Day 471

• In an all-too-convenient moment for the NCAA and the people who would probably push Vanderbilt and those two pitchers:  North Carolina State has been thrown out of the College World Series due to NCAA COVID protocols.  Vanderbilt is probably going to be gifted a national title now...  As I said in the NFL, I put that past NOBODY.   
• A regional high-school basketball championship game last week in San Diego was marred when a largely Latino group of players had tortillas thrown at them by the other team and their fans.
• Euro 2021:  Denmark and Italy, the first two to advance in the R16.  And Ivan Perisic is out for the tournament -- positive coronavirus test.
• Hammer-thrower Gwen Berry may be in trouble with the USOC.  During her award ceremony, the Star-Spangled Banner began to play to start the evening session (by sheer coincidence).  Berry turned away from the flag, revealed a shirt reading "Activist Athlete", and may just have voided her ticket to Tokyo as a result!  Stay tuned.
  
• And Berry does NOT believe the timing of the Anthem to the ceremony was a coincidence.  Really stay tuned!