March 12, 2023 News and Notes

• And this college baseball series in New Orleans keeps on giving.  A day after an umpire was suspended for the ultimate Fuck You Strike Three in a New Orleans win on Friday, they beat Mississippi Valley State 35-3 (in baseball!!) with a 16-run third inning leading to the mercy rule.
• Several Alabama fans had their shirts banned from the SEC Conference tournament -- "Killin' Our Way Through The SEC in '23"...  Really...   
• Alabama, for now, is the 2023 SEC Champion.  19-point win over Texas A&M seals it and their place on the 1-line when the brackets are announced later today.  Piece Of Shit:  23 points, 12 rebounds.
• Casemiro has been sent off for the second time in a month, this one a studs-up challenge after a VAR ruling which left the Manchester United coach fuming.  This one will be at least four matches.
• The March tournament in sumo has begun, and the Yokozuna chances for last tournament's champion, Ozeki Takakeisho, took a fairly major hit Day One:  Komusubi Tobizaru got him.
• Formerly suspended Ozeki Asanoyama was left in the second division (even after his 14-1 in Juryo (second division) the previous tournament.  He won his first match -- as the highest-ranking Juryo and an odd number of wrestlers in the top flight, Asanoyama may occasionally be asked to face lower-end Maegashira.
• The travails of former Ozeki Shodai, who barfed and screwed around with being Ozeki for a year and a half or so, have him falling all the way out of the name ranks to Maegashira #1.  He won his first match.