Several Follow-Ups on Current Stories

(EDIT:  I've added several stories, as the hits just keep on coming on this Wednesday!)

• Ndakumong Suh is appealing his $100,000 fine as excessive.  OK, he has the right to appeal.  It also is the largest on-field player fine in the history of the NFL.  I get that he feels it's excessive.  But am I the only person on the face of planet Earth to realize that this fine was basically Level 2 on the Aggravator (after a suspension) for Suh's "criminal record" with Player Safety?  The 2011 suspension was made two games on the mention of Suh's then-fifth incident with Player Safety.  Sunday's is Suh's seventh, and that's only the first game of Suh's fourth NFL season.
• SI.com's "The Conscience" eviscerates the lack of discipline in the Detroit Lions.  Does anyone else realize that Suh's fine (and this is if the Lions get no further fines this week -- that comes out on Friday) is the SEVENTH Player Safety/Player Discipline on-field fine for a Detroit Lion (and it's seven different Lions), and this is only Week One of the regular season?  Yes, the Detroit Lions got six fines in just two of the four pre-season games, five in a tilt with the New England Patriots Pre-Season Week 3.
• Von Miller may be in even MORE trouble.  Coach John Fox is not happy with Miller, who got a speeding/revoked license citation in the first week of his six-game Step Two drug suspension last week.  Though it is basically confirmed the NFL will not take any further action against Miller at this time (no other parties involved, no drugs involved, etc.), one has to begin to wonder about Von Miller's future in Denver post-suspension/
• NASCAR is investigating two more teams for rigging positions in the Richmond race for purposes of the 2013 Chase for the Sprint Cup, Yahoo! and the AP report.  Yes, this will get a larger post if anything comes of the investigation -- and the AP seems to have ducks in a row on this one too.  This is a classic case of "pull one string, and the entire blanket unravels".  This is a deal-making situation between Front Row Motorsports and David Gilliland and Penske Racing and Joey Logano.  Yes, money (and possible other considerations -- it would not be out of the question, if you read the article, to believe that positions within Penske Racing may well have been offered to spotter/driver/somebody for getting Logano in the Chase) appears to have changed hands.  More illegal Sports Bribery.
• The two major Michael Waltrip Racing sponsors are considering pulling their sponsorships after the race-fixing penalties in Richmond, NASCAR.com reports.  If Five Hour Energy (Clint Bowyer's main sponsor) and NAPA Auto Parts (Martin Truex') pull out, MWR is finished.  That's exactly what should happen.  The third sponsor, for the part-time car of Brian Vickers, has also condemned the action.  I've already sent a tweet to 5-Hour Energy to pull the plug now and throw Bowyer off the track.
• My Super Fraud post on the Michael Waltrip Racing incident (with some videos added and some slight editing) has been added as a Guest Post on Brian Tuohy's The Fix Is In website.  Brian's new book, Larceny Games, is out now.
• Sports Illustrated, this week on SI.com, is publishing a 5-part series exposing the Oklahoma State University football program.  This will, time permitting, get it's own post.  How much of this is not common in most of the major college sports programs, though, is up for debate.  Part 1 was player payments.  Part 2, today, is on academic fraud.  Part 3 is on a drug culture, part 4 is sex (anyone who still doesn't believe "cheerleading", in this day and age, does not constitute a violent-male-dominated sexual harem culture for the athletes (and NOT entirely consensual) and against those who are not athletes is just not paying attention), and part 5 is the "fallout".  Keith Olbermann, on his new ESPN2 show, has already conceded that NCAA FBS football is professional football and should be treated as such.  (Very interesting video, in which an author on the subject also does a nice slam on the fans of the National Religion.)
• In a similar vein, Yahoo! Sports has released an investigation nailing five SEC players for illegal and improper benefits through agents, as part of a recruiting process for that agent for players who were forecasted to be drafted in the NFL Draft.  One of them is Alabama's D.J. Fluker.  Now, obviously, the BCS is not going to act until the NCAA does, but they have lots of evidence against Fluker (and you can see a slideshow of copies here) which would indicate that the 2012-13 BCS National Championship may have to be vacated.