Various Completely Unsurprising Rumors: Shit is About To Hit the Fan Again...

Lots from the rumor mill...  NONE OF THIS IS COMPLETELY CONFIRMED.

• Adam Schefter says the purported Dez Bryant video exists of a "worse than Ray Rice" incident. (Yardbarker.)

Worse for the NFL:  The video, according to an interview Schefter did with a Chicago radio station, is from at least September.  More when the video actually surfaces or the NFL disciplines Bryant.

• Josh Hamilton has admitted a cocaine relapse and is in New York facing a drug suspension from Major League Baseball.  (Two stories from Yardbarker.)

Duh.  Anyone who knows this area (Anaheim/Inland Empire) and Josh Hamilton's past knew the days were counting down until this happened.

• One from professional wrestling, just for kicks:  Vince McMahon may be screwed for the upcoming WrestleMania 31, and the main event involving Brock Lesnar.  (Various sources.)

This one's a bit harder to pin down.  Brock Lesnar, the current WWE World Heavyweight Champion who's wrestled three matches since defeating the Undertaker one year ago (His title win, one aborted defense, and one defense at January's Royal Rumble.), stormed out of a scheduled appearance on Monday Night Raw this week for an undisclosed non-creative/business reason.  This is basically accepted among the wrestling rumor mill.

Since then, to put it politely, the rumor mill has been abuzz as to why.  This caused the WWE's booking of Raw, only 34 days before WrestleMania, to be as confused as ever, if not even worse (with Smackdown spoilers indicating tomorrow night's show is no better!!).

Though most people, at first glance (as well as I) felt that the WWE might have notified Lesnar that he, on the cusp of a contract decision that might send him back to UFC, failed a drug test pursuant to the WWE's Wellness Policy.

The big rumor someone has put on Reddit is that it wasn't Lesnar, but his WrestleMania opponent, Roman Reigns (the cousin of The Rock, and, hence, Vince McMahon's Chosen One -- to the chagrin of just about everyone not a fan of Reigns at this juncture!) who failed the test, and WWE is openly covering it up.

This would make sense, since Lesnar is believed to be leaving WWE at the end of the contract, and the UFC, to stem off out-of-control PED usage in their company, is instituting year-round testing (Yeah, right!! They do that, and they'll have maybe 15 fighters in their employ!!!).  Lesnar fighting Reigns under that cloud will make Lesnar look bad and subject to his own scrutiny, and might even endanger a proposed deal with UFC.

We'll keep an eye on all of this.