November 30, 2022 News and Notes

• Blog Interruption Over
• Better Days Ahead
• But not for Jalen Kitna, son of former NFL'er Jon and backup at the University of Florida -- arrested today on child porn charges, possession and distribution.
• Or Mickey Joseph, interim coach of Nebraska.  Arrested today on suspicion of assault.  Domestic incident.
• Under the Jeopardy! radar after the five-week Tournament of Champions is current ultrachamp (the show's 15th) Cris Pannullo -- 18 wins, $637,923, an average of almost $35,000 a win!  Pannullo is the eighth highest winner in the history of the program, fifth highest in regular play behind the show's four regular-play millionaires.  (He passed Mattea on Monday.)
• Current projections by analyst Andy Saunders have Pannullo becoming the show's next millionaire!  Average projected streak:  30.
• Today was the 18th anniversary of two major show events:  First, the airing of Ken Jennings' defeat after 74 wins.
• Second was Saunders and others opening J! Archive, now having over 85% of the entire syndicated series put in.  Saunders has, as a goal, every one of the 1980's-present syndicated shows in the archive by the 20th anniversary in two years.
• Big news in college football:  It sounds like the Rose Bowl is amenable to the new 12-team CFP setup -- could start in two years.
• I knew from The Rock's interview in Playboy that he admits he was an asshole when he was younger.  Like I used to do out of my parents' restaurant in Minnesota with Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Rock used to steal Snickers bars from a 7/11 near where he lived in Hawaii.  Today, as a symbolic gesture, he went to the same store, and bought every Snickers they had!
• Tragic day for a music legend:  Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac has passed.  She was 79.