Day 727

• Well, that was quick... Within about an hour of Aaron Rodgers re-signing with Green Bay...
• Russell Wilson has been traded to Denver.  yay...  
• The PGA Tour Commissioner wants words with Phil Mickelson.
• Deion Sanders has blood clots in his feet -- they've cost him two toes.
• China tops the Paralympic medal count by a wide margin.
• This is interesting, and I'm not surprised in any way it's getting no coverage here:  The President of Paris-St. Germain and the President of BeIn Sports (an international sports cable network which has networks in the United States) and a former President of FIFA are being demanded two-year-plus jail sentences for their role in corrupt allocation of soccer television rights!  The Swiss government is making the demands.
• Interesting story in Championship Week:  2011 Division II men's basketball champion Bellarmine University of Kentucky won the American South Conference tournament championship.  However, because it is in the second year of transitioning to Division I, it cannot enter the 2022 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.  It is, according to ESPN research, the first men's school in 25 years to win it's conference tournament in such a manner.  Usually, when a school is under penalty of postseason ineligibility (instead of Bellarmine's case of non-penalty ineligibility during transition to D1), the school does not participate in the conference tournament.
• As a result, Jacksonville State, the team with the best regular-season conference record, will go to the tournament.
• Chances are, Bellarmine will participate in the NIT -- if you recall, just last year, a similar situation occurred with California-Riverside in the Big West Conference in the women's tournament.
• In a scene reminiscent of the Mexican soccer riot, the NEC Championship Game of Championship Week had to be stopped and the gymnasium cleared with 4 minutes left when a brawl between Bryant fans and Wagner players broke out.  Bryant was winning by an insurmountable margin, but who knows what might happen here...  Bryant won the game, and, if the result is not reversed by the conference or the NCAA, they will join Longwood as schools making their first NCAA men's D1 tournament appearance.
• Reports from the site indicate Bryant fans have been drunk and disorderly the entire time, and objects have been thrown at the Wagner players.
• The leader of the Proud Boys was finally arrested and charged for January 6th, 2021.
• A Michigan GOP candidate for office this Fall has been condemned by his party due to going the full Bobby Knight quote vis-a-vis rape.