Day 792

• The final total of the 2022 Second Life Fantasy Faire has been announced:  $103,119.
• 25,779,893 Second Life Lindens have been donated to the American Cancer Society at the event -- a new record.
  
• The parents of a 35 year-old Indian man are prepared to sue him and his wife for everything they've spent on him (the equivalent, it is reported, of about $650,000) for not providing them a grandchild, and living in separate states in India because of what work they could find!  Intense mental cruelty and harassment is the charge.  In India, the parents' lawyer says, children are to provide their parents with "basic financial care".  They have a court date May 17.  I'm not making this up.   
• Of course, it is not currently known whether it will matter, the gender of the child.  Some Indian mothers are beaten for not providing sons.
• 292,000 Mercedes cars are going to have to be off the road for a possible brake defect.
• The Reds have won four of their last five.  The Dodgers have lost three of their last four.  Yes, I know it doesn't matter THAT MUCH.  Hell, this is to demonstrate that!    
• For the first time, the NBA will award MVP trophies in the Conference Finals.
  
• The MVP of the Eastern Conference Finals will now receive...  The Larry Bird Trophy.
• The Western Conference winner...  The Magic Johnson Trophy.  There's something appropo about all that, when you think of it...    
• Sportico has released it's salary and endorsement totals for athletes for the last year.  When you count endorsements, LeBron James had the richest 2021, at $126.9 million.
• Three soccer players:  Messi, Ronaldo, and Neymar, broke $100 million apiece.
• In pure salary/purse/winnings, boxer Canelo Alvarez was #1 with $84 million.
• For the women:  Naomi Osaka topped the list at $53.2 million to make #20 on the list -- as the only woman in the top 50.
• Only one other woman on the top 100 list at all:  Serena Williams at #52.