August 28. 2022 News and Notes

• A second attempt to complete the Coke Zero 400 due to weather at Daytona has ended in The Really Big One.  A wreck on Lap 138 of 160 at the 2 1/2 mile track saw, with a spot of rain on the camera as the field went past in turn one, the front of the field began to spin out and no one had a prayer.  Maybe a baker's dozen of cars in the field survived it, most in the back.
• NASCAR lists 17 cars in the wreck.
  
• If the race is called here, as it now well should because of NASCAR's error with the rain, Austin Dillon and Martin Truex Jr. would go in the field.  Ryan Blaney would lose out on points.
• They finished.  Dillon won, Truex went out on points.
  
• For the first time, a regular-season win would actually be required to make the Chase.
• The continuing saga of Josh Gordon (suspended for two full seasons, twice indefinite) appears to be coming to another turn when he is cut in Kansas City to get the rosters to 53 this week.  What is he still doing being allowed in an NFL training camp or stadium, even as a spectator?  He should be about as welcome near the NFL as I would be at "The Body Remembers" Tour this summer or at Under 54 (or whatever that cabaret is called) last weekend!   
• The Buffalo Bills GM on firing Araiza:  "The culture here is more important than winning games."  BULLFUCKINGSHIT!  Stop.  Just.  Fucking.  STOP!  1) He's not the only one -- football has far too many of them EVERYWHERE for me to believe that.  And 2) He's only been sued at that point -- you've all but declared him guilty and there's one and only one reason for it.  The NFL believes he's guilty and has already told your team what is going to happen to them if they keep him for one hot minute further.  The only question left is whether they've told you, as things stand now, to make plans to be in Glendale, AZ next February...
• To be fair, as I'll say shortly when I do my preview, in a shoot world, it does appear that Buffalo has the best team, 1-53, to make it there.   
• In the "Don't Say Anything At All If You're Not Going To Say Anything" Department:  Tom Brady on his absence from training camp:  "I'm 45 years old.  A lot of shit is going on."
• Honolulu, HI mercy-ruled Curacao 13-3 to win the Little League World Series Championship game in just four innings.
• Rory McIlroy won the FedEx Cup and the $18,000,000 which came with it today by winning the handicapped Tour Championship.  Scottie Scheffler, the #1 seed and who came in up five shots to enter the final round, shot a 73 to McIlroy's 67.