Day 769

• Players from Russia and Belarus have been thrown out of the 2022 Wimbledon tournament.  This ousts world #2 Daniel Medvedev.
  
• Charlie Blackman of the Rockies has become the first active player to endorse a sportsbook.  By MLB rules, he cannot endorse betting on baseball (in addition to the long-standing prohibition on betting on the game by MLB players), but he can endorse the sportsbook in general.
  
• Jerry West didn't care for the portrayal of him in the Lakers series Winning Time, and demands an apology and a retraction.  Barring a successful lawsuit, I don't see either happening. 
• MTK Global is done.  The boxing management company's originator is a wanted gang kingpin in the USA and Ireland, Daniel Kinahan.
• One of the most bizarre streaks in NBA history continued last night as the Phoenix Suns were upset by the New Orleans Pelicans, evening their first-round series.  Scott Foster was one of the officials, and Chris Paul, who plays on the Suns, now has his teams 0-14 in the playoffs in games Foster officiates.  In this particular case, the injury to Devin Booker may be of larger concern, at least with respect to this series.
• Oops Moment of the Day:  The Washington Nationals had a military group to parachute into the stadium before their game with Arizona tonight.  The bad news:  Their stadium is about ten minutes from the Capitol building, no one told the Capitol this was happening, and the plane was circling, waiting for the cue to come in.  The Capitol was evacuated until it was realized, with egg on face, that there was no threat to the Capitol.