Day 770

• If you are on Second Life and love dragons, wizards, and raising money for the American Cancer Society, the largest-scale event of the virtual world's Relay For Life event begins today:  Fantasy Faire.
• And it sounds like the Oakland A's are done, and FUCK ROB MANFRED may have to seriously consider contingency plans just to get the A's through this season.  

Oakland only drew 17,503 for Opening Day against Baltimore.

The next day, 3,748.

Game Three?  TWO THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND THREE.

And a 12:35 Pacific game today to finish the series.

Which drew 4,429.  (All figures are from MLB.com .)

This is "They are not going to be able to afford to keep the stadium lights on." territory.

Hell, they want Vegas so badly?  They could probably play in former minor-league ballpark Cashman Field (capacity:  10,000) and be able to fill that except when the Yankees and the like come to town!  (Cashman Field now is used strictly for soccer -- the area minor-league team now plays in Summerlin, in Las Vegas Ballpark -- also seating 10,000, opened in 2019.)

• Novak Djokovic has come out against the expulsion of Russian and Belarussian players from Wimbledon, but more for asking what the players had to do to keep Putin in power.
• Villanova has announced the retirement of 25-year men's basketball coach Jay Wright.
• Oscar de la Hoya has had two lawsuits filed against him for sexual assault on his part which allegedly occurred in 2020.
• The rumor given around the time of Dwayne Haskins' death appears to be true.  His wife said Haskins had run out of gas and was trying to cross I-595 to get to a gas station so he could get some.
• Pam Shriver has stated an inappropriate relationship with a tennis coach (in his 50's) when she was 17.  And she says it's rampant throughout the tour.
• Production on the new Searchlight Pictures movie Being Mortal has been stopped -- inappropriate conduct investigation into it's star, Billy Murray.  Assume appropriate conduct from no man.    
• AND THIS IS WHY WE PENALIZE TAUNTING!!  Owen Woodward faces expulsion from Weatherford Junior College in Texas after being suspended for four games -- and then thrown off his school's baseball team entirely -- for tackling North Central Texas College's Josh Phillips after Phillips hit a home run and let Woodward know about it around third base.  Phillips banned two games for taunting.
• Four Weatherford players were banned two games.  The ENTIRE North Central Texas College team was banned for two games.  As a result, the game involved, the first one game of a series the two schools are having was double-forfeited, and North Central Texas forfeited the next two.  A scheduled game between the two is still on for Saturday.  There you go -- that's a START!    
• Why the FUCK would you harass MIKE TYSON?  Police at SFO had to detain Mike Tyson and an aggressively-harassive passenger against him after Tyson decked the latter after one try too many and he threw a water bottle at Tyson!