Day 603

• Jack Eichel is finally free of Buffalo and can have disk-replacement surgery -- the Las Vegas Golden Knights traded for him.
• It appears serious sanctions are headed the way of the Green Bay Packers for flaunting virus protocols in the Aaron Rodgers fiasco.  That's THREE major players this week -- the Raiders, Titans, and Packers -- you can absolutely remove from Super Bowl consideration.  Who wants it, people???   
• Adam Anderson, one of the starting linebackers for national-champion presumptive Georgia:  Suspended for rape allegations today.
• Outbreak of COVID on the Penguins -- a couple of days after Sidney Crosby was revealed positive, so is his head coach, Mike Sullivan.  He is the fifth Penguin this week to enter the protocols -- Crosby joins three other players also in the protocols.
• It appears that Odell Beckham Jr.'s father has ended Beckham's run in Cleveland -- the dad did social media earlier this week saying that Baker Mayfield doesn't get him the ball enough.
• San Francisco Giants long-time catcher Buster Posey announced his retirement today.  Hall of Fame prospects?  Do you look at his entire career -- or, like some Hall of Famers, recognize he was SO GOOD for several years that he HAS TO GO IN?  Interesting discussion in five years, if FUCK ROB MANFRED doesn't fuck the sport completely in the interim!
• And here we go again...  The latest owner to be accused as exposed as a racist, misogynistic creep is Robert Tarver, the owner of the Phoenix Suns and Mercury.  Tarver is accused in a bombshell ESPN report spanning over 70 witnesses of a toxic, even dangerous, culture of racism and misogyny...  When.  Are.  People.  Going.  To.  LEARN???   
• And in a late data dump, the WWE has dumped another set of wrestlers onto the open market, releasing at least 18 wrestlers today, including some names:

1. Eva Marie is finally gone.
2. Nia Jax probably got her ass booted out the door for trying to shoot on Charlotte Flair.  (Nope -- late word seems to indicate Jax is one of at least four WWE talents in this release dump who were released because they chose to be unvaccinated.  Given Jax' reputation for being sloppy and dangerous, I'm not 100% surprised!!)
3. Karrion Kross was just NXT Champion, got a cup of coffee on the main roster, and was told to pack his bags.
4. Keith Lee may be the most surprising, and yet unsurprising, release.  Way too fat by WWE standards, but one of the most athletic big men you'll ever see...
5. Ember Moon was a prominent staple in the false Women's Revolution.

• In what has got to be one of the LEAST surprising stories of this ilk:  Barstool Sports founder Davee Portnoy, accused of "frightening and humiliating sex acts" by a number of women in a report from Business Insider today.  Barstool has had a reputation of misogyny throughout it's sad existence.