December 22, 2022 News and Notes

• One of the largest straight-up college basketball upsets in history as a 31.5-point underdog Eastern Illinois defeated Iowa on Wednesday night.
• Most sportsbooks, according to ESPN Chalk, did not release a money line for an Eastern Illinois win.
• The rosters for the reimagined Pro Bowl Games were released Wednesday night.  Very few of the losing teams' players got in -- the nine non-playoff teams, as of today, in the NFC, for example, had only eight Pro Bowlers between them.
• Tua Tagovailoa was the largest fan vote-getter, but was NOT selected as one of the AFC quarterbacks.
• The Bears nor the Jaguars got a player in at all.
• Pele's cancer situation is deteriorating -- he will spend at least Christmas in a Brazilian hospital.  There are impacts of COVID therein as well.
• Former Broncos running back Ronnie Hillman passed away of liver cancer and pneumonia...  at THIRTY-ONE.  I agree.  Not fair.   
• The Google move is confirmed for NFL Sunday Ticket.  NFL Sunday Ticket will probably become the main selling point of the overpriced YouTube TV service.
• The president of Barcelona (soccer club) has called upon UEFA to smash the EPL by getting behind the Super League concept.  Not to mention it kills all of the other remaining domestic soccer leagues, but no one wants THAT inconvenient truth!