Bama team led by defense. But if quarterback Bryce Young and his teammates show they’re capable, that could change quickly.
Outlook: Saban has had precious few coordinator misfires, and there’s no reason to believe this one will go poorly.
Notre Dame (12). Key staff turnover: defensive coordinator. Who’s in: Marcus Freeman, former DC at Cincinnati. Who’s out: Clark Lea, now the head coach at Vanderbilt. Brian Kelly lost one under-40 coaching star and replaced him with another. Under Lea, the Fighting Irish allowed fewer than 20 points and 350 yards per game for three straight seasons, something the program last accomplished in the Lou Holtz glory days of 1987 to ’89. But Freeman’s Cincinnati defenses were just about as stout over that same 2018 to ’20 time.
Outlook: This is Kelly pulling a Saban, losing great coaching talent and replacing it with great coaching talent.
Cincinnati (13). Key staff turnover: defensive coordinator. Who’s in: Mike Tressel, former DC at Michigan State. Who’s out: Freeman, now the DC at Notre Dame. Fickell plucked this hire from the Jim Tressel family/Mark Dantonio coaching tree, grabbing Jim’s nephew and former Dantonio assistant at Michigan State. The Spartans had 99 problems in the final years under Dantonio, but defense wasn’t one.
Outlook: This should be a good fit, with Fickell having plenty of input as well.
Oregon (14). Key staff turnover: defensive coordinator. Who’s in: Tim DeRuyter, former DC at California and before that the head coach at Fresno State. Who’s out: Andy Avalos, now the head coach at Boise State. The Ducks’ defense backslid last season, although it was playing much better in the last three games of the abbreviated and delayed COVID-19 than in the first four.
Outlook: Bringing in DeRuyter from within the Pac-12 North will pay dividends in terms of league knowledge, which should aid in scouting and gameplanning.
Penn State (15). Key staff turnover: offensive coordinator. Who’s in: Mike Yurcich, who arrives from Texas and before that Oklahoma State. Who’s out: Kirk Ciarrocca, now an offensive analyst at West Virginia. Yurcich has one job: repairing the confidence of starting quarterback Sean Clifford, which seemed to take a beating in his one season under Ciarrocca. It should help the offense significantly to have running back Noah Cain back after a season-ending injury in the first game of 2020.
Outlook: It almost has to be better than last year. And it may help Clifford to know he’s not looking over his shoulder to see whether Will Levis (see below) is replacing him.
LSU (16). Key staff turnover: offensive and defensive coordinators. Who’s in: Jake Peetz at OC, Daronte Jones at DC—both arrive from NFL staffs. Who’s out: Steve Ensminger, now an offensive analyst at LSU; Bo Pelini, out of coaching. Pelini was, dollar-for-dollar, maybe the worst coordinator hire of the 21st century. The offensive side of this makeover is a greater mystery. The quarterback depth chart has been thinned by transfer (TJ Finley to Auburn) and injury (Myles Brennan), and hiring a guy who worked with Joe Brady doesn’t guarantee that you’re getting Joe Brady (much less a guarantee that Max Johnson is Joe Burrow).
Outlook: Put the OC hire in the wait-and-see category. On the defensive side, things can only go up from Bo.
Michigan (17). Key staff turnover: defensive coordinator. Who’s in: Mike Macdonald, from John Harbaugh’s Baltimore Ravens staff. Who’s out: Don Brown, now the DC at Arizona. Harbaugh finally had enough of watching Ohio State receivers running free against Brown’s coverage schemes and made a change. Macdonald has said he prefers a defense that appears complex to an offense, with myriad looks, but is actually fairly simple. We’ll see what that means Saturday against Western Michigan.
Outlook: Brown had his strengths, and something of a cult following. But it was time for a change if Michigan wants to compete with the best of the Big Ten.
Indiana (18). Key staff turnover: defensive coordinator. Who’s in: Charlton Warren, who arrives after two years coaching defensive backs at Georgia. Who’s out: Kane Wommack, now the head coach at South Alabama. Wommack’s defense led the nation in interceptions per game last year with 17 in only eight contests played, while also excelling at hitting opposing quarterbacks. We’ll see whether Warren opts for a similar high-risk, high-reward scheme with a veteran returning unit, or picks his spots for blitzes.
Outlook: Grabbing someone from Kirby Smart’s defensive staff has been known to work well.
Kentucky (19). Key staff turnover: offensive coordinator. Who’s in: Liam Coen, who was with the Los Angeles Rams the past three years. Who’s out: Eddie Gran, who is out of coaching. Gran called a comically conservative offense, ranking 122nd nationally in passing yards per game and 113th in pass efficiency. Coen is expected to dramatically modernize the attack, but his ability to do that likely depends on quarterback Will Levis—a colorful character and dangerous runner but a limited passer in two seasons at Penn State.
Outlook: Any improvement in the UK passing game will be welcomed, but both the 35-year-old Coen and Levis have something to prove.
Missouri (20). Key staff turnover: defensive coordinator. Who’s in: Steve Wilks, who has NFL experience as a coordinator and a head coach. Who’s out: Ryan Walters, now the DC at Illinois. Walters showed his value in <a href="https://www.si.com/college/2021/08/29/scott-frost-nebraska-running-out-of-time-turnaround-loss-illinois">Illinois’s season-opening upset of Nebraska</a>, leading a defense that tackled well and flew to the ball. Wilks certainly knows the game, but he hasn’t coached at this level since 2004. Can he keep it simple enough for college players to grasp?
Outlook: Wilks has a couple of nice pieces to build around in edge rusher Trajan Jeffcoat and defensive back Martez Manuel, but departed linebacker Nick Bolton will be missed and Mizzou must prove it can stand up to proficient running attacks.
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New on Sports Illustrated: Forde-Yard Dash: Will These 10 Coordinator Changes Work Out?

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New on Sports Illustrated: Ex-NFL QB Trent Dilfer Takes 'Full Responsibility' for Heated Exchange With High School Player

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Dilfer, now a high school football coach in Nashville, apologized  for a heated confrontation with one of his players.
Former NFL quarterback Trent Dilfer, now a high school football coach in Nashville,
</a><a href="https://twitter.com/LAmustangFB?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">apologized over the weekend after a heated confrontation with one of his players went viral.</a>
The former Ravens Super Bowl-winning quarterback and ESPN analyst acts as the head coach at Lipscomb Academy, where he was caught on video yelling at, and shoving, one of his players on the sideline during a 62-7 win Friday.
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It is unclear what sparked Dilfer's strong reaction.
“I want to address the incident on our sideline during Friday night’s game vs. Independence that has drawn a lot of attention,” <a href="https://twitter.com/LAmustangFB/status/1431781756068302848">Dilfer said in a statement</a>.<a href="https://twitter.com/LAmustangFB?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor"> </a>“First and foremost, I take full responsibility as the head coach and leader of our team for not de-escalating an emotional situation with one of our players, Beau Dawson. 
"Beau is one of our finest student-athletes and embodies all the characteristics we are looking for in our Mustang players. Beau plays the game with the right kind of passion and is an inspiration to our other players."
The player in question, Beau Dawson, is the son of former NFL kicker Phil Dawson, who serves as Lipscomb's special teams coordinator.
Dilfer was the No. 6 pick in the 1994 NFL draft by the Buccaneers. He spent the first six years of his career with Tampa Bay before playing with the Ravens, Seahawks, Browns and 49ers. 
ESPN hired him as an NFL analyst in 2008 and he worked for the network until 2017. 
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