A number of updates as we turn the page to near September, and scream past post #2,500...

• The collusion case of Colin Kaepernick vs. the NFL and it's owners will go to trial, it was decided today.  It appears as if the main case will be whether the owners acted in actual collusion vs. acting separately to blackball Kaepernick from the league for his National Anthem protests.  (A similar lawsuit by Eric Reid is in progress -- and, should both succeed, someone needs to get a hold of Michael Sam!)
• All of the qualifiers for the Madden 19 Madden Classic have been cancelled by Electronic Arts, in response to the Jacksonville shooting.  It is not clear, pending a security review, whether EA can hold the main Madden Classic in October in Las Vegas.
• However, EA will donate $1,000,000 to the families of the deceased and otherwise injured, as well as setting up a fund where Madden players can donate to add to that total.  A tribute/fundraising stream is being scheduled for one week from tonight, ironically the opening night of the NFL season.
• It does appear that the shooter was on psychiatric medications and had been hospitalized as a danger at least twice.
• The NCAA, the National Child Assault Allowers, has cleared Michigan State of any institutional wrongdoing with respect to Dr. Nassar.  
• Shyeah and FUCKING RIGHT!!!  Are you too damn scared to admit that your sports are out of fucking control, you have no desire to actually govern them, and the fact is we are now up to...  what?  FOUR Big Ten Universities (on top of Rape-lor) who are literally getting away with damn near, if not, murder???
• And that doesn't count the wide receiver from Wisconsin (seen as a possible CFP darkhorse this year) who's facing two rape charges now...
• Start really watching these umpires in September -- for certain teams and against certain teams.  I saw one game last night where the umps squelched any real attempt to come back on Arizona with four quite-questionable strike calls.
• And that's on top of the balls being juiced to the extent that we already have a record for a season in Major League Baseball with a month to go -- 81 walk-off home runs...