Day 559

• For the third year in a row, a team is going to have to come out of administration and attempt to remain in the English second-tier Championship.  Derby County has entered administration and been docked 12 points (losing all of it's current points plus it's next two).  The good news?  They've only lost two of their first eight matches, so they sit nine points from safety at this point.  But you HAVE TO START asking questions if this becomes three years in a row now where at least one of the three relegations from the Championship is due to financial concerns.   
• There is now word the players are not being paid -- and if that is not resolved in the next 10 days, the penalty could be DOUBLED and the team threatened with complete dissolution!  This is what happens within six years of you trying to get to the EPL and failing in the playoffs FOUR TIMES.
• It would be the second club wound-up in the top four divisions in the last three years.  Bury FC exists in name only after being tossed out of League Two with no interest in a buyer -- and they're still looking three years later.
• Wycombe Wanderers is probably going to sue the EFL and Derby County -- believing the 12 points should've applied last year and that Derby County, not they, should already be in League One.
• Two years ago, Wigan Athletic took the drop, and nearly dropped again the following season to League Two -- staying up by only a single point!  This year has started out well, though -- 5 wins and a draw in their first seven.
• Last year, Sheffield Wednesday took a six-point drop for spending violations and they, too, were relegated as a result to League One.  They have three wins and two draws in their first seven.
• On the other side of the ledger is this hilarious story from the low end of CONCACAF club football:  Inter Moengotapoe is from the tiny nation of Suriname, and was second in this year's Caribbean Club Championship, making it to the CONCACAF League.  They are owned by the 60 year-old vice-president of the country, WHO PLAYED LAST NIGHT against Honduran side Olimpia.  Sadly for him, Olimpia won 6-0.
• Matt Amodio, last night, became the third man in Jeopardy! history to win 25 regular-season matches.  Last night's victory was his sixth lockout win in seven matches in the new season, and a large margin over his two opponents allowed him to recover from a $10,000 Daily Double loss to win $36,201 to leave himself just over $100,000 short of becoming television's newest game-show millionaire.
• Archivist Andy Saunders notes this morning that his prediction model actually now has a 1.7% chance that Amodio breaks Ken Jennings' 74 win record.  The bad news for Amodio: The prediction model also has a 7% chance of him losing today!  (Find that information at your peril before Jeopardy! airs today -- the website will update as soon as the show airs...)
• Saunders' current model has the average winning streak in his projections at 36.  At his present average, Amodio would win $1,286,200 or so, making him the tenth-highest American game-show winner of all time.
• Appears as if Evander Kane is in the clear.  NHL announced today it has no evidence of his ex-wife's claims.
• Basebrawl today in Tampa.  Yesterday, the Blue Jays dropped one of their crib sheets (sheets which give scouting information to pitchers and.or fielders on various hitters so they know what to do) on the ground and the Rays found it.  Today, someone's getting suspended:  Ryan Borucki took it for the team, as he plunked Kevin Kiermeier and everyone's feelings were hurt.
• It appears future Olympic hopefuls WILL have to be vaccinated, the United States Sexual Assault Committee announced today.
• Antonio Brown of the Buccaneers has tested positive for COVID.  According to Adam Schefter, that's three Buccaneers now on the COVID list.
• Another sacrifice to football:  Tyler Christman of Carthage HS in northern New York.  Head injury in a game Saturday -- and passed earlier this week.  He was FOURTEEN.