November 5, 2022 News and Notes

• Gary Bettman has banned for life -- and this one's probably going to stick -- 20 year old Mitchell Miller.  A draftee of the Coyotes, the Bruins tried to pick him up before Bettman said no.
• Miller's offense?  Assaulting and bullying a Black developmentally disabled student six years ago.
• I have three problems with this story:  1) Why is Miller and anyone else involved not literally in juvie until they're 25 or whatever?  (Charging him as an adult at 14 might well be a stretch, without it being a murder.)
• 2) How many more people would be banned from their line of work if everything came out similarly?
• and 3)  Yes, I WILL ask the question:  How much of this life ban is because the other kid was Black?  
• The police in San Antonio are finally investigating the Primo incident (though I wonder how in Hell he wasn't, at the least, arrested FIRST, given the allegations and the like...  Oh, that's right -- he was IMPORTANT.  He was a BASKETBALL PLAYER!)...
• Nike and Idiot Irving are splitting ways.
• Even the old brass at Twitter now believe they grew the company too fast.  Right-wing Twitter Czar Elon Musk fired half the company last Friday.  Truth Social II, here we come...   
• Ben Gordon (formerly of the NBA) has been arrested for the second time in a month.  Assault on his young son at LaGuardia a month ago.  Assault on two men, including a McDonald's guard, now.  For the third time in this Daily:  Why is he not no-bail in jail at this point?  Oh, that's right -- he's IMPORTANT!!   
• Spencer Dinwiddie is filing a complaint with the NBA after not only believing he wrongly got a T in last night's game, but the ref who whistled it called him a "bitch ass motherfucker".  I get the feeling that happens a LOT more than anyone is ever going to be willing to admit.   
• The WWE latest Saudi blood money event took place today -- another Crown Jewel in Saudi Arabia...

1. Brock Lesnar got a pinfall win over Bobby Lashley, but Bobby "getting his heat back afterward" indicates we're probably seeing that match again in Los Angeles next year.
2. Damage CTRL: Iyo Sky and Dakota Kai won back the women's tag team championships over Asuka and Alexa Bliss.  Interference by Nikki Cross had to do with the outcome.
3. Drew McIntyre defeated Karrion Kross inside a steel cage.
4. The Judgement Day defeated the OC.  This was one of the two matches Karl Anderson was booked in today, thousands of miles apart, which has created a rift between the IWGP and Anderson.  I forget, without looking it up, if Anderson is US Champ or NEVER Openweight Champ right now.
5. Braun Strowman defeated Omos.
6. The Usos continued The Bloodline's reign of terror on WWE by retaining the Tag Team Championships over The Brawling Brutes.
7. Bianca Belair won a Last Woman Standing match (win is knockout count of 10) over Damage CTRL leader Bayley to retain the Raw Women's belt.
8. And, as completely expected, Roman Reigns is still the ultimate champion.  With no challengers credible on the horizon, the Saudi bloodlords wanted...  LOGAN PAUL to be the challenger.

• Aaron Carter, one of the Backstreet Boys, found deceased in his house.  34.  Given history, probably either suicide or overdose -- has had issues with drugs and mental health.   
• LA Football Club (not the Galaxy, the other LA MLS Club) has won the MLS Cup for the season, the championship over Philadelphia in penalties after a 3-3 draw.
• Undefeated Flightline won his sixth race in six starts -- the Breeder's Cup Classic.  The 4 year old won his first five races by an average of 13 lengths.  The Classic, he won by 8 1/2, a margin unheard of in the race.