Day 862

• Steve Bannon is the first to be found guilty of contempt of Congress for the deliberate ignorance of a January 6th subpeona.
• It is now clear that the only reason the July sumo tournament is continuing in Japan is tradition.  COVID positives have felled 1/3 of the top division and six of the next level down.  To be fair, it only takes one positive within a heya/stable to force the entire stable to quit, but still...   
• A new bridge on 6th Street in Los Angeles has been a haven for street takeovers and other lawlessness.
• In a move which may indicate a ruling which admits the marriage between football and sexual violence, DeShaun Watson has reported to Browns camp.  Yes, it is the normal time for it -- and no, no penalty has been announced for Watson yet.  But if I were the NFL and wanted to make a statement of "No More", this would get the Trevor Bauer treatment!   
• And if you want another cause for investigation:  Watson's contract with the Browns...  His salary for 2023-24:  $46,000,000.  His salary for THIS SEASON?  $1,000,000.  That fucker doesn't expect to play this season and he knows it!!!
• The explosive Canadian Junior Hockey sexual assault reports continue -- now, the 2002-2003 World Champion team has also been accused of at least one gang rape.
• The University of Tennessee has been hit with 18 major violations as a result of a joint investigation of it's football program and former coach.  Given their recent record, I would say (as a matter of economic reality), a winding down of said program (and not because of the violations) would be in order.   
• When the men's Tour de Farce ends in Paris on Sunday, the women will, for the first time since 1989, have an official Tour de France race -- an 8-stage event beginning on the same Champs de Elysses the men will end on.  No word on any if any relevant competitor will be actually clean of drugs.  *cough*  
• There is great controversy in Yinzer Land.  What was Heinz Field is now Acrisure Stadium -- and a lot of people don't like it!
• Vince McMahon is retiring -- he got his hands too deep in the female cookie jar...
• ... and it may just have caused Brock Lesnar to walk.  Not that I think that would make the greatest difference -- but I have one problem:  Brock, that's not the best look because, frankly, it indicates you may also have been involved.  The wording reported used:  "If he's gone, I'm gone."   
• Sounds like that has been refuted.  Lesnar returned for the end of tonight's Smackdown.