Day 398

• The UFC is planning a full house at the T-Mobile Center on July 10 for their UFC 264 pay-per-view -- featuring thug Conor McGregor vs. Dustin Poirier. The only defense I can feasibly have for even THINKING this is that even the Biden Administration is trying to target July 4 as a "Declaration of Independence" from this virus.  Otherwise, this sounds like a BAD IDEA on every conceivable front!   
• Jake Paul has a sexual assault allegation against him, as the YouTuber-turned-fraud-boxer has been accused of forcing a female TikTok "star" into sex acts.
• If any NFL team employee wants to keep their job, they best either take a COVID vaccine or have a very good reason not to:  The NFL is going to restrict team-facility access to those who won't.
• An incident Sunday morning has left a Pittsburgh attorney busted up in the face, and he claims the assailant was Aaron Donald of the Rams.  Charges will be pursued by the victim.  Donald lives in Pittsburgh, and the alleged assault has closed one of the attorney's eyes completely.
• And at least one DeShaun Watson accuser, one day after she would have to reveal who she is, is dropping her claim.  Most of the others are accepting the ruling and attaching their names to their lawsuits.
• Yasiel Puig is taking to social media to decry and deny sexual-assault claims made by a woman who stated she was assaulted by Puig in 2018 -- an incident which has, admittedly, been a large part of the reason that Puig is no longer in Major League Baseball.
• There is at least a murmuring that one prospective future owner of the Timberwolves wanted to move the team to Seattle, but was told the NBA would never allow it.
• And now the first of the post-Wrestlemania positive tests have been recorded.  Nice...  job...  dumbasses.  Looking right at you, Vince!   
• And speaking of COVIDiocy:  Andrelton Simmons of the Twins declined the COVID vaccine when the team went to get it.  He's now out...  positive test for COVID-19.
• And it looks like we have an outbreak on the Astros, with up to 7 possible cases -- 5 players have gone on the injured list for protocols.
• The dates and guest host of the 2020-21 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions have been announced.  May 17-28 for the quasi-annual $250,000 event, and 2017 Tournament of Champions winner (and wildly popular) Buzzy Cohen will proctor the tournament.
• And the ratings are in for Dr. (Schm)Oz(z).  Second week of his idiocy on Jeopardy! got the lowest ratings in a very long time.  The show shed over a million viewers between Ken Jennings' run and the 4.9 million Dr. Idiot got.
• Heath Streak, one of the greatest cricket players in the history of Zimbabwe, has been banned for eight years by cricket organizing bodies for taking money from possible match-fixers, as well as other offenses.  (Brian Tuohy gets the hat-tip on this one.)
• In what I can only describe as a tragically bizarre story:  Barney Dale Harris was the boys' basketball coach and Spanish teacher at Union Academy Charter School in Monroe, NC.  Harris was killed and his body was found last week at a North Carolina home of a major Mexican drug cartel, the Jalisco New Generation.  The JNG cartel prides itself on being the most powerful and ruthless drug cartel in Mexico.  Apparently, Harris was trying to ROB them!!!  And, not only that, word was that this wasn't meant to be a singular attack -- Harris and his brother were actually casing houses apparently wanting to rob a number of JNG locales.  Wow.  That's not only having a deathwish -- that's basically having a deathwish to everyone around you as well!  I would be more than surprised, especially if there is a network of JNG houses in that part of North Carolina, if they don't try to kill his entire family.  And I would not rule out them blowing up the school too.  Wow.