Day 365, Part One

• Thanks to my anonymous friend for picking up the resolution to this:  Tucker Patz has pled guilty to wanting to kill members of at least seven MLB teams, the New England Patriots after they beat the LA Rams in Super Bowl LIII, and at least foreign women's soccer player.  (Yahoo)  Watch this guy get less jail time than I did.   
• Cam Newton will be back with the Patriots next year.
• Tom Brady just upped his extension to FOUR YEARS with the Bucs.  OK, is anyone gonna test this fucker for steroids and PEDs and whatever other illegal substances the TB12 program has?  Anytime soon???   
• Virginia is now out of the ACC tournament due to a positive COVID test.  Georgia Tech will play the North Carolina-Florida State winner, pending no more positive tests.  That is now not only two ACC teams to bow out, but at least two conference #1s, if not three.  Still think it's possible to hold an NCAA Tournament this year?  REALLY???   
• Kansas has become the next high-profile team to drop out of it's conference tournament.  Texas will now play Baylor or Oklahoma State for that conference title.  This makes three positive tests in the program just recent to the conference tournament -- two players were kept home due to the virus.  Just in the last 24ish hours:  Duke, Virginia, Kansas...  Does ANYONE actually still believe that the NCAA Men's Tournament can be safely held?   
• Now, that said, at this moment, about 48 hours before Selection Sunday, I do believe that a cancellation of a second consecutive March Madness tournament would be catastrophic to the NCAA -- in fact, I believe March Madness is probably the last real vestige left of an archaic and harboring institution which should be left to the dustbin of history!  
• That said, I will openly disagree with Brad Evans on Twitter:  I do not believe the tournament will happen in full, nor do I believe the championship will be decided on the court.
• Two announcers in Oklahoma have been removed from high school basketball duty after at least one of them cursed and gave a racial slur at the opponents for kneeling during the National Anthem.
• And the fucker blames diabetes for it.  I really wish they'd start rioting, but I think that's what the backwater types in Okie WANT.
• And this out of Michigan State:  Admitting that their "corporate champions" are the only prayer they have left, the Michigan State men's basketball team will now be known as...  "The Michigan State Spartans, presented by Rocket Mortgage".  The next phase of second-level professional sports has begun.