February 11, 2023 News and Notes

• Lost one of the composing greats of the world on Thursday:  Burt Bacharach passed away.
• A second "high-altitude craft" was shot down by the military over Alaska on Friday.  Setting up for a Black Sunday?? Especially with...
• Conservative claptrap Seymour Hersch has said he has confirmed evidence the Biden administration met to blow up the Nordstream pipeline -- even before Putin's invasion of the Ukraine...
• Speaking of conservative claptraps:  There had been a dispute as to whether FOX wanted to have and air an interview with President Biden during the Super Bowl pregame on Sunday.  The White House said, at one point earlier this week, it had been cancelled.
• It's on for Sunday now...
• An injury to Gary Payton has put a major 4-team NBA trade at risk.
• Add the Chicago Blackhawks to the growing NHL Pride Night debacles.
• Due to multiple hazing incidents, a Division I men's basketball program has shut down.  New Mexico State has terminated it's men's basketball program indefinitely.  The precipitous drop of the program this year, and all of the circumstances surrounding it, makes me wonder if it's time they just shut down the whole thing permanently.  This is the school with the player under investigation for that murder on the University of New Mexico campus.  At least one game with Riverside, CA's California Baptist University will be forfeited.
• The school's Chancellor, President, and Provost have all been fired this year.
  
• On March 1st, ESPN will do an all-access day on the Boston Celtics.