Day 880

• Serena Williams announced in a Vogue interview this month that this US Open will be her last -- she's retiring.
• Aaron Judge belts #44 in his chase of Roger Maris, at the very least.
• The continuing travails of the WNBA as far as basic respect goes -- they've been petitioning the parent league to get private jets for the teams.  And, last weekend, we saw why:  The LA Sparks actually got stranded at the airport and had to sleep there!
• Reports have it that the new Big Ten is too rich for even a full rights deal with ESPN!
• It appears FOX will have the bulk of the new deal, with NBC and CBS joining in.
• The aborted World Junior Hockey Championships from last winter will be attempted again in the next two weeks.  No results nor forfeits carry forward.
• The LIV defectors have failed -- the judge has rejected their lawsuit to be allowed to be at and play in the FedEx Cup...
• ... on the same day 2022 British Open Champion and World #2 Cameron Smith has joined the LIV Tour for over $100,000,000 in Saudi blood money.  That fucker Norman's gonna win, ain't he?  The PGA Tour is probably now a secondary Tour.   
• A legal answer on the appeal of the DeShaun Watson suspension has Roger Goodell calling Watson "predatory" and should be at least a year suspension.  No timetable on the final decision of the appeal.  I'm going to have a blog post about something disturbing coming to mind -- sports in general, not football in specific.