Day 767

• Especially given all the sports competition, ratings for the first week of the USFL do appear encouraging...  But that's been true of every spring sports league attempt Week One...   
• Evans Chebet of Kenya and Peris Jepchirchir won today's Boston Marathon.
• The next "The Match" will be an all-NFL quarterback affair on TNT.  Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers will, for once, be on the same side.  Opposing them in the charity match:  Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen.  Gee, you don't think that's about the Final Four next year -- and I'm not talking men's college basketball, ifyoucatchmydrift...   
• "The Match" will take place June 1, 12 holes, at the Wynn course in Paradise, NV.
• At least three mass shootings this weekend.  Sounds like everyone wants to settle it by putting people in the ground.  Just remember, asswipes...  That can cut both ways in any such situation.   
• Methinks the bigger story in this is probably NOT going to be the six-month drug suspension.  Dryden McKay, heading to the pros after winning the 2022 Hobey Baker Award, has been suspended from hockey for six months by WADA after a pre-Olympic drug test (he was a backup/alternate for Team USA) showed an illegal substance in his blood in enough quantity to trigger a positive test.
• One large problem, though:  McKay was able to find all the supplements, etc. which he had been taking at the time, and took them to a USADA-certified laboratory for testing.  He found that a natural Vitamin D supplement he'd taken for 10 days to protect against the Omicron COVID variant had been contaminated with Ostarine.  The illegal substance was not on the ingredient label of the supplement.
• Given this, USADA and WADA have stipulated a complete lack of intent on the part of McKay, who accepted the six-month ban.  So who contaminated it and WHY??????????????