Day 526

• Even though they had (and apparently under the gravest of pressure) taped at least one day of tapings for the new season, Mike Richards has been forced out as the host of Jeopardy!   
• Perhaps in a last gasp to save the NCAA as we know it, the Pac-12, Big Ten, and ACC have announced at least some form of an alliance.  And, at least in football, even the three conferences put together won't touch the SEC.  This also finishes the Big XII.    
• I'd be remiss not to mention it here, even if the rest of the world doesn't want me to:  35 years after her first single, Debbie Gibson releases her ninth American studio album today, The Body Remembers, today on digital platforms and on Amazon.  It's her fourth independent release -- you may be able to find it in certain localities if record stores still exist...    
• Superstar American soccer player Christian Pulisic is a breakthrough COVID positive.  I don't think people are getting how close we are to the whole thing coming apart and us not getting it back.  The aforementioned has four shows with Joey McIntyre in Vegas next weekend, and four more in September.  I don't think they get those eight shows done without MAJOR COVID exposure.   
• And that says nothing about SummerSlam this weekend at Allegiant Stadium!!!    
• An example of why things are coming apart?  Melissa Joan Hart has COVID, and at least one of her kids does too.  Breakthrough case, and she's apparently in pretty bad shape.  School didn't have mask mandates, and you can figure out the rest...
• And if you want a more direct tie to SummerSlam??  The on-again, off-again Smackdown Women's Championship match between Sasha Banks and Bianca Belair appears off.  Two days after the WWE declared both cleared, word is that Sasha is not going to be in town for tonight's final Smackdown before tomorrow's match.  Translation:  Sasha's positive  for COVID again -- after probably either a "false negative" series or whatever.   
• WWE baited and switched all the way to Saturday night -- Sasha's out.
• Add Rafael Nadal to the players out for the season with injuries.  I think Djokovic may be the only major person left.    
• They've added ANOTHER WEEK to Trevor Bauer's administrative leave.