Day 719

• The NFL has announced five international games for next season, including the first regular-season game in Germany.  Tampa Bay will participate in that game.
• An interesting statistic:  With the final NFL team going this year, every NFL team will now have done a London game.
• That team?  The Green Bay Packers.
• It's not that much a shock:  The new rules now mandate an international game for every NFL team every eight seasons.
• It appears as if regular-season MLB games will be cancelled at the end of the day today -- the sides are nowhere close.  And I fully forecast the talks will stop once regular-season games start getting canned.  My current belief:  If there is not a player capitulation, there will be no season this year.  If there is, we know they can condense a season down to about 2 1/2 months and 60 games.  The drop point for that is probably mid-June.   
• For the first time, Sports Illustrated has at least a Daily Cover on the Winter Paralympics, ostensibly starting Friday.
• Brett Netzer, a former top draft pick of the Red Sox, was fired over the weekend for going on a racist, anti-semitic, homophobic/transphobic, anti-mask/vaxx rant on his social media.
• Ah, the success of "Project Wolverine"...  Derek Jeter has sold his stock in the Florida Marlins and resigned as their CEO.