October 24, 2022 News and Notes

• Rishi Sunak is Great Britain's third Prime Minister in just over seven weeks.
• The top club in the Ukranian league has asked for Iran to be expelled from the World Cup due to their support of the Russian invasion.  Iran, Wales, and England are in the group the United States is in.
• Houston furniture store magnate Mattress Mack has $6,000,000 on the Astros winning the title across three different sportsbooks, and when they do, he pockets $45,000,000 -- a sum that basically indicates he is about the only real liability from which the sportsbooks lose when the inevitable happens.  The only difference is that HE is the vacuum which sucks up the suckers' money and hopes when America is Made Angry Again by the Asterisks.  
• ESPN and Caesar's Sportsbook reported a customer who laid over $1.4 million on ten college and pro football results.  After winning $60,000 on seven bets (4 110K bets which won, and 2 110K bets and a 120K bet which lost) on college, the bettor then bet $192,500 on the Chargers -5 (they lost outright), $220,000 on Tennessee -2.5 (they won by 9), and $220,000 on the Jets -1 (and they won by a touchdown).  Net profit:  $267,500, assuming all winning games kicked at -110 at those margins.
• ESPN and PointsBet noted a $300,000 money line bet on the Cardinals.  It won at -145, meaning a take of just over $200,000.  The $300,000 is the largest bet (with one other of the same amount) in the NFL this season.
• The Packers were one of the biggest winners for books this weekend -- and that's because people are stupid.  If I had money to gamble, I'd have laid it on the Commanders to win this weekend and pocketed well.
• Last week, Kevin Nash lost his son Tristan at age 26.  It appears as if Tristan fell to a seizure due to alcohol withdrawal -- and it appears the same befell Scott Hall when he passed away as well.
• Actor Leslie Jordan, 67, killed in a car accident today.
• In a moment which would've made more sense had the Bucs won:  The NFL is looking into game officials who asked Tampa Bay WR Mike Evans for his autograph!
• Tim Michels (Fascist Pig-WI), the Republican candidate for governor actually notes that Ron DeSantis and Tom Brady are texting buddies.  Oh gee, whoda fucking thought???  Gisele, in the immortal words of "Dear Joan", "DUMP THAT TURKEY!!!"   
• Natalya Antyukh is the latest Russian to be stripped of an Olympic medal -- the gold in the 2012 400m women's hurdles.  If the medals are reallocated, the USA's Lashinda Demus will win gold.  I wonder what happens, vis-a-vis the National Anthems, etc., in cases like that...   
• It's a second previous offense due to database data.  Antyukh's career ended after being named in the 2016 McLaren Report on Russian doping.
• Possible Supplementary Discipline hearing tomorrow.  Mike Pennel of the Bears was tossed for a flagrant blindside block on an interception return -- and, judging by the video, that one could be suspendable.