August 24, 2022 News and Notes

• Len Dawson, one of the controversial figures in football in the start of the Super Bowl era, passed away today.
• Whoops...  (We hope.)  During the Sunday night broadcast of the Little League Classic, where MLB brings one game to the Little League World Series, an African-American player had his hair covered with cotton.  A LLWS report on the subject, after much social-media scorn for obvious racial reasons, says that was the only player they showed and a bunch of players were doing it.  Which would not surprise me, but you may have a POIDH (Pictures Or It Didn't Happen) moment, OR you may have some questions for ESPN, which has more than dabbled right-wing on some occasions and subjects.   
• In a move toward some old-school Americana, a school district in Missouri has actually reinstated spanking some children.  They best hope that doesn't escalate the violence in today's day and age.   
• A 2002 SNL after party has resulted in a sexual assault lawsuit -- and Jimmy Fallon has been added on as a possible enabler.  Then sue the entire damn network, because the entire entertainment industry enables this crap.   
• Tiger and Rory have begun a virtual golf league -- starting in January.  Hmmm, possible ESPN ties for after Monday Night Football?  (Yes, the matches -- with full arenas and crowds with virtual golf -- are being played on Mondays.)   
• The PGA Tour has gotten an agreement with some of it's more name players that they will play 20 events next year instead of the (former?) minimum 15.
• In exchange, the PGA Tour is upping prize money and benefits for players next year, in a direct broadside against the Saudi sportswashing tour.
• For the first time next season, every MLB team will play every other MLB team.  The intradivision games are the victims here.
• Fernando Tatis Jr. is doing the apology tour.  I don't know if he realizes what he's blown up with this suspension.  One prime shot for the Padres to off the Dodgers and do Manfred a favor, possibly two (since Tatis probably loses a month of next season, at the least!).   
• And THAT took two days...  There is now a leaked clip, stating that one of the judges from The Masked Singer, knowing of Tom Brady's absence from training camp, identified one of the singers from this season as Brady.  There is -- or at least WAS -- a mechanism where a judge could eliminate a singer outright with a correct guess, under penalty if they were wrong.  And there is an award the show gives for the judge with the most correct guesses in any event.   
• However, the show takes MASSIVE security precautions to prevent stuff like this -- although it didn't help spoiling Rudy Guiliani's pollution of last season, in which he made the second cut.
• In a move which can only increase the ideas that CM Punk is done with All Elite Wrestling, Jon Moxley has unified the World Championship again with a dominating performance over Punk.  They at least did an angle on Punk's surgically-repaired foot and the match was less than one segment.  Now watch the Internet Wrestling Community explode.
• And if Punk was still injured, STRIP HIM OF THE BELT and find another All Out opponent for Moxley -- this decision, bluntly, the WORST of both worlds.   
• Thunder Rosa has also been injured as AEW Women's Champion -- an interim title will be created as well.
• Because some pissants in the LA Sheriff's Department wanted to get stupid with Kobe Bryant's mangled deceased body after the crash with some pictures -- his wife has won a $16,000,000+ judgement because of their fucking insensitivity.