Day 868

• Sports Illustrated has also posited the "Is the NFL ready for Donald Trump's return?" question ESPN did just after last season.
• Donald Trump is fully in on the Saudi Blood Money sportswashing effort -- explaining why he supports the LIV Golf Tour.
• ... a tour which is going to expand to 14 events next year and over $425,000,000 just in prize money -- on top of all the appearance fees and pretty close to the entire prize money pool of the PGA Tour.
• Game show history -- of the wrong kind -- tonight.  ABC's revival of Press Your Luck had the first real gambler contestant enter the final round just about $79,000 short of winning the $1,000,000 jackpot prize by amassing a $500,000 bank before the Whammies got to it in the half-hour bonus round.
• After hitting a baby grand piano (meaning he had won most of the prizes set on the board especially for him), the next spin, he lost over $430,000 by hitting a Whammy and could only make back $25,000 of it.
• That, to our research, is the second-largest game-show loss in the history of the United States, behind the $475,000 lost by the final contestant in the 10th anniversary series of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?   
• Daniel Snyder has finally wasted an entire day of time of the House Oversight Committee.  Eleven hours of testimony on how he's basically taken a massive dump on all reasonability -- and no one is going to do shit, because there are too many other things which need the nation's attention now.
• The Arizona Cardinals have pulled the plug, due to pressure, on a contract clause on Kyler Murray requiring attentive film study as a part of his contract.
• EA Sports has opened a new hotline to protest Madden ratings -- and 1,000 calls came in on the first part of a day of that operation.
• Sacramento Republic, a second-tier USL Championship side -- has reached the finals of the US Open soccer tournament and will face Orlando City for a berth in the CONCACAF Champions League.  It is the first time the US Open final will not feature two MLS sides in 14 years.  The final is September 7th, Orlando hosts.
• Another example of the complete irrelevancy of college football:  Who had the most NFL players from their college last year?  Alabama. (54)
• Two years ago?  Alabama. (53)
• Three years ago?  Alabama. (56)
• Four years ago?  Get the point yet?  Champions go to The Show. (54)
• Current projection for this year?  Somewhere in the SIXTIES.
• Only three NFL teams do not have at least one Alabama player in camp.
• Fascist Samuel Alito actually believes the final straw for displaced UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was bashing the SCOTUS' Roe v. Wade reversal.
• Marjorie Taylor Greene actually WANTS "Toxic Masculinity" as the predominant trait in the US military.