Athletics

And although unsegregated, the driver ordered him to the back of the bus.

Robinson refused and was later court-martialed, but he was acquitted of charges and transferred to Kentucky, where he became a coach for Army Athletics until he was honorably discharged in 1944.

With his military career behind him, in 1945, he accepted an offer with the Kansas City Monarchs.

They had sent Robinson an offer to play professional baseball in the Negro Leagues, which had operated since the early 1920s and was a semi-professional baseball association that allowed Black players in the United States.

He became the father of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and the grandfather of Justin Trudeau.

With financing secure, the team needed a field, and Delorimier Stadium was built in Montreal to serve as their home park.

From 1933 to 1934, the Royals were the farm team for the Philadelphia Athletics, then became the minor team for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1937 to 1938.

In 1939, they became the top farm team of the Brooklyn Dodgers and emerged as one of the best squads in the minors.

Welcome to today's edition of The Ernie.

I'm your host, Liam Oyo, and it is an honor and a privilege to welcome today's guest, pickleball legend and fellow Florida Gator and pickleball OG, Kyle Yates.

A multiple number one, multiple time national champion and back-to-back coach for Team USA at the Pickleball World Cup, Kyle's one of the pioneers of our sport.

While some call him the original Pickleball Goat, he prefers the title Pickleball OG.

And for those listening, you might recognize his voice too.

Kyle and I formed our friendship at Danny Warfel's Pickleball in Atlanta in 2023, and we reconnect every year at the U.S. Open.

He's someone I look forward to.

Advice is a friend, player, and coach, and I'm always learning from his experiences.

Coming off the bye week, there's not anything to discuss retroactively from this past weekend for the Kansas City Chiefs.

And we're still just far enough away from Sunday's game against the Chargers that there's not a whole lot to get into about the preview of that game.

They haven't even had their first practice of the week yet.

So a lot to wait on in that situation.

The rest of the year.

I feel like if we're in a position where Justin Watson has to place like considerable snaps, this wide receiver core is in a really bad place.

So where do they go from here? And the biggest name that's been thrown out has been Tyreek Hill.

I mean, even I myself, I tweeted out during the game Sunday against the Raiders that the Chiefs might have Juju Smith-Schuster and Tyreek Hill signed before the plane lands on the tarmac in Kansas City.

Uh.

It starts with an A.

Yeah, but you're not, you can't s- I mean, you can say aloha, but we're not in Hawaii and you're not Hawaiian.

Right, I have, I have nothing to-

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I agree.

After I read those answers, I wanted to delete the app.

And that's obviously a great thing to hear.

I- it's almost like, you know, when my, one of my little guys says, "I wanna make straight A's." And I'm like, "Well, yeah, all right." Right.

"Well go now, go do it then." It's like easy thing to say, harder thing to do.

What do we believe? Well, it sort of happened last year, but the problem is that it happened during what Tai Witzell appropriately called the weird part of the season, right? [laughs] So you don't know what to believe in and what not to.