December 3, 2022 News and Notes

• The LA Galaxy have been fined $2 million, had their former general manager banned for life from the MLS, and the current president has been suspended for six months due to a salary-hiding situation from 2019.  The team has also been banned from the next MLS international signing window.
• Scratch the Pac-12 from the CFP:  #4 USC was beaten by Utah in their championship game last night, so Utah is heading to Pasadena to await whatever happens in the Big Ten.
• Draymond Green was fined $25,000 for cursing a fan during a game this week.  The Mavericks fan actually defended the action and will match the fine for a charity of Draymond's choice or NBA Cares.  To the gentleman:  Magnanimous of you, but there is a "blame the culture" aspect of it.  You and Draymond may have felt that was what it was, but things happen in the NBA especially which are far out of line, and that's why the league feels the need to take action.   
• It appears as if Deion Sanders' run with Jackson State is over -- he's heading to the Power Five and the University of Colorado.  Sanders has been surprisingly up front about it all, and, unless we hear different, it sounds like this will be on very good terms.   
• Jacob DeGrom is getting out of the LOLMets, going to Texas for a five-year deal. As my anonymous baseball-fan friend points out:  Five years, at age 35????   
• Make it 20 wins for Jeopardy!'s Cris Pannullo, and $710,865 for them -- an average of $35,543.  He's entered that rarified air:

1. #7 in all-time winnings.
2. #5 in regular-play winnings.
3. Only the seventh player in history to win 20 matches.

• Forgot to cover this in all the real-life chaos of the last month or two:  Amy Schneider's $250,000 Tournament of Champions victory leaves her with a final total of $1,632,800.  That total ranks #9 all-time and #2 to Ashlee Register in female winnings.
• My readers haven't said anything about looking at the refereeing in college football this weekend, though!  And TCU MAY have a gripe as they think they might've gotten a touchdown on third down in a tied first possession of overtime.  There's a question of possession and another of breaking the plane with the ball, and #3 TCU goes down as well!!  So Kansas State gets the Big XII title.  And usually the rigging in this case goes toward the playoff team, not away.  If TCU is out tomorrow, that would be the second time in CFP history the #3 team entering Championship Weekend goes out.  The other?  2014...  TCU.
• Alabama is licking it's chops.  I'll make a prediction after the other two of the top four play today -- need to see who wins those games and what the Hell...  But, as of now:  Georgia -- two touchdown gap -- Michigan -- and then it gets fun on the optics, because you have two of these teams:  TCU, Ohio State, Alabama, Tennessee, USC...