Day 62
- The Speed Gamers are now going until at least SATURDAY the 16th for their Generations marathon. I think, at this point, the end of the situation will be when they no longer can have people stream from at home. They've raised $5,800 so far for St. Jude's Children's Hospital.
- Fantasy Faire for Second Life's Relay For Life wrapped up over the weekend, and -- to the surprise of all, including those running the event, all records were broken! The official final total for the event (with at least a few hundred still coming in!) was $73,572 -- over $5,500 more than the record from last year, and that included a $20,000 corporate lump donation which was NOT present this year.
- There's actually ANOTHER UFC Fight Night card tomorrow night (both cards this week at the same venue as the pay-per-view last Saturday!).
- On the pay-per-view, there were T-shirts being sold "What is Fight Island?" Apparently, plans for that are still in the works, and a major fight is probably scheduled for... whatever the Island is... upon completion next month. Why does the concept of "Fight Island" creep me out, in a "Running Man"/"Battle Royale" way?
- Sports Illustrated reports today that a "bubble scenario" is the current plan to bring back Major League Soccer. The 26 teams would be quarantined at Disney Resorts in Florida and play at Disney's Wide World of Sports complex. ESPN would gladly lap up the programming. Timing is still uncertain. One source says June, another says September!
- Congratulations to the WWE's Becky Lynch (and her fiance, Seth Rollins), expecting her first child in December. That ends her 14-month Raw Women's Championship reign, as the Money in the Bank ladder match for the women was rewritten into a direct awarding of the title to the winner, Asuka. Since no one basically knew what the circumstances were, when Lynch told Asuka she was expecting, Asuka broke all character.
- According to Woj (Adrian Wojnarowski), the NBPA (the National Basketball Players Association) is taking a poll they hope will remain confidential of basically all the NBA players, asking if they want to try to complete the season.
- Los Angeles is looking at keeping it's stay-at-home order all the way through AUGUST! Which gives you an idea of what might well happen if MLB does try the home-parks situation.
- Also to that vein, the California State University system will do the Fall semester online.
- And, by that ruling, there's a very real chance that none of the Cal State colleges will be playing football this Fall either. And that includes three schools in the Mountain West Conference.
- And now a report the first major college football cancellation: Because of the nature of the California situation, it appears the season-opening TV game in Arlington, TX between USC and Alabama has been cancelled. And if that's the case, that might portend no college football at all in the state of California this Fall.
- The Alameda (CA) County Fair is off the first time in over a century.
- Olbermann:
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