And a couple updates...

• It appears the NBA found Westbrook's outburst last night mostly justified!

Though some in social media were calling for Westbrook to be suspended the rest of the season and a couple games of the playoffs, he was only fined $25,000 for his outburst.

And the fan has been permanently banned from any further attendance at Utah Jazz games.

• It appears at least one suspect and/or motive in the homophobic slur in the NHL last night has been refuted.

There was a report that the homophobic slur at last night's Toronto's game in which it was believed Morgan Rielly of the Maple Leafs used a homophobic slur against one of the officials.

Senior EVP of Hockey Operations Colin Campbell cleared Rielly of at least the slur against the referee, and it appears uttering the slur at all!

Statement from Senior EVP of Hockey Operations Colin Campbell on investigation of @TBLightning - @MapleLeafs game last night at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto. pic.twitter.com/R3j7n1oJt9

— NHL Public Relations (@PR_NHL) March 12, 2019

Well, Colin, it's clear SOMEBODY did.  Could well have been a fan near the Sportsnet microphones.

So you still got work to do.

• A list of the coaches and other administrators involved in the Celebrity Pay For College Access scandal which broke today has been obtained by Deadspin.

This is apparently an eight-year investigation into a middleman who was paid at least $25 million to get the rich and famous' kids into proper schools they would nowhere close be qualified to go.

The list includes:

1. Former Georgetown tennis head coach Gordon Ernst.  Hercules Capital CEO Manuel Henriquez is one of the purported people who had enlisted aid from Mr. Ernst.  Elisabeth Kimmel, a media mogul from Las Vegas, was another.  Ernst left last year to go to Rhode Island, but has been placed on leave after the situation went public.
2. Donna Heinel was the associate AD of USC fired today.  William McGlashan, an executive at private equity firm TPG, was one who had a son aided -- a false punter.  (McGlashan was placed on leave today.)   Gamel Abdelaziz was another -- he is a casino owner in both Las Vegas and Macau.  Fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli was also involved -- his wife and another Hollywood actress have been charged as well!  (Lori Loughlin of the Full House reboot (who had SIX daughters apparently in the pipeline of this scandal!) and Felicity Huffman, best known for her role on Desperate Housewives (already released on $250,000 bail).  Hollywood producer Devin Sloane is yet another -- he was to be Executive Producer of "The Beautiful and the Damned".  Marci Palatella, a CEO of a distiller in the Bay Area (where much of the non-Hollywood crowd in this was involved) is yet another.  Heinel is so involved in this, she's all the way up to being charged with conspiracy of racketeering -- RICO ACT???
3. Jonan Vavic was fired as the water polo coach of USC as well.  Augustus Huneeus -- one of the famed Napa Valley wine creators -- was one of the parents who tried to falsely represent their child as an athlete to get in USC.  John B. Wilson was another -- Wilson is another capital person of a growing number of Wall Street executives.
4. Laura Janke, former assistant soccer coach of USC until 2014 aided Kimmel.
5. Ali Khosroshahin of USC was alleged to have been bribed by Bruce Isackson, the head of a real estate development firm, to get one of his kids in UCLA when Khosroshahin was women's soccer coach there -- until he was fired in 2013.  
6. The current men's coach at UCLA, Jorge Salcedo, did the rest, and part of the compensation was $250,000 worth of Facebook stock!
7. John Vandomoer, the now-former sailing coach of Stanford, was fired today when it was revealed that he was bribed by John B. Wilson -- and has pled guilty to racketeering conspiracy.

And that's just a short and partial list.

We're going to have to confront some things here, as a culture, if anything purporting the present societal structures we have now is going to be allowed to continue:

• We are either going to have to codify or destroy the concept of the person who's just "that much better" in pedigree getting favors of this ilk.  It's clear why this happens -- it's not only an ego thing, but one has to wonder if the jobs of many of these top-level people would actually be in jeopardy if their son or daughter was found not to be of the proper stock to continue the lineage as it were.  Almost as if it were the blood of a famous racehorse, to be honest!
• We are going to have to get to the bottom of just what it takes to be famous or what it takes to be successful in this country.  If it is, as most intelligent people should begin to fear, more a function of who you are and who you are not, rather than what you do, then we are in major trouble as a society -- not only because of the immediate ramifications, but also because we are not teaching our children properly.
• We are going to have to confront the very real possibility that every sacred cow goes down.  That means no more Hollywood -- that means no more NCAA or even college sports -- that means every sacred cow that this country and many of it's citizens take for remote granted.

Stay tuned, as I said...