Saturday, May 16, 2020

Day 66

  • The Bundesliga returned without many hitches today.
  • Add Washington Redskins receiver Cody Latimer to the crime docket:  Assault and illegal discharge of a firearm.  Does the NFL REALLY want to return this Fall and have people want it to?     
  • You can add Miroslav Barnyashev to the list of pro wrestlers using Twitch as a side project.  You may have known him better before his WWE release as Rusev. 
  • At the end of the rebroadcast of American Pharoah's Preakness victory, it was announced that the 2020 Preakness Stakes is now scheduled for October 3rd.
  • Today marked the finals of the Madden 20 professional circuit, the Madden Bowl.  Given lack of programming, ESPN2 carried the semifinals and finals.  The winner wins $65,000, second place $25,000.
  • The winner?  One of the best in Madden:  Raidel "Joke" Brito.  The players used Madden Ultimate Teams, and Brito only ran the ball.  So much so that when he had to have a quarterback, he used the punter for the Redskins.  That and stingy defense won the top prize and the championship.
  • Sad news in sports:  Phyllis George, the first large-scale female commentator when she was on the NFL Today, passed due to probable leukemia today...  One of the greatest benefits of the former Miss America is that she was a legitimate broadcast reporter -- not a "Tits McGhee" with long legs and the like.  She was an integral part of the CBS pregame presentation and well-respected and accepted.
  • As did former Chicago Bears Chairman Mike McCaskey passed today, also due to complications of leukemia.
  • Olbermann: 

  • Chris Jericho's latest Saturday Night Special -- featuring his new band, Kuarantine:
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