Day 127

• The NASCAR COVID-19 Invitational was held last night -- the annual All-Star Race was moved to Bristol (with all the chaos Bristol can muster) for this year.  Chase Elliott won the race, but the news was the crowd there.
• 20-30K people attended the race.  Oh...  Shit....     
• And apparently IndyCar let about 10000 into a road race in Wisconsin.
• Less than 48 hours after President Dump hallowed right-wing hack Chuck Woolery (seriously, even listening to him talk about game shows, it's clear this guy is bitter AND gone), Woolery has pulled his Twitter account -- word being his son has come down with the virus.  Oh, doesn't it ALWAYS seem to happen this way with that nasty thing...      
• I thought I edited this already upon finding last night's Thurbercast.  Thought Olbermann had talked of there being a problem last night, but it was with the Twitter Verified system, so here is the Thurbercast from last night:

#Thurbercast No. 79 proceeded just as @verified utterly failed. “I Break Everything I Touch” (the only choice for the day) was followed by fables “The Wolf Who Went Places,” “The Clothes Moth and The Luna Moth,” and “The Bears and The Monkeys.”https://t.co/2zZoRvZ1gp

— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) July 16, 2020

• As I've largely speculated...  Latest word now is that Billy Corgan's NWA relaunch is now over.  One too many incidents plus the virus equals...    
• The SEC is now in deep discussions to save it's college football season, at least for the moment...  Just wait til camps start and the cases spike again...   
• Sports Illustrated has an ongoing series on a ministry/cult which has swallowed former Packers NFL'er Kabeer Gbaja/Biamila.  This is Part 2.   
• You've gotta read this, people.  This is deep shit.  The "Straitway Truth Ministry", an Old Testament God Church on northern Tennessee.  And a lot of it also seems to have roots in deep Republican/Conservative modern thought:

“As a female there, you don’t matter,” Esther [someone trying to leave the ministry, name changed for protection] says. “I grew up learning to hate myself and learning how to be basically a man’s b----. But men are taught they are Yah[weh]’s gift to earth.”

• Sounds awfully fucking familiar.
• San Francisco joins Los Angeles and San Diego in starting the 2020-21 school year remotely.
• However, Orange County officials in California are going to try normal opening, no masks, no social distancing.  They want somebody to die down there.    
• Famed horse trainer Bob Baffert has had himself and his horses banned from Oaklawn Park for the first 15 days of August in the meet -- two testing positive for illegal drugs.  He is appealing.
• Luis Fernando Tena, the head coach of Liga MX side Chivas, has tested positive for the coronavirus. 
• The Big East Conference is apparently the next conference to go conference-only -- and they for all Fall sports. 
• In contrast to the reports I've given just above on Orange County, California, both the Anaheim and Santa Ana School Districts will NOT follow the Orange County vote to reopen and will go online only to start the Fall. 
• The Washington Nationals are not clear if they will be able to start the season in their home park, and are looking at Florida alternatives.  Really, you think you're having a season this year, especially at home parks, MLB???     
• Eric Bledsoe of the Milwaukee Bucks has tested positive for the coronavirus -- but did not make the trip yet to Orlando.  He reports he is asymptomatic.
• Washington owner Dan Snyder is accused of sexual harassment by 15 former female employees... 
• One of the caddies (at present, unnamed) has tested positive for the coronavirus at the Memorial Tournament -- the 9th PGA positive between players and caddies.