Some stuff which has fallen through the Olympic cracks:

• Todd Grisham, shut up.  And ESPN, fire him.

Why?

Deadspin reports that Todd had the audacity, on the occasion of Ichiro Suzuki's 3,000th Major League Baseball hit to state the overall Hit King should've learned English at some point in his 15 years in the league.

The former WWE commentator's tweet should come as no surprise with a network which has seen fit to keep Curt Schilling on for several social media gaffes, until they finally had no choice and fired his ass.

Two stories from the front of baseball stadium fiascos:

• A runoff election was held in Cobb County, Georgia, in which Tim Lee, who supported moving the Braves out of predominantly Black Atlanta to predominantly White Cobb County was trounced (in both the primary and the run-off) by new Commissioner Mike Boyce.  The stadium was seen as the major reason for the election of Boyce, even as far back as the primary. 
• And in a rare moment of sanity by elected officials with respect to these things, and in the face of the all-too-common threat to leave Arizona if the Diamondbacks don't get a new or upgraded stadium, Maricopa County has rejected most of the demanded taxpayer money for upgrades, with one county supervisor, Andy Kunasek, launching a massive profane tirade at the owners of the Diamondbacks and telling them that they can "take your stupid baseball team and get out" and go back "to fucking West Virginia".

An ominous match-fixing story out of England regarding this year's Wimbledon tournament:

• Brian Tuohy forwarded this story out of The Daily Telegraph:

From BBC News Editor Nick Sutton:

I know of at least one NCAA FB & NFL team that were food poisoned by fixers in the past, so this is not outlandish. https://t.co/HrhyPyZnfy

— Brian Tuohy (@TheFixIsInTuohy) August 10, 2016

Gabriella Taylor has had a Scotland Yard investigation opened into the illness which forced her to withdraw from the Wimbledon girls championship (held at the same time as the main tournaments you know of).

Midway through a quarterfinal match, she had to quit because of an illness that she had no idea what was going on about.

She was put in intensive care with a rare bacteria that could only be transmitted in rat urine.

That's right:  Someone attempted to fix the match by poisoning one of the competitors, it is now believed!  It is believed that her bags were pilfered and rat urine was placed in her drinks while the bags were unattended.

Seriously...

In 2016....

And look at Brian's claim that this is not uncommon here either!!!