March 23, 2023 News and Notes

• Foster Moreau is very happy he was able, as a free agent, to be given thorough physicals:  He has been diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma at age 25.  He's stepping away from football to deal with it.
• Japan defeated the USA 3-2 Tuesday night to win the World Baseball Classic.  The final out was Shohei Ohtani striking out Mike Trout.  Any questions left who the best player in the game is?   
• Eight celebrities have been charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission for illegal promotion of cryptocurrency.  They are required to state who's paying them to do so, and they (allegedly) did not.
• They include Jake Paul, Lindsey Lohan, Soulja Boy, Ne-Yo, and Akon.
• The Chicago Blackhawks are citing Russian security concerns -- another NHL Pride Night (Saturday, other events are planned -- we'll see how many of THOSE get cancelled!!!) debacle.  Didn't we already have one of those with Chicago this season?  And when are you going to understand, Bettman, that this probably means your league is little more than an American KHL?   
• A situation in Dallas tonight that New York is going to have to solve.  With ten games to go in the NBA season, Dallas and Golden State are just about at .500 -- but a third-quarter timeout confusion had the Mavs guarding the wrong basket.  Golden State scored a basket in the confusion -- and they won by two points.  The pool report is a misunderstanding of the signals.  Mark Cuban is going to lose this one.  Reports have the last successful NBA protest lodged in 2008.
  
• At least two rare tornadoes made ground in Southern California on Wednesday.  One in Santa Barbara, the other near LA.
• There it is -- the final bigotry in track and field.  World Athletics has made male puberty the final word on the situation, banning all transgender athletes from women's track and field.  Watch standards PLUMMET, between this in most other countries and if they ever get the steroids under control in the United States.  People are going to get the same surprise they got in Rio 2016 with the women's 800 meters.   
• The Western Regional of the NCAA Final Four is being held in Las Vegas.  The Connecticut men's basketball team got unacceptable rooms at the Luxor, and had to change to another hotel.  Vomit, etc.  Really, Las Vegas and NCAA?  You couldn't see this coming and make damn double sure that this would not happen?