Day 653

• NOW we can do the Brady post-mortems.  He has officially announced he's done, ending a 20-year rigged NFL era, representative of a much larger and more important great decline in our society.  That, probably, will need two posts.
• Controversy in Los Angeles today regarding the lack of enforcement of mask policies, including Governor Newsom, etc., for last Sunday's NFC Championship Game.  We shouldn't be holding that size of crowds ANYWAY.   
• There is an increasing spate of threats against Historic Black Colleges and Universities, prompting the cancellation of classes in some respects.  So what idiots are doing THESE???   
• As has UCLA (to at least the point of holding all classes remotely going forward), but this is a known commodity.  Former philosophy lecturer has made threats against the school and the department.  A post-doctorate fellow...  Oof.  That's pretty far up the food chain for something to "fail" that hard.  What happened here?   
• The lecturer, who was apparently suspended last year for allegedly sending pornography to a student, has been arrested in Colorado -- and that probably meant his threats may have been serious (the earlier word was that he lived on the East Coast!!!).  Apparently one of the triggers to today's protective actions was an 800-page mass shooting manifesto the ex-lecturer sent to the school.
• And ironically with those three stories, we do have a school shooting to report today:  One killed and another injured in a shooting outside a school in Richfield, MN.
• According to Jeff Passan, any hope MLB may have gained last week for any resolution to the labor situation has been lost.  A delay in the start of Spring Training now appears likely.  I'll say it now and people I've talked to agree:  There will be no 2022 season.  At all.   
• Keep it up, people.  This is what's going to flip the table onto your faces as early as this November, if they wait that long!!  Not only is the 800-page manifesto a Black Man's Lament against his perceived UCLA targets of Jews, women, Whites, and Asians, but the Black lecturer has said BLM should be more of a terrorist organization than a hip trend.
• Bring on Whoopi Goldberg:  Banned from "The View" for at least two weeks (we'll see if she still has a job after her purported suspension) for using Monday's show to spout about the Holocaust not being about race, but simply man's inhumanity to man.  After the ADL had some words with her, she has apologized, but she has drawn a two-week ban from the network!
• Brian Flores has sued the NFL and all 32 teams, stating Black assistant coaches, even with The Rooney Rule, have zero real chance of success in the National Football League as head coaches.
• Ole Miss' Lane Kiffin has basically said that you can now start tying the "salaries" of NIL deals of football teams and players to the teams' successes on the field, creating a college-pro "salary cap".  Olbermann was ahead of his time, wasn't he?  
• The Denver Broncos are up for sale, and the sale price appears like it's going to be an NFL record.  Yes, I know the league is a money-printing machine -- BUT HOW?