Steve Frye

Local news, Online editor @TheOaklandPress, English Premiere League, Oakland Co., media, rocknroll, tv, parenting, Detroit sports and a little politics.

[TV Football 1968-92 @1968Tv]

The most violent World Cup match of all-time. Italy v Chile from 1962, which was dubbed ‘The Battle Of Santiago’
Commentator David Coleman
#WorldCup #FIFAWorldCup #Italy #Chile

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@PureMichigannow Lehto’s on US 2 a bit west of bridge. There is a roadside pull off nearby with picnic tables overlooking Lake Michigan

[Bugsy Sailor @BugsySailor]

I finished a large batch of sunrises from October 2023. Please click and have a look.

Only 40 sunrises remain to edit and publish from 2023.

https://t.co/UIIQO1wqRo

[Lexis @niilexis]

If you’re an Arsenal fan, find 10 minutes out of your day to watch this. Absolute cinema.

[Dovi Safier @safier]

“It was one of the most monumentally unselfish things one group of people did for another.”

-#DDay veteran Andy Rooney on the young 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy 82 years ago.

Required watching for every young person today!

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

BBC Radio newsreader John Snagge gives the first news of the D-Day landing at 9:32 AM to the British public.

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@iamAtheistGirl Happy birthday and thanks for fighting the good fight.

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@SarahSevans2000 Farmers market and errands.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

A 24-year-old Polish tennis player arrived in Paris last week ranked 114th in the world, with no sponsors, no guaranteed income, and no certainty she could even pay for her hotel room.

She had to win three qualifying matches just to enter the French Open main draw. Prize money is only paid at the end of the tournament, so a Polish sports drink brand quietly stepped in and covered her hotel bill.

Her name is Maja Chwalinska. And today, she plays in the French Open final.

Before this tournament, she had won exactly one Grand Slam main draw match in her entire career. She had battled depression so severe that in 2021 she couldn't get out of bed. She underwent knee surgery in 2022. She spent years grinding through small tournaments across Europe just to stay afloat.

Then she arrived in Paris, won three qualifiers, and kept winning. Zheng Qinwen. Elise Mertens. Maria Sakkari. Diana Shnaider. Nine straight matches. One set dropped.

She is now the first qualifier in French Open history to reach the final. The last time a qualifier reached a Grand Slam final, it was Emma Raducanu at the 2021 US Open. Raducanu won.

By simply making the final, Chwalinska has earned more prize money than her entire career combined. The runner-up cheque alone is $1.6 million. If she wins today, she takes home $3.25 million.
One week ago she couldn't pay for her hotel room.

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@EmmaScott @Dad_2_The_Bone Nice hat

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@GoonerGirl1969 I hope that doesn’t cost the Gunners, but Saka wasn’t in any hurry. Why take so long when the 6 minutes are up? One header and it could have been 2-0.

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@SarahSevans2000 My youngest just finished freshman year, and right now I’m waiting to pick her up from her former school’s 8th grade graduation so she could see her friends celebrate.

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

My love for Crystal Palace was passed down to me by my Dad, who in turn had been made into a Palace fan by his old man.

From the very beginning, it was stressed to me that following our football club was not about glory or trophies, it was about supporting your local team, having pride in South London when so many at my school chose to support clubs from further afield because they won things, celebrating those triumphs through their TV screens rather than with their own two eyes.

I’ve had a season ticket at Palace for 24 years now, have done just under 650 games, been to 46 different grounds and seen us get hammered by the likes of Scunthorpe and Crewe to name just a couple. I wouldn’t change a single second of it but this last year has been completely surreal.

To see my team lift an FA Cup at Wembley was something I couldn’t quite my head around, generations before me had lived and died, my Grandad included without ever witnessing a major trophy win, the subsequent European tour has been the stuff of dreams.

Last night in Leipzig, I broke down in genuine floods of tears at full-time, not because it necessarily meant “more” than last season’s FA Cup but because I simply never comprehended Palace playing in Europe, let alone winning a trophy at our first attempt.

My little boy is now following in my footsteps with his love for the club and he gets to grow up in a time when Palace are multiple trophy winners, it’s a quantum leap away from where I was at 7 years old and I love the fact that he can go to school and genuinely stand with his chest puffed out because of the club’s achievements.

I’ll stop waffling bollocks now; I’m just so, so happy. ❤️

[Bugsy Sailor @BugsySailor]

Today's overheard Sunrise Gallery testimonial

★☆☆☆☆

Husband: Do you want to check out what's back there?

Wife: It's just pictures.

They proceed to walk out.

https://t.co/je5yVIjKV0

[Matthew Keys @MatthewKeysLive]

Just one day after ending "The Late Show" on CBS, Stephen Colbert returned to TV — to host a public access show with rocker Jack White in Monroe, Michigan.

Appearances by Jeff Daniels, Eminem and Steve Buscemi.

[Michigan Storm Chasers @MiStormChasers]

Bird migration continues this weekend with over 600 million birds expected over the next 3 nights across the US, and over 11 million estimated in Michigan alone!

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

These streets are our own ❤️‍🔥

[🚨The Celebration Police🚨 @PLCPolice]

Arsenal celebrating like they’ve won the league

[afcstuff @afcstuff]

PARTY ON THE STREETS OF LONDON TONIGHT. 🕺🎆

🎥 @chuckdavie