Day 207 (NFL Week 4, NBA Finals Game 3, etc.)

• The NFL's retest of the practice squad running back for the Saints who tested positive for the coronavirus came back negative, so the Saints-Lions game is on as scheduled (ETA:  And was played as scheduled, New Orleans winning).  Additionally, all relevant players contact-traced for results also came back negative.
• This now leaves Tennessee-Pittsburgh (Week 7, after at least 16 tests have come back positive for the Titans -- and the NFL wants to know why (if there's any real violation of protocols, the only relevant penalty should be forfeiture of the contest)) and New England-Kansas City (Monday night early on CBS).
• Former MLB pitcher Charles Haeger apparently murder-suicided with an ex-girlfriend.  Being sought for the murder of his ex-girlfriend in Arizona, Haeger was found with a self-inflicted gunshot on a desert trail.

NFL post-Week 4 stuff:

• Great, reference sites for sports:  Now all of those searches that I used to be able to do on Pro Football Reference are, as of this season, behind an $8/month PAYWALL.  I don't do enough of those, even for this site, to justify that.  So any future stuff I can find is going to either have to be in the media first, or in the NFL record book.
• To wit:  The Seattle-Miami game had only three penalties today, none on Seattle.  First time since Dec. 22, 2019 that a team has had no penalties called on them.  (Yes, Seattle won.)  Four times in the history of the NFL, but none in 80 years, have no penalties been called in a game at all.
• Cleveland and Dallas totaled 87 today, the most points scored in an NFL game since San Francisco beat New Orleans 48-46 in Week 14 last year.
• No Cliffhangers, but SEVEN Sunday Last Chance Misses.
• Over-under for the scheduled Monday nighter, the back half of a now-doubleheader as now New England and Kansas City are an early game on CBS, is at 57!
• Only 140 penalties so far this week in 13 games.  Not even 11 a game.
• And, to no one's surprise as a result:  Even with a 26 and a 30 total on the board for two of the games this week, the NFL average is well over 50 a game again!  54.23!
• The season average is now 51.66!
  
• Home teams are 4-9 so far, but the bigger stat is that, with most of the games fanless, home teams are now sub-.500 for the year!
• The Over is 8-5 -- on a week, as of Friday, that Field Yates of ESPN's The Chalk noted had the highest average Vegas total in 35 years at 49.8.  According to ESPN, the 13 games so far have averaged a Vegas total of 49.07.  That number will probably end up in the high 49s with Green Bay/Atlanta's total.
• This is NOT a 16-game week because of the postponement of TEN-PIT, but, if it were, the NFL would be a point a game ahead of the record total for a 16 game season had it been played and it was a 54 total.