Day 139

• Former San Francisco 49er Dana Stubblefield, convicted yesterday of rape, faces life in prison.  The Super Bowl XXIX champion was also convicted in the BALCO raids.
• Grand Rapids, MI School District -- online-only for the entire first quarter of next school year (October 21). 
• Yesterday, the NFL officially called off the 2020 pre-season. 
• Four more Miami Marlins have been reported as positive for the virus, making over half the team now.  And we're still playing...  why?  Because just HAVE TO have the Revenge Series in Houston tonight???    
• Currently no Philadelphia positives.  Let's see if that completes the proposed incubation period.  It's only 3-5 days at this point.    
• CES 2021 is online-only, a devastating hit to the Las Vegas convention economy. 
• The Tropicana Hotel is for sale. 
• Dont'a Hightower and Patrick Chung of the Patriots have added their names to the opt-out list.  Witn Brandon Bolden also planning to announce soon, that's six Patriots opting out so far. 
• Andre Smith and De'Anthony Thomas of the Ravens have joined them.
• According to ESPN, eighteen NFL players have already opted out. 
• The Marlins' season is officially "on pause".  Probably a step toward just removing them, because even if they start next Monday (which would still be a number of days too soon), they'd play 57 games in 56 days. 
• And there's the first BIG ONE of Dodgers/Astros:  Dodgers' Joe Kelly puts one right on the back of Alex Bregman.  Thought he might've just thrown it behind him for Ball Four, but there's the first shot. 
• And now the benches have cleared...
• Olbermann before it completely explodes in Houston tonight: 

#Thurbercast No. 85 featuring an artifact of Donald Barr and my high school newspaper, the passing of CNN’s first president Reese Schonfeld, baseball’s disaster and Thurber’s epic story of the perils of travel “There’s No Place Like Home.”https://t.co/UCx3QoFWOC

— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) July 29, 2020

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