Day 360

• Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons are disqualified from playing in today's All-Star Game (and probably for some time into the second half of the season) for contact tracing purposes -- a barber they used has tested positive for the virus.
• Tonight, for the first time in major American professional wrestling history, two major wrestlers are taking a page from the Japanese deathmatch annals:  Jon Moxley and Kenny Omega will contest the AEW World Championship in a no-rope barbed-wire explosive time-bomb deathmatch.  The ropes are replaced with barbed wire on three sides.  The barbed-wire is laced with triggers which, when the storyline is proper that a wrestler contacts it, will trigger a simulated explosion.  Three beds of barbed wire will surround the ring, similarly rigged to "explode".  And if the match does not end in 30 minutes, all the remaining "explosives" trigger.  Fucking scary match, and I'm not sure it has any place in American professional wrestling at all!!    
• Wayne Gretzky's father, seen as the Father of Hockey in Canada, was laid to rest on Saturday.
• Jose Ramirez and Franmil Reyes have broken Cleveland Indians COVID-19 protocols and will have to be quarantined for a time.  It's been a fucking year, idiots!  You'd THINK, by now, you'd get it.   
• As has Pedro Strop of the Cubs, seen out with Reyes.  ... who is a repeat COVID-19 protocol offender.  Cut.  His.  Ass.
• Jeremy Jeffress has been cut by the Washington Nationals, two weeks after signing with them -- and it doesn't sound pretty.  It appears that a major tiff with his former agent, Joshua Kusnick (who appears to go to the Michael Falkner School of Tact and Agreeability -- if his banishment from MLB Network and several social-media outlets is any indication!!), may be to blame here.  His first statement after Jeffress basically threw him under the bus:  "Just landed in Texas.  Did I miss anything?"  There is a BIG Red Flag which has happened here.  There is a domestic violence past with Jeffress, and he was released for "personnel reasons", but he basically has said his former agent Kusnick has ruined his life and career.  Stay tuned!
• The University of Colorado had to call the police to shut down a major party on their University Hill on Saturday -- several hundred students decided to get drunk and fucking stupid.  I hope names are taken and students sent home -- after a couple weeks in a secured quarantine.   
• Adam Silver, in comments taken on All-Star Weekend, hopes and is optimistic that the 2021-22 season will begin on time and with fans.
• In the culmination of a story which led to their folding and a new club made in their place to progress from the bottom of the Scottish pyramid 10 years ago (and a move I felt would kill professional Scottish football -- a one-team league has no real point of surviving!), (the new) Rangers FC have won the Scottish Premiership -- WITH SIX ROUNDS TO GO.