February 3, 2022 News and Notes

• Kyrie officially wants out of Brooklyn -- "He's A Laker" is now trending.
• A Duke women's basketball player has blasted the NCAA for incompetence -- apparently, someone didn't have the temerity to make sure a men's basketball game ball was not used in a women's game this week.  Hint:  They.  Don't.  Care.  About.  Women's.  Sports.  Outside of prurient interests and beating up on transgenders, there aren't a meaningful number of people or corporates who do.   
• The menacing charge against Joe Mixon has been dropped.  So is that going to satisfy the NFL, vis-a-vis things?  Probably not!   
• The NFL admits to about one concussion every other game, which would be an almost 20% increase over 2021-22.
• Get ready, in summer 2023, for The Soccer Tournament.  Same group that does The Basketball Tournament, the winner-take-all million-dollar basketball tournament held over the summer.
• This tournament will be 7-on-7, on a smaller field.  32 teams will be placed into eight groups, top two of each group advances to the knockout stage.
• Like The Basketball Tournament, an "Elam Ending" will be used.  The leading team at the end of two 20-minute periods must only score one more goal to win.  The team behind must reach the leading team's score, plus one, before that happens.
• $1,000,000 prize, winner take all.
• The first team to announce?  Wrexham Football Club of Wales and the Netflix "Welcome to Wrexham" series, who has already announced their local community will get half the grand prize, should they win it.
• Wrexham is now three points behind Notts County in the race for the one automatic qualification spot from the National League (tier five) to League Two.  However, Wrexham has two games in hand and a superior goal differential.