Day 439

• I'll start this one a shade on the early side.  Personal reasons.
• Not a great sign for the Tokyo Olympics.  With just two months before the Opening Ceremony, the United States has now placed the country of Japan under the Do Not Travel List for COVID considerations.
• The head of the PGA has been forced to apologize for the crowd mob on 18 with Phil Mickelson's victory.
• And no, Deadspin, I don't think this was the creation of a picture moment.  I think it was something far worse -- I think this might be the very beginnings of America deciding that all reasonable conduct is basically out the door.  There is NO WAY IN HELL that should've been even remotely allowed on Sunday, and the crowd was out of control, to state it best.  I don't think this was a "Made For TV" moment or anything of that ilk.  I think this is an indication that, as America opens up, there is going to be a lot of this kind of out of control behavior.   
• Julio Jones has all but said he's gone from the Atlanta Falcons.  Preferred destination:  The building superteam in New England.
• Three-time Olympic gold-medalist swimmer Sun Yang from China is at the Council for the Arbitration of Sport, trying to get reinstated in time for Tokyo from a second circumstantial WADA ban for doping.  The CAS is being forced to reconsider an eight-year ban for Yang on the basis of impartiality.  If the CAS is having that degree of a problem, I'm not sure there's anywhere, sans a relevant court, to go -- Yang has already gone there once in Switzerland to reverse the eight-year ban, but...   
• It really appears as if the collectible card-gaming industry is going to have to re-examine policies.  Scalpers overwhelmed a WalMart in Pennsylvania, with the accompanying fight, for Pokemon cards (and, apparently, there is a shortage of these).  And, noting the pictures and video I saw on Kotaku, they weren't players.  No chance in Hell...   
• Aaron Rodgers has spoken up, saying his gripe is with franchise philosophy, not that they drafted Jordan Love specifically.  I think this is a veiled way of saying he wants to go to a team the NFL is going to push to a Super Bowl.  Of course, that would basically limit him to a couple of POSSIBLES, and that's about it!  (And Denver is NOT one of them -- if he's willing to do 2-3 years in Las Vegas, that MIGHT BE, but not next year!)  
• (But if the shocking word gets out he's headed to replace Cam Newton...)
• Iowa college basketball player Jordan Bohannon was beaten up in Iowa City Sunday morning.  Blind-sided, serious head injury.  Recovering at this time, however.  Bohannon, a redshirt fifth-year senior, will take a sixth year at Iowa next year, due to COVID allowances.
• In what could be the end of high-school athletics as you know it (if it takes flight), at least six national-powerhouse high-school boys basketball teams are launching a national superconference this Fall and Winter.  Living in a general area of a couple of the "athletic factories" of national note, I've always wondered when the day would come they would just shed the local conferences and do the games which mean anything to them...   
• It appears as if only two teams will not have full capacities in the NFL by September.  It is not immediately clear which two.
• It appears as if any punishment for DeSean Watson -- criminal, civil, or otherwise (NFL, etc.) -- will wait until at least 2022.  He will probably not be deposed on the civil suits until then.