Day 631

• Vegas bettors actually DID go with the idea that the Chargers and Raiders would tie.  Had that winning field goal at the overtime gun been missed, sportsbooks would've been on the book for millions.
• One New Jersey bettor lost $100,000 on a four-way parlay bet on the made field goal:  Raiders +4.5, Chargers +4.5, Yes on overtime, game ends in a tie.
• One Chicago bettor thought it best that the Raiders and Chargers do a mass kneel-down fest.  He bet the Jaguars to win and the Raider-Charger game tying for $5 in -- and came that made field goal from winning over $3,500!!
• One New Jersey bettor was happy he hedged his bet:  He bet $1,000 on the Jaguars winning and the regulation score of Raiders-Chargers ending in a tie -- and he made out for six figures!
• Novak Djokovic now has his Australian visa -- reinstated by an Australian federal judge.
• ... in the wake of a street altercation of a demonstration of anti-vaccine "fans" in the streets had to be dealt with with pepper spray.  I think you seriously have to consider cancelling or postponing the Grand Slam tournament.  You do the right thing, the tournament will probably be violently disrupted.  You do the wrong thing, and, chances are, he might still be carrying -- he got COVID about a month ago.
• We lost Bob Saget last night.  No sign of foul play.
• Dwayne Hickman also passed yesterday -- producer and actor best known for the role of Dobie Gillis.  Complications of Parkinson's.
• Official cause of Betty White's death has been revealed.  A stroke six days before -- AND FOR YOU FUCKING ANTI-VAXX ASSHOLES:  That's three days BEFORE she got the booster shot.
• Sunday began the annual Awesome Games Done Quick week-long marathon for the Prevent Cancer Foundation.  Already on the first day of the event, over $150,000 was raised.  For the fourth such week-long event in a row, the event is completely online due to COVID.
• And as of just past 9 PM Pacific tonight, over $450,000.
• The CFP is nowhere close to expansion agreement.  One has to wonder if the CFP, or college football as you know it, survives three more years.   
• Georgia is your national champion, a two-touchdown victor over Alabama.  And all of rec.sport.football.college curses -- a huge-money asshole bettor on the USENET forum pocketed about $36,000 on a $50,000 bet against his Crimson Tide.
• Add another one to Amy Schneider's total.  She missed Final Jeopardy tonight (only her sixth miss in 29 shows), so only cashed for $15,800 (her lowest total of her 29 wins), but a 29-day total of $1,035,400.  She does pass two names and is now the 19th highest winner in American game-show history, according to Wikipedia, as well as now, the fourth-highest woman.

Black Monday in the NFL:

• The Broncos, Vikings, Bears, and Dolphins have all fired their coaches.
• The Vikings, Bears and Giants have lost their GMs.  I'd think a lot of these losing teams should start here -- a lot of these teams, even if you take it in kayfabe, just simply don't have the guns to compete on the field.   
• The Giants is a retirement, and it appears they will keep their coach.