The US Open risks losing a generation of fans by going head-to-head with the NFL

The men's final is shifting its start time, putting it in a fight for eyeballs with the media behemoth and stripping away a unique moment on the tennis calendar Of all sports, baseball has claimed - somewhat arrogantly - the literary mantle with so many scribes waxing rhapsodically about the inherent beauty of the game, engendering wistful reflections upon a season's end. One thinks of the late MLB commissioner Bart Giamatti's quote about baseball being "designed to break your heart" as it comme...