Day 537

• Nick Kyrgios went off again at the chair umpire -- this dispute over towels at the side chairs during a straight-set loss in the first round of the US Open.
• Naomi Osaka had a straight-set win, however.

• Andy Murray has a dispute with Stefanos Tsitsipas, whom Murray believed gained an unfair advantage with a LONG bathroom break in Tsitsipas' 5-set win.  Tsitsipas had medical work on his ankle after losing the third set.  And two points into the fourth, took nearly eight minutes in the bathroom, and Murray felt he had the match won on that pace.
• There is now thought that the marquee game of Week 1 Sunday:  Packers vs. Saints, could be moved because of the devastation of Hurricane Ida.
• ... the remnants of which have now cost the Saints a second site -- as they have to flee Dallas because what's left of Ida may be headed THAT direction.  There is no pre-season game this week, however...
• And now word that New Orleans is probably going to be out of their home city for at least the first QUARTER of the NFL season.  Could be Week 5 or 6...
• The NFL and NFLPA agreed to more stringent and more numerous COVID testing.  Good call with the Delta Variant out there.   
• And, to pretty much no one's material surprise, a study of more than 100,000 baseball-fan Tweets has concluded the most-hated team in the majors is...  the Los Angeles Dodgers.
• Trent Dilfer is in trouble.  A sideline incident with a player he's coaching, where the player mouthed off to him and Dilfer roughed him up a bit...  Dilfer has apologized, but that's not good enough.  You have one recourse when a player mouths off -- suspension/expulsion from the team.  Yeah, the kid needs to shut his mouth, but hands off...   
• Disturbing news about ex-MLB player Juan Encarcion -- arrested this weekend, sexual assault of HIS OWN DAUGHTER...  Greeeat...  Another one of these...   
• If you want to see how much big money has gotten into the club soccer game:  The total amount of player transfer fees since 2012 in world soccer, according to FIFA:  $46,500,000,000.
• BIG NEWS out of New England:  Cam Newton is OUT.  Cut today.  Mac Jones will be the quarterback.  We'll see how long that lasts...  I have a suspicion there's a blockbuster incoming...   
• And even WORSE news about this "Bishop Sycamore" farce, if you can believe it could get worse:  They apparently also played a game on FRIDAY, 48 hours before the game with IMG Academy!!!  There's a criminal act in here somewhere.  Someone's going to jail for this, if it gets out...   
• Mike Richards has been FIRED as Executive Producer of Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! this morning.  Too much of a distraction, etc.  Former Millionaire EP Michael Davies takes the helm on an interim basis.  BYE, FUCKER!!!!   
• Xander Bogaerts exited tonight's game after finding out he was COVID-positive.
• Vaccination status IS a part of the cuts on Urban Meyer's Jacksonville Jaguars.  The NFLPA may not be cool with that, and is investigating.
• At least two on-camera analysts for MLB Network have been soft-suspended from on-air duty for refusing the vaccine.
• Congratulations to Holger Rune of Denmark for doing what many can't -- he got a set off of Novak Djokovic in the first round of the US Open -- won the second set in a tiebreaker.  Too bad he lost the other three 1, 2, and 1...
• "Bishop Sycamore" has fired the head coach and maintains it's a legit high school football program.  And I'm having a birthday date with a leggy singer in Vegas tonight.  Tell me another good one, you fraudsters!!!    
• For the record, before any humorless twit gets alarmed, I'm at least 300 miles away from said city.  That's how I feel about the legitimacy of "Bishop Sycamore".