Day 490

• After three African-heritaged players for England missed penalty kicks so that Italy won the Euro 2021 tournament, they were victimized by racist chants and taunts -- and now four Englishmen have been arrested for being discovered to be part of it on social media.
• The 911 caller in the Richard Sherman case said Sherman was not only drunk, but threatened to kill himself...  CTE on top of it??   
• Dwayne Haskins of the Steelers was injured in the mouth in an apparent domestic violence incident.  He was the apparent victim, however -- his wife is the one who was arrested for punching him in the mouth.
• The ESPN analyst who was the target of racist rants by fellow analyst Rachel Nichols, Maria Taylor, is being pursued for NBC's Olympic coverage, starting next week.  This is not completely unheard-of -- for the first couple of Olympics for NBC, NBC and ABC did a special arrangement to allow Jim McKay to continue his post as at least the head of the coverage of the Opening Ceremonies.   
• Tonight's single "ESPN Starts The Second Half" game is off.  Major COVID issue for the Yankees.\
• At least four SIX Yankees have tested positive, including All-Star Aaron Judge.  UH OH........   
• Rich Eisen has the coronavirus, after being immunized.
• The Surgeon General of the United States condemns the anti-vax movement -- by also announcing that 10 of his extended family members are among the deceased to the virus.
• Richard Sherman has been ROR'd on his violence charge.
• In an admission the NCAA's days are numbered, Mark Emmert has said that the time is right for what he called "decentralized and deregulated" college sports.