Several Updates

Sorta kinda hibernation time for the blog...  Do have a few things...

• More than a few people a bit unconvinced by Brock Lesnar's return to the Octagon, given he's still under WWE contract.  Would need to see last night's fight with Mark Hunt to know more, though...
• And someone just needs to investigate UFC as a whole and Dana White in particular.  Jon Jones now will be banned two years for a failed drug test that nearly scuttled the landmark card, and forced White to find Anderson Silva on 72 hours notice to "fight" Daniel Cormier to at least justify Cormier's existence on the card.
• One of the more iconic images of the night was Connor McGregor standing during a fight he probably was supposed to be in -- look for that to command big money for McGregor...
• How big?  Consider this:  Brock Lesnar's base pay for UFC 200 was $2.5 million.  The main event's two fighters (a women's bantamweight title bout) got $600,000 -- the former champion Tate got $500,000, the new champ Nunez got $100,000.  In fact, the rest of the main card only made $2.91 million in their purses (Lesnar's opponent Hunt got the next most at $700,000.)
• I'm looking at a major project for the blog between now and the start of the National Bloodfeast Religion (known as football):  There Is No Law.  And it may, at least in one case, seriously deviate from the sports nature of this blog, but will certainly encompass a MAJOR Super Fraud.
• Well, they survived the Euro 2016:  Portugal defeated the hosts with an extra-time goal to win the title 1-0, in what may well have been the major-tournament swan song for Cristiano Ronaldo.  (Insert your conspiracy theories here.)
• And a frightening scene as the match was starting:  Within eyesight of the stadium, tear gas deployed to restore order at the official Euro 2016 Fan Zone for the Final.
• The Russia Report from WADA is supposed to drop on Friday the 15th, three weeks before the Opening Ceremonies of a Rio Olympics now $1.6 billion over budget and the police cannot ensure anyone's safety at the Games.  
• The Russian men's quad sculls team has been disqualified from Rio for a drug violation.  Their weightlifters may also be banned, but retests must be confirmed by the IOC before that sport's sanctioning body will determine that result.