Updates, Football and Otherwise...

• Jaylen Ivey was suspended for two games for his outburst.  Ivey kicked a downed player and appeared to challenge the crowd in a televised incident in a Missouri high-school football game.
• The Rio Paralympics actually launched without a hitch, and a major movement to sell tickets to the event after the main Olympics ended has apparently met huge success!! (Inside the Games)
• The Medal Count Nobody Cares About Race:  The Paralympics medal table, through three full days competition, is led by China, and by a significant margin (26 gold, 69 total -- they won 231 in London to top the table by a massive margin).  Second is Great Britain in golds (15 gold, 35 total) and Ukraine in total (10 gold, 37 total), the two flip-flopping for third.  The United States Paralympic team is is fourth in both totals, with eight gold and 26 total medals.  The hosts, Brazil, are next with 5 gold and 19 total.
• 42 countries have won Paralympic gold medals so far, 64 total nations have won medals.
• One of the reasons for so many more medals is the Paralympics, being for handi-capable athletes (I'm NOT calling them "disabled", for God's sake!!!), has to have different variations of the same event for differently handi-capable athletes (be they in wheelchairs, be they amputees, etc. and so forth and so on).
• Interesting nations on the table:  Cape Verde has one bronze medal.  Yes, I had to look this up:  Cape Verde is a small set of islands west of the African mainland.  This is their first medal in the Olympic movement.  
• Kuwait's Paralympic Committee has NOT been suspended.  They, like their Olympic counterpart, have a gold medal in these Games.
• The country of Georgia also has their first Paralympic medal, and it is a gold medal.
• You can catch Paralympic action on the streaming-video site DailyMotion.
• The head of the IOC continues to show why he doesn't care to be the head of the IOC.  Thomas Bach has decided to skip the Paralympics and go to Zagreb instead to celebrate three years as head of the IOC.  (Inside the Games)
• The charges against the Olympic Council of Ireland's President, Thomas Hickey, for illegal sale of tickets, have apparently been filed and accepted.  Hickey is now under house arrest in Brazil after being released from one of Brazil's more hardcore jails. (Inside the Games)
• The coach of the South Korean swimming team was forced to resign over the "Peeping Tom" scandal involving at least one, if not two, Olympic swimmers.

Two final additions to the NFL suspension list, leaving the final number of suspended players for at least Game 1 at 41, with all but six being for drugs.

• Carolina Panthers:  Chris Scott, 4 games.  PED's.  Forfeiture is $185,882.
• Buffalo Bills:  Seantrel Henderson, 4 games.  Forfeiture is $144,169.