Quick Hits 8/20: Jerry's Worth Three Billion, Johnny's Not The Starter, And Other "Fun"

• Well, if The Finger did it, it did it:  Johnny Manziel has been benched and Brian Hoyer will start the season.  Current skinny gives Hoyer about three weeks until the latest ESPN fraud takes over.
• Jerry Jones has done another piece of history:  His Dallas Cowboys have just been adjudged the first American sports franchise to exceed a value of $3,000,000,000.  Too bad that so many joke 8-8 teams inflated by The Tony Romo Story (No, Romo is not necessarily the problem -- the team just sucks so bad, but will be on NBC, it seems, every Week 17 playing for (and losing) a playoff spot, because of Romo's Q-Rating...) have probably decreased the Forbes value from a proposed post-Ballmer $4 billion-plus down to "just" $3,200,000,000.  (New England is second at $2.6 billion -- the Rams are last at about $930,000,000.)
• Is it any coincidence that, the same year that Adam Silver has his first full year as NBA Commissioner, only one of the most infamous game-fixing referees in the history of the sport, Dick "Knick" Bavetta, retires?  Didn't think so.
• The school refused to expel him, the police declined to press charges, so the alleged victim of a rape by University of Tulsa basketball player Patrick Swilling Jr. is suing the university for failure to protect.