Day 558

• A day late on this:  Maegashira Daieisho earned his third kinboshi by becoming the first man to defeat Terunofuji as a Yokozuna.  A kinboshi (a "gold star") is given to a lower-rank top-division wrestler who defeats a Yokozuna.  Pre-COVID:  This would also be accompanied by much of the crowd (though it is later discouraged, it is a sumo tradition) throwing their seat cushions toward the ring to celebrate the achievement.  However, what is not changed is that Daieisho, as with any kinboshi winner, will receive an addition to his pay for the remainder of his career.  It is estimated that a single kinboshi is worth an additional 240,000 yen (current approximation, about $2,200) per year for the rest of Daieisho's career.  He also received a significant sponsors' bonus for winning the match.
• Ben Simmons, as widely believed, is done with the 76ers and will not report to their training camp.  I'm not sure who in the NBA would WANT this fraud, much less his contract!   
• "Emergency"'s Chet Kelly passed away, reported by museum of the Fire Department the show was in tribute of.
• Davis Mills will be the starter in Houston going forward.

Some NFL numbers:

• 11 taunting penalties have been called in the first two weeks of the season, eight of which this week.  And, unlike most people and many media, it needs to be called MORE.   
• There is a Deadspin article talking about whether this taunting enforcement is actually trying to tell Black players to "play the game the White way"...  I'm going to have some words about that at some point in the next couple of days.  
• The NFL Network-exclusive Thursday night game got the highest ratings in four years for the Network in that spot.
• 13.8M for Packers-Lions last night (Showbuzz Daily).  About 11% lost from last year.  No surprise.  Last year was an ABC DualCast, and who's going to be excited for Packers-Lions at this point, outside of Packer Country?  And how about the almost two million for the ESPN2 ManningCast?
• CBS Late:  24.29 million, up 25% ratings, 29% viewers -- Cowboys-Chargers was the national game.
• CBS Early:  14.2M and that was 41% ratings, 45% viewers to the good -- Raiders-Steelers in a bit more than half the country.
• FOX Single:  18.5M viewers (+7% ratings, +10% viewers), best single in three years.
• SNF:  19.8M, most watched SNF in three years.  No surprise with that matchup!  Ratings up 8%, viewers up 12%.