Day 359

• Tom Wilson of the Capitals is going to be sitting a while.  He's probably going to be suspended five or more games -- and it would be his fifth suspension since Fall 2017.  But the problem is, he got a 20-gamer on his fourth in early season 2018-19, but nothing since -- and, hence, this is going to be a very interesting story to follow.  He gets the COVID equivalent of an "in-person meeting", so he's gonna get a long suspension.  This one is for boarding Brandon Carlo of Boston with a shot to the head.

I think how I'll put this is...  Suspend him for as long as the hit and the CBA allows -- but I can't say how long this is, because of the provision that "repeat offender" status leaves after 18 months.   

• SI headline:  "When Will College Sports Start Holding People Accountable?"  Answer:  When there are no more college sports.  Pedophilia, rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment...  All baked into college sports and features, not bugs, of the entire system.  Abolish the NCAA and get some real investigations into these schools.   
• At least four teams have already forfeited out of the conference tournaments due to COVID...
• And, on the day the first bids come down, we already have one.  Liberty University is the first team to clinch an NCAA men's berth -- by virtue of being conference regular-season champions and their opponent in the tournament final (North Alabama) in transition to Division I and ineligible for the Tournament until that completes.
• Early indications are that the one-year losses for the four major sports and the NCAA exceed $14,000,000,000.  Frankly, World's Smallest Violin.   
• CONMEBOL has called off the latest set of World Cup qualifiers because they can't get the European players to and back from South America.
• The Fairmont Hotel (which I've been in for several Fanimes) in San Jose has gone bankrupt and will close for at least 2-3 months.  This also means any visiting NHL teams have to find a new arrangement.
• And the word from the NHL IS A COMPLETE FUCKING JOKE.  Wilson got SEVEN GAMES for that.
• They play four times in twelve days April 8th-20th.  You made this bed, Player Safety.  Get ready for a war.   The last two, in Boston, are nationally televised.
• And we have a DQ in one of the three title fights in the UFC PPV -- and it may not cost the champion his belt.  Deliberate illegal knee in the fourth round of a fight by Aljamain Sterling to Petr Yan -- word was Yan was winning the title fight handily.  And, rightly, Yan is the new champion as a result.