Several Updates

• More arrests in Switzerland as more top FIFA officials are arrested for the growing number of bribes endemic in the organization.  Two of the arrested are the heads of CONCACAF and CONMEBOL, meaning now that Western Hemisphere soccer has no official head at this point. It is becoming more and more clear with each passing day that FIFA itself will not survive this, that FIFA and the match-fixers are in bed with each other and run world soccer together.  The only way anything close to the present situation would hold court is like what chess had a couple decades ago -- two rival world sanctioning bodies, the match-fixers holding on to the remnants of FIFA, the rest of the world going with somebody else.
• Under South African law, the prosecution can appeal a conviction if it feels errors were made that would gain a greater conviction.  Oscar Pistorius is probably heading back to jail, the appeals courts in South African now ruling he was guilty of full-scale murder, rather than what we would probably equivocate to manslaughter.
• Continuing problems at BYU, as the dirty play doesn't appear to be just in football.  The Mormon university had a player ejected last night for a cheap shot to the head.  BYU had it's rivalry game with Utah, and BYU's Nick Emery decked Utah's Brandon Taylor with a shot to the head and was looking for more when he was tossed!  It really is beginning to make me wonder -- it has been said that BYU's sporting events double as Mormon religious events.  One has to think that the hate endemic in Mormon culture is rubbing off on the athletes of BYU.
• Brian Tuohy with an interesting theory on his NFL page, as people like Skip Bayless believe the first New England loss of the year -- to Denver Sunday night -- was a rig-job.

"What if Peyton Manning isn't really injured? Sure, his foot is in a walking boot, but as mentioned above, I never saw the man limp despite a torn tendon/ligament in his foot. What if the Broncos - and by extension, the league - is protecting him for the time being? The Broncos are already playoff bound, so why not put old man Manning on ice for a while and save him for when the games really count again? Osweiler appears to be the odd backup QB that can actually play NFL football...at least enough to keep the media asking questions about who should start, is Manning going to be traded, or retire, blah, blah, blah. But what if it's all a ruse intended to build suspense and interest until Manning's return for that final Super Bowl push?"