Day 70

• Shad Gaspard, formerly of Cryme Tyme of the WWE, passed away when he was swept away in a riptide when he and his son were swimming off the coast of California.  Shad, as his last act alive, was able to get his son rescued by lifeguards who were getting a bunch of swimmers rescued before he succumbed.  And may every report of this tragedy by accompanied by that fact, unless new information is found out to the contrary.     
• The Speed Gamers are still going, over $6900 now for St. Jude's Children's Hospitals.  The maximum their "Generations" home event will go is the rest of the month.
• OH, NOW WE GET IT...  This is part of a larger St. Jude fundraising event -- a month-long Play Live summit of streamers to raise money for the charity -- which, this afternoon, passed two million dollars for the month in record time.
• An unnamed NFL player has sued United Airlines for allowing a sexual assault to go unreported and unresponded against him by a female passenger on the plane.  Apparently, he and another man were assaulted by a woman who was the third passenger in their row.
• Luke Hill is charged with first-degree attempted murder of another high-school student.  He was (until earlier this Spring -- the incident was Monday, so the decision to revoke his signing and this incident are not cause-effect) signed to play football at the University of Oregon -- his alleged victim, at whom Hill is charged with attempting to shoot from his car several times, a basketball signee to Rhode Island.  He faces nine charges from the incident.  You fuckers are going to make it easier by the day for people to walk away from sports.  Just saying...     
• When will some of these Korean teams and athletes understand you don't screw with Korean customs?  FC Seoul, as the Korean soccer league has returned to play as well, tried a little stunt as they tried a variation of the "mannequins in the stands" routine.  They dressed up about 20 sex dolls in that vein.  They got caught.  Fined $82,000, a record fine for the league, for bringing the game into disrepute.  And if that's not enough, they WERE using the Korean World Cup Stadium.  They may be EXPELLED from the stadium for this stunt.  They could be docked points by the league as well.  The staffers who did it were fired. 
• The NCAA has approved voluntary workouts for the month of June in football and basketball.  Good luck.  No guarantee the schools will even exist in the Fall, at least for that term.     
• Reports are now surfacing that MLS may not be the only American sports league playing at Disney's Wide World of Sports in Orlando.  The NBA is now also looking at that possibility as well.  It's a risky proposition, more on the basis that if somebody gets infected, you now have two leagues full of problems.  My position is still that the NBA will cancel the 2019-20 season and a good part, if not all, of 2020-21.     
• Olbermann is now making standard that it is Wednesdays off of his Thurber readings. 
• Aldon Smith has been reinstated by the NFL, sources claim.  He's been out FIVE YEARS. 
• If the Italian soccer league is to finish, the 2019-20 season must end by August 20.
• Appears the current plan in the NBA is to resume in late July, with the beginnings of plans to return players to whereever they will be (for a 2-week quarantine to start) in early June.
• Several major neutral-site early college basketball games have been cancelled already.