March 3, 2023 News and Notes

• Once is an anomaly, twice is a coincidence...  Another major incident early in Championship Week.  Three ejections in an Ohio Valley Conference tournament men's basketball game after one of the players basically went "My pits in yo' mouth..." on another.  Punches thrown.  Gee, what's going to happen when the games REALLY count?  
• Kirby Smart, coach of the two-time defending champion Georgia Bulldogs, has to defend his culture after his star quarterback is busted for weed and his star defensive end may spend life in prison for double vehicular manslaughter!
• Max Scherzer is trying to fuck with the new rules -- he was called for a quick-pitch balk today for trying to pitch immediately after receiving the ball, the clock starting, and coming set.  The batter used his one time-out, the umpire reset the clock, called for it to start, and Scherzer pitched.  Lindsay at Close Call Sports is gonna have to explain that one...   
• Scherzer also had a double play wiped out when his clock ran out on the pitch where it was hit..
• Yesterday, a Yankee reliever got three strikes on a batter in twenty seconds!
• Chase Elliott suffered a leg injury snowboarding -- he's out for Sunday's NASCAR race in Las Vegas -- and, with surgery, it sounds like Josh Berry may be in the #9 for some time while the new most popular driver is recouperating.  Nice job, stupid...  Another one... 
• Someone has posted a fake video of Adam Silver suspending Ja Morant indefinitely.  Though I will say that some degree of investigation, with that direction being one possibility, should be taking place already for at least two major incidents in the last month!   
• UFC jackass Jon Jones tries to win the heavyweight championship in his first fight in three years on PPV tomorrow.