October 30, 2022 News and Notes

• If this is true, this needs to be the end of Michigan State's football season, if not their entire program.  Several Michigan State players are under investigation, after a 29-7 loss to Michigan, for ambushing at least two Wolverines in the tunnel after the game -- not unakin to that Georgia football riot a number of years back.
• The Portland Thorns have won what might well be the final NWSL Championship, beating Kansas City in the final.
• Katie Ledecky, in her first competitive meet of the year in Toronto, has just broken the world record at 1500 meters by 10 seconds.
• She won the race by 40.
• World Series is 1-1 as Manfred gets out of the way of the NFL.  Game 3 Monday.
• It appears that Kanye's message is taking.  Both the Universities of Florida and Georgia condemned an anti-Semitic, pro-Kanye message projected on the exterior of TIAA Field in Jacksonville yesterday after the two schools played a high-profile SEC encounter Georgia won convincingly.
• And ANOTHER ONE to the list!  Marcus Stroman of the Cubs posts a pro-Kanye anti-Semitic rant on his Twitter this morning, according to Deadspin.  Thank you to my anonymous friend, who found that for me this afternoon!
• And this is what makes people like us who are actually trying to show what's going on look bad.  It started as this:

Be conscious of the world and who is controlling the narrative.

— Marcus Stroman (@STR0) October 30, 2022

• Which is accurate, as any reader of this blog would tell you.
• It's what this was in response to that becomes the huge problem...  Stroman's been caught liking at least some Tweets supporting Kanye's stands, as well as at least one anti-Italian slur against a sportswriter.
• And Stroman was completely unwilling to address it directly in any form.  This is probably gonna get a full blog post once I get some time.
• It also appears, ancillary to this discussion, Jason Whitlock may be falling into the same trap.
• According to the umpire grading system, the plate umpire for Game 2 of the World Series, Pat Hoberg, called a perfect game last night.  No pitches, according to the grading system, which were not within the margin of error to be called strikes were not called strikes, and the opposite was true as well.
• Tundra ESports, the winners' bracket champion, swept repechage winner Team Secret of Europe to win eight and a half million dollars in the finals of the 2022 version of DOTA2's The International.  After winning Group B, Tundra dropped only one game in the entire tournament bracket to win E-Sports' Largest Prize.
• The 49ers' Christian McCaffrey has become the first player since LaDamian Tomlinson in 2005 to complete a rare trifecta -- only performed four times since the 1970 merger:  Throw for a touchdown, run for a touchdown, receives a touchdown.
• With Tennessee tying Ohio State at the AP #2, next week's game between the Volunteers and Georgia will be a 1 vs. 2 game.  It will be the first time in 11 years the two top AP teams will face off in a game not for a conference or national championship.