Day 411

• Geno Hayes has passed away.  He was 33.
• A LeBron James rookie card has gone for a record $5,200,000 at auction.
• In a shock decision, NBC has opted out of the NHL for the new contract.  The second network for the contract will be Turner Sports -- meaning AEW may have to find a new night!
• The timeframe for everyone to get Real ID updates to fly and the like has been extended again due to COVID -- May, 2023 is now the target for the requirement.
• Took seven years, but Jackie Robinson West finally admitted to the use of ineligible players when it won the US Championship in 2014, but got stripped of it soon after.
• Final nail in the coffin, we hope?  Mark Emmert has just been given a four-year extension as head of the NCAA.
• The use of ineligible players (and possible pay-to-recruit violations -- both to college and to the high school) have cost Valdosta High School seven wins from last year, this year's playoffs, and a $7,500 fine.
• It has also cost them their coach, as he was fired by the school's Board of Education a week later.  Rush Propst was recorded needing "funny money" from boosters to support players and families who wanted to come to Valdosta HS -- and also was remarking similar "funny money" from SEC powers to send his players to their schools.
• And the story gets worse.  Propst won five state titles with a school in Alabama, but was effectively fired when it was found out he had a woman and an entire family on the side!!  That also cost him his then-wife, but he then married the other woman!