Day 472

• Seattle Mariners:  Hector Santiago is to be suspended 10 games.  He's the first pitcher to be ejected under the new foreign-substances crackdown.
• The Czech Republic has seen off the Netherlands in the European Championship -- they get Denmark next...  HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM....   
• UEFA is showing it's homophobic colors:  Days after it refused to allow a German stadium to be lit up in rainbow Pride colors at the Euro 2021 Championships, it has now refused to allow Dutch fans to bring rainbow flags to their match.
• If Cristiano Ronaldo is going to break the international-goals record, it'll have to be in the UEFA World Cup Qualifiers.  Top-seeded Belgium (yes, by the FIFA rankings, Belgium is the #1 team in the world) defeated Portugal 1-0.
• An interfering fan with a sign caused a massive crash at the first stage of the 2021 Tour de Farce France yesterday.  It has dropped one rider from the race (with at least one broken arm, if not both!), and most of the field is banged up.
• Dodgers fans a bit irked at the substance check the umpires did at the end of Clayton Kershaw's 8 inning, 13 strikeout effort tonight.  Dodgers won 7-1.  Won the other three games than the Cubs' no-hitter in the series.  47 wins, and still 3.5 back of the Giants.
• Apparently there was a wager between Shaquille O'Neal and one of the other "Inside the NBA" analysts before Game 3 Milwaukee-Atlanta tonight.  After the Bucks won in Atlanta, Shaq could be seen counting his money as the post-game show began.