Day 879

• In response to the Federal lawsuit by the LIV defectors, the PGA Tour has now, in fact, taken out an injunction banning them from the FedEx Cup grounds -- not just playing in the tournaments, but even setting foot on their grounds.
• Oklahoma assistant coach Cale Gundy found and read aloud such a racist diatribe on an unattentive player's iPad that he has now been forced to resign.  I would have to wonder, however, if this means that said player is now also out a scholarship.  If he's White, definitely...   
• Pete Rose was back in Philadelphia to celebrate his presence on the 1980 World Series Champions there (postponed two years due to COVID).  He has been inundated with a series of questions regarding a 2017 personal fete which was scrapped when someone put statutory rape charges in the media against Rose -- dating back from 1967.  (Rose denies any sex until the age of consent in the state in which it occurred.)  The 81 year-old Rose then swore all over the television broadcast of the game, including using "locker room terms" (as reported by several sources), including directed toward announcer and cancer survivor John Kruk.  Keith Olbermann, on today's "Countdown", made note that Rose, in a short period of time, fired off THREE controversial moments yesterday -- and, by my math, that doesn't even include the fact he's banned from baseball in the first damned place!   
• Early indications are that the NFL wants to increase scoring again this year, after last year fell almost 3.6 points a game short of the record COVID year.  It's getting out that a Point of Emphasis this year will be the five-yard illegal-contact zone, and they want that five yards and an automatic first down penalty called more.  After being called nearly 100 times in the NFL in COVID 2020, it was called only 36 last year, according to league sources.  Oh gee, you think that might've had a part to play, along with the offensive holding situation, in the record scoring -- and then the reduction last year?  No...  Couldn't be!!!   
• The last two times the league made illegal contact a Point of Emphasis, flags TRIPLED on a year-over-year basis.  Of course, that would only bring us back to COVID 2020 numbers.
• Roughing the Passer is getting a clarification -- relevant contact must be "forcible" to be a foul.  Some officials were basically flagging any helmet contact to the quarterback at all as RTP.  This, I would assume, does not change the Clay Matthews Rule, weight on the quarterback to the ground being RTP.  
• Kareem Hunt wants out of Cleveland -- team's saying no.
• To no one's surprise, the first college football polls are out:  Alabama, Ohio State, Georgia -- in that order.  Clemson is #4 in the USA Today poll -- a poll in which there are precisely two non-P5+ND teams, and both are below #20.  They're not going to let that happen again after Cincy got rolled.   
• The NFL has formally announced that Aaron Rodgers use of ayahuasca is not in violation of the drug policy.  But that, as I said yesterday, may be only one of his possible problems.