Day 496

• And, as predicted, Scott Foster did his job and the Milwaukee Bucks have their first title in 50 years in the NBA.
• The A's are taking the next steps toward leaving Oakland, dissatisfied with what appears to be the city's last offer of a waterfront ballpark...  They need to leave.  Oakland is not a "major-league city" in ANYTHING at this point...   
• Clemson's Dabo Swinney is not only against the 12-team College Football Playoff expansion because it increases the number of games on the kids, but also does not even believe there exist 12 worthy schools.  ... which then should really make me wonder why you even bother with the present model, since it props up many useless schools, in the final matter of football...   
• *SIGH*  Three people were wounded last night in my old home town of Milwaukee during celebrations of the first championship for the city (if you count the Packers) in at least a decade.  SIXTY FIVE THOUSAND jammed Milwaukee's "Deer District" (the area around the current Bucks' arena, the Fiserv Forum) last night.  (I lived in Milwaukee almost four years and never knew what the "Deer District" was...)
• The mayor of New York City is finally requiring verified vaccination of all public hospital workers in the city.  Either that, or be fired, or consent to weekly testing out of your pocket.
• Akin to the Sean Hannity blurb yesterday:  Pastors in Tennessee want the Republican governor to knock it off and get people vaccinated -- sick of the politicization of the virus.
• An altercation between Boca Juniors players and officials and police and players from Atletico Mineiro has resulted in the arrest of six of the former after Mineiro defeated Boca Juniors and knocked them out of the Copa Libertadores.
• Another round of penalties for the homophobic chants from Mexican fans.  This one for the May 29th International Friendly with Iceland -- $109,000 fine from FIFA.  This still doesn't address the CONCACAF Cup or the beginning of the Gold Cup.
• A Houston Chronicle report is basically portending the end of the Big XII Conference -- with Oklahoma and Texas jumping to the SEC.  Texas A&M's AD is already speaking out against the Houston Chronicle report.
• In direct opposition to Sweeney's comments, Mississippi State's Mike Leach would, instead, like to see a full expansion to March Madness levels of 64.  That's probably too many, given the realities of football -- that's six games, remember.  
• Legendary college football coach Bobby Bowden is terminal with an undisclosed illness.