And yet further extensions, including the statement of one Kenny Omega...

More NJPWXCEO child-molester tidbits today...

Word has gotten back to Omega regarding his employment of Chasyn Rance, convicted child molester, on last night's wrestling card in Florida.

Here was his initial comment on the situation:

Here it is: I produced all matches from dark match #2 on.I gave the ring crew (also a wrestling school) carte Blanche to have our first dark. No entrances,no name graphics. And thus they had a match. I met Chasyn once in 2004 so his name was familiar. The other guy I’d never met.

— Kenny Omega (@KennyOmegamanX) June 30, 2018

Regardless of their history or whatever, this crew of people were all very helpful in set up, tear down, and various odd jobs around the arena. I’d felt giving them the opportunity to have a dark match was the least I could do as a way to show appreciation.

— Kenny Omega (@KennyOmegamanX) June 30, 2018

I’m gutted that people feel betrayed by their involvement, but at no point did I feel I was working with criminals or anything of the sort. As I’d said earlier, they were nothing but polite and helpful throughout the entire experience.

— Kenny Omega (@KennyOmegamanX) June 30, 2018

I’ll know better for next time to only use those I’m absolutely familiar/comfortable with

— Kenny Omega (@KennyOmegamanX) June 30, 2018

Now, I'm clear...  New Japan, it's your move...

Especially with this revelation that wrestling journalist David Bixenspan noted afterward:

That Omega's more detailed statement/apology (while a great deal better than the earlier thread) doesn't mention that the school that provided the ring crew is *owned by Chasyn Rance* is... curious.

— David Bixenspan (@davidbix) June 30, 2018

Remember, this is the IWGP Heavyweight Champion, the world champion of the second-largest promotion in the world, installed into this position to bring the company to a more worldwide focus...

He is slated to defend said title against Cody (Rhodes) in San Francisco in a week.

More further extensions of previously-made remarks...

• The Jameis Winston suspension is official (and three games), and is officially declared a plea bargain between Winston/the NFLPA and the NFL.

That's now verifiable twice that piece of shit should be in prison for the rest of his days.

I reiterate:  Jameis Winston is a rapist.  He's in league with rapists.  He's a point-shaver, at least in college.

And some of you wonder why White America wants the White Football League...

• Heimlich, the child molester from Oregon State, is now an NCAA champion.

Arkansas put up no fight in Game 3, as I didn't think they would.

Especially after Deadspin themselves began to wonder if, after Heimlich was not drafted in the MLB Entry Draft this year, someone was trying to put together something on his behalf...

I'll say it:  I think the NCAA wanted this child molester to have a championship on the way out.

• But that might somewhat pale in comparison to tonight's events out of Daytona Beach, FL, the CEO video game convention, and a joint effort with New Japan Pro Wrestling for a wrestling card thereon.

Kenny Omega, on June 9, won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship of the World, defeating Kazuchka Okada for Japanese wrestling's biggest prize.

And if I'm New Japan's new President, Harold Meij, I'm getting in touch with my champion as soon as possible.

Under New Japan's trademarks and sanction, Omega booked and ran a wrestling card in the Ocean Center of Daytona Beach.  The card was not well sold, there were ticket problems.

At the end of the day, that's probably not going to be the biggest story.  Nor is Kota Ibushi, Omega's partner in the famous "Golden Lovers", spiking Tetsuya Naito on his head during their main-event match.

In fact, the largest story of the event is probably going to come from the first match on the card.  It was not even a match that the Twitch viewing public was supposed to see, but the aforementioned ticket problems delayed the card to an extent that the convention decided to broadcast two local "dark matches" as well as the five-match main card on Twitch.

Kenny Omega may regret that.

Why?

Because it appears that whoever responsible for the talent on the card (and that is believed to be Omega) booked a CONVICTED CHILD MOLESTER on it!

In going over this card, an intrepid Reddit user, "Nicff", made the following observation on this thread on whether Kenny Omega was booking the card ( https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/8uyfx3/is_kenny_omega_booking_this_njpw_x_ceo_show/ ):

"Hopefully not for his sake. Booking Chasyn Rance is not a good look. "

Why?

Because Chasyn Rance is a registered child molester in the state of Florida, and here's his apparent page:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4psg3AWQAAKdF7.jpg

 

This is a promotion who won't even book Michael Elgin, one of it's most athletic big men gaijin wrestlers, in the United States at all, for apparent pro-rape/sexual assault comments he made on his Twitter account some time ago.

 

Rance was on the first dark match, and I believe he got the victory.

 

This leaves me with three questions:

• Has Rance endangered his own freedom by simply being a professional wrestler and how many kids might usually be expected to attend those shows for whomever he might work for?
• Has he also endangered his own freedom, in the same manner, by being booked as a talent for a video game convention, where kids might usually be expected to attend?
• Has his booking also endangered both the card and the video game convention itself?

I am not aware of the laws of the state of Florida in this regard, but I think somebody down there might want a look...

And, of course, this begs one final question:

• Is it time to reexamine Kenny Omega as the face of the New Japan Pro Wrestling Western expansion, it's IWGP champion, and his place in the company at all?

Omega, frankly, has not had a good month since winning the title:

• One of the possible reasons the two-year record reign of Kazuchka Okada was ended was that the July 7 New Japan card in San Francisco was not selling well -- a card that Omega is now main-eventing, with his first defense of the title against Cody (Rhodes).
• A couple of weeks afterward, some stir was made about comments Omega made about the double-standard of work ethics between domestic wrestlers in Japan and their gaijin counterparts.
• And now this...

As I said, if I'm the brass of New Japan, President Meij, the booker Gedo, and the chairman Naoki Sugabayashi, I want answers and I WANT THEM NOW.

I just got another example of why you can't be a sports fan in this country and not agree with the most unspeakable acts...

Yeah, we gotta go back to that Oregon State pitcher again.

He's in the College World Series final series, best of three, opponent is Arkansas.

Arkansas got through to him in winning Game One.

Game Two was tonight, 3-2 in the 9th inning, two out for Oregon State, runner on third.

Foul pop-up, should be the last out and the championship for Arkansas -- three guys can't decide who gets it.

Single follows, homer follows that, see you tomorrow night for Game Three, 5-3 Oregon State.

That drew the following response:

"The child molester gets another life."

Now I will be the first to admit they probably have had to do this 100 times, but that one post alone was my last on that subreddit.

And I let them have it, and I got muted -- the subreddit has now been blocked on my account.

But it's another example of a disturbing trend I'm seeing in American sports fandom:

On some level, to even be a sports fan anymore, you have to tolerate the most unspeakable and dastardly of acts.

From Sandusky to Baylor to Vince McMahon to this shithead in Oregon State...

Among COUNTLESS others.

And the one question, from seeing it, that I must ask:  Am I 100% certain that was not an intentional situation tonight?  We might find out tomorrow, but they better be thankful I'm nowhere near Omaha and have no intention of going.

Rapeis is as Rapeis does...

Deadspin has more details tonight of the 2016 Uber sexual assault of a driver by Rapeis Winston.

It appears that, at some point that night, he was with two other men.

One was Ronald Darby, a teammate of Winston's.  Darby now plays for the Philadelphia Eagles.

And he may be in trouble too.

CBS Sports notes that Darby may have lied to NFL investigators regarding Winston's conduct surrounding the sexual assault.

This may be one of the reasons that, even though the reports appear concrete, there is no confirmation (except that it will be multiple games) as to how long Winston will be suspended.

Darby stated two days after the incident (and also told investigators for the NFL) he was in the car with Winston and nothing occurred.

It now appears that Darby may have lied, stating that he was in the car, when in fact the woman Winston sexually assaulted was in a SECOND (later) Uber ride that Darby was NOT in.

And who said all this?

Here's where it gets real dicey for Winston.

The third man was Brandon Banks, formerly of Vanderbilt.

He was one of four men charged with raping a woman while on the team -- he's now doing 15 years.

Jameis Winston is a rapist.

Jameis Winston runs with rapists (for the record, I'm talking Banks, not Darby -- though Darby was part of a Florida State institutionalized acceptance of sexual assault by their football team, no mention of Darby as a specific perpetrator has been found).

Jameis Winston is a point-shaver -- and the only goddamn reason this piece of shit is not rotting for the rest of his life in a prison cell is he's a Heisman NFL quarterback.

If the White Right wants to boycott the NFL, then they should do it for the right reasons -- players like Winston.

Suspension Blotter: Rapeis to be banned -- the question is how long...

• Tampa Bay Buccaneers:  Jameis Winston is slated to be suspended, and current word has it at three games to start the season, for an altercation with an Uber driver two years ago.

That's a big one, for many obvious reasons -- but is ANYBODY surprised?

One more thing:  It's mid-June, and (once this hits the table), the Bucs will be the eleventh team with at least one suspended player to start next regular season.

You see, right-wing morons, there are actual reasons to boycott this league.  You just choose to Seig Heil your way through it.

Female Reporter Attacked In Latest Show of Russian Arrogance

There are criteria that I have set for lifting the Russia/Putin embargo on the blog for things like the World Cup.

A Russian World Cup fan taking a page straight out of the Donald Trump playbook certainly appears to apply.

Yahoo! reports this morning that a Russian fan groped a Colombian reporter in the breast, kissed her, and ran off...

ON LIVE TELEVISION LAST WEEK!!!

Donald Trump and about 3/4 of the men in this country are probably going to send this shithead a medal.

I only have one question:  When does that start happening over here against the Suzy Kolbers and the Erin Andrews' of the world???

(To which my anonymous friend immediately noted the Joe Namath incident with the aforementioned Suzy Kolber...)

Because we certainly appear to have that cauldron boiling over here as well...

Suspension Blotter: Including the First North Dallas Thugboy...

A domestic violence suspension first...

• Free agent Roy Miller was cut from the Kansas City Chiefs after a domestic violence arrest in Jacksonville last year -- he's been suspended six games for it last Friday.

And another drug suspension, the first for the Cowboys this offseason:

• Dallas Cowboys:  David Irving, AGAIN.  Four games, AGAIN.  This year is for substance abuse -- last year's was PEDs.  And he may not be done with the suspensions -- he's got a domestic violence case with the NFL pending too!   (His loss is $685,000, on top of about $150,000 he lost last year.)

And, yeah, I'll beat the horse some more:

That is the SEVENTEENTH NFL suspension for the Dallas Cowboys since August 29, 2014.

At least three (or is it now four) players with multiple suspensions...

Jerry Jones needs to be brought to heel.  He probably already has the check written out...

FIFA, it's time to throw Mexico out.

It's the only way the message is getting across.

The puto chants have made it to Russia for the Mexican fans, and FIFA is not happy.

It's ironic that the first story I've seen on LGBT problems in Russia is the Mexican chants again -- and they're probably empowered and think (unlike what statements at a recent Mexico-US match in Mexico tried to tell the crowd) it makes them more Mexican.

Throw 'em out.  Of course, you won't.  You're FIFA and Putin's gotta be loving this shit.

Four assholes who definitely need to shut the fuck up. NOW!!!

What is it about pieces of shit who can't keep their mouths shut?

• TO wants his own Hall of Fame ceremony, and isn't coming to Canton.

Well, his career was always about him in the first place, so is this any real surprise??

• And two right-wingers covering the US Open on FOX have given up on the golf now that Corporate Tin Balls (Tiger) is out of the tournament... (Screengrabber)

This was ACTUALLY SAID during Friday's coverage, according to "Irvine", who sent this to Gizmodo Media:

“That’s my ex.”
“Yeah, she’s hot.”
“That’s when I—I was fucking her so hard and I headbutted her in the head and I smacked that bitch [something]. We went and kinda got in the [muppets?] position and she sat up.”

Really?

Seriously???

But those two pale in comparison to someone who needs to be shut up FORCIBLY...  (hat-tip to my anonymous friend)

• LaVar Ball, talking about his wife who had a stroke.  (Yahoo!)

Interview with the Washington Post:

"In his suite on this afternoon, during an interview he insists is recorded, LaVar sidesteps questions that would humanize him and offsets the occasional tender moment about his wife — “As long as she can smile, give a kiss and a hug,” he says, “I’m good” — with striking displays of cruelty — “That’s probably why she had the stroke, so she can be quiet for a minute.”"

This fucker is going to kill somebody if he's not run out of the goddamn sports world and media.

Period.

Hey, Blinded By The Light -- do you know WHY this is happening??

Happened across this one on Yardbarker this morning...

Attendance at Major League Baseball is down, quite a bit, year over year...

Attendance down 6.6% -- number of people attending down 9%...

Oh gee...

Could it be because if you aren't New York, Boston, Houston, Chicago, or St. Louis, we're all supposed to forget it???

Naaaaaaaaaaaaah...

And then my anonymous friend points out another great reason people are staying home...

If steroids, juiced balls, and home runs are going to draw people out to the games, then this little ditty from Sports Illustrated yesterday will show a reason people are staying away....

Strikeouts have exploded for 13 seasons, so much so that GMs are actually saying the ball never should enter play, so a strikeout pitcher is now better than anything hit on the ground.

So much so that SI reports that there will probably be more strikeouts this HALF-SEASON than in the entire season of 1980!

There are now six more strikeouts per game than in 1988.

So there's another reason...

NFL PR stunt should be shunned...

(hat-tip to my anonymous friend)

The NFL, it is reported today, will take part for the first time in the New York City Pride Parade...

Come back to me when Michael Sam is playing his rightful place as a pass-rusher in the NFL...

Otherwise, STFU...

I _saw_ Michael Sam play professional football in the preseason (one of my Vegas trips) -- and he was credible.  And this league needs pass rushers like nobody's business.

So this empty bullshit should be stated for exactly what it is -- empty bullshit.

Some updates, and a blog reminder: World Cup Boycott

• At the request of several readers, I do not cover events in anti-LGBT Russia without them being directly tied to LGBT attacks.  The World Cup is low-hanging fruit anyway (which see at least two incidents involving the USMNT which precipitated them not being there (HA HA!!!)), but, so you know, same rules apply to this as applied with Sochi.  So no direct World Cup fix coverage here.
• Of course, for people like me, there was bad news today:  North America (all three countries) will host the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
• Jerry Coleangelo is out in Philadelphia -- his wife was behind the Twitter attacks.
• The NFL, at this time, does not know what Julian Edelman tested positive for -- another possible idea, IMHO, toward maybe an Alex Guerrero situation!

Never Been Happier To Be Wrong Than On This One

Washington 4 - Las Vegas 1.

Alexandr Ovechkin wins the Conn Smythe.

I don't think I need to say it, but I will...  I've never really been happier to be wrong on a call than I was on this one.

There was some mea culpa-ing going on, including one Tweet talking about that Ovechkin finally winning the Stanley Cup being the story or theory behind all this.

But the good news is that these idiots who threaten on Twitter aren't going to be empowered, because this would've been so obvious...

Thankfully, it did not happen and make a bad situation worse.

Suspension Blotter: And, quite possibly, here we go...

Not confirmed yet, but it's working it's way through appeals...

• New England Patriots:  Julian Edelman, 4 games, PEDs.

That's bad enough, should the final confirmation come through -- it's yet another PED suspension, rather than recreational drugs, indicating more than a number of players are attempting to illegally enhance.

Why is this important?

Edelman's been working with Alex Guerrero since his rookie season....

Stay tuned.

Wow. Series is over and LeBron is GONE.

Saw about the last 3-4 minutes tonight.

The Cleveland Cavaliers do not want, nor want to play with, LeBron James.

The narrative is now where he goes -- so much so, that when the Westgate put their odds out for the 2018-19 season, three of the top five sets of odds were contingent on James and where he lands in free agency.

So how many of you suckers in Cleveland are taking a dive rather than winning a championship with LeBron?

And WHY????

Commissioner/President Fat Q*Bert Puts Another Foot In His Mouth...

... and another step toward the Nationalist Football League.

Yesterday, President Pussygrabber disqualified the Philadelphia Eagles from the annual White House Super Bowl Champion visit for their apparent stance on the National Anthem protests.

According to Adam Schefter, most if not all of the Black players on the team refused -- causing Agent Orange to go nuclear.

This piece of shit is going to make any protest during the National Anthem illegal -- wouldn't be surprised if it comes within a month...

An extension of today's remarks...

My anonymous friend and I got talking about the Dwight Clark passing today, and my friend noted something that I wanted to explore:  The number of iconic moments in NFL history (with "The Catch" now included again) with head and other injuries attached:

• We started with the game which probably catapulted the NFL from obscurity to national television:  The 1958 NFL Championship, regarded "The Greatest Game Ever Played".

Frank Gifford, who caught a fourth-quarter touchdown pass:  CTE.
Johnny Unitas had two replacement knees and couldn't use one of his elbows after his playing career.

• One of the greatest superstars of the early-TV NFL...  Y.A. Tittle...  

Who spent most of the latter part of his life with such severe dementia, he could only address certain subjects...

• The Ice Bowl, the iconic game between Dallas and Green Bay,

As previously reported on this blog, Bart Starr probably does not remember his winning quarterback sneak.  Numerous hits to the head have impaired his memory in old age.

• The Heidi Bowl and Super Bowl III, both featuring the New York Jets and Joe Namath...

... a Joe Namath who has had to resort to experimental treatments to deal with what he fears was serious brain damage, including being completely knocked out at least five times, with the only treatment to be revived by smelling salts.  (ESPN feature)

• The Pittsburgh Steelers and their four Super Bowl victories in the 1970's...

On all four of those teams was Mike Webster, the first football player ever to be successfully diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy...

CTE.

• The Super Bowl championships of the Oakland Raiders in the 1970's...

Ken Stabler was diagnosed with CTE upon his passing.

• The Catch in 1981.

The reported passing today of Dwight Clark, but the other half of that combination also has had troubles with his health because of injuries on the field:  Joe Montana.  A knee he can't straighten, arthritis in about every relevant joint, elbow, at least four neck fusions.  (USA Today)

Montana's career was ended by a concussion which went through his body like a lightning bolt.  (CBS)

It didn't end with Montana at his position for his team:  Steve Young also had numerous concussions and had to cut his career short due to them.

• The famous Chicago Bears Super Bowl in 1986.

Entire programs have been done on the numerous players off that classic Bears team dealing with injuries to the head due to football.

Jim McMahon:  Concussions and dementia.
Dave Duerson:  Suicide at 50, CTE.

I could go on and on and on...

But most every meaningful iconic moment the NFL has ever had has cost the men who made it dearly -- and no one cares...

And another sacrifice to the altar of football...

And this is a big one...

A big catch...

As in "THE Catch"...

Dwight Clark.  ALS.  61....