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The first week of October is Chinas National Holiday. Adidas David Clarkson Jersey . During this seven-day period, tourist attractions are at full capacity and there are big crowds everywhere.Not everybody likes this so call Golden Week -- you can image what its like when nearly half a billion people are traveling at the same time in the same country.However, the China Open, which has been held in Beijings National Tennis Center for the past seven years, lives up to the weeks name.The tournament was upgraded to Premier status in 2009. It is a combined ATP-WTA event, the biggest tournament on the Asian continent. There was some ambition early on to build a fifth grand slam, and the easiest way was to copy the best. China Open organizers learned as much as they could from the US Open, from sponsorship to court layouts. In 2006, the China Open became the first tournament outside the United States to implement Hawk-Eye replay.The grand slam ambition eventually faded, replaced by a focus on making money during this Golden Week. And it has worked. For the 2015 China Open, the event attracted 244,557 fans. Of course, it still doesnt match the US Open, but the gap isnt as big as it used to be.During the 2014 China Open, I spent a week covering the tournament. By walking around the National Tennis Center, you can sense that China is building its own tennis culture and looking for its own identity.We try to create an atmosphere of family vacation, not only the tennis matches, said Zhang Junhui, director of the China Open. The average stay time for fans is five hours and 23 percent of them are from outside of Beijing. More and more Chinese families are willing to spend their money and time on these kinds of events, and the China Open is becoming a tourist attraction.All over China, the middle class is growing and prosperity is increasing, making tennis more popular -- 15 million people play regularly. Landing a tennis event is a shortcut to promote a citys image. Its usually called a citys name card.In Wuhan, Li Nas hometown, city officials spearheaded the Wuhan Open. They built a 1.5 billion yuan (approximately $225 million) state-of-the-art tennis facility.In 2016, the WTA has events in Guangzhou, Wuhan, Beijing, Tianjin, Hong Kong, and Zhuhai. The ATP has Chengdu, Shenzhen, Beijing and Shanghai. Thats a new combined record.Tennis is growing quickly in China, and the market still has room to grow. Sure, many fans are still learning the sports rules, history and culture. And too many events in a short period can create unhelpful competition. 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Coach Charlie Strong, who was crowd-surfed by his players after the win over the Fighting Irish, is just trying find a way to uncork the Longhorns potential while fighting to keep his job.Texas and Baylor have met 105 times through the years, with the Longhorns holding a 75-26-4 edge. Lately, the Bears have controlled the series, winning four of the past six editions.Baylor has started 6-0 in each of the last four years, a program first and the only FBS program to do so.The rivalry has become testy in the past few years, with plenty of animosity on display between the two teams -- and even a fistfight -- in Texas 23-17 win in Waco last year.We expect it to be a little more intense than the other games, Baylor quarterback Seth Russell said. So we are expecting that going into it and just trying to focus on winning the game. We cant control the outside distractions, so theres no reason to really worry about them.Baylor linebacker Aiavion Edwards said the Bears will approach this game like they would any other opponent despite the recent fireworks between the two teeams. Adidas Ryan Murray Jersey. We just have to focus on the next win, the next game, so its huge anyway you look at it, Edwards said. Were trying to focus on taking care of business and going down there and getting a win. After playing here, and playing in the Big 12, you respect all the teams. (Texas is) the next team up.The Bears are the most complete team in the Big 12, averaging 549.2 yards of offense (third most in the conference and fourth nationally) while allowing just 320.3 yards per game (best in the Big 12 and 16th nationally in total defense).Things have to change, and in a hurry, if Texas is going to salvage this year from the scrap heap.We just havent played well and we have to be better, Strong said Monday in his weekly media availability. Wed like to see more (improvement), would like to be better and we are so close, maybe just a few plays away each game. Everyones tired of hearing me say that, including the players, but thats where we are.The Longhorns had every opportunity to snatch a victory last week at Kansas State but couldnt take advantage of the Wildcats rare show of generosity that included eight penalties and three turnovers as well as forgetting to cover Texas wide receiver Devin Duvernay on a deep pass that went for the Longhorns first touchdown.You just get sick because you see all the points you left out there on the field, Texas wide receiver Dorian Leonard said. Were still just trying to put our finger on that one thing thats just holding us back. Im so ready for this game. Going into practice this week, Im going to try to be the hype man all week, try to keep everybody up.Texas junior running back DOnta Foreman has been a key cog in the Longhorns offense and ranks third in the country with an average of 142.5 rushing yards per game. 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