April 30, 2023 News and Notes

• Two of the greatest words in all of sports:  Game Seven.  And there are three of them today.
• The Warriors and Kings shoot it out in Sacramento today.
• Seattle and Colorado in one NHL Game 7.
• And the end of the President's Trophy is 60 minutes away -- as eighth-seeded Florida has pushed record-breaking Boston to a seventh game.
• The Toronto Maple Leafs won their series last night.  What made this significant is that, even though about half the NHL makes the playoffs every year, this is the first playoff series win for the Maple Leafs in NINETEEN YEARS.
• A near tragedy at the Formula One race in Azerbaijan today.  Esteban Ocon was forced to pit on the final lap of the race and nearly took out a number of photographers.
• Ocon was forced to pit because he was forced to take on a different set of tires by Formula One rules.  You must take on two different sets and types of tires throughout the race.  The hard tires Ocon had on his car had lasted the entire event.
• Ten days into the Relay For Life Fantasy Faire, and the total is now almost $45,750.
• And don't look now, but Oakland is not the only historical-suck team out there.  About a month into the season, the White Sox are 7-21!  (That would extrapolate right about to the 40-120 the expansion Mets had for the record.)
• In case you're wondering:  June 30 - July 2 in Oakland, August 24-27 in Chicago.
• Another bad moment in this offseason for the University of Georgia.  A Georgia player is believed to make several anti-Asian slurs into an NFL Draft livestream.  What do they put in the water down there?