Day 775

• Only two weeks -- but the MLB-wide batting average?  .232
• Vice-President Harris has tested positive for COVID.
• It looks as if Amazon's venture into broadcasting NFL games is going to include a Black Friday game.  To no one's shock.    
• The right-wing People's Convoy decided to show up in the upscale Oakland neighborhood of Rockridge (where I landed with a friend after I was released from Riker's)...  They got egged out of the city.
• They got lost trying to find Pelosi's house.
• Two more stories of the realities of non-revenue women's college sports:

1. Sarah Shulze of the University of Wisconsin track team committed suicide over last weekend.  She was Academic All-Big Ten the last two years in track and cross-country.
2. And a probable (at least by the call by the university toward mental-health resources) second:  Last week's Colonial Athletic Association conference women's softball player of the week, Lauren Bernett of James Madison University, shockingly passed away today.  She was part of James Madison's run to the Women's College World Series last year.

• Mark Emmert is stepping down as head of the NCAA after next school year. 
• Another week, another National Women's Soccer League male head coach suspended for misconduct allegations.  This one is Houston Dash coach/GM James Clarkson -- the fourth NWSL coach suspended or fired for misconduct against the female athletes.  I am fully aware that there are male coaches who do wonderful work for female athletes, but isn't it time we understand they are the exception rather than the rule -- enough that the practice should be abolished?  
  
• That is now four of the ten teams in the league to fire or suspend their coaches.
• Perhaps as a protest to all of this, I present The Sports Bra Bar and Grill in Portland.  Opened first of this month, showing only women's sports on the televisions.  In an ABC News piece this week, the owner says:  No women's sports playing?  TVs are off!
• Interesting moment in Memphis tonight:  Ja Morant's father Tee was at the game -- and so was Usher.  The two are basically look-alikes, and even one of the referees came over to try to figure out which was who.  Memphis beat the T-Wolves on a game-winner at the buzzer.  Game 6 (and another PETA protest???) in Minneapolis later this week.
• According to a local San Francisco newspaper website, the protests are being led by a Bay Area group, Direct Action Everywhere.
• It is now illegal to live in the state of Oklahoma as a non-binary person.  The Governor, today, signed the first bill disallowing all birth certificates with non-binary options -- meaning that the state will no longer recognize, in any form, non-binary personhood.  Before people ask:  Remember that you can also ask, as part of gender affirmation through the courts, for your birth certificate to be changed -- and it may be required for various purposes.