Day 240, FUCK 2020 Edition...

• The day a lot of us game-show fans have been dreading.  About 18-24 months ago, Alex Trebek announced he had Stage 4 cancer.  After a valiant fight that it actually looked like he was winning, he passed away peacefully this morning, the show announced.
• Jeopardy has taped through Christmas.  No word, obviously, yet on what happens after that.
• Thanks to my anonymous friend, it seems we have information indicating that all tapings to this point probably had been completed on schedule.  The last set was right around the end of last month.
• Watch the replay on the walk-off reversal on the Chargers-Raiders game there.  Unfortunately appears that the call was right.  "Unfortunately" because of the cockamanie rule -- he clearly has both feet in with the ball over the line, but is going down, meaning he has to survive the ground, and the ball was wrested out before he got there.   
• Chase Elliot, 24 years old, has won his first NASCAR season championship.  For the eighth time since the "best finish out of the Final Four at the last race wins the championship" format, the championship winner won the season finale at Homestead.
  
• The chairman of New Japan Pro Wrestling gave his thanks to the fans for helping out -- announcing that, even with reduced-capacity fans present at, now, dozens of events for several months (including the just-concluded annual G1 Climax tournament), the company has announced a clean bill of health.  One of the major differences between New Japan and other companies is that they have demanded the fans NOT yell and scream, for fear of releasing aerosols from the nose and mouth which might cause positive tests.
• Scary days at Notre Dame ahead.  Notre Dame defeated #1 Clemson at home yesterday, and, as their coach predicted (and told the players to flee the field as quickly as they could), the 11,000 fans stormed the field.  Good luck, but we usually know where this happens, something follows....
• The NBA now has to figure out where the Toronto Raptors are probably going to be playing this season, with the Canadian limitations on coronavirus protocol.  Nashville is current top candidate.
• As if the Jets weren't having a bad enough season, now they found out security surveillance cameras are in their locker room.  It apparently is all legal and legit, and the league and Players Association were notified to check it out.
• And to what might be no one's material surprise:  Nine members of the LA Dodgers organization have tested positive for the coronavirus.  We may never find out if they were players, staff, etc., or who they are, according to Yardbarker.