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Sometimes, Kiyan Anthony goes home and sits in the dark. No roommates, no distractions. It’s the only time the voices don’t creep in.

Because when the freshman walks outside his apartment, the noise returns. There’s constant media attention. Classmates request pictures. Once, someone followed him to his car.

His teammates insist they wouldn’t assume his background based on how he carries himself. But as the son of basketball royalty, it’s impossible not to know who Kiyan is.

Before his first Cape Cod Baseball League appearance, Carsten Sabathia said he hoped to give his father, CC, a nice Father’s Day gift by doing something cool during the game. The Brewster Whitecaps 6-foot-4 first baseman got that chance in the bottom of the second inning.

When Carsten stepped into the batter’s box Sunday evening, CC was in uncharted waters. Instead of standing 60 feet and six inches away from home plate on the pitcher’s mound like he had 561 times throughout his 19-year Major League career, he was stationed in the bleachers.

Throughout his oldest son’s first Cape League at bat, CC remained emotionless as the count evened at 2-2. But when Carsten ripped a line drive single into left field on the fifth pitch, CC couldn’t help but applaud his son as he rounded first base.

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John Clare needed the red wine he was drinking from a clear Dunkin’ Donuts cup — badly.

Unlike PGA Tour stars such as Rory McIlroy, who went from East Lake Golf Club in Georgia to Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York in less than three hours via private jet last month, Clare doesn’t have a glamorous travel life.

Expecting a connecting flight to Philadelphia before heading to Detroit, Clare thought an airport worker was half joking when she said he was actually taking an American Airlines bus. (She wasn’t kidding.)

Given Oakmont’s uncanny greens, you’ll inevitably hear throughout U.S. Open week about the Stimpmeter, a tool used to measure a green’s speed by seeing how far a golf ball rolls off a ramp. The amazingly simple device was created in 1935 by Edward S. Stimpson, the idea originating after Stimpson observed Gene Sarazen putt a ball off a green into a bunker during that year’s U.S. Open at … wait for it … Oakmont.

A Stimpmeter’s measurement is referred to in “Stimps,” which is the average distance a golf ball rolls off the Stimpmeter in feet. Most everyday golfers encounter greens with a Stimp reading in the eight-to-10 range, while the typical PGA Tour event is around 12.