Day 796

• Gee, SI, we wanna whore things out any worse this year?  One of your 2022 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition cover models...  Kim Kardashian.  Why not just do the photo ass-first on all fours then, if you wanna whore it up like that?    
• The first plus-sized Asian model is anothe, Yumi Nu.
  
• The UK government wants to make sure the Chelsea sale gives the former Russian owner nothing -- if it isn't approved by the end of this month, the club loses it's license to operate!
• 3,138 Monday night in Oakland for the Twins.
• 42,650 in LA for the Dodgers vs. D-Backs.
• A consultant for the Milwaukee public school system has called for effective martial law in the city this summer.  A Memorial Day-Labor Day curfew 7 PM-6AM on weekdays and 9PM-6AM on weekends, etc.  He believes this is what it would take to stop the situation of crime in the city.
• Two-thirds of the way through the May sumo tournament in Japan...

1. Maegashira #15 Ichiyamamoto is 8-2.
2. Maegashira #4 Takanosho is 8-2.
3. Yokozuna Terunofuji is 7-3.
4. Maegashira #2 Kiribayama is 7-3.
5. Maegashira #6 Ura is 7-3.
6. Maegashira #12 Sadanoumi is 7-3.
7. Maegashira #11 Aoiyama is 7-3.

• The continuing travails of Ozeki Shodai continue.  In the second-highest rank Ozeki, you can only be demoted out in a three-tournament process, similar to the process you get to the rank.
• Since Shodai became an Ozeki after winning the September 2020 tournament:  An injury automatically made him kadoban (the first step out), then 11-4 to remove that, 7-8 to go back kadoban, 9-6 to leave it, 8-7, 8-7, 9-6, 6-9 to go kadoban for the third time, 9-6 to save out (and needed two wins in the last two weeks to not go back to the next rank provisionally, the second step), and he is about to go kadoban for the FOURTH time, he's 3-7 and he should not have won one of the three matches he did win.
• The tournament is going so spectacularly sideways at the Ozeki level, all three at the second-highest rank could go kadoban -- Kitakeumi and Takakeisho are both 5-5.
• Last tournament's champion at Sekiwake, Wakatakakage, is also 5-5 -- and needs to rack up as many wins as he can, because he needs a rough average of 11-4 over three tournaments to make Ozeki.
• And the other Sekiwake, formerly-suspended Abi, is also 5-5!  And, unlike Ozeki, there is no protection.  You go 7-8, you are subject to demotion!
• As for the other major suspension in sumo over the last year, Asanoyama is serving the sixth and final tournament of his suspension for a major COVID and character violation.

1. He was suspended at 7-5, three matches to go as an Ozeki.  So the three absences made him kadoban.
2. The first suspended tournament put him provisionally back in Sekiwake.
3. The second dropped him all the way to Maegashira #10.
4. The third dropped him to Juryo #4.
5. The fourth dropped him to Makushita (the highest of the boy ranks) #2
6. The fifth dropped him to Makushita #42.
7. And he's going to drop all the way into the Sandanme meatgrinder in the mid-20s.  He's looking AT LEAST A YEAR to even get back to Maegashira.  He should've been expelled from sumo, and that be the end of it!   

• For distribution of oxycontine to Tyler Skaggs (probably more for the use of cocaine as well), Matt Harvey has been banned 60 games by MLB.  Because if the Commissioner had a set of balls, the fact Skaggs died from it would mean Best Interests of Baseball and Harvey is DONE.    
• South Carolina has joined the anti-trans bigotry with respect to girls' sports.
• In another case that I hate to say hope is fatal:  Eric Clapton finally caught COVID.