December 8, 2022 News and Notes

• Let's see if THIS stunts the Dodger hate...  The Padres are the first team in MLB history to have three players each under contract for over $300,000,000 each, according to Bob Nightengale.
• They're all infielders.  Hat-tip to my anonymous friend, who saw this and made the same note.   
• TCU's Sonny Dykes won the Walter Camp college football Coach of the Year.
• Alyson Felix won the Sports Illustrated Muhammad Ali Legacy Award -- given yearly by the magazine to the athlete most indicative of the sportsmanship and human qualities of the award's namesake.
• Former Teen Tournament competitors who are either in or just recently graduated college will return to Jeopardy! for another tournament, this one a more conventional idea than the extended Second Chance/Tournament of Champions rounds -- winner gets a hundred grand and a place in next year's ToC.
• Andy Tirrell joined the list of ultrachampion vanquishers on the show to go one and done on Wednesday.
• Three New Mexico State men's basketball players were suspended one game apiece for appearing on the police report regarding the murder on the University of New Mexico campus last month.
• Matt Araiza and San Diego State's football team win again:  No charges for the rape everyone knew about, but no one dare prosecute because of FOOBAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• And the hits just keep on coming.  On a purported right-wing women's stream, Vic Mignogna apparently exposed himself on the stream before it was cut off.  The stream, not his...
• This while he's appealing his judgements to the Texas Supreme Court.
• Antonio Brown, at this point, appears to be holed up in his home for at least the last week, evading an arrest warrant issued for him.  I get the feeling this is NOT going to end well whatsoever.   
• The US House of Representatives, to no one's surprise, found Dan Snyder facilitating a toxic work culture with the Washington Commanders, and the NFL aided, abetted, and obstructed anything to stop it.
• But they have better things to do than that waste of time.  Neo-Nazi groups have been reported as to say that the shooting of a North Carolina power substation is the beginning of a much larger right-wing attack on the electrical grid of this country.
• And they appear serious:  Someone made a copycat attack in South Carolina -- but, not knowing what the person in North Carolina knew, they were not as successful.  Hat-tip to my anonymous friend for the info.