The One Eclipsed by Serena's Dispute | Red Beret Youths Shake Uganda's Dictatorship

An unlikely movement of young Ugandans is shaking Yoweri Museveni’s regime like never before.

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni was addressing nearly 10,000 supporters of his National Resistance Movement (NRM) party in Arua, a town 300 miles northwest of Kampala, but the energy that day lay with another speaker less than a mile away. There, Afrobeat musician Robert Kyagulanyi, better known as Bobi Wine, was addressing an audience of about 30,000 youths. The MP from Kampala’s Kyadondo East constituency reminded his audience that Uganda’s presidential elections are just two years away, and then launched a pointed attack. “We should make sure that we take over power from Museveni and his other corrupt leaders,” he said, to loud chants of “People Power, Our Power” – also the name of Wine’s political organization.

The contrast in crowd sizes during the Arua rallies on August 13 pointed to a larger shift taking root in Uganda. For 32 years, Museveni has ruled the East African nation with an iron fist, crushing political opposition even while maintaining warm relations with the West and with institutions like the International Monetary Fund, which once held him up as a model leader for Africa. Now, a growing youth movement, which has emerged almost out of nowhere over the past year, is threatening to do what the country’s main opposition party, the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), has failed to do: unseat Museveni.

Japan’s first Grand Slam champion, Naomi Osaka, defeated her childhood hero Serena Williams in U.S. Open Final.

As the sky darkened and lights glowed on Saturday evening, fans watched a complex drama unfold on the courts of Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens, New York. Embedded in the showdown between Grand Slam finalists Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka and the umpire presiding over them, Carlos Ramos, were glaring clashes of race and gender, power and privilege.

By now, you’ve probably heard that Williams’ attempt at a record-tying 24th Grand Slam singles title fell short amid a broiling dispute between her and Ramos over three code violations. And while the dispute raises important conversations about race and gender, Osaka has been unfairly eclipsed by the fallout.

From the 49ers to the Titans, teams are looking to emulate the Rams this year, hoping for success.

Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay is miked up during an August training camp practice, as he buzzes from player to player like a bee pollinating a flower garden, reciting jargon from his playbook with aplomb. “Hollywood Bunch! Hollywood Bunch!” McVay shouts, indicating one of the Rams’ oft-used bunch sets, which tightly group any combination of pass-catchers on one side of the field.

Then, he calls out something a little harder to decipher: “Trips Right Tight Yuc Pass 14 Wanda Man X Strike can it with 14 Wanda Man!”

Sound complicated? It is, but there’s a reason the 32-year-old coach is being hailed as a wunderkind. It’s thanks to plays like this, which took the NFL by storm last season, McVay’s first, and helped the Rams turn around from a 4-12 team to an 11-5 one in a mere four months.