August 27, 2022 News and Notes

• Adidas has cut ties with Fernando Tatis, Jr.
• An increasing number of street takeover attempts have infuriated Anaheim residents, including one just literally kitty-corner of a block away from Disneyland.  One pissed off (against the takeovers) person actually brought a curved blade and had to be run off.   
• Additional names apparently ready to make the jump to LIV include two prominent golfers from Chile, Joaquin Niemann next week in Boston and Mito Periera eventually.
• If Niemann and World #2 Cameron Smith (who's been reported pretty much about the moment he won the 2022 Open Championship) make the jump, they will be ineligible for the Presidents' Cup in September, which IS a PGA Tour event.
• Niemann is the current #18 in the world, Harold Varner III (reported a day or two ago) #40.
• Northwestern defeated Nebraska on a botched onside kick call -- further heating the seat of former Central Florida coach Scott Frost.
• Honolulu, HI will face a team from Curacao for the Little League World Series Championship tomorrow.  It is Curacao's fourth championship appearance (won the title in 2004, lost in 2005 and 2019).  It is Honolulu's second (won the title in 2018).
• Rita Smith, an NFL senior advisor on sexual assault and domestic violence, believes DeShaun Watson is a bald-faced liar.  DUH!    
• Matt Araiza has been fired from the Buffalo Bills -- an almost-admission on their part that the punter is guilty in the San Diego State gang-rape situation.  Now, anyone responsible for getting or drafting him needs to go next.  Everybody KNEW there was this kind of a situation at San Diego State.
• And another thought:  Did someone from the NFL pop in in Buffalo and actually show them something????  Like the effects of the Britt Reid lawsuit trial on the Chiefs (Checked a day or two ago -- still scheduled for...  right during this upcoming football season!  *checks Kansas City off The List*), or even the plans for the NFL for this season???  
  
• Allen Greene was effectively fired from Auburn University as it's athletic director Friday.  Four years of football failure at the school has even drawn the congratulations of the Tennessee athletic director, Danny White, for maintaining some composure and finally getting the Hell out!  And if you want any indication of "football schools", etc., Auburn actually got to two College World Series and a Final Four in Greene's tenure.  Auburn is a football town, ma'am.  
  
• Aroldis Chapman of the Yankees is out an indeterminate period.  He got a tattoo -- it got infected!
• Police had to be called to the Duke bench of an early-season Duke-BYU women's volleyball match when a BYU fan hurled racial slurs at the only African-American starter on Duke's team throughout the match. 
• Not a student, sat in the student section.  Won't anymore.  Banned from all athletic events.