Day 762

• The USFL begins play this weekend.
• The XFL is filling out it's coaching ranks, including Bob Stoops, as the coaches of their eight teams for the third attempt at the league -- if the trademark dispute with Megan Rapinoe doesn't torpedo it first!
• Apparently, a Giants coach who got ejected in San Diego claims that a Padres coach used a racial epithet against him.  Great...  MORE to stoke the fire in the first week of the young season!   
• The ejection caused the Giants to replace him with bench coach Alyssa Nakken at first base.  Nakken becomes the first on-field female coach in MLB history.  If there's ONE POSITIVE about this...   
• There is a Congressional investigation into possibly misappropriation of funds by the Washington Commanders.  And I'm not sure how much Congress actually aids in running Washington, DC itself, but this does reek of "better things to do", even if Dan Snyder needs to be in orange real good and quick!   
• However, the NFL does also have jurisdiction...  And has expanded their investigation of the team to include this and another financial improprities the House Oversight Committee has announced.
• Nikita Mazepin has had a $114 million mansion in Italy seized as part of Russian sanctions.
• Do you just get the impression they want Trevor Bauer to just go away??  His leave has been extended again, yet another week into the 2022 season.
• An animal-rights activist interrupted last night's 7 vs 8 play-in game between the T-Wolves and the Clippers -- by trying to glue her wrists to the floor to force the game stopped because the owner of the T-Wolves is not a PETA vegan or whatever.