Day 807

• Someone apparently fired seven shots near the El Cortez casino in downtown Las Vegas Friday night/Saturday morning.  Someone wanted to cause a MAJOR incident.
  
• The Kapler protest, where he will not be on the field for the National Anthem, will be until further notice.
• Tommy Pham of the Reds has been banned three games for a fantasy football dispute which led to slapping Joc Pederson of the Giants last night.
• And we find out, probably, why Carlos Martinez was an All-Star:  Now in the minors, Martinez is banned 80 games for testing positive for a chemical which increases the body's ability to make HGH.
• The Champions League Final in Paris has finally started, as the match had to be delayed due to thousands of fans being unable to enter the stadium.
• Apparently, tear gas was employed for unrest outside the stadium before the match.
• And a controversial razor-thin VAR decision in stoppage time of the first half sent the match to halftime scoreless between Real Madrid and Liverpool.  I'm getting vibes of a fixed match here!!   
• Thankfully, Real Madrid won 1-0 -- but on a goal more reversible than the one the VAR reversed!
• UEFA has now stated that the pre-match trouble was Liverpool fans with fake tickets.  If that's the case, I think we have our answer on the fixed match, but it was the other way!
  
• Devin Ham is the next coach of the LA Lakers.
• The Todd Boehly Group now owns Chelsea Football Club -- the licensures have been approved, etc.
• The Oklahoma Sooners women's softball team qualified for the Women's College World Series today with a sweep of UCF.  They are, by some metrics, the most dominant team in team sports at major-college or above levels.
• They are 54-2.  That is the same record that the 1992 UCLA Bruins had in the sport -- a record winning percentage of .964.
• One loss was April 16 to Texas.  They DID NOT win the Big XII championship, losing the second game of that tournament to Oklahoma State.
• Texas and Oklahoma State will be two of the other teams in the Women's College World Series.
• Uh oh...  There has been some discussion of creative/monetary differences between All Elite Wrestling and top male heel Maxwell Jacob Friedman/MJF.  It appears they have come to a head at the annual Fan Festival in Las Vegas before tomorrow's third annual Double or Nothing pay per view, where he's scheduled to face brute Wardlow.  
• This is either an elaborate work (and if there's anyone in AEW which can pull this off, it's him!) or the end of him with the company.  MJF no-showed the Fan Fest, forcing refunds -- and now, Sean Ross Sapp has reported he's booked a flight out of Las Vegas.
• Now word Samoa Joe is not there.  Later word, especially in light of the above, is that this one was simply a communication issue (probably a missed communication on when he was supposed to be there), and those things do happen.
  
• Sting, also, was not there, but that was announced several days ago and may be due to an injury he suffered a week or so ago and "was not cleared to travel".
• Gavin Newsom, governor of California:  Positive for COVID -- two days after meeting with the prime minister of New Zealand, ten before the last of the mail-in votes are allowed for his primary election for another term as the state's governor.