Day 502

• Good news for Wisconsin sports fans:  Aaron Rodgers is in Packers camp on Day One.  It sounds like he is a go for this season.
• Bad news for Wisconsin sports fans:  Christian Yelich has come down with the coronavirus.  He and another Brewer are now out.
• Texas and Oklahoma HAVE formally petitioned to join the Southeastern Conference.  And this would be in 2025, so they'd pay no penalty upon that situation.  Which means that college sports, as you knew them as NCAA constructs, have about four years left, at maximum.  I think this sets the table for 2024 to be the last football season at at least half the FBS schools.  
• And the domino effect may already be on.  Reports today are Kansas and Iowa State are looking to enter the Big Ten.
• With thanks to my anonymous friend who often sources this kind of stuff, Trevor Bauer (on the day he was to complete his administrative leave) has just had that administrative leave extended to at least August 6th.
• We apparently have our first sacrifice to football for the new season:  15 year old in Macon, GA -- collapsed at first practice and passed.
• Trea Turner, positive for COVID.  And in another embarrassment to MLB's handling of it all, he was allowed to start the game, found out while he was on base...  Left immediately after he scored on a subsequent home run.