Day 323

• The Packers have already released their special-teams head coach, and their defensive coordinator is also gone.  What, the NFL thinks the Packers won too many regular-season games the last two years and exposed the plot?  Certainly happened this year!   
• Major League Soccer is on the verge of a labor stoppage -- the players and owners will try for at least one more week to pan it out.  Although MLS was the first major league, with that bubble-tournament in Orlando, to return, the fact is soccer is a fifth-rate sport in this country once you get to professional/male World Cup levels.  I do not see MLS having much of a future in the United States, now that it is clear the goals of MLS back in USA '94 have clearly failed permanently.   
• Add long-time Temple men's basketball coach John Cheney to the In Memoriam list.  He was 89.  Illness, not long, and unspecified.
• Kentucky has cancelled it's game with #5 Texas for tomorrow -- and paused operations due to positive tests for COVID and contact tracing.  Given how poorly "Succeed and Proceed" is doing this year, might not be in the worst interest to pull the plug, Calipari...   
• St. Louis vs. Richmond is off for tonight, according to Yardbarker.
• Texas has now had three of it's last four games postponed or cancelled, according to ESPN reports.
• DeShaun Watson wants out of Houston -- Houston has no interest in trading him.  Maybe Watson knows what some NFL people suspect with Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay.  No future in that franchise as far as getting where they really want to go...  
• At this rate, it's a wonder Karl Anthony-Towns survived to get to this season!!  In addition to losing SEVEN family members to the coronavirus, Anthony-Towns was also hit by a drunk driver in the off-season.  And he now has the coronavirus himself and has sat out at least six games as a result.