Day 377

• We MAY have a "live one" brewing in the National Hockey League.  Referee Tim Peel was fired today from the NHL after an investigation into a live-mic comment he was found to have made during Nashville's game with Detroit last night, where he said that he somehow, and for some reason, wanted a penalty on Nashville.

Wow.  "It's close, but I really wanted to fucking give a penalty to Nashville early in this period."

Here's the worse part of it:  It took the NHL less than EIGHTEEN HOURS to fire Peel for the comment.  I've heard some definite hot-mic comments that I think the league needed to take action on (mostly for rude language, etc. and so forth).  But for the NHL to have to investigate and then fire Peel for this comment within 24 hours indicates to me they may have found something here!!  Stay tuned.

Peel was a 22 year veteran in the league with over 1300 games.  Let that all process.   

• And now it appears that Dan Snyder...  is going to be the essential sole owner of the Washington Football Team -- and, it was announced yesterday, that "Washington Football Team" MAY, in fact, be the long-term name of the team.  Oh...  My...   Dear....  LORD....   
• Duxbury High School in Massachusetts has rightly fired it's head football coach Dave Maimaron and forfeited their next game for using anti-Semitic slurs in it's playcalling in a spring football game.
• EDIT TO ADD A LITTLE FURTHER COMMENTARY ON PEEL:  I had a discussion on Discord with one of the Botball people about all this -- and he did make a good point as to how anyone could trust Peel going forward.  The problem is:  I think that's only half the battle -- you now would have to also question 22 years of games where there could've been similar "make-up calls", etc. and so forth.  As Deadspin said:  This guy could spill a lot of beans about the NHL if he chose to.