Day 612

• Claiming the NFL and Goodell have targeted him, Jon Gruden has sued -- and it appears he wants the trial proceedings to force open the entire 650,000 e-mail trove from Dan Snyder and the Washington Football Team.
• Erik Kynard of the United States is now the 2012 (yes, I said correctly) London Olympic Games champion in the high jump after the former gold medalist, Ivan Ukhov, was exposed as part of the Russian state doping scheme.
• Three men tied for bronze -- they all will get silver.  One of them was Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar -- of the famous "Can we have two golds?" situation in Tokyo this year.  The other two:  Derek Drouin of Canada and Robert Grabarz of Great Britain.
• Four other medals were also disqualified.  

1. Svetlana Shkolina (RUS) taken from the bronze in the women's high jump, bronze now awarded to Ruth Beitia of Spain.
2. Canoeing men's singles 200m sprint:  Silver taken from Jevgenij Shuklin, silver now awarded to Ivan Shtyl of Russia, bronze now awarded to Alfonso Benevidez Lopes de Ayala of Spain.
3. Men's Freestyle 120kg Wrestling:  Gold AND Silver disqualified.  Both of the finalists, Artur Taymazov of Uzbekistan and Davit Modzmanashvili of Georgia have been tossed out.  Because of the structure of the wrestling tournament, the two bronze-medalists both graduate to gold:  Komeil Gashemi of (The Islamic Republic of) Iran, and Russia's Bilyal Malkhov.  The losers of those bronze-medal London matches now gain bronze medals:  Daulet Shabanbay of Kazhakstan and Tervel Dlagnev of the United States.

• Three of the top eight women in the women's long jump were disqualified (including a Russian), but no medals changed hands here.
• Russia won 82 medals in London on the field of play.  Sixteen of them have now been taken due to the drug scandal.  Five of them gold-medal disqualifications.
• In what should be no surprise given "this" America:  Gold medalist Sunisa Lee reported she was a victim of anti-Asian hate crimes when a group came up and slurred her and pepper sprayed her in LA a few weeks ago...
• Someone who's done the research has shown a more specific reason scoring is down 4 points a game through nine weeks this year:  The NFL called only 477 offensive holding penalties in the total of 256 games last season.  Through 136 games of this season, the NFL has already called 352 offensive holding penalties.  On a per-game basis, that is nearly a 39% increase over last year.  Credit to Coffees For Closers on Reddit for that research.